<p>"I think "public school" in the midwest is hilarious!"</p>
<p>What do you mean?</p>
<p>Yea, my dad's friend thought it was a public school; did some research and found out about the nobel prizes, and gave me a cool pen set!</p>
<p>Dannonwater--I was responding to post #78 by Warblersrule with the public school quote.</p>
<p>Ah, my bad. Thanks for clearing that up for me.</p>
<p>I like UChicago and U of C, occationally U of Chicago, Chicago if it is obvious that I mean the school. Not whole thing, or any Chi reference. </p>
<p>I am sure there are different unspoken rules there, though.</p>
<p>In San Francisco, for an unrelated example, 'the city' (like 'the University) and 'SF' (like 'U of C') are common. San Francisco in full spoken within the Bay Area is a bit odd, and 'Frisco' or 'San Fran' is punishable by police sanctioned mob violence.</p>
<p>May I boil in oil
And fry in Crisco
If I ever call
San Francisco 'Frisco'
-Ogden Nash</p>
<p>I've found I have to be careful not to use UofC around Californians and those on the west coast. My friend thought I was going to the University of California system for the longest of time.</p>
<p>Yeah - I mixed that up at my high school a couple of times and it was assumed that I meant Berkeley.</p>
<p>I was just watching the Simpsons and the University of Chicago was mentioned on there.</p>
<p>It's rather funny how once you are looking for something it shows up everywhere. Makes me wonder what else I am oblivious to in life.</p>
<p>there's also a mention of U of C in King of the Hill, when they have a dinner guest over and Hank's wife introduces him with glowing eyes saying he has a phD at the U of C, one of the finest schools in America. Then she suggests to Bobby that he should aspire to go there. Then Hank says "School? They don't even have a football team!" you can find it on youtube: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=gBvyOoIaFck%5B/url%5D">http://youtube.com/watch?v=gBvyOoIaFck</a></p>
<p>What was the UofC mention in the simpsons?! Which episode?</p>
<p>It was in "The Simpson's 138th Episode Spectacular."</p>
<p>"Troy McClure also reveals answers to these questions from fans:</p>
<p>Fan: Professor Lawrence Pierce of the "University of Chicago"
Question: I think Homer gets stupider every year ("That's not a question professor!").
Answer: Troy allows the viewers to decide this for themselves by showing clips of Homer doing stupid things from "Blood Feud" (Season 2), "Flaming Moe's" (Season 3), "Marge vs. the Monorail" (Season 4), "Deep Space Homer" (Season 5), and "Treehouse of Horror V" (Season 6),. "</p>
<p>Not completely relevant, but one of my best friends wrote the following about his life at Harvard:</p>
<p>Once you're on campus, what you think about your school and what others think about your school will be nearly irrelevant.</p>
<p>haha uchicago's name recognition......?? are you joking??</p>
<p>check this out....Uchicago is amazing</p>
<p>^
That doesn't mean people have heard of it. How many people have heard of Peking University? :p</p>
<p>im sure mad people in peking lol. Eh, i dunno, there are other differences as far was what is associated with U of Cs name compared to other schools in its category. My friend got accepted with me, but he said there is no way he's going as there is no way he's prepared to do the work required to do well there (he's one of those kids who sleeps in class, does no work, he'll ask you 5 questions about the material before the major test, and will score as well as you, who studied your ass off the night before).</p>
<p>Yea, let's all hate those people.. yarrrr.</p>
<p>referring to the 2nd post or so- Stanford's economics department is no joke, it could easily give Chicago's a run for its money. The ONLY school I am considering for Economics after Chicago is Stanford.</p>
<p>and Smirkus, those kinds of people **** me off, I know exactly the kind. The narcoleptic who falls asleep as soon as the beginning of the period bell rings, pulls out his textbooks and reads the chapter for the first time the morning of the test, and asks me a question as the tests are being handed out.</p>
<p>And the worst part is, he sometimes gets higher grades</p>