Missed Connection Found?
A few weeks ago, the Daily Gazette published a missed connection from someone calling herself “trendy senior girl”: Dear tall trendy freshman boy that looks like Andy Samberg: I think that you’re cute. Let’s be trendy together. Jesse Dashefsky ‘13 believes himself to be the tall trendy freshman boy in question. The Gazette’s Opinions Editor sat down with him for an interview.
DG: So what was the first thing you thought when you read that there was a trendy senior girl chasing after an Andy Samberg look-alike? Did you think it was you?
Jesse: I didn’t actually read the missed connection. A couple of friends of mine were eating breakfast when they pointed at me and said “It might be him!” Before I knew it they had dragged me back to Mertz and stuck me up against the poster of Andy Samberg and they were comparing fro-sizes and things like that. So then I knew. I was a marked man. There was a manhunt on.
Jesse Dashefsky '13. Photo by Jon Emont.
Andy Samberg. Photo from the Wikimedia Foundation.DG: Now, describe what your fro was like the day the missed connection was posted.
Jesse: This was before break, before I was shorn. It can only be described as capacious. It could hold probably like two math exams worth of pencils in it.
DG: Which sounds very similar to Andy Samberg’s enormous Jew-fro…
Jesse: I don’t know how many pencils Andy Samberg’s hair can hold, but it’s probably quite a number. His fro is said to be so mad that light itself could not escape.
DG: Now Andy Samberg however, does not have glasses. Were you wearing glasses the likely day that you were spotted?
Jesse: Perhaps the glasses are what makes me trendy.
DG: So we’ve covered the fro and the trendy, but what about the height? How tall would you say you are?
Jesse: I’m 5’9–5’10, which is not particularly tall.
DG: But you’re thin. You look taller than you are. I had you down as 5’11, which is approaching tall territory.
Jesse: Perhaps it is the fro.
DG: Perhaps it is the fro… So any last thoughts, any last reasons you might be Andy Samberg? I mean, you do have a delightful wit, but I suppose she couldn’t have known that…
Jesse: You never know. Hmmm… Why I might be Andy Samberg? Because I’m on a boat. Because I’m at Swat and learning fast and I’ve got a nautical themed pashmina afghan… I don’t know.
DG: What are you going to do if she contacts you? Write back?
Jesse: I have no idea.
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#1: 10/27/2009 at 2:20 a.m.
I doubt she will contact him. The school is small enough that if she actually wanted to get in touch with him, a missed connection would not be the most practical medium. Unless of course this serves as an icebreaker, I suppose. Any commenters wanna out themselves?
— Peter '11 | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#2: 10/27/2009 at 7:38 a.m.
This is not Jesse. My friend in the class of '13 looks significantly more like Andy and is 6' 2'. What a shame.
— anonymous | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#3: 10/27/2009 at 9:47 a.m.
anonymous--pictures or it's not true.
— anon2 | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#4: 10/27/2009 at 3:55 p.m.
I have some confirmation that this is not the trendy freshman in question. Sorry!
— Alas | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#5: 10/27/2009 at 5:33 p.m.
well, any takers for this andy samberg look alike? jon, he does indeed have a delightful wit.
— a nun3 | Unregistered, Swarthmore