Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 483526)

I was Not Clear - I don't remember the Infirm/LT moniker of one of my LinkedIn connections.

(Or maybe I am whiffing at a joke about my age and/or memory?)

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 483522)

Independent School League (I assume). I'm surprised that one of these schools had so much more overwhelming facilities than most of the others (maybe the more urban ones, like BB&N and Roxbury Latin, don't have quite the palaces of their boarding brethren).

And, yes, unlike large colleges which compete to have the largest endowment rather than, say, spending the money on students, high schools actually seem to use their endowments for the campus. Plus, it's a lot cheaper to get a gym named after you at a prep school than in college, for all those hedge fund managers who didn't strike it quite as big as Cohen.

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 483522)

Independent School League (I assume). I'm surprised that one of these schools had so much more overwhelming facilities than most of the others (maybe the more urban ones, like BB&N and Roxbury Latin, don't have quite the palaces of their boarding brethren).

And, yes, unlike large colleges which compete to have the largest endowment rather than, say, spending the money on students, high schools actually seem to use their endowments for the campus. Plus, it's a lot cheaper to get a gym named after you at a prep school than in college, for all those hedge fund managers who didn't strike it quite as big as Cohen.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483527)

I don't get giving money to have a gym named after you. Grandpa Canaday asked for a dorm.

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 483531)

But got only a Freshman dorm.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 483532)

If you marry well, of course, there will be a different building named after each grandparent.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483533)

I think for this to make any sense at all, there'd have to be elder sex and incest involved.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 483534)

Clearly, you do not hang with the Lowells and Cabots.

Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 483535)

Bien sur. The Chinaskis talk only to God.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 483534)

Clearly, you do not hang with the Lowells and Cabots.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 483536)

Makes reproduction difficult, non? I mean, absent incest.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483537)

Okay, let's say I am a Cabot and I marry a Lowell, my children might have a building named after each grandparent, but I wouldn't. See?

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483538)

actually, in the roman branch of my lineage we find several demigods.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 483537)

Okay, let's say I am a Cabot and I marry a Lowell, my children might have a building named after each grandparent, but I wouldn't. See?

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 483541)

Of course you would. As would your parents and their parents.

Have you never met these people?