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The Grand Hallway => The Outer Fortress => Topic started by: Escher on April 01, 2010, 02:02:57 PM

Title: "S" time goes by...
Post by: Escher on April 01, 2010, 02:02:57 PM
In a startling, but well anticipated move today, President Ronald Daniels of the former Johns Hopkins University finally gives up to getting called "John Hopkins" for so long... and announces that it is officially changing its name to "John Hopkins". (http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/featured/naming_announcement_april01/)

Honestly, as a student here, it always drove me nuts to hear that slip of the tongue, mostly from ignorance, y'know? But the question is now "what is the bookstore going do do with all those 'It's JohnSSSSSSSsssssss Hopkins (with a #$%&ing S)' clothing they've got now?"
Title: Re: "S" time goes by...
Post by: Darkmoon on April 01, 2010, 04:32:16 PM
Please tell me you realize this was posted on April 1st, right?
Title: Re: "S" time goes by...
Post by: Escher on April 01, 2010, 04:56:21 PM
Quote from: Darkmoon Firelyte on April 01, 2010, 04:32:16 PM
Please tell me you realize this was posted on April 1st, right?
...oh heck, you've ruined it. >_>
Title: Re: "S" time goes by...
Post by: Darkmoon on April 01, 2010, 10:31:45 PM
Sorry. I'm just used to the shenanigans by this point.

Google's joke today was priceless, though
Title: Re: "S" time goes by...
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on April 02, 2010, 07:44:36 AM
Oh? I missed it. What'd they do?
Title: Re: "S" time goes by...
Post by: Gabi on April 02, 2010, 11:27:54 AM
They lost all their vowels for a while.
Title: Re: "S" time goes by...
Post by: Drayco84 on April 02, 2010, 02:14:37 PM
This year they said they were changing it to "Topeka", and they even had an article explaining the switch.

They had me fooled until I remembered what day it was.