Word: peps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never played basketball, mainly because I was such a brute (I couldn't shoot) so I played football instead. The coach made me a split end, because, as I thought. I was fast. But when we had the big pep rally to start the season off, he explained to the fans why he put me out there by myself...
...black people that she knows, she really does, or did ... does. Patty who loved to lie on the beach, who finally married Porky Morrison, who dropped school after he broke his leg on the first play (he kicked off) of the first game a few hours after that pep rally, because he wouldn't get a football scholarship, to become a full time hot damn barber! Patty who married Porky who has soft folds of white skin, a common affliction with old time crackers, which cracks in the sun so they don't go to the beach, now lazy Patty...
...birth, they had no use for original thought. "All we cared about was implementation and results." Getting results could just as easily mean dealing with counter-revolutionaries as with raising the pig-fat production quota. In fact, the "struggle" technique was the same for both-a sort of continuing pep rally, or ideological mass rape, during which all opposition is drowned in slogans, charges and insults...
EVERY YEAR a Dunster House chemistry tutor sits down to dinner and finds a group of seniors waxing eloquent about revitalizing the Harvard Advocate. This year, upon discovering the annual Advocate pep rally, the tutor said, "Boys and girls, if the Advocate were smart, you'd print that mag on soft paper, and we'd make it functional as toilet paper." Everyone laughed, and someone suggested that it would be worthwhile to get the tutor to use toilet paper, and a timid voice in the corner said, "But Fred, isn't the Gazette enough?" and there was more laughter...
...game in 1968 really turned out to be The Game. With both teams undefeated, the cards were on the table so to speak, and with the pregame psychology, there was no need for any pep talks. I was particularly "up" because of the boast of the Harvard defense it was going to make a loser out of me for the first time. After three-and-a-half quarters of play, I think everyone realized Yale had the stronger team. However, it is the mark of a great team that will not quit. Not much had been going right for Harvard...