No lard for Navy plebes in yearly academy ritual

AP ^ | May 24, 2010 | Brian White

[vis a vis]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – As they have for 70 years, students at the U.S. Naval Academy celebrated the end of their grueling first year by scaling a 21-foot obelisk on Monday. But this time, without a lard coating on the monument, students completed the task in minutes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_re_us/us_plebes_no_more

[vis a vis]

see also comments at link.

My guess is that they dont want to offend any Mooslimbs with the lard (pig fat).

[1rudeboy]

Dude . . . you hijacked your own thread.

[Red Badger]

[Sender]

Couldn’t they just climb it with halal vegetable shortening?

[1rudeboy]

[GeronL]

wouldn’t want to offend the muslims

[vis a vis]

I’m sorry but I dont understand your point.

[1rudeboy]

From the article:

This year, the event drew more attention after Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, the academy's superintendent, cited "unnecessary injury risk" as a reason the school could end the yearly ritual.

From your comment:

My guess is that they dont want to offend any Mooslimbs with the lard (pig fat).

[Red Badger]

As Naval Academy plebes, they should have had a locker full of this stuff................

[Red Badger]

Hi-jacking a thread means venturing off into a subject(s) that are completely different..............................

[Venturer]

Anything to destroy tradition.

Destroy tradition, destroy the Navy.

[SumProVita]

“Anything to destroy tradition.”

Yes....and very sad (and not nearly as much fun).

[vis a vis]

Unnecessary injury risk——probably means hurt feelings.

This is the Navy for pete’s sake not Sally’s Dance Academny

[I Buried My Guns]

And if you destroy the Navy, and you’re one step closer to destroying AMerica.

[mware]

Even the plebes where chanting. “We want the lard.” Kind of sad for the middies who may be the only class in years that will be denied this rite of passage.

[1rudeboy]

[vis a vis]

I understand that. But imho this is all politically correct gobbedly gook to cover up the real reason.

You dont really think that these plebes are worried about getting scraped, do you?

[Non-Sequitur]

My guess is that they dont want to offend any Mooslimbs with the lard (pig fat).

So what was their excuse for not greasing it in 1969?

[Shimmer1]

What he really said was STOP HAVING FUN!!!!

[mware]

Unfortunately for the plebes, there will be an asterisk next to the time taken to place the officers cap on the top.

According to the video it usually take 2 hours or more to get it up there. They got it up in 2 1/2 minutes.