- A New Home is a Star Wars reference, though this has nothing to do with Star Wars. But it has everything to do with finding a new home.
- If I had done a little bit more research, I would have discovered that Grinnell's actual housing director is a guy, and is very well known and well liked on campus. And he's a guy. I'm sure that if he read this cartoon, he was like, "Who the hell is this Woman?"
- I really tackle the nitty gritty details of the North campus versus South campus stereotypes. Here's the gist of it. The Grinnell campus is made up of two square blocks, split evenly down the middle by Eighth Street. There is one cluster of dorms on each block. During the early part of the last century, north campus housed the men, and the south campus housed the women. That dissolved in sixties, like so much else. These days, the trend is that people who live on north campus are "jocks" and people on south campus are "hippies." I use these terms as gross generalizations, but the underlying analysis is true. My understanding is that the gravitation toward one side of campus or another has to do with the amenities on that side of Eighth Street. For example: The athletic fields and physical education complex are on the northern tip of campus. The library, art center, and coffee shop are all on the southern tip of campus. So there you have it: different interests, different sides of campus. But wait -- I was an art major and didn't play any sports. Why did I live on North all four years? South smelled funky.
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- In Minnesota, I grew up saying "pop." In Grinnell it's "soda." Now I say "soda." So be it.
- I think this is the first time I used the "reflection in a desk" trick.
- I'm sure the Scarlet & Black would have printed the cartoon if I'd had this guy's penis hanging out, but I think self-censorship is funnier.
- The Zirkle is a statue dedicated to the late Professor Zirkle. Behind the Zirkle is the new science building.
- The tent is my dad's "Eureka" that I used all four years at Rock Creek.
- meganis silenttous roughly translated means "Megan is silent to us." Megan was a very attractive sophomore who lived next door to Paul and me, but she didn't say one word to either of us. She just sort of scurried from her room to the bathroom and back. I don't even think she went to class. And then one day she was gone.
- Johnny is carrying my iMac and my Breck (high school) laundry bag. Last summer I used that bag to break down some old clay pots by filling the bag with the pots and pot shards, and then slamming the bag down on the cement driveway over and over again. The bag is destroyed.
- Da-dun-DUH! Get it? Dean uses the word soda which is how Johnny got into this whole crazy mess in the first place! Hi-LARIOUS!
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