Now Concluding “Hopeless Embarrassment” Week at Princeton

by Maureen O'Connor | December 12, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Having already checked “most intensely elitist document ever to grace the Ivy League” off its to-do list, Princeton now brings you “douchiest party flier this side of the Milky Way.” Spotted on campus: A flier promoting a Linkin Park concert at Princeton’s Cottage Club. (click to enlarge)

Now, the event alone would constitute a fearsome level of douchebaggery. (If you don’t understand why, may we suggest watching this cache of Dragon Ball Z clips set to Linkin Park music, followed by this video of Princeton kids dancing.) But, did they really substitute crucifixes for the t’s? And are those really lacrosse sticks bedazzling the bottom corners? On any other week we’d give them the benefit of the doubt— there must be some level of self awareness to this, right? self-loathing irony? clipartsy joke?— but between this week’s hopelessly pathetic student elections and other tragic losses, we’ve lost all faith in the Princeton Man and his ability to do, well, anything without falling all over himself.

UPDATE: It was a prank! Hallelujah, there’s hope for Princeton after all, so long as someone forcibly removed from campus all the sad kids who actually attempted to attend this concert, at the sad eating club where such a prank is actually feasible. Princeton, you continue to be a farcical embarrassment, in all the right and most delighted ways.

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13 Responses to “Now Concluding “Hopeless Embarrassment” Week at Princeton”

  1. hm Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    To add another level of farce and irony, note that the writer of this post correctly identifies the lacrosse sticks but does not know what a crucifix is.

  2. SHANbangs Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    Please do not lump Dragon Ball Z together with Linkin Park. The former is a fond childhood memory; the latter, an embarassing phase of puberty.

  3. P'11 Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Wasn’t this a joke? The crosses and lacrosse sticks seem ironic and it would be a great way to flood Cottage’s doors if they were on guest list or something.

  4. Lp Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Are you completely retarded? If you had thought to do some research before writing this piece of crap Article and talked to any princeton student you’d have realized that those fliers were a prank between student groups and linkin park never came…leaving hundreds of people feeling like idiots for falling for the same joke you just did

  5. whoa Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    calm down. Seriously, it’s not that big of a deal.

  6. @Lp Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

    douchebaggery case in point.

  7. princeton09 Says:
    December 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    Lp may have been unnecessarily rude about it, but she/he has a point.

  8. P '10 Says:
    December 13th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    Swim team posted these as a joke. Cottage wasn’t even on tap.

  9. Martyrmartyr Says:
    December 13th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    Heard that it was actually the rutgers volleyball team

  10. mikesmushroomtip Says:
    December 14th, 2008 at 1:20 am

    i think it was a pretty funny joke. whoever did it managed to maintain the knowledge for a long time. i can’t believe a great deal of randos actually believed it. all in good fun i guess.

    my username makes me look like a complete idiot

  11. SweetLAXER Says:
    December 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    all i know is that i was “maintaining the knowledge” and i was pissed when they didn’t play. i am a huge LP fan and would probably tear-up if i heard “breaking the habit” live, close enough to feel shinoda’s sweat. i hope cottage gets them for lawnparties, im a huge nu metal fan.

  12. Best Prank Ever Says:
    December 14th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    Who was actually behind this?

  13. nih- Says:
    December 15th, 2008 at 3:43 am

    I broke the nalgene bottle