School Mascots/Nicknames, Interesting/Unique

[deltaphi94]

Originally posted by PSPGirl
What's even better is that when someone dressed up as our greyhound, the head looked like a scary rat head!

No way!! Ours too! LOL

[pinkyphimu]

muhlenberg mules......

my friend's high school mascot was the PINE TREE. holy canoli!!

[OUlioness01]

i think this one is funny
the Salem Quakers and the New Philadelphia Quakers. Both in Ohio. I have sisters who went to each of those schools.

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
It's a little different though...

I don't consiter the Leatherneck nickname to be funny or unusual... and Leatherneck isn't really that unusual...it's used in the military...

Leatherneck is one of the nicknames for Marines. (It's not Gyrenes, 'jarheads' or -ack- 'sea-going bellhops'!) Its origin was of the uniform Marines wore in the 1800s, with high leather collars to protect them from sword cuts to the neck when they boarded enemy ships.

Another bit of Marine trivia: the quatrefoil worn on the top of the service cap of Marine officers was so that seamen on the rigging could distinguish between enlisted and officer Marines in a deck battle (though some wags would claim it was so that the sailors could pick off the chickensh*t officers easier! )

[OUlioness01]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU

Another bit of Marine trivia: the quatrefoil worn on the top of the service cap of Marine officers was so that seamen on the rigging could distinguish between enlisted and officer Marines in a deck battle (though some wags would claim it was so that the sailors could pick off the chickensh*t officers easier! )

quatrafoile?? like the Phi Mu symbol? sorry, resume the relevant discussion

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by OUlioness01
quatrafoile?? like the Phi Mu symbol? sorry, resume the relevant discussion

More or less, but it's simpler in design than the Phi Mu quatrefoil.

[Tom Earp]

docetboy, know th History of Wahburn!!

But it was so much more fun when we payed Washburn to yell, " What The F*** Is an Ickybod"

But that is almost as strange as being a Pitt State "Gorilla".

Hell ahve never figured that one out yet. So I just tell people it must have been from a traveling medicne show/Carnival where the Gorilla go loose and was big new back then!!!!!!!

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by mu_agd
i'm surprised you didn't throw the RedHawk into that post!!

Naw. Even though there really isn't such a bird -- there is a red tailed hawk, which I understand is probably what redhawk is short for. At least the bird is a living thing.

Question. I wonder if Red Tailed Hawks eat buckeyes?

[White_Chocolate]

Originally posted by deltaphi94
No way!! Ours too! LOL

our mascot looked like a big fat Kool Aid pitcher
it was red and black because that was our colors
no lie

[lionlove]

Originally posted by pinkyphimu
muhlenberg mules......

my friend's high school mascot was the PINE TREE. holy canoli!!

Yup the Mule, the sterile cross of an ass and a horse. lol

My highschool mascot was the harborman. It made sense cause I grew up near the ocean but the neighboring towns all had similar mascots like the sailors. Unfortunatly, all the mascots dressed alike in yellow foul weather gear and fishing caps so all the mascots in the area looked alike.

[AlphaGamDiva]

at least i was something normal for high school....bulldogs!!!

and i feel ya, white_chocolate, on the whole kool-aid pitcher thing....