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Sober Preakness is Bad Preakness

Abstract:
The rapid approach of the Kentucky Derby and all that is associated with it, namely hats, Thoroughbreds and mint julep chug-offs in the infield, reminds us that Baltimore's jewel in the Triple Crown, The Preakness Stakes, is rapidly approaching. The Preakness, over the past two decades, has been the race that horses winning the Kentucky Derby and losing the Belmont Stakes have romped to victory at, in front of 100,000 Baltimoreans and visitors....

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Yeah

posted 5/02/09 @ 1:58 AM EST

Wow, J.H.U., eh? Class act. I was against getting rid of the whole BYOB thing until you opened your fat, retarded, spoon-in-mouth hand.

Chucking beer cans into the air for 'shi*@ & giggles'! So awesome!

Maybe without BYOB @ the Preakness it won't be so representative of Baltimore anymore. You know... Trash! (Ouch. I'm not even talking about the poverty... Just fools like you.)

Sorry, you just lack skills and value to society. If you're tender around the mid-section (likely) delete this post, sucka.

Enjoy the races!

Scott

posted 5/04/09 @ 6:50 PM EST

This article did a great job of convincing me that it was a wise decision to eliminate BYOB from the infield at the Preakness.

By the way, to the previous commenter. Like most Hopkins people, you probably don't know anything about Baltimore. Baltimore's not trash. Idiots like this author are trash.

Cool

posted 5/07/09 @ 2:30 PM EST

Hold on I'm still applauding the previous two posters' excellent stabs at criticism. Such mature, well thought out and brilliantly executed critique! It's nice that you locals read the Hopkins Newsletter and are deeply offended that intelligent, educated people exist in the world and have access to the resources of an institution like Hopkins. Perhaps if you had stayed in school, read a book or two, you would have been able to recognize the sarcasm in this article and that its very clearly satire. It's ok though, because we all know you just criticize Hopkins people as "spoon-in-the-mouth" because you can't deal with the fact that neither you nor anyone you know is of remotely the intellectual caliber to wash our dishes. Have I sufficiently brought it down to your level now? AUTHOR MAKE JOKE - FUNNY HAHA. Better? Hopkins is the only positive institution in the city, and frankly its the only worthwhile organization in the whole of the state (excepting, the U.S. Navy and government operations). The only reasonable parts of the city are the parts we own. Get a life, maybe sign up for Phoenix Online University coursework so you can finish that Associates Degree in Paralegal you've been working on for 14 years, and stop posting on a college publication websites.

MM

posted 5/08/09 @ 11:23 AM EST

Originally posted by

Cool

Hold on I'm still applauding the previous two posters' excellent stabs at criticism. Such mature, well thought out and brilliantly executed critique! It's nice that you locals read the Hopkins Newsletter and are deeply offended that intelligent, educated people exist in the world and have access to the resources of an institution like Hopkins. Perhaps if you had stayed in school, read a book or two, you would have been able to recognize the sarcasm in this article and that its very clearly satire. It's ok though, because we all know you just criticize Hopkins people as "spoon-in-the-mouth" because you can't deal with the fact that neither you nor anyone you know is of remotely the intellectual caliber to wash our dishes. Have I sufficiently brought it down to your level now? AUTHOR MAKE JOKE - FUNNY HAHA. Better? Hopkins is the only positive institution in the city, and frankly its the only worthwhile organization in the whole of the state (excepting, the U.S. Navy and government operations). The only reasonable parts of the city are the parts we own. Get a life, maybe sign up for Phoenix Online University coursework so you can finish that Associates Degree in Paralegal you've been working on for 14 years, and stop posting on a college publication websites.


Jerks like you are the reason I left Hopkins. Mocking people who don't understand satire seems decidedly anti-satiric. Satire should be well-crafted enough that anyone can get some element of it. I agree with the two previous posters: this article certainly appears serious, and any satiric quality just seems to be inside jokes to the author's friends and frat brothers. Typical Hopkins self-indulgence. And the only reason Hopkins own so much of Baltimore is because egotistical pricks like you pay them 40K/year to feel better about yourself for not having gotten into that ivy you tried for.

Spectator

posted 5/10/09 @ 9:40 PM EST

MM, I am wondering if the real reason you left Hopkins was because of your inability to maintain the 4.0 you are currently getting from the nearest community college? You may be also be unaware that well-crafted satire is not in a sense, 'dumbed down' in order to please those who lack the aptitude to recognize it. Do molecular biologists neglect the use of 'big words' so that the un-shaved, overweight, man in his mobile home can understand it? There is an audience for satire, I'm afraid it's not you. I don't mean to undermine your intelligence yet again, but seeing as this has been published in a John Hopkins Newsletter; a institution driven by the ambition and intellect of its students, the audience is generally more perceptive than those such as your self, who happened to fail out.

Spectacle

posted 5/11/09 @ 1:09 PM EST

Originally posted by

Cool

Hold on I'm still applauding the previous two posters' excellent stabs at criticism. Such mature, well thought out and brilliantly executed critique! It's nice that you locals read the Hopkins Newsletter and are deeply offended that intelligent, educated people exist in the world and have access to the resources of an institution like Hopkins. Perhaps if you had stayed in school, read a book or two, you would have been able to recognize the sarcasm in this article and that its very clearly satire. It's ok though, because we all know you just criticize Hopkins people as "spoon-in-the-mouth" because you can't deal with the fact that neither you nor anyone you know is of remotely the intellectual caliber to wash our dishes. Have I sufficiently brought it down to your level now? AUTHOR MAKE JOKE - FUNNY HAHA. Better? Hopkins is the only positive institution in the city, and frankly its the only worthwhile organization in the whole of the state (excepting, the U.S. Navy and government operations). The only reasonable parts of the city are the parts we own. Get a life, maybe sign up for Phoenix Online University coursework so you can finish that Associates Degree in Paralegal you've been working on for 14 years, and stop posting on a college publication websites.


You don't seem to get it either. No one said satire must be dumbed down: it need only be accessible, in some capacity, to all. That, it seems, is the purpose of satire. As Swift said, it is the mirror in which we see everyone but ourselves. Esoteric satire is like elite common sense--it doesn't exist. This author's "boutique satire," if we can even call it that (it is not even scarcely apparent), is more like the stimulant of an impotent student who fumbles with his penis the whole time he writes, and feels it swell each time he veils his criticism further into absence. He is a penile Pinocchio who know its easier to shit on the world and skirt the blame than to bravely uncover the shit that is already there.

Baltimore Movers

posted 5/07/09 @ 4:28 PM EST

It seems clear that opinions on this issue are mixed and conflicting. I'm sure that some people agree with the author but obviously enough people disagree that they took the time to leave a comment and let it be known. In general, the main consideration was probably safety and common sense rather than maximizing the fun for college students.
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