Beloit College knows how to make parents feel OLD

Parent Cafe
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<p>Dean J, we took a friend of D's to a concert at the Hollywood Bowl once. She complained that it was too classical: Peter, Paul, and Mary.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I nodded and smiled at all of them except the underwear - that just got a Huh??!!</p>

<p>How old is this guy who writes this, if he knows the underwear???</p>

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<p>If you visit the sara lee website, you can also learn about one of their brands in Spain - Bimbo. Really. They do baked goods. Now, somebody please tell me what Bimbo means in Spanish!</p>

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<p>According to Google Translate (<a href="http://www.google.com/translate_t)%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.google.com/translate_t)&lt;/a>, Bimbo in Spanish means Bimbo in English?</p>

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<p>Sara Lee's brands include Hanes, Bali, Playtex and Champion, until about two weeks from now, when the apparel operations get spun off to become Hanesbrands, Inc. So Sara Lee does indeed make underwear, at least for the next several weeks.</p>

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<p>Back on topic - today's college students will not have the experience of dropping their deck of punched cards just before they submit their computer program on them. Teachs one the value of sequencing numbers. Sigh.</p>

<p>Mechnical calculors are likewise foreign to today's student.</p>

<p>Sliderules are not entirely foreign - my son brought a circular one to college to bemuse his housemates with.</p>

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<p>This whole thing about Sara Lee gives a new understanding about "cheesecake."</p>

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<p>OK, this is slightly tangential to the topic, but I took my son out to lunch today, in this quaint old part of town. The Cafe was in an old converted house, and the rooms had transoms over each door (those rectangular windows that were opened by a lever hinged to a long rod). Anyway, the transom and crown molding around the doorway looked just like what my dorm rooms had in college. I launched into a story about how we used those transoms for ventilation (since the dorms had no A/C) but unfortunately this led to hearing things from other rooms that we didn't really want to hear. My son was (a) mortified that I was relating such stories to him and (2) clueless about transoms.</p>