Re: was Quiet now Mascots

Here is a link to an article in the St. Louis University magazine: www.eas.slu.edu/People/BJMitchell/lbill.html The critter has also been "adopted" by the native Americans of northern Alaska, where it has been carved from the tusks of various sea mammals. 
cathy carpenter
west central IL, z5b



On Jul 26, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Pam Evans wrote:


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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