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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 13, 2017 17:59:50 GMT -5
Looking at nicknames for other Catholic colleges / universities, not a one that would offend any sensibilities, except perhaps the Fighting Irish and Seton Hall..
BC Eagles Fairfield Stags Providence Friars Fordham Rams Iona Gaels Loyola Chicago Ramblers Loyola Maryland Greyhounds Villanova Wildcats St. Joe's Hawks Xavier Musketeers St. Mary's Gaels Santa Clara Broncos Univ of San Francisco Dons Marquette Golden Eagles Canisius Golden Griffins LeMoyne Dolphins LaSalle Explorers Niaghara Purple Eagles St. Bonaventure Bonnies Seattle Redhawks Loyola Marymount Lions University of San Diego Toreros Seton Hall Pirates St. Peters Peacocks St. John's Red Storm University of Scranton Royals Creighton Bluejays Dayton Flyers St. Louis Billikens Merrimack Warriors Manhattan Jaspers Univ of Detroit Mercy Titans Siena Saints St Francis PA Red Flash Duquesne Dukes Portland Pilots Depaul Blue Demons John Carroll Blue Streaks Gonzaga Bulldogs St. Francis NY Terriers Sacred Heart Pioneers Mt St Mary's The Mount / Mountaineers
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 13, 2017 18:02:30 GMT -5
In medical school I played on an intramural team known as the Nads. Our cheer, of course, was "Go Nads". In my one year of parochial elementary school, I had a classmate named Bader. The nuns would habitually call male students by "Master _____'
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Post by hchoops on Mar 13, 2017 18:15:35 GMT -5
In medical school I played on an intramural team known as the Nads. Our cheer, of course, was "Go Nads". In my one year of parochial elementary school, I had a classmate named Bader. The nuns would habitually call male students by "Master _____' Were you dismissed for wetting your pants at this line ?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 13, 2017 19:22:30 GMT -5
In my one year of parochial elementary school, I had a classmate named Bader. The nuns would habitually call male students by "Master _____' Were you dismissed for wetting your pants at this line ? No one was wetting pants at this grade,, but the girls in the class would giggle and the nun (Sisters of Mercy) would turn red-faced.
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 13, 2017 20:32:12 GMT -5
Looking at nicknames for other Catholic colleges / universities, not a one that would offend any sensibilities, except perhaps the Fighting Irish and Seton Hall.. Its easy to be offended when you want to be ... Toreros - I'm sure PETA would be offended Dukes - the British (or French since the school is named after a French Marquis) nobility were not always gentlemen Blue Demons - at a Catholic School! Warriors - whether Native American or just a soldier, could be quite offensive to some Dons - Spanish nobility in colonial California. Many possible reasons to be offended Pioneers - settlers in the American plains and west were not all good to the Native Americans they displaced. Musketeers - Cardinal Richelieu's body guards?? And worst of all ... BC Eagles - 'nough said.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 14, 2017 6:05:46 GMT -5
Looking at nicknames for other Catholic colleges / universities, not a one that would offend any sensibilities, except perhaps the Fighting Irish and Seton Hall.. Its easy to be offended when you want to be ... Toreros - I'm sure PETA would be offended Dukes - the British (or French since the school is named after a French Marquis) nobility were not always gentlemen Blue Demons - at a Catholic School! Warriors - whether Native American or just a soldier, could be quite offensive to some Dons - Spanish nobility in colonial California. Many possible reasons to be offended Pioneers - settlers in the American plains and west were not all good to the Native Americans they displaced. Musketeers - Cardinal Richelieu's body guards?? And worst of all ... BC Eagles - 'nough said. I very much resent your characterization of nobles as possibly being anything but. ^^^earliest ^^^^Later, and gussied up. Being directly descended from a branch of a noble house of Normans, I think I can vouchsafe for the sanctity, piety, integrity, charity, and all-around-good fellowship of my ancestors, even those who defeated the bloody Scots [Catholic BTW] in battle, and who may have made a pilgrimage or two as a Templar.
