Right on…

I am currently sitting in the LIBRARY of my alma mater. Ever wonder why they call it your ‘alma mater‘? My theory is the following:

1. People use words that they think their peers have never heard in order to sound intelligent.

2. A made-up word is by definition one which hasn’t ever been heard by anyone.

3. The smarties that thought up Universities decided that after they graduated and weren’t feeling so smart because they weren’t actively going to school, they could refer to the place they went with a MADE UP WORD so that they would sound smart as provided for in items 1. and 2. above.

4. Hence, therefore, the term ‘alma mater‘ doesn’t mean anything - except that maybe the person using it is feeling a bit insecure in their intelligence. This is, of course, fodder for a whole other post.

There you have it - QED. What, you don’t know what QED means? You sad, sad, education-less individual.