Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bjanz From: bjanz@watarts.UUCP (Bruce Janz) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Odd School Names Message-ID: <8527@watarts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:01:52 EDT Article-I.D.: watarts.8527 Posted: Thu Aug 15 12:01:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 16:36:03 EDT References: <622@brl-tgr.ARPA> <441@ucdavis.UUCP> Reply-To: bjanz@watarts.UUCP (Bruce Janz) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 35 Summary: In article <441@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrbrian@ucdavis.UUCP (Brian Reilly) writes: >> I've seen odd town names, but how-about odd school team names. >> Here's a few I think are odd: >> >> 1. Hoopeston Cornjerkers (Illinois) (Can you guess what they do >> during off time?) >> >> 2. Potomac Artesians (Illinois) (Named after a natural spring????) >> >> 3. Oregon Ducks >> >> 4. Schlarman Hilltoppers (Illinois) (In the flat lands of Central >> Illinois) >> >> Anyone else have any that they can add to this list. Let's see those >> strange school names!! >> >> The Big D- > >How about the California Aggies here at U.C. Davis? What is an >"aggie" anyway? I have been here for three years and I am not too >sure what it means. They call the school newspaper The California >Aggie, so it is a popular phrase. > Actually, Aggies are farmers & the like (agricultural students). In Saskatchewan, there's a high school team named the Notre Dame Hounds. -- Reality is for those who have no imagination. . . b janz watmath!watarts!bjanz OR watmath!watdcs!bbjanz