pretzel logic

As our faithful chronicler informs this day in 1974 shares its anniversary with many moments of the great and the good of the release of Steely Dan’s single from the entitled album Rikki Don’t Lose That Number with the backstory that the titular Rikki is a Ms Ducornet—writer and artist, that the front of the band Donald Fagen met as classmates at a small liberal arts college. Though specifically Bard and identified as located in Annandale (-on-the-Hudson, New York, in another song Reelin’ in the Years—from the year prior—I recall being somewhat of a urban legend attributed soi-disant with the small liberal arts college that I attended (left wondering how many others) that apocryphally You’ve been telling me you're a genius since you were seventeen
 / In all the time I’ve known you I still don’t know what you mean
 / The weekend at the college didn’t turn out like you planned
 / The things that pass for knowledge I can’t understand referred to an experience of a prospectant student visiting and proctoring a few classes.