bits and bobs

[jazzfish]

If this were my college's mascot, instead of the castrated turkey, I might actually show some school spirit.

Teeth: went in to see Dr Ankrum (the elder) a couple weeks ago. Came out of it with three fillings and a barely-avoided visit to Dr Ankrum the younger, so, yay. And also I am now on the waiting list for an actual cleaning, since the hygiene section was booked up a month or so in advance. (Hm. In retrospect I'm thinking I should've just gone ahead and scheduled. Oh well.) It also appears that the abuse I heaped upon Dr Olenyn's head earlier was likely unwarranted, since I think Dr Ankrum just did more or less the same thing. The fillings are still super-sensitive to heat and cold, but my teeth have always been super-sensitive to heat and cold, so it's not a huge change.

TCon: happened, and was once again mostly encompassed by the VileLARP. I enjoyed my character a lot more this time (it's not every day you get to use an accent that encompasses most of eastern Europe), but was somewhat hamstrung by the nonappearance of about half the other players involved in my plot. Not much to be done about that, I suppose. Other than that, got in a game of Caylus and one of Beowulf, saw rbandrews and jsciv for the first time in quite awhile, and after far too much effort managed to eat at Zeppoli's with uilos on Sunday evening. So, score.

Is Nothing Sacred?: Oval Office plagiarism / homage of Brit sitcom. Warrants at least a "Heh."

Work has been ridiculously busy, too, but that's a topic for another post. Maybe Monday.

Comments

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

I feel the need to point out that the Hokie is (and never has been) a castrated turkey: that's an urban legend. It was made up as a nonsense word for the school chant (as part of a contest aroun 1900), and was applied to the teams as the chant became popular. The teams were called the fighting Gobblers prior to the adoption of Hokie as a name (from the fact that they ate a lot what with being college atheletes), and gobble -> turkey was an obvious choice of mascot. At no point was any castration involved. :)

[rbandrews]

I knew the origins of the word "Hokie" (in fact, I know the whole chant), but I had always assumed that the castrated part stemmed from the fact that when that turkey walks upright you can quite plainly see there's not much down there.

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

It's the kind of joke I'd expect got traction with rival schools and was popular enough that it passed into legend and thus became "fact." At any rate, I certainly have no problems with school pride. Especially since I work now near a school with an anteater as its mascot and down the way from the one with the banana slugs. :)

[rbandrews]

Banana slugs?

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

UC Santa Cruz

http://www.ucsc.edu/about/campus_mascot.asp

[nixve.livejournal.com]

Well, since birds have internal genitalia, that'd be the case, anyways.