# Yes. I Know Your Kids Went To Harvard! I DON'T CARE!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 16, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665 "2003-05-16T13:08:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/21 "2003-05-17T04:16:59Z")
I didn’t know he was lost. Couldn’t he just ask his dad for help? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/22 "2003-05-17T05:12:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by snac \* > **My favorites are the “VT” oval stickers designed to look like the foreign country stickers you’ll see in Europe.** Those are all over, for all locations. HMB= Half Moon Bay, SZ= Santa Cruz… ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/23 "2003-05-17T13:03:31Z")
MY KID IS AN HONOR STUDENT AT WHITEBREAD ELEMENTARY; DON’T ASK ABOUT MY OTHER KID. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/24 "2003-05-17T17:16:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*I didn’t know he was lost. Couldn’t he just ask his dad for help? \*\* This post just made my day! ---
**Author:** ![Iacob\_Matthew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Iacob\_Matthew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iacob_Matthew)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/25 "2003-05-17T20:04:27Z")
“Make a traffic hazard if you wanna see Jesus real soon!” On a peice of paper taped to the back window of I van I saw today, which didn’t make much sense until, five cars up the road, I saw someone on the back of a truck waving “honk if you love Jesus!” ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/26 "2003-05-17T23:39:16Z")
There’s an easy solution to this. Simply have a bumper sticker made that reads: **My (insert daughter/son here)'s BM’s don’t stink as bad as your’s do.** ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/27 "2003-05-18T06:39:02Z")
Eh, my dad got a kick out of putting a Harvard sticker on the back of his 20-year-old pickup. I’m glad he got something for his money. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/28 "2003-05-18T06:54:29Z")
“Your kid might be an honor student, but YOU’RE still a loser!” I mean, seriously. Thumping your chest over your achievements is bad enough. Thumping your chest over what _someone related to you_ acomplished…that’s just pathetic. (P.S.: My sister graduated from MIT at the top of her class. I still maintain that her being one of the most intelligent, compassionate, warm, socially conscious people I know and recently getting into video games again are her far more important qualities.) ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/29 "2003-05-18T07:35:37Z")
I had a college instructor for one class who mentioned the seminar she helped lead at Harvard way too many times. The more catty of the women in the class just started to insult her looks, clothes, and everything behind her back because we were all sick of her more-intelligencia-than-thou attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/30 "2003-05-18T16:03:57Z")
My usual reaction when stuck behind one of these morons is “So didn’t they teach you how to DRIVE at Harvard?” ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/31 "2003-05-20T18:19:07Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **moi** _ > > And, finally, Esprix, C/W? Country Western music and dancing. 🙂 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/32 "2003-05-20T18:52:47Z")
One day I saw one of those oval stickers with BFD on it (stuck on the back of an old truck). Took me a few seconds to get it, but it was good for some chuckles. ---
**Author:** ![Rigel\_Haloran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rigel\_Haloran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigel_Haloran)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/33 "2003-05-20T20:03:03Z")
Local shop puts out one “We tatooed and pierced your honor student” Rigel ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665/34 "2003-05-21T06:45:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Carter of Mars \* > I saw one the other day: > “My kid beat up your honor student” > > Now _there’s_ a winner. My father gets a kick out of those … mainly because my brother is built like me, only moreso (if he were green he could play The Incredible Hulk as a teenager\*). The thought of someone his age beating him up is really amusing. \*Yes, I know he didn’t have those abilities as a teenager… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-know-your-kids-went-to-harvard-i-dont-care/175665.md?page=1)