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(22,284 posts)"What high school did you attend?"
I would not answer this one.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,225 posts)LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,225 posts)LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,225 posts)PJMcK
(21,916 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,225 posts)LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)Bucky
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,225 posts)LakeArenal
(28,713 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
(26,225 posts)PJMcK
(21,916 posts)Bucky's been my hero since I was a little boy.
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)jcgoldie
(11,582 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
(26,225 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
(69,803 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
(21,916 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
(36,742 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
(202,958 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 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
(25,808 posts)Tikki
(14,537 posts)The Tikkis
Captain Zero
(6,713 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
(23,282 posts)Tartars
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)csziggy
(34,119 posts)Kali
(54,990 posts)Rhiannon12866
(202,958 posts)Captain Zero
(6,713 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.