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<p>You boost yourself up onto the pediment</p>
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<p>i'm pretty sure the statue doesn't have a wide, low-pitched gable in the grecian style surmounting its facade.</p>
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this isn't slang for enthusiastic book study, is it?
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No, he meant having sex in Widener. </p>
<p>What's with the unnecessary euphemisms, people?</p>
<p>Sigh. No beating around the bush at Harvard! We value directness!</p>
<p>I could make a dirty joke out of that, but I'll refrain.</p>
<p>Wow, thanks for the enthusiastic feedback. Interesting answers, especially Hanna's.</p>
<p>And well, Kit, maybe you are right and I should just lighten up about it. It's more than possible that I am just staring a little too hard into the alphabet soup (it spells "ooooooooo!"). It still, um, rubs me wrong though? I guess I'd just have difficulty looking one of those tourists in the eye and telling him I had peed on the foot that the tourguide was about to tell him to touch. And that seems like as good a moral standard as any.</p>
<p>DMW</p>
<p>Oh kitkattail--That was most certainly the idea.</p>
<p>PS Usually when I walk by and the tourists are touching the foot, I shout "Make sure to purell!" </p>
<p>I'm not kidding.</p>
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I guess I'd just have difficulty looking one of those tourists in the eye and telling him I had peed on the foot that the tourguide was about to tell him to touch. And that seems like as good a moral standard as any.
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It seems like it'd be a nice thing to tell the tourists that, no? Then you're sparing them this supposed horror. Isn't that what you wanted?</p>
<p>I don't think that you should necessarily conclude something is morally wrong just because it makes you feel a twinge. Sometimes we get twinges for no better reason than that we're unused to something or that we irrationally associate it with nasty things. Or any number of twinge reasons.</p>
<p>I think you need to use that twinge only as an indication that you ought to investigate the morality of something a little more fully. It means you should rationally evaluate something: look yourself in the eye and see why it makes you feel uncomfortable, and then see if that reason is rational or irrational. Perhaps it makes you feel uncomfortable because it is, in fact, harmful to other people.</p>
<p>I generally consider harmful things to be immoral. That seems to be a good moral standard to me. </p>
<p>But if you actually stop to think about the p*ssing bit, it doesn't actually do anyone any harm. There's no reason why it's immoral in and of itself. The only reason it "rubs you wrong" is because you think it's gross and squicky.</p>
<p>Unless maybe you feel it's unethical of tourguides to advise tourists to do something (i.e., touch the foot) while holding back a crucial bit of information from them I might agree with you there. That's somewhat deceitful of them. Even though the p*ss does no one any harm--I mean, hell, if you think about it, anything you touch outside is probably covered in all sorts of worse nasties you don't want to think about--the tourists, one could argue, ought to be made aware of the situation so that they can make their own fully informed decisions about foot-touching. Or so an argument might run.... Even that's a little sketchy as an objection, though.</p>
<p>Discuss?</p>
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Oh kitkattail--That was most certainly the idea.
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Then good work, sunglasses! I salute you!</p>
<p>I think some of you guys are overanalyzing the situation.</p>
<p>I doubt anyone else has ever studied the bioimmunological effects of this harmless joke.</p>
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<p>he meant having sex in Widener. What's with the unnecessary euphemisms, people?</p>
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<p>Medical journals in Swedish. That's all I'm saying.</p>
<p>you already command too much of my imaginative speculations without confessing to graphic encounters with statues or tossing out tantalizing secret messages to some lucky individual who happened to sing well or conquer you at factual board games,...</p>
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<p>graphic encounters with statues</p>
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<p>Never did the John Harvard thing myself. I was just around when it happened.</p>
<p>Now, Primal Scream? All four semesters.</p>
<p>there's an overseas esoteric therapy creeping into the picture now,..howlings, undulations and an older woman with thick spectacles, accent, and a clipboard. I need some green tea,...</p>
<p>Three cheers for Primal Screamers!</p>
<p>I've done it twice so far. I don't intend to miss a single one.</p>
<p>what is Primal Scream? sorry, although i'm attending Harvard in the fall, I'm am completely clueless.</p>
<p>gosh, I fear it might be a Harvard tradition for blowing off steam. I was hoping it reached more deeply into the unconscious,..</p>
<p>Primal Scream:</p>
<p>Each semester, on the night before finals begin, Harvard students gather in the Yard. At midnight, they strip off their clothes, and run naked through the Yard, screaming.</p>
<p>It's a fantastic event. Some people go just to watch, and so there's a whole audience and everything. The band plays. It's a lot of fun--I'd recommend it.</p>
<p>hmmm, i'm not really comfortable with running around naked myself, but i would go watch...</p>
<p>oh, I get it! No one goes to the section of the library where the medical journals in Swedish are kept. I'm a bit slow,..</p>