So why don't you kill me
posted by Richard Mason @ Friday, March 09, 2007
Friday, March 09, 2007
Why Not Take All of Me
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- They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard
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8 Comments:
Maribeth says, "That isn't that funny."
I don't mind. I just thought it was interesting. Why does everything have to be funny? Let's shed our collective obsession with things being funny.
Maribeth says a better punchline would have been, "So why are condoms named Trojans?"
Isn't there a school cheer that goes,
"Two, four, six eight,
we know how to integrate!"
I'm just saying, you don't want your condoms fighting valiantly for a losing cause.
Haha, I like Maribeth's revised punchline.
Grace, I can't say that I have ever heard that cheer. MIT and Caltech are supposed to have mathematical cheers about e and pi and so forth, but I'm not sure I have really heard those either (as opposed to read about them).
On the one hand, many mascots simply make no sense: Boll Weevils, banana slugs, hillbillies, etc.
But the various Native American inspired teams show that fighting valiantly and not winning is okay. I mean, how many Seminoles are still terrorizing the Southeast? (Pirates and Buccaneers too, for that matter)
Hillbillies rule.
I like the idea of the Athenians as a mascot and am disappointed that no university has chosen them. The University of Georgia is even located in Athens! Yet they went with Bulldogs instead???
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