Will Ferrell calls out Pat Forde...

Forde, you'd have been safe either way (though the results were awfully funny the way it went). From www.m-w.com:

Main Entry: alum·nus
Pronunciation: &-'l&m-n&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural alum·ni /-"nI/
Etymology: Latin, foster son, pupil, from alere to nourish -- more at OLD
1 : a person <b>who has attended or has graduated</b> from a particular school, college, or university

 

That's how I get away with calling myself a South Carolina alum.

 

That's how I get away with calling myself a Harvard alum. But only if "attending" means "strolled through campus once."

 

If driving past the football stadium is all it takes, I am a proud Indiana State alum!

 

If "stalking Shane Battier" counts, then I'm a Duke alum!

 

Good grief, I walked through Duke's campus so many times with my mother growing up that I should have been a Duke alum right along with her.

 

If Sam Mills 51's mother counts, then I am a Duke alum.

 

I'm sorry.

 

That made me laugh.

No small feat today.

 

She is a Duke alum. While I was kidding about myself, I wasn't about her.

 

Um, I don't think Sam Mills gets the joke.

Or maybe I'm twice as perverted as I thought.

 

*watches pitch sail over my head*

So I'm ignorant ... you didn't already know that?