Word: mascotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alliteration notwithstanding, will the nameless Golden Gophers prevail? You definitely have to count off for such a lame mascot. Almost as importantly, they've had a bunch of close games recently, they're sorry on the road, and they're coming off a 66-65 loss to Wisconsin...
Eric NelsonNot bad. For a Crimson editor, anyway. But where's Grimmelmann? And Gramm and Rudman? David Goodman Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur. Ben Kaplan You say your high school mascot was a guy out back smoking weed? Ben, do you know that little boy? Lamelle Rawlins She's die hard. With a vengeance. She's pushing her dictionary and reading her agenda. Or was it the other way around. Joseph "Freeman" Cleemann We love this guy. It's time to mobilize the troops. William Pyonteck No, no,I'm the complete outsider...
...always just a smile; a pat on the back may be mistaken for more than encouragement. And at the center of the sexual harassment scandal sweeping Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, members of the 143rd Ordnance Battalion--whose motto is "Professionals in Gear"--may want to consider changing their mascot from the acronymic PIG to a creature a bit less loaded with symbolism...
...appease the members of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, I'm sure that Taco Bell could maintain a subtle exterior, get some nice tables and hire a respectable mascot to keep in line with the rest of the area...
...this official rah-rahism hides a blur of stubborn uncertainties. Atlanta, to an uncanny degree, is embodied by its amorphous, computer-generated, somewhat indeterminate Olympic mascot, Whatizit. The city seems a Whereizit that is both Southern and Northern, global and provincial, black run and white dominated--a liberal conservative small town done up in a three-piece suit. The two phrases most closely associated with Atlanta are, after all, "I have a dream" and "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...