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BEWARE THE POP-COLLARS

Our daughter has decided to attend an excellent university in a city about six hours away. Her “hometown honey” is a little worried about what the separation – and increased competition – will do to their romance.

It’s a private school, and although it distributes an enormous amount of financial aid, the student population is kind of preppy. There’s sort of a Midwestern Ivy League feel to the campus.

The hometown honey says he’s worried about the “pop-collars.”

What on earth does that mean? “Pop” as in soda pop? So instead of lipstick on their collars, they have pop spills? Or as opposed to “mom-collars”? Or . . . pop-collars are guys who keep drugs buttoned inside their collars, and pop them out when they wanted to seduce an unsuspecting young coed from Nebraska, so far from home?!?!

Nooooo. He just means guys who go around with the collars of their preppy polo shirts popped up instead of folded down.

Ohhhhh. I always thought those guys just woke up, got dressed out of the dirty laundry basket, and didn’t bother to look in the mirror. But we’ll see if they have any charm for our freshman-to-be.