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Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 5:42 pm
by brian
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 5:42 pm
by brian
Did you graduate from TSU, TT?
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:00 pm
by A_B
Old friend tommyboy went to Wharton.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:01 pm
by A_B
Hood has several.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:14 pm
by A_B
A_B wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:00 pm
Old friend tommyboy went to Wharton.
Nvm I thought Trump finished there.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:41 pm
by Pruitt
Three Prime Ministers graduated from my alma mater. (McGill)
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:02 pm
by mister d
Oh I’m sure he did. #masturbation
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 11:25 pm
by TT2.0
brian wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 5:42 pm
Did you graduate from TSU, TT?
nah. 2 year dropout
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 9:06 am
by DSafetyGuy
My alma mater made a big deal about Biden attending their law school during the 2008 campaign.
Not a peep this time around.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 9:45 am
by The Sybian
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 9:49 am
by The Sybian
No Presidents graduated from my school, but Millard Fillmore founded it, and Erik Estrada graduated, so that's close enough.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 10:37 am
by Ryan
Fire up CHiPs
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 11:47 am
by duff
Does Garfield count? Not the president, but the cat!
And I raise one Estrada with one Letterman.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:29 pm
by Shirley
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:52 pm
by Steve of phpBB
I have Col. Henry Blake.
And HAL-9000. I win.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:59 pm
by brian
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 2:02 pm
by DaveInSeattle
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 2:19 pm
by L-Jam3
I see your Stephen Miller and raise you Chris Christie.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 5:51 pm
by Shirley
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 6:55 pm
by govmentchedda
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?
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 6:58 pm
by A_B
Musta been undergrad.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 7:53 pm
by Pruitt
Burt Bacharach and James Naismith
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 7:57 pm
by govmentchedda
Steven Orr Spurrier is the best of us.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:30 am
by Gunpowder
McKinley went to Allegheny for a year, for which he was shot.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 10:57 am
by Shirley
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2020 12:00 pm
by govmentchedda
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:02 pm
by brian
Congrats tomorrow afternoon on joining this select club of Swampers, DSafe:
Giff
Nonlinear
GoodKarma
hdo
Shirley
And Swampers emeritus:
tommyboy
Hood
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:05 pm
by Johnny Carwash
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?
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:14 pm
by mister d
I'm going to guess its "had a president go to their alma mater".
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:16 pm
by brian
It’s literally at the beginning of the thread?
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:56 pm
by Steve of phpBB
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:57 pm
by The Sybian
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:12 pm
by Johnny Carwash
Rooting for John Amos to be president so sancarlos and I can join the club.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:15 pm
by sancarlos
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:30 pm
by DSafetyGuy
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....
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:34 pm
by P.D.X.
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:17 pm
by A_B
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.
Re: Random SwamperFacts
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:22 pm
by Steve of phpBB