Don't Take That Bet on a Bet

[akirlu]

Backroom banter about a candidate with an, er, idiosyncratic, vita inspired me to point out that I must nevertheless stand up for Santa Cruz, as the home of another oddball mascot. "But," I muttered, "I bet they don't sell a lot of plush toys of theirs!"

Boy would I be wrong.

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I have never owned a University of Washington t-shirt, sweatshirt, stuffed Husky or any other indication of my alma mater. I did not buy anything MTSU-related when I attended MTSU. But I did buy a Skyline College sweatshirt one evening when I was desperately cold from the fog and wind...I didn't call it Wuthering Heights CC for nothing.

Who buys collegiate stuff?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Er. Um. Me?

When I was at UCLA, I swore I would simply have the letters tatooed on my butt when I got a diploma, from all the money I saved not buying BearWear (tm). I have thus far reneged on that pledge. But when I was leaving UCIrvine to move up here, I took the gift certificate I had for the college bookstore and bought myself a stuffed anteater. In my defense, I point out that it is an extremely cool and lifelike anteater.

Around here, everyone asks me if it's an aardvark. (Which reminds me, I must get over to Woodland Park to buy myself a small aardvark to keep under my desk.)

I also have a plush Husky, but that was a gift.

Ulrika, a quarter-century later and still bearwear-free.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

There is no need to apologize for a plush anteater. I mean, who would not want one? I know I do. Is the anteater the Irvine mascot? My god, that's cool.

I wasn't being sniffy about people who own collegiate stuff, I just don't know people wear items from their own college's bookstore. I, for instance, own several t-shirts from European universities. Get me, I didn't go to the Sorbonne, check out this nifty t!

[iggyspawn.livejournal.com]

25 years later, and where's the tattoo?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Hey, I don't like to rush into things, ya know? Anyway, it isn't anything like 25 years since I *graduated*, just since I matriculated...

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

Well, as you once uttered to me many years ago: Slugs happen.

[numbat.livejournal.com]

I'd happily own a banana slug plush.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I didn't have to buy college stuff the year I went. I had the letter jackets of both parents, my mother's college jewelry, and my father's megaphone.

[shikzoid.livejournal.com]

Who else has oddball mascots? There's the Texas Christian Horned Frogs and the Southern Illinois Salukis.