The Swamp

How many Swampers share an alma mater with a US President?

By my count:
Giff (Texas State)
Nonlinear (Michigan)
GoodKarma & hdo (Miami)

I must be missing some though.

Did you graduate from TSU, TT?

Old friend tommyboy went to Wharton.

Hood has several.

A_B wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:00 pm Old friend tommyboy went to Wharton.

Nvm I thought Trump finished there.

Three Prime Ministers graduated from my alma mater. (McGill)

Oh I’m sure he did. #masturbation

brian wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 5:42 pm Did you graduate from TSU, TT?

nah. 2 year dropout

My alma mater made a big deal about Biden attending their law school during the 2008 campaign.

Not a peep this time around.

A_B wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:14 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:00 pm Old friend tommyboy went to Wharton.

Nvm I thought Trump finished there.

Trump never even went to Wharton. He was in Penn undergrad, but never Wharton. He has always lied about that. Shocking, I know.

No Presidents graduated from my school, but Millard Fillmore founded it, and Erik Estrada graduated, so that's close enough.

Fire up CHiPs

Does Garfield count? Not the president, but the cat!

And I raise one Estrada with one Letterman.

Wash U has Peter Mutharika, the President of Malawi. Does that count? No US presidents.

If you count Duke (my MBA), I can count Nixon. Wooo.

I have Col. Henry Blake.

And HAL-9000. I win.

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:29 pm Wash U has Peter Mutharika, the President of Malawi. Does that count? No US presidents.

If you count Duke (my MBA), I can count Nixon. Wooo.

Sure, that counts. I didn’t realize Nixon went to Duke for his law degree. I knew his undergrad was Whittier.

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:29 pm Wash U has Peter Mutharika, the President of Malawi. Does that count? No US presidents.

If you count Duke (my MBA), I can count Nixon. Wooo.

And Stephen Miller.

I see your Stephen Miller and raise you Chris Christie.

brian wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:59 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:29 pm Wash U has Peter Mutharika, the President of Malawi. Does that count? No US presidents.

If you count Duke (my MBA), I can count Nixon. Wooo.

Sure, that counts. I didn’t realize Nixon went to Duke for his law degree. I knew his undergrad was Whittier.

Well, if you limit it to the business school, which probably makes more sense, Duke can't count any presidents, but we have Melinda Gates and Tim Cook, as well as a number of other less famous CEOs.

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 5:51 pm

brian wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:59 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:29 pm Wash U has Peter Mutharika, the President of Malawi. Does that count? No US presidents.

If you count Duke (my MBA), I can count Nixon. Wooo.

Sure, that counts. I didn’t realize Nixon went to Duke for his law degree. I knew his undergrad was Whittier.

Well, if you limit it to the business school, which probably makes more sense, Duke can't count any presidents, but we have Melinda Gates and Tim Cook, as well as a number of other less famous CEOs.

Isn't Tim Cook randomly (to me anyway) a big SC Gamecocks fan/alum?

Musta been undergrad.

Burt Bacharach and James Naismith

Steven Orr Spurrier is the best of us.

McKinley went to Allegheny for a year, for which he was shot.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 6:55 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 5:51 pm

brian wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:59 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:29 pm Wash U has Peter Mutharika, the President of Malawi. Does that count? No US presidents.

If you count Duke (my MBA), I can count Nixon. Wooo.

Sure, that counts. I didn’t realize Nixon went to Duke for his law degree. I knew his undergrad was Whittier.

Well, if you limit it to the business school, which probably makes more sense, Duke can't count any presidents, but we have Melinda Gates and Tim Cook, as well as a number of other less famous CEOs.

Isn't Tim Cook randomly (to me anyway) a big SC Gamecocks fan/alum?

Looks like he went to Auburn undergrad, so I don't get the SC connection. Oh, speaking of sports connections, Adam Silver went to Duke too, but for undergrad.

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 10:57 am

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 6:55 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 5:51 pm

brian wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:59 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:29 pm Wash U has Peter Mutharika, the President of Malawi. Does that count? No US presidents.

If you count Duke (my MBA), I can count Nixon. Wooo.

Sure, that counts. I didn’t realize Nixon went to Duke for his law degree. I knew his undergrad was Whittier.

Well, if you limit it to the business school, which probably makes more sense, Duke can't count any presidents, but we have Melinda Gates and Tim Cook, as well as a number of other less famous CEOs.

Isn't Tim Cook randomly (to me anyway) a big SC Gamecocks fan/alum?

Looks like he went to Auburn undergrad, so I don't get the SC connection. Oh, speaking of sports connections, Adam Silver went to Duke too, but for undergrad.

I knew it was a crap SEC school, just had the wrong one.

Congrats tomorrow afternoon on joining this select club of Swampers, DSafe:

Giff
Nonlinear
GoodKarma
hdo
Shirley

And Swampers emeritus:
tommyboy
Hood

So should the rest of us take that as an insider thing that we're not cool enough to understand? Or is the point to spawn a guessing game?

I'm going to guess its "had a president go to their alma mater".

It’s literally at the beginning of the thread?

Close but no cigar for me. Kamala Harris lived in Berkeley and got her law degree from the University of California. I also lived in Berkeley and got my law degree from the University of California.

But she was UC Hastings (in SF) and I was UC Berkeley.

Her first job after law school was in the Alameda County DA's office. A friend of mine started there a couple of years after her. I think they overlapped by a year, but he didn't know her.

Brian wrote:Congrats tomorrow afternoon on joining this select club of Swampers, DSafe:

Giff
Nonlinear
GoodKarma
hdo
Shirley

And Swampers emeritus:
tommyboy
Hood

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:05 pm So should the rest of us take that as an insider thing that we're not cool enough to understand? Or is the point to spawn a guessing game?

Oh, I got this one. Swampers over 60 years old.

Rooting for John Amos to be president so sancarlos and I can join the club.

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:12 pm Rooting for John Amos to be president so sancarlos and I can join the club.

I nominate Carwash for president. Or maybe Jason Momoa, or Becky Hammon, or Leslie Jones.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:57 pm

Brian wrote:Congrats tomorrow afternoon on joining this select club of Swampers, DSafe:

Giff
Nonlinear
GoodKarma
hdo
Shirley

And Swampers emeritus:
tommyboy
Hood

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:05 pm So should the rest of us take that as an insider thing that we're not cool enough to understand? Or is the point to spawn a guessing game?

Oh, I got this one. Swampers over 60 years old.

This last few days has made me start to feel closer to it, so maybe....

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:15 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:12 pm Rooting for John Amos to be president so sancarlos and I can join the club.

I nominate Carwash for president. Or maybe Jason Momoa, or Becky Hammon, or Leslie Jones.

Considering how much money I've given over to the vet school, my dog should probably be on the list.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:34 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:15 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:12 pm Rooting for John Amos to be president so sancarlos and I can join the club.

I nominate Carwash for president. Or maybe Jason Momoa, or Becky Hammon, or Leslie Jones.

Considering how much money I've given over to the vet school, my dog should probably be on the list.

Classic pay to play. Shame.