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swarthmore lingo

some collision here perhaps between other lingo variants and their swarthmore counterparts;

jerry referred to every one weird, everything weird as

hasslehoff
adjective, noun 1. person lacking in social graces or lacking proper taste; "rich, man, what a total hasslehoff."
decided origin, david hasslehoff, star of television's night rider and bay watch, also a singing star in europe.
see jerry karnas "wicked hasslehoffs dude".

misery poker
noun 1. competitive work load sharing; what swatties play during exam time "I've got 20 pages and three tests" "well I've got 60 pages and two tests."

swattie/swatties
noun 1. swarthmore students

vidshow
noun 1. person displaying vidshowian qualities - strangeness, disquietude, lack of (jerry karnas defined) normalcy; "that dude, man, what a vidshow". 2. group of people behaving in an odd or discomforting manner; "they're a bunch of vidshows."
possible origin, A Clockwork Orange, anthony burgess.

vidley
adjective 1. the quality of vidshow; "check out those vidley dudes" - see vidshow.


Note: I make no campus wide claims. I heard these words used while I was a student there.


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