I googled to confirm, and apparently we got a less silly (but still a little silly) "college song" after I graduated. Huh.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Jan 06, 2011 8:05:58 pm PST #15264 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
megan walker - Jan 06, 2011 8:06:06 pm PST #15265 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Do y'all KNOW your college's alma mater? I know...the TUNE to mine, because I was in the pep band and we had to play it. But I don't think anyone but some few people in one of the choirs knows the words!
Please, when else do you get to say "swift Potomac's lovely daughter"? Of course, I probably only know it because I was in the bicentennial class and it was played all the time that year.
meara - Jan 06, 2011 8:08:55 pm PST #15266 of 30001
Please, when else do you get to say "swift Potomac's lovely daughter"?
Actually, we usually sang it in our heads as "Hail to Georgetown alma mater/sacrifice your sons and daughters/pay us thirty thousand dollars/each and every year..." :) I'm sure the price has gone up since...
But when you have such a silly fight song ("it's been so long since last we met/lie down forever lie down"), who needs silly alma mater?
amych - Jan 06, 2011 8:10:22 pm PST #15267 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Are you sure that's the fight song? And not, say, the hookup song?
meara - Jan 06, 2011 8:11:21 pm PST #15268 of 30001
Are you sure that's the fight song? And not, say, the hookup song?
Basketball games ARE really well celebrated...
Scrappy - Jan 06, 2011 8:19:28 pm PST #15269 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Bennington had no alma mater, or fight song for that matter, or school colors or sports teams. We did have a gamelon orchestra with handmade instruments and a contact improv dance troupe, though. We put the artsy in artsy-fartsy.
Kathy A - Jan 06, 2011 8:21:13 pm PST #15270 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
TJ's indian masala burgers are delicious but not at all like a burger- more of a delightfully junky spiced patty.
Yay! I bought these, as well as the Morningstar tomato and basil pizza burgers and the Morningstar breakfast sausage patty as well.
Oh, and here's my college fight song lyrics--talk about inane:
Ring out, Ahoya, with an MU rah-rah
MU rah-rah
MU rah-rah-rah-rah-rah
Ring out, Ahoya, with an MU rah-rah
MU rah-rah for old Marquette!
DavidS - Jan 06, 2011 8:48:24 pm PST #15271 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ha, I can sing out my alma mater's song and the drinking song.
The first of Kenyon's goodly race
Was that good man, Philander Chase
He climbed a hill and said a prayer
And founded Kenyon College there.
Then...
Come, classmates fill your glasses
Fill them with sparkling wine
And we will drink a toast to
The Class of '99
Classmates, come gather round
With ties of friendship bound
Shout out in u-ni-son!
Ninety Nine and Old Ken-yon!
bon bon - Jan 06, 2011 8:50:25 pm PST #15272 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Can someone get a copy of CSI and edit some scenes to super slo-mo? I need to send it to bon.
I note that no one has volunteered, you lunatic.
msbelle - Jan 06, 2011 8:54:37 pm PST #15273 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
sweet dreams, my love.