Re: was Quiet now Mascots

I give - what's a billikin?

On 7/26/08, cathy carpenter <cathycrc@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> My school's mascot was a billikin. DH's was a beaver (as in, "The beaver is
> the engineer of the animal kingdom and MIT grads are the animals of the
> engineering kingdom).
> cathy carpenter
> west central IL, z5b
>
>
>
> On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Pam Evans wrote:
>
> You're joking - a slug as a school mascot??  That's even dumber than Kemp's
>> mascot (yellow jackets).  The fighting jackets - cracks me up, and w/
>> school
>> colors of orange and black (yuck) it looks like Halloween around here
>> during
>> football season.
>>
>> On 7/25/08, james singer <islandjim1@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> We get big ones here, too. Up to 4 inches long. Huge. Every morning when
>>> we
>>> do the dog poop patrol, we plop the slugs in the same bag and put it in
>>> the
>>> garbage. Incidentally, I think the banana slug--which is 4-5 inches long
>>> and
>>> yellowish--is the mascot of UC Santa Cruz.
>>>
>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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