I just got a call from California University of Pennsylvania!
That job I applied for two months ago... that I'd given up hope of getting...?
THEY WANT ME!
Starting salary 8K more than I'm making now! Medical benefits! Collective bargaining! 2 raises a year after the first year guaranteed! I can start in a month!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAA!!
One more small step on my road to Dicatorship.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Congrats. Though this means that uber-BookWurm-dom is now within your grasp... bad news for all of us.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
:::smiles lightly::: You're welcome.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
I'm creating a resistance faction. Who's with me?
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
I'm with you. First of Two will never... wait...
California University of Pennsylvania ? Is there some new state or something?
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
Well both states are fucked up.
Califonria is well...California.
And Pennsylvania has a quaint little town tucked away in the Appalachians called "Jersey Shore"
Go figure.
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
Hmmm. Maybe I can apply for the Wisconsin Univeristy of Pennsylvania!
Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :
Congrats First of Two. If you need any campaign contributions, as a private citizen I will gladly donate.
So long as you make me your education dept. secretary.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Pennsylvania likes naming towns after other states. California & Indiana (the towns) have univerisities. Indiana University of Pennsylvania had a Playboy Playmate about 2 months ago, Lindsey Vuolo.
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Yes, and if you look closely at a map, you can find an island group named after me in the Indian Ocean... off the Seychelles... a perfect place for my Den of Iniquity. http://www.1uptravel.com/worldmaps/seychelles5.html
That's great. I need to find another job too. Who knows, maybe there is a Pennsylvania University out here in California. Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Hey, there used to be an island named "Nix", too. Well, "Nix's Mate", actually. Some pirate named Nix hanged his first mate there, or something. I dunno. The island doesn't even exist anymore. AFAIK, the guy wasn't even related to me.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Whilst I have a Caribbean island, a university, a chain of churches & cathedrals, & 2 major Canadian cities (one of which is a provincial capital) bearing my name. Among other things. Yee.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
There's a Miami University in Ohio, I believe. . .
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
"Hey, there used to be an island named "Nix", too. Well, "Nix's Mate", actually. Some pirate named Nix hanged his first mate there, or something. I dunno."
Don't worry Tim. I don't think that anyone was going to leap to the conclusion that a "Nix" ever had a friend.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Congrats Firsty, hope it works out well!!
Whhn you become Dictator, I'd like control of West Virginia, and Virginia. Let me know who you want shot.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Shik's name is St. John? Odd. Quirky. Cool-in-a-Bronte-sort-of-way.
Oh, and congrats First.
*imagines Herr Two working at the Berkeley Library* Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
I've been past Indiana University of Pennsylvania a couple times when I visit family. Good for a laugh...
Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: There's a Miami University in Ohio, I believe. . .
But I believe that is because of the Miami tribe of Native Americans which are native to the Ohio region. Or something along those lines.
Personally, the best thing in the Keystone state is Intercourse, PA a little town right before Paradise on Route 30 in Lancaster county.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
No discussion of silly place names would be complete without a mention of the canned hilarity one can find in a gazetteer of Newfoundland.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
There's a Beaver Damn in Louisiana I believe.
And of course there's good old Cockfosters in London. Ahh. Cockfosters...
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Don't forget Fucking, Austria.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
There's a bridge named Bob in Colorado. It lacks bitch tits.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"St. John", eh? Is it pronounced "sinjin" like the guy in ST5? :-)
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Well, if it's "St. John," then like every other first name "St. John" that I've come across, (not many, and, yes, sadly enough, the guy from ST5 is in there) it'd be pronounced "sinjin." I've never quite figured out why.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Actually, that's my last name. It's a bastardization, as the family branch it came from were original Qu�becois, & so it was "St. Jean."
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
There was a Beaver College in Pennsylvania too, the subject of many Maxim jokes, until they changed it recently. And they changed it exactly why you're thinking they changed it. Bunch of insecure pussies...
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
There's a Beaver Dam road near where I live.
Which happens to be in Cockeysville.
Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
There's always Ball State.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
One of the main roads in Dayton, Ohio is named "Need More". Yes...there is a Need More Road. There is also a Need More Shop on Need More Road.
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