Opera goes to Penn Station in search of Rankings! Forum

woeisme · Post by **woeisme** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:39 am

GygesRing wrote:Cornell's 25th GPA dropped by a whole .3? That can't be right.

I heard it was misreported. Should be 3.42 or 3.52. Not sure if it's been confirmed yet though.

samsamuelson · Post by **samsamuelson** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:39 am

gilchristh wrote:Opera, again-- you're a goddess.

Must feel good to be right after constant naysaying. Dresden Doll once again comes in trying to get quick wins with flashy pessimism and gets steam rolled by The Truth.

TheNerdProject · Post by **TheNerdProject** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:49 am

Just made my way over to Penn Station and got me a copy of the rankings... Trip was way cooler than it would have been otherwise had it not been for OperaSoprano's epic journey. My visits to Penn Station will never be the same.

edit: Props to GoAnthem too for relaying the information!

geoanthem · Post by **geoanthem** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:51 am

Are they now in Barnes and Noble and the like, or will I have to wait until Thursday to pick it up?

General Tso · Post by **General Tso** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:54 am

geoanthem wrote:Are they now in Barnes and Noble and the like, or will I have to wait until Thursday to pick it up?

I checked my local B&N yesterday and nothing

TheNerdProject · Post by **TheNerdProject** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:04 am

geoanthem wrote:Are they now in Barnes and Noble and the like, or will I have to wait until Thursday to pick it up?

Are you in NYC? I got my copy at Penn Station--at a newstand right by the McDonald's and the entrance to the MTA train station near 34th and 7th Ave (I think it's called "Hudson News" but don't quote me on that). It's the relatively 3x bigger newstand in the vicinity. There were only a few copies left a few minutes ago when I purchased mine.

geoanthem · Post by **geoanthem** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:05 am

TheNerdProject wrote:
geoanthem wrote:Are they now in Barnes and Noble and the like, or will I have to wait until Thursday to pick it up?
Are you in NYC? I got my copy at Penn Station--at a newstand right by the McDonald's and the entrance to the MTA train station near 34th and 7th Ave (I think it's called "Hudson News" but don't quote me on that). It's the relatively 3x bigger newstand in the vicinity. There were only a few copies left a few minutes ago when I purchased mine.

Unfortunately I just made the trip up to Boston, so I'm not in NYC right now.

legends159 · Post by **legends159** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:12 am

I didn't read through this thread but it seemed pretty epic. Especially reading xoxo's first.

Good job Opera, way to represent!

muddywaters · Post by **muddywaters** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:19 am

MrKappus wrote:
veritas85 wrote:
mallard wrote:
panda wrote:one question...how did she know it was going to be at Penn Station..how did this whole thing happen...go figure I miss the part where everything is actually explained and makes sense..
or maybe because its a quarter to 3am ..nothing really makes sense ...
1. Mandelbaum posts a list of schools he texted to himself after paging through a copy at Penn Station.
2. Ken says it looks like it might be a real list.
3. Several posters, including doyleoil and myself, note its similarity to the supposedly discredited critical badger list.
4. Arguments ensue.
5. OperaSoprano gets a cab to Penn Station and buys the book.
6. A Legend is Born.
7. ???
8. PROFIT

9. Opera turned me straight during one glorious night over the internet.

MeTalkPrettyOneDay · Post by **MeTalkPrettyOneDay** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:21 am

Helmholtz wrote:I also wanted to stress that The Critical Badger (or whatever hell that guy's name is) didn't break anything first. As far as I can tell, the original scanned leak was put up on here first. I saved it to my computer before the OP killed the link. I then uploaded it to my Dropbox folder, and posted that as a new link. I saw that the Badger guy put up my Dropbox link (as well as did xoxo) and I changed it to a gif of Kermit screwing a stuffed rabbit. For quite a while, the Badger website had a link of Kermit fucking a rabbit (lol), obviously demonstrating that he was just using the later URL.

FWIW

Hahaha, even better. Need we ask where you got the leak from?

