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The E.T.A. lore: the "Wayne / on a train" doggerel

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texture · YDAU

  • When: YDAU (a Tunnel Club/underclassman scene)
  • What: Comic texture measuring Wayne's mythic stature (and blank inscrutability) among the younger players: the underclassmen chant a smutty limerick — "Eighteen-year-old top-ranked John Wayne / Had sex with Herr Schtitt on a train" — "which the slightly older kids find more entertaining" than its target does. Wayne as the school's untouchable #1, fodder for the argot.