[lbo-talk] Classist t-shirt of the day

[J Cullen]

It's a non-sequitur from "Napoleon Dynamite."  I'm not sure it's 
meant as a classist put-down.  At least from a skimming of Google 
citations, it looks like "the kids" use it to mean something like 
"So's your old man..."


>because it suggests that someone's mother is in college and, as
>everyone knows, you go to college BEFORE you have children? out of
>context, i wasn't sure. is there a reason why a phrase like that would
>be popular -- if it is?
>
>On Jan 11, 2008 12:05 PM, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>  Just lovely. Screenshot of web ad on MySpace:
>>
>>
>>  http://cultpunk.com/images/classistshirt.jpg
>>
>>
>>  Ad is for this site, which is equally obnoxious:
>snorgtees.com/imkindofabigdeal-p-206.html
>>
>>
>>  -B.
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