Anonymous
04/22/2025 00:43
Subject: The Official Preppy Handbook, 1980 (Archival Information)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Um, this book was humor.
Those rankings were supposedly of the “preppiest” schools, not the best schools. It was meant to be funny! I was in college at the time and we all thought it was a very funny book- almost as funny as the movie “Animal House,” which is also comedy.
We know this. Not sure why you are feeling such a need to point it out.
A lot of people posting here seem to think it was an actual handbook on how to be preppy. The OP appears to think that the colleges listed were for some kind of a “ranking” of good colleges- an exercise that no one was engaged in at that time, except for the Barron’s Guide which only provided rough ideas of how “selective” various schools were, but did not attempt to rank schools from #1 to #whatever.
It was just a funny book that we read excerpts from out loud in our dorms and laughed uproariously. It seems that a lot of people who post about the relative ranks of various schools are so caught up with knowing scores and grades that they have lost any sense of humor about life.
Why would anyone want or need an actual book telling people how to be preppy? Of course it’s meant to be funny. Not sure why you think you’re the only one who knows this. You seem pretty humorless yourself.
Anonymous
04/22/2025 00:42
Subject: The Official Preppy Handbook, 1980 (Archival Information)
Anonymous wrote:Has a anybody noticed that it is sort of like a parody—not to be taken seriously?
Why do you keep posting this as though you’re the only one who knows it?