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 14, 2017 13:55:53 GMT -5
In medical school I played on an intramural team known as the Nads. Our cheer, of course, was "Go Nads". Our arch rivals were Cooper's suspensory ligaments. Google it. Medical school humor.
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Post by timholycross on Mar 14, 2017 16:51:56 GMT -5
There's a highly recruited Class of 2018 men's player named David Duke. Better change his name, might confuse him with the Klan leader and offend someone.
BTW, Duke is African American.
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 14, 2017 18:33:21 GMT -5
There's a highly recruited Class of 2018 men's player named David Duke. Better change his name, might confuse him with the Klan leader and offend someone. BTW, Duke is African American. That will reduce the confusion!
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Post by sarasota on Mar 14, 2017 23:26:00 GMT -5
PP- Your aristocratic bona fides adds enormous dignity to our forum here. We are all in your debt.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 15, 2017 6:26:32 GMT -5
PP- Your aristocratic bona fides adds enormous dignity to our forum here. We are all in your debt. Bona fides, my a$$. There are two lessons that I've learned from my Irish ancestor: 1.) Never join an insurrection led by someone with the dandy name of "Silken Thomas", and 2.) to borrow a quote from "The Wire", "When you come at the king, you best not miss." From the English branch of the ancestral tree, I would add a third, 'Don't listen to your wife.' (An ill-fated enterprise to restore Mary, Queen of Scots, to the throne.) The sum of 1.), 2.), and 3.) was the forfeiture of the ancestral lands, supposedly vast in their expanse. ------ And to borrow another quote (from Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse Five), "So it goes."
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Post by sarasota on Mar 15, 2017 9:51:20 GMT -5
Still.....you are of aristocratic blood. That can never change. If we meet I will bow but I will NEVER kneel and kiss your ring.
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 15, 2017 10:29:07 GMT -5
Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you?
We're all very different people. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh?
You know what that means? Do ya?
That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts!
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 15, 2017 10:34:16 GMT -5
8485, You may have hit on something, how about the HC "Mutts"?
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Post by Tom on Mar 15, 2017 11:48:37 GMT -5
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Post by beaven302 on Mar 15, 2017 13:52:51 GMT -5
8485, You may have hit on something, how about the HC "Mutts"? Or how about "Stray Cats" in honor of the black-and-white stray who was adopted by a football player who lived on my floor. The cat lived there happily for some time during the winter of 1967 until the head of the dorm (a faculty member who shall remain nameless) cruelly ordered him out. Fortunately, another person on the floor took the cat home to Great Barrington, MA, where he reportedly lived out his days in comfort.
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 15, 2017 14:31:52 GMT -5
Someone else who's not offended by Crusaders was busy this morning A positive use for snowflakes...well done.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 15, 2017 15:11:36 GMT -5
Methinks the snow sculpture is of this individual.
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Post by Tom on Mar 15, 2017 15:25:24 GMT -5
Methinks the snow sculpture is of this individual. Exactly - Batman - aka The Caped Crusader
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Post by matunuck on Mar 15, 2017 15:42:47 GMT -5
Bet quite a few of those letter signers would vote to change the name of HC to "Fenwick College" if given the chance.
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Post by sarasota on Mar 15, 2017 16:47:56 GMT -5
"Jesuit College of Worcester"
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Post by hchoops on Mar 15, 2017 16:54:16 GMT -5
"Jesuit College of Worcester" Does not quite have the cache of Fordham's ads--"The Jesuit University of New York"
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Post by crusader12 on Mar 15, 2017 17:28:47 GMT -5
This is OUTRAGEOUS!!! Disgusting! Stop the madness! SAD!
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Post by ncaam on Mar 15, 2017 18:12:22 GMT -5
Pakachoag Hill College, Rockets
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 15, 2017 18:33:34 GMT -5
Holy Cross Crusaders
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