To hate like this is to be happy forever.
WORD.
Carolina is also in the camp of having a nickname separate from the mascot: we are the Tar Heels, but our mascot is Ramses the Ram. The latter started when a football player was nicknamed "The Battering Ram" many decades ago, and a linebacker started bringing an actual ram from his family farm to games. The same family still brings one of that ram's descendents to each football game. The former is either from our shipbuilding past, or some Civil War battle where them North Carolina boys stuck like they had tar on them heels.
Earlham College--although they use "Hustlin' Quakers."
Now I'm picturing Quakers working street corners, hustling... corn? No, that's husking.
Or there's a separate scene where he talks about it in a show? Link?
There's a scene in the FX show with a conversation about the word, which includes a gay comic. Probably a YouTube search for Louie and faggot would bring it up.
So they are the Georgetown "Whats!"?
Yep. I think it's a word associated with Jesuit colleges. Even though Marquette was the Warriors (before they changed to the Golden Eagles), the fight song went:
Ring out Ahoya with an M-U rah-rah
M-U rah-rah
M-U rah-rah-rah-rah-rah
Ring out Ahoya with an M-U rah-rah
M-U rah-rah for old Marquette!
It wasn't Shakespeare, but it was fun to sing and play on my clarinet. I could probably pull the arrangement out of the 25 y.o. depths of my memory if I tried, since we played it often enough at basketball games.
There's a scene in the FX show with a conversation about the word, which includes a gay comic.
Was that the scene where they were playing poker? Because there was one poker scene where they started talking about being gay, and I couldn't believe the language they got away with.
This conversation is making me wonder if all the good and creative names are in the South/East. Maybe because those schools have been around the longest?
meara -- The whole poker scene is here: [link]
You can skip to about the 5 minute mark.
Was that the scene where they were playing poker? Because there was one poker scene where they started talking about being gay, and I couldn't believe the language they got away with.
That one.
And then he talked more about it on a Fresh Air interview -- not the most recent one, the one from a year or more ago. This is what I appreciate about CK -- he's very thoughtful. He's not always right, and he can be offensive, but he's not mindlessly offensive.
Another tooth lost! Apparently it never loses its thrill. (Sara, not me, of course.)
I would watch the whole scene. Basically what we're saying is that Louie CK doesn't talk about f****t unthinkingly -- or any epithet, really, he's famous for "my daughter is a c**t"-- his comedy is reliant on the idea that we're all terrible people.
his comedy is reliant on the idea that we're all terrible people
Exactly. The show can be a little uneven, but he's always good.
