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By Robert Walter Iverson IV ’12, and Gregory Horace Ruda II ’13, Humor Editors and Wordsmiths Extraordinaire


Clam Strip:

n.  Something that looks slightly delicious at first, but on further inspection is found to be extremely fake.

Example:

Guy 1:  Did you see Paris Hilton on the news last night?  She looked pretty hot!

Guy 2:  Nah dude, I’ve seen her in person, she’s a total Clam Strip.

I Have Lab:

phr.  An excuse to get out of any situation

Example 1:

Mr Bitler:  Hey guys, come to Robotics and Engineering club!

Kids:  Oh no sorry we have lab…

Mr. Bitler:  I’m your teacher, you don’t have lab today.

Kids: …

Example 2:

Guy 1:  Hey guys, were you just talking about me?

Group:  Um…we have lab…

Great Hall:

n.  A pretty unspectacular place where little kids hang out

Example:

Seventh Grader:  Do you want to go the Nickelodeon Kids Choice awards tonight?

Other Seventh Grader:  No, sorry I am going to the instrumental concert.

Seventh Grader:  That’s cool, we can just hang out at a different Great Hall some other time.

The Water Fountain in the Language Corridor:

You wouldn't want to meet this thug in a dark alley. (Photo by Tucker Iverson '12)

n.  1)  The sketchiest thing ever

Example:

Guy 1:  Dude I heard you hung out in the Camden Aquarium last weekend?

Guy 2:  Yeah it was full of water fountains from the language corridor.




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