<p>I've read a lot of great advice on CC over the past eight years. Yesterday I found a line that I said was "Best of CC" when I read it.</p>
<p>The idea for this thread is to extract 2-3 lines that you think are brilliant and re-post them as quotes here. Please note Poster, Thread, and Forum when you quote.</p>
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What truly makes a school "best" or even "better" than another? It is not found in the rankings. It is finding that place where your mind and spirit are at home.
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from je<em>ne</em>sais_quois, How to Convince My Parents, Smith College forum (Top Liberal Arts Colleges).</p>
<p>OT: Nice to see you, TheDad. As you can see I'm still here chained to the CC bed and Kathy Bates is still wailing on me. I though you had escaped her. ;)</p>
<p>Hell, just put a link to most (if not all) of Carolyn's posts. </p>
<p>"Love thy safety" is of course our mantra, but who can ever figure out who said it on CC in the first place?</p>
<p>The thread title of "We're picking up the pieces, but what went wrong" always zings me because I immediately remember the pain and ultimate good result behind the thread.</p>
<p>I can't remember the poster or the exact name of the thread, but it had to do with colleges sending a lot of solicitation mail. A couple of posters nominated schools for the "honor" of most obnoxious, and someone posted:</p>
<p>"What happened? Did the mail service out of St. Louis stop?" or something to that effect. (as in- WashU always wins that honor)</p>
<p>Hi y'all. Storms a'coming in Houston. Can't think specifically of my favorite quotes right now; all 6 years of great quotes I've read here have become one big consolidated mass of college confidential data in my aging brain.
Possibly one of the "goat" quotes is my favorite, but I can't remember any specific one offhand - and I certainly don't have time to go through 5,895 of cur's posts to find one. ;)</p>
<p>Hey peeps, it is good to see you checking back in.</p>
<p>from the *Please Help: World's Best Pencil * thread</p>
<p>posted by Carolyn:</p>
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Everyone knows that Dixon Ticonderoga is a third rate pencil. Only an idiot would waste their money on a pencil like that. It doesn't have a name that is recognized by people who matter and you will never get into medical or law school if they find out you did your undergraduate work using a Dixon. </p>
<p>The only pencil worth using is a Sanford Eagle. I have a friend who says that people who use Sanford's make an average of $50,000 more a year when they graduate from school than people who use any other brand of pencil. My father says he will only pay for me to use a Sanford Eagle because nothing else is as prestigious. Certainly, a Sanford Eagle is one of the top five pencils in the world. College</a> Confidential Discussion
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<p>MOWC, you know that the adventures of WC have some pretty good classic lines.</p>
<p>Slugbuggs Christmas card greeting from the cat is also one of my all time faves.</p>
<p>** Best Parent to Child Straight Talk About Money- Sillystring**</p>
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We (lovingly) gave her the hard facts: We can't pay $43,000 per year. If you don't get a scholarship, it is out of the question. And we are not kidding, so don't get it into your head that we will magically be able to produce the money.
<p>I think, it was Blossom who said, "love the kid on the couch, or in other words, not the one you wish he could be". That's a paraphrase, and if i have the wrong poster, much apologies (it also may have been Lishrup(spelled wrong?), or Sluggbugg. they're all in my wisdom category. (there're others in that category too, but i've narrowed the quote down in my head to these three.)</p>
<p>I may have missed some of these earlier classics.</p>
<p>My favorite is the lost lamented "Meta Thread for All of Us"...started by Violadad? Part of the immense appeal probably due to timing, running in April.</p>
<p>violadad definitely was one who made it sing, but I think garland actually gets the credit for starting that one. It remains among my top favorites, too - such welcome comic relief.</p>
<p>Hey, Curmudgeon. Good to see you still kicking around as well.</p>
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<p>I was hoping to get not references to threads---CC already has a "Featured Posts" feature---but a compilation of those 2-3 lines of wisdom that stand out and which would be pull quotes in print media or sound-bites on TV/radio.</p>
<p>Sybbie got it. Though Garland's indirect quote of "Love the kid on the couch, not the one you wish you had" is pretty great...hysterically funny in fact. I know of a young man who at age 25 is finally getting his act together about college after spending most of the past 10+ years playing video games. (Not a cue for conversational direction.)</p>
<p>Marite used to have a quote along the lines of "Love the kid on the couch - not the one you wish you had". Something like "Better is the enemy of the just-good" or something. I am losing my memory here...</p>
<p>Agree about Carolyn's postings. Also Marite..</p>
<p>cottonwood, Harriet, I'm honored for the mention as being part of the best of CC. Kudos to garland for laying the seed. I just happened to to hijack it. :D And I had ALOT of help.</p>
<p>For those interested, d is firmly ensconced at UTasmania with her instrument. She's gonna give it a year, and then see if she still wants to give Yale a shot. Her ceremonial cutlery was held up in customs, but a local high priestess was able to document and testify why there was blood on the blade.</p>
<p>The dogs miss her terribly. </p>
<p>The downside is the loss of her income from performing. If she doesn't start gigging soon, we may be reduced to gobbling a few.</p>
<p>Achat--lovely to see you! I mentioned a version of that quote and mangled it, and attributed it wrong. Dang! Marite is another of my go-to wisdom folks.</p>
<p>Oh violadad-- quit your joshin'... no one else steered that austere thread down any ill forsaken path... ;)</p>
<p>Can't remember any specific quote-- I just loved, loved LOVED the urban moundbuilders thread. We had a thread a year or so with the "best of CC" stuff. Maybe someone can pull it up?</p>
<p>Curm (may I call you Curm?) in the spirit of trying to gain street cred with a CC maven, I think you should know that I actually went to high school with Kathy Bates, although she was 2 years ahead of me. She snagged the juicy character parts in our school plays. You won't be surprised to hear that even in high school, she was never a "leading lady" type.</p>
<p>Here ya go College</a> Confidential Discussion I totally forgot that it was started by our very own... TheDad.
Another classic-- the "worst college essay titles" thread. Hysterical!!</p>