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Solid reference. 10/10
10 0 ReplyI don't get it, do you mind explaining?
31 0 ReplyIt's a thing kids say to taunt each other, "girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter, to get more stupider".
37 0 Reply24 0 ReplyNow I've got a hankering for pamplemousse 😄
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Ah, got it, thank you!
6 0 ReplyWhat does that... mean? Is it a jab about college attendance demographics skewing towards women?
3 0 ReplyKids don't know about college demographics. It's a dumb thing kids say to tease each other. Like 7 year old kids. It just means boys are stupid.
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Moody bluessomeone posted with the girls playing jump rope made it clickEDIT oops I meant "comic." I got distracted by the Moody Blues playing on the radio.
3 0 ReplyThe thought of elementary school girls clowning on boys by pointing out college attendance demographics is precious though.
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From what I remember, the taunt predates women overtaking men in college completion (which happened in approximately 1995). It's pretty old at this point.
Here's a newspaper article mentioning it from 1993:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-31-tm-825-story.html
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