Sounds like mine (there were 72 of us).

I bet he was the only Merlin in his grade school class. None of this “Merlin E.” and “Merlin N.” business.

I was on my second date with an OKCupid guy and I mentioned that I get a lot of pleasure out of my personal library (books and also DVDs). He made a face and said “Stuff like that just collects dust.”

I had to watch multiple YouTube videos to get the hang of changing a duvet cover...

I was actually fine with that attitude when I lived in Seattle, because where I grew up (rural Vermont), no one ever carried an umbrella either. Most people were from farming families, and if you’re working on a farm, you don’t have a spare hand for holding an umbrella. If it rains, you get wet.

I do a lot of petsitting, and I had well-off clients who apparently NEVER scooped their cat’s litter box. As far as I could tell, they just waited until their housekeeper came every Thursday and had her dump out the contents, wash the box, and put in fresh litter.

Fellow lunatic here!

I had a great-great-grandfather named “Orpheus.” No one has felt the urge to carry on that name.

I knew a Chad Martin back in the 80s! But I’m 99% certain that obnoxious little wise-ass did not go on to become a doctor.

Did you know that John Cusack has told women about the Cassiopeia constellation in not one, but two movies? (The Sure Thing and Serendipity.)

I too read Walter Lord’s book at a young age and have been intensely interested in all things Titanic ever since. (I would say “obsessive” is the correct label in my case.) I have an entire bookcase devoted to my Titanic books, DVDs, and ephemera.

That’s exactly why the Titanic Historical Society changed its name. It was originally called the Titanic Enthusiasts of America.

When I was mired in a 3-mattresses-in-4-years nightmare, I did a ton of online research. Mostly it convinced me that NO mattress is safe to buy and I’d be better off sleeping on a blanket on the floor.

Right? What I found most confounding about my particular program was that it was an MA in Film Studies, and no one else there seemed to know anything about — or even like — movies! I casually mentioned at a party once that I was looking forward to the new (and much-talked-about) Scorsese film, and everyone looked…

Pretty sure she already thinks she’s God.

Might have just been the wrong fit with that particular graduate program, which most definitely did have a humor deficit.

Aw, thank you! I hung in there long enough to get my M.A., since it was only a 2-year program, and then got the hell out. The diploma now classes up the inside of my sock drawer :)

I think it might have hurt me! I only got into one of the 3 schools I applied to, and one of the ones that rejected me told me that I didn’t use enough “academic jargon” in my essay. (My first clue that continued academia was going to be super-pretentious and not for me.)

I remember Daphne Zuniga for starring opposite a young John Cusack in The Sure Thing. (A film that I somewhat improbably quoted in my grad school application essay.)