Good advice!

Student: I was sleeping on the couch for awhile, and [alumni] would go out at 2 in the morning, and I'd mumble, "make good choices!"

Oh, the inner shame.

(during discussion on the atmosphere in law school classrooms)
Student 1: Yeah, there's not a lot of public shaming at div school.
Student 2: It's mostly inner shame, really.

I'm cute too...

Yale College Student: And I told Joel he should sleep with her, 'cause she's cute, like, right?

Overheard at: Old Campus

Technically it hasn't even started yet

Student: I think I need a drug problem. This semester is starting out boring.

Hopefully resentment is tax free too

Student: So I can use my student ID to get tax-free textbooks at all the Yale bookstores?
Bookstore employee: Yup.
Student: Do I get anything else?
Bookstore employee: Um... Universal adoration. (pause) Actually, it's more like resentment. Universal resentment.

A sexy dream? Maybe not.

(to Mike)
Student: Mike Giaquinto, I've never met you but I had a dream about you last night.

Probably sitting at the wrong table then

(walking past the Left Behind table)
CLC Leader: Are you all right here? Do you need anything?
Student: Jesus!

Overheard at: Activities Fair

Got to keep room for the Holy Spirit

Female div student: The problem with all the guys at div school is that they're either gay, married or Catholic.

Follow Jesus... to YDS

"You go up the hill, past the forestry school and YDS will be on your right... Big gates. Can't miss it."

Jesus Saves

From my collection of Jesus pictures:

Link of the Week

What Would a Unicorn Do?

If you're ever unsure about what to do today or what you should do in a particular situation, press the button and it'll tell you what a unicorn would do.

Today I should impale evil things.

Google searches pt. whatever

"who would win in a fight between jesus and optimus prime" (Brilliant. I have no idea. Discuss at will)
"recovering fundie"
"all church hymns"
"damn hollywood"

Link of the Week

Until BTFO kicks off the last week in August, I'll post a link each week.

This week: Things Younger Than John McCain

Some highlights include zip codes, Mensa, bendy straws, duct tape, 91% of America and The Grapes of Wrath.

Who knew there were so many things out there younger than presumptive Republican nominee John McCain?

That being said, I'd like to state that this site is non-partisan and will be voting for no one in the fall (since websites can't vote).

Also, happy birthday to my mom, who is the coolest lady I know and, at the ripe age of 29, is also younger than John McCain.

Latin innuendo is the best.

From Donald Kim, a YDS grad of '06 and probably avid reader of this lovely site:

I found an article in Yale Alumni magazine, entitled "Naughty Latin 101."

Underneath the High Street Bridge was some graffiti that read: Optimates Defloreantur ("May the best be deflowered." It's a sly off-color play on ancient Roman sloganeering, which would mean "May the best flourish" but with the de-, you get something else. Something you'd get at Pompeii, says the Yale professor quoted in the article.)

Thanks, Donald!

New Google Searches

Some recent google searches that brought people to OH@YDS:

yale divinity school gay
pre-vatican two nuns
divinity depression (I've got a bit of that now, missing YDS... sad.)
the best of what is said about jesus (I personally enjoy The Best of Jesus vol. 2)
the ugly people (We have none... Try the forestry school.)
should i go to yale divinity school (The Magic 8 Ball says reply hazy, try again)
every time you masturbate jesus kills an angel (Why is OH@YDS number 2 on a google search for that? I'm so ashamed.)
when did jesus hug anyone in the bible (Probably after that wedding in Cana... you know, the one with all that wine?)

As fun as these are, I want school to start again so I can actually post something interesting.

Just one more reason why MPLS is the best city in the midwest

From Overheard in Minneapolis:

5 year old kid to his little friend, after throwing a coin in the wishing fountain: I wished for JESUS to come alive!

Minnesota Zoo
Overheard by Yvette.

Translation oopsies and Divine Providence

Student reading written translation: I am the true vine and my father is the hairdresser...Wait, no, vinedresser!
Fellow Student: Well, that's going to end up on Overheard at YDS.

Overheard at: Summer Greek

I googled a gaggle of geese (and am bored)

New Google searches!

"picture of jesus hugging someone"
"good burger Nickelodeon movies" (I'm a bit embarrassed about this one)
"dale mail"
"define the difference between divinity and theology" (you're in the wrong place, soldier)
"coffee hour"
"bowchickabowow definition"

By the way, this is some of the paid advertisements on the bottom of a google search for "yale divinity school":

• Yale University Divinity School

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  www.AcceleratedDegree.com
• Yale Divinity School

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  www.courseadvisor.com

Is anyone else a little unnerved by that?

Update: Oh, some poor soul googled "getting laid yale" and ended up here. How sad... (but hilarious!)

Google me this

Since I'm out-of-state and pining away for my divvies, I thought I'd compile a list of different Google searches people have done that have brought them to OH@YDS.

[any professor] + yale divinity school
tootsie roll lyrics meaning
quote on patriarchal society
graduation from yale divinity school thoughts
jake erickson and yale
beer theology
how hard get into yale divinity school
rudy darcy
lindsey theologian yale (my personal favorite)
meaning of tootsie roll
"german pop" blogspot

Added:
rock paper scissors meaning

By the way, is there some song called "Tootsie Roll" that I don't know about because I'm hopelessly out of touch with mainstream music?

Congratulations YDS Class of '08!

Nobody puts YDS grads in the corner! You're all Baby and everybody else is the awkward sister... We'll be cool one day. I'm not sure who Patrick Swayze is. Maybe Dale Peterson.

Anyway, congratulations!

Feel free to send in any overheards during the summer. Other than that, have a nice time off and try not to think too much about source criticism or eschatology.