Yalies Make Middle School Humor Prominent and Irrelavant
Do you think the assholes that strung these lights up to make fun of Jonathan Edwards College realized that they almost wrote “Jesus Swalloz”?
That’s not in the Christmas spirit, Elis.
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December 10th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
“Ivygate writer makes lack of sense of humor and spelling ability prominent and irrelAvant.”
December 10th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
They wouldn’t have written “Jesus”. JE itself put up “JE Sux”, they wouldn’t write “JE Sus”. “JE Sux” is there college motto.
Some other college wrote “n Swalloz”.
December 10th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
JE puts up “JE Sux” because it’s their motto… Stiles just added “N Swalloz!”
December 10th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
It’s Je Sux N Swalloz.
Clearly Brice Reynolds is the one who is lacking holiday spirit, as it is surely not Stiles.
December 10th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Yeah, Brice Reynold will make it to the NYTimes in a jiffy with his/her grammar skills. Your opinion, all in all, is irrelEvant.
As for the prank, it looks like a 1-up from previous years.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I happen to find this hilarious. Brice Reynolds, you are an idiot. Even if they wrote Jesus, it would still say “Jesus! N Swalloz” which makes no sense, but neither do you. also, learn to spell.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
We started this tradition back in 04 in JE of hanging lights. brice sucks
December 10th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
for years (apparently since 2004) the freshmen of je have put up JE SUX (our rallying cry) in christmas lights on the front of farnam. in fall 2005, a bunch of asshole stiles freshmen decided to put “nuts” on neighboring lawrance hall, reading “JE SUX NUTS.” without delving too far into the back and forth, this battle of christmas lights heats up every year around this time.
if you have questions about the origins of JE SUX, which is a source of pride for all spiders (aka people in JE–if you are familiar with the works of Jonathan Edwards the reference should be obvious), please consult the JE website (which is admittedly ghetto). i will not provide a link because i want to give the ivygate writers an opportunity to prove they are capable of conducting basic research.
JE SUX!
December 10th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
The tradition actually started in 2005 with freshmen in Davenport (Welch Hall). From there it spread to the other Old Campus buildings, and JE has been the only college to consistently get their shit together.
This year looks pretty good, but I miss the giant dick.
December 10th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Sorry, it was 2004, not 2005. The rest stands. Especially the part about the dick.
December 11th, 2009 at 1:51 am
this argument has already happened.
http://www.ivygateblog.com/2007/12/the-yale-christmas-penis-brings-holiday-cheer-to-all-who-cross-its-path/
December 11th, 2009 at 10:38 am
I like jokes as much as the next person and am don’t want to rain on people’s fun, but I am just wondering how welcoming the reaction would be or how proud yalies would be of new traditions like this if they were mocking a non-Christian holiday, like Hanukkah or Kwanzaa?
December 11th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Forget spelling, didn’t he mean to say “irreverent”
December 11th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
To “curious” – if you’d bothered to read any of the comments, you would have realized that the JE tradition (though stupid) is in no way mocking Jesus or Christmas.
December 11th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
In sum, to Brice Reynolds, Curious and everyone else not attending college in New Haven: Inside joke. Now go boil your bottoms, or we shall taunt you a second time.
December 11th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Dear Brice (and IvyGate in general):
Just give up. Please. For the sake of humanity.
Love,
The entire world
December 12th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I was a Saybrook freshman in Dec 05. The JE frosh put up the “JE SUX” motto, much to the annoyance of the non-JE Old Campus residents. One night, we heard cheering in the courtyard. The Ezra Stiles residence had, indeed, written “NUTS” in lights. The JE freshman, panicking over the tarnishing of their good name, quickly unplugged all the “JE SUX” lights, leaving “NUTS.” But after several minutes, a few light strands began to shine on the JE side. In a brilliant move, JE re-lit the 2nd and 3rd letters (“E” and “S”), leaving “ES NUTS” (Ezra Stiles Nuts). And thus history repeated: the Stiles freshman adopted the insult, just as the JE hockey team adopted “JE Sux” in 76-77. For the few who were there, it was glorious–for Stiles, for JE, for all of Yale. And for those who wish to relive that glory, there is a facebook group (“ES NUTS”) that still boasts 61 members.
December 12th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Brice Reynolds, who the fuck do you think you are? Why do you write for IvyGate? In any case, given that you do, don’t you think you should at least try to make people laugh? Try?
December 14th, 2009 at 12:09 am
As someone who was in Farnam in ‘05, I can back up Y09’s story. While JE-Branford is the historical rivalry, things between JE and Stiles have been particularly heated in the past few years, including a small group of JE students (NOT affiliated with the Men of JE) stealing the moose head from the Stiles dining hall, and continued back and forth pranks.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
This all sounds really, really lame.
December 16th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
The cock that Stiles did in our freshman year was much better… it was very good looking, for a cock drawn out of christmas lights.