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(22,353 posts)"What high school did you attend?"
I would not answer this one.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)LakeArenal
(28,810 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)LakeArenal
(28,810 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)PJMcK
(22,023 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,513 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)LakeArenal
(28,810 posts)Bucky
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)LakeArenal
(28,810 posts)It was weird cuz I always saw them as boys.
Then on Saturday these men would appear for the game with the same names. 🤷🏼?♀️
GO RED!!!!!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)PJMcK
(22,023 posts)Bucky's been my hero since I was a little boy.
Demovictory9
(32,444 posts)jcgoldie
(11,627 posts)At least twice a week you would see editorials pro and con in the student paper. They finally dumped him about 12 years later. 2007 I believe he gave the final halftime dance.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Brand new school, second high school in town, and our mascot was the Rebels. At the time (early 1970s) there was a multi-level relationship between the school and its mascot, which quickly resolved into a confederate soldier. A few years ago, the students decided a change was in order because the negative far outweighed the positive. A couple of alumni groups went back and forth on the issue, but I was totally in support of the present-day students. They have to live with the mascot (as opposed to me 45 years removed from the scene), and they wanted to change it. Good on them for making the change and ignoring the predictable carping about history, nostalgia, and circumstances that have changed a lot in the intervening years.
mopinko
(70,069 posts)they do have sports teams at waubonsee cc, but the art isntitute of chicago, sadly, no.
you would think that at some point one would evolve there, just as a- 100 monkeys w typewriters- thing, except at one of the the top art and design schools in the world.
i mean, statistically, after 100 yrs...
at wcc i found reference on a student life podcast that they were surveying to see if anyone cared. no further info, so i'm guessin no.
it's a commuter school, so student life has always been sad.
about half grown ups, too.
PJMcK
(22,023 posts)I went to Manhattan School of Music and we didn't have any teams or mascots.
Once, some of us from MSM challenged some friends at Juilliard to a softball game. It was all setup but Juilliard defaulted because their pitcher was a pianist and her teacher wouldn't let her risk her fingers!
My high school had a construction worker called "The Wrecker" but I don't remember a character actor during games.
demmiblue
(36,834 posts)idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)Dickster
(103 posts)Voted the second best mascot name in the country at one time I think by Sports Illustrated
idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,074 posts)jmowreader
(50,546 posts)The first course I attended there, a mascot couldn't have competed with the battalion commander. Lieutenant Colonel Worth A. Sweet looked and sounded exactly like Andy Griffith, and acted pretty much the same way Andy did on those shows where he played a sheriff. Great guy. Everyone loved him, especially the permanent staff.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,921 posts)Tikki
(14,556 posts)The Tikkis
Captain Zero
(6,799 posts)Hoping not.
Not when we were students there.
Some had mushroom cloud symbols on clothing and accessories.
The Tikkis
We have not lived there since H S graduation.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,336 posts)Tartars
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)csziggy
(34,133 posts)Kali
(55,006 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,074 posts)Captain Zero
(6,799 posts)The Trojans brought on their own demise by allowing the Greek Gift of a wooden horse inside the walls of Troy. A special forces unit was hidden inside the horse and promptly jumped out at night and opened the gates to the city for the rest of the Greeks to enter. Go figure. Dumb tough guys.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.