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School's symbol catches flak [Encinal High School Jets]
Sacramento Bee ^
| 5/4/03
| Herbert A. Sample
Posted on 05/05/2003 11:05:54 AM PDT by slowry
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:50:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: slowry
Janet Gibson, a school board member and Alameda resident since 1973, said she's long considered the jet an inappropriate emblem for Encinal. "I would think there is a better symbol for the school, ... 'The Encinal Pussys'...(like in 'cat'...what did you think I meant?)
To: slowry
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posted on
05/05/2003 12:50:33 PM PDT
by
Macaw
To: frodolives
Speaking of ducks, my birthplace -- Yuba City, California nicknamed its high school mascot the Honkers. I suppose if Jesse Jackson ever finds someone there to shakedown, they may rename them the Yuba City Honkies.
To: Drew68
My dad was a Pine Forest (Fayetteville, NC) Rebel. A few years after graduation they became the Trojans. From Rebels to condoms...
MD
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posted on
05/05/2003 1:31:14 PM PDT
by
MikeD
(Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!)
To: Drew68
They had the word "Poets" on the side of their football helmets. One of the local high schools in the town where I went to college called themselves the "Lambkins" and adorned their football helmets with smiling baby lambs.
How humiliating.
The high school team in my old hometown of Vincennes, Indiana was known as the Alices, after the title of the old Maurice Thompson novel, Alice of old Vincennes.
While working as a newspaperman for the county's newspaper, I sometimes had to help my editor come up with colorful headlines for sports stories, not my favourite cup of tea. After a couple of my submissions after a victory by the opposing Vikings [*Vikings plunder Alices* was one of the few that can be repeated, or was used] I was no longer bothered with that task....
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posted on
05/05/2003 1:32:28 PM PDT
by
archy
(Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
To: drjimmy
Carlos Zialcita is a male.
To: Drew68
It's pretty simple, these people don't want *any* reminders of the type of men and equipment required to keep a country free and rid the world of evil types. Since they have neither the balls nor the competence to serve our nation in any useful capacity, that kind of thing has to go.
To: dighton; aculeus; Thinkin' Gal; hellinahandcart; BlueLancer
Well, I think if we're honest for a moment, the Sharks
were much cooler than the Jets...
![](http://www.paradiselost.org/img/z-wss.jpg)
Okay, maybe not...
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05/05/2003 9:27:01 PM PDT
by
general_re
(Ask me about my vow of silence!)
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