TASP 2003 at UT Austin: The Mystery of Creativity



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Sunday, March 20, 2005
Since we’re talking about rape, I’d like you all to think of the old McDonalds slogan (have it your way).

That said, here's something funny- So my roommate Dan is a fairly attractive dude, he plays badminton, works out, and leads a youth group, and besides being really active in his church, is waiting till marriage. For this he suffers. You can hear him hang up the phone after talking to a girl and ask aloud “why do I even have a penis?�

God doesn't appear to answer him, but Eli, our other roommate, does. It's rather funny.

Anyway, this chick from church really likes Dan. alot.
She has switched into his youth group from another, joined the badminton intramural team (though she’s terrible at it) and beyond joining all of his other extracurriculars has done something that Yalies aren’t really supposed to do--switch residential colleges--and soon will be living on the fifth floor of our entryway. Dan has tried talking to her, but it doesn’t appear to work; It's like yelling at a parakeet for chewing up a pencil--it understands that you’re unhappy, but not why. Anyway Eli and I have a solution for Dan other than taking advantage of her; He needs to tell her that she’s fat and that he’ll only go out with her if she exercises off 60 pounds. After that she'll either hate him, be attractive, or die. Um…or maybe some combination of the above.
…he doesn't want to say that yet, but I think if she weren't, um… robust, he'd be more receptive to her, since they used to be friends.
Anyway, good times.

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