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From: rossiter@cornell.UUCP (David Rossiter)
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Subject: Re: Softball Team Names
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Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 15:20:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  9 15:20:47 1984
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At Cornell there are many good names in the intramural leagues.  My favorite
is the 'Human Servants', who represent the Department of Human Services
Studies in the College of Human Ecology (no I'm not making that up!  If you
think that department name is pretentious, how about Design and Environmental
Analysis, or Human Development and Family Studies, all from the same source?).

The Plant Pathology department's team is the 'Naked Ascii'; this refers to
the fruiting structures of certain fungi.

In the Ithaca City softball leagues there are several euphonious names,
derived from the sponsors (often bars), e.g. 'The Chanticleer' and
'The Dugout' (of course).  Fantastic mental images are invoked when one
reads headlines like : Hal's Deli destroyed by Finger Lakes Contractors.

Any ex-Ithacans will remember the fabled 'Eddy Street Truckers', who
flourished in the late 60's.  Eddy St. is the heart of the ex-student
slum housing (ex-students often outnumber students here), and these guys
(and the center fielder, Dunbar the dog), all with their hair down to their
waists, would play benefit exhibitions against the various local law
enforcement agencies ('Truckers off Pigs' as we said in those days).