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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: pontificating on the digestion of fats? #141696 04/07/05 05:01 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City "linguistically awkward" "The cardinal," like "the eagle," "the giraffe," or "the hippo." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: eagle, giraffe, hippo #141697 04/07/05 05:21 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Wow! What sports teams are those?! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: eagle, giraffe, hippo #141698 04/07/05 05:24 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC let's see: The eagles participate in swoopstakes, giraffe are into basketball, and hippos are sumo wrestlers. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Stanford Cardinal: linguistically awkward? #141699 04/07/05 06:52 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass It ain't the Bird, folks. Cardinal has been the color of Stanford athletic teams since 1892 and was adopted in 1972 as the official name for Stanford sports. www.stanford.edu Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Stanford Cardinal: linguistically awkward? #141700 04/07/05 07:44 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams OP Pooh-Bah OP Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Exactly, it isn't the bird. It's just "The Cardinal." (I wonder if they have an arch-rival that is "The Ordinal"?) Then again, it is very similar to Harvard ("The Harvard Crimson"), and I guess it could be referring to "those who are cardinal in color" the same way that "the annointed" would refer to an implied group who were annointed. Looking over a list of college sports nicknames at http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/ I see that many colleges in fact are simply named after a color. A sampling: Blue --- Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts) Big Blue --- Millikin University (Decatur, Illinois) Big Blues --- Bluefield State College (Bluefield, West Virginia) Big Green --- Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) Big Red --- Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) and Denison University (Granville, Ohio) Blues --- Mississippi University for Women (Columbus, Mississippi) Crimson --- Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Crimson Storm --- Southern Nazarene University (Bethany, Oklahoma) (changed in August 1998 from Redskins) Crimson Tide --- University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) Crimson Wave --- Calumet College of St. Joseph (Whiting, Indiana) However, far more entertaining names are to be found away from colors: Hustlin' Quakers --- Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) Ichabods --- Washburn University (Topeka, Kansas) (men's team) Medics --- Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Swordsmen --- Life Bible College-East (Christiansburg, Virginia) Women of Troy --- University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) (women's team) Wonder Boys --- Arkansas Tech University (Russellville, Arkansas) (men's team) Hatters --- Stetson University (Deland, Florida) Black Flies --- College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Maine) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Stanford Cardinal: linguistically awkward? #141701 04/07/05 10:10 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 The game of the year is always when the (Geneva, NY) Hobart Statesmen play the (Lancaster, PA) Franklin and Marshall College Diplomats. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Stanford Cardinal: linguistically awkward? #141702 04/07/05 10:40 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City "It ain't the bird" My, that is awkward! (shows you how much I follow sports (beyond my lane mate at the swimming pool)) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Big Blue --- Millikin University (Decatur, Illinoi #141703 04/07/05 11:43 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Oh my. I just hope they do not have a series of spring formal dances every year. Yes, they would be known as the Big Blue balls. 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