Also, wtf was up with the formatting on that original leak? Although the data seems spot on, the title and intro sentence were both very strange, and looked pretty damn JV.

hoffb86 · Post by **hoffb86** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:23 am

I'm trying to correct ATL... they got it all wrong.... lol

hoffb86 · Post by **hoffb86** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:24 am

muddywaters wrote: 9. Opera turned me straight during one glorious night over the internet.

your husband is going to be PISSED.

flhealth · Post by **flhealth** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:24 am

hoffb86 wrote:I'm trying to correct ATL... they got it all wrong.... lol

link?

hoffb86 · Post by **hoffb86** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:25 am

flhealth wrote:
hoffb86 wrote:I'm trying to correct ATL... they got it all wrong.... lol
link?

http://abovethelaw.com/2009/04/us_news_ ... ngs_le.php

I sent them some info last night, not this, and they trusted this tip over mine... shame....

doyleoil · Post by **doyleoil** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:26 am

muddywaters wrote:
9. Opera turned me straight during one glorious night over the internet.

10. raskolnikov became deeply depressed

geoanthem · Post by **geoanthem** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:28 am

Its funny that ATL doesn't realize we have the actual scanned copy of the magazine and still aren't sure about the rankings.

doyleoil · Post by **doyleoil** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:29 am

geoanthem wrote:Its funny that ATL doesn't realize we have the actual scanned copy of the magazine and still aren't sure about the rankings.

i found this pretty funny too

hoffb86 · Post by **hoffb86** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:29 am

doyleoil wrote:
geoanthem wrote:Its funny that ATL doesn't realize we have the actual scanned copy of the magazine and still aren't sure about the rankings.
i found this pretty funny too

i tried.... maybe they will correct it.

geoanthem · Post by **geoanthem** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:30 am

As far as I'm concerned we got the original rankings leak first and we where the most dedicated to verifying their truthfulness as opposed to some people...

Cough... Critical Badger... Cough

doyleoil · Post by **doyleoil** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:30 am

hoffb86 wrote:
doyleoil wrote:
geoanthem wrote:Its funny that ATL doesn't realize we have the actual scanned copy of the magazine and still aren't sure about the rankings.
i found this pretty funny too

i tried.... maybe they will correct it.

somebody linked us in the comments

TheNerdProject · Post by **TheNerdProject** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:30 am

doyleoil wrote:
muddywaters wrote:
9. Opera turned me straight during one glorious night over the internet.
10. raskolnikov became deeply depressed

11. The economy takes another dip since everyone's on TLS and no work is getting done.

sbalive · Post by **sbalive** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:33 am

geoanthem wrote:As far as I'm concerned we got the original rankings leak first and we where the most dedicated to verifying their truthfulness as opposed to some people...

Cough... Critical Badger... Cough

Yeah, I never really associated UW with douchebaggery before...

jacktripper · Post by **jacktripper** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:36 am

MeTalkPrettyOneDay wrote: Also, wtf was up with the formatting on that original leak? Although the data seems spot on, the title and intro sentence were both very strange, and looked pretty damn JV.

I am really curious about this also. How did that poster get the rankings, and why would they add that lame sentence? Perhaps it was an early draft they got from someone on the inside? It will probably remain an unsolved mystery.

underdawg · Post by **underdawg** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:47 am

lulz good work OS

gilchristh · Post by **gilchristh** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:47 am

samsamuelson wrote:
gilchristh wrote:Opera, again-- you're a goddess.
Must feel good to be right after constant naysaying. Dresden Doll once again comes in trying to get quick wins with flashy pessimism and gets steam rolled by The Truth.

It does. The only thing that still irks me is that I basically got lucky. All I was saying all day yesterday was that, according to USNWR, the overall rankings might, in fact, include PT numbers, and the other arguments against it didn't hold water, so the mass delusion of certainty that the leak was definitely false and the resultant nastiness that accompanied it was unjustified. I could have been just as right in saying that the PT numbers might be included, but ultimately been trashed for pointing out the lack of validity of the claims against the leak's legitimacy.

Oh well...

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