Word: mascotism
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...Beer Can") Kilty. Largely because of the cops' good humor, the game was a huge success. The law showed up wearing white T shirts with PIG stenciled on the back and a drawing of a hog on the front. From their pickup truck they pulled a squealing porcine mascot. One of the officers told the kids that the pig had a "long name, but we call him Herman for short." Houston's police chief is named Herman Short, and the patrolman's sly grin was not unappreciated...
Even now, when Robby has begun to mellow after four years of making things interesting for people, he still feels that old lust for the unusual. So last winter, invited to be Wesleyan's basketball mascot, with carte blanche to put on his own halftime show, Bordley was waiting in the passageway just before time ran out in the second quarter-Nude...
...MacEachern, who was uninjured, said the persons shouted "Fuck you and fuzzy too" out their ear window before firing the blast and driving off. "Fuzzy" is the name of a pig which MacEachern convinced the police department to adopt as a mascot last December...
...pass through their land on a busy highway last July. Four Indians at Dartmouth College, which was founded partly "for civilizing and christianizing Children of Pagans," protested the Indian dress of the college mascot, and officials banished it from football games...
...Wales Borderers, created as part of Britain's efforts to cut defense expenditures. For Charles, newly named as its Colonel in Chief, it was a successful show, marred only slightly by the efforts of the regimental goat to eat his sash. "Let us hope," he said later, "that the mascot is trained to act as an alarm in the event of any surprises sprung on us by certain activists," a reference to Wales' extreme nationalists...