[Loser]

The High School I went to is over a hundred twenty years old. It has the largest number of active alumni of any High School in the world, I am told. (Does all the world use 'High School'? I think that makes the title a bit odd but...)

The school mascot used to be a very stereotypical native american with a huge nose, they called him Eagle Beak. Some time in the early eighties it was changed to a eagle with a similar face for political reasons. The alumni were very angry about this.

Now, that might have been what the mascot looked like, and what his name was, but that's not what he was. The mascot of General William J. Palmer High School is the Terror. We were the Palmer Terrors. While I attended, Terror Basketball took state twice. Terror Hockey took it three times. Terror football was three games away from a national record for consequtive losses by a 4-A school when they beat the city champ in a fluke.

I'm wondering when that's going to get changed, considering recent connotations of the word 'Terror'...

I wonder who will be bothered, what they will say about it, and if it will bother me.

[edit: this post = sleep dep + BUMP]

[ September 10, 2003, 05:36: Message edited by: Loser ]