The movie Legally Blonde was written by a Stanford law student who didn’t enjoy her time there:
I was in my first week of law school, in 1993, and I saw this flyer for “The Women of Stanford Law,” so I was like, “I’ll go and meet some nice girls. Whatever.”
I went to the meeting, and these were not women. These were really angry people. The woman who was leading it spent three years at Stanford trying to change the name “semester” to “ovester.” I started laughing and I realized everyone in the room took it very seriously. So I didn’t make any friends there.
Sounds like the Stanford that’s produced so many of the winners I’ve worked with in the Valley of Despair.
Apparently, their desire to derive “semester” from the “sem-/se-” words like semen is folk etymology. According to this, it’s actually from Latin “sex mensis,” or “six months.”
Amanda Brown’s hotter than Renee Whatsername, even if her collar doesn’t match her cuffs. I’d do her. Oh, wait: “One look at Amanda Brown’s hilltop house on the best block of Russian Hill…”
Proof that even idiots can be successful in Hollywood! I guess even GW Bush has a hopeful future as a screenwriter. He could call his “Legally Dumb.”