I only wish I could remember specific examples. It’s a list of claims, each more outrageous than the last, of the writer’s accomplishments. From the mundane, like being able to program his VCR, to the absurd, like having scaled Mt Everest, singing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in Japanese, being an international man of mystery, etc.
I know this is far too vague an OP, but hopefully it’s enough to spark somebody’s memory.
I could only find it because, as a trombonist, I remembered his “godlike” trombone playing.
There is this one:
There seem to be a number of versions, but here’s one.
The phrase that I remembered was “I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing.”
On preview: Dammit. And, Loopus, great minds think alike ;).
Inkleberry wins the prize. With the page that has the most annoying background of all versions of the essay.
That’s it, five times over.
Thanks all.
Woo-hoo! I try, you know.
That’s one way to get yourself noticed by the admissions staff.
I wonder what he went on to study, and what he’s doing now?