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[wayneg]

I love the sound of Florida for 25 nights ... have never been able to get much more than 2 weeks annual leave at any one time

Being self employed I can take what I want, just means closing the business and not earning any money.


Do they really ... I am not a follower of football I admit but I never knew they had mascots ... do they actually have people dressed up in costumes as the mascot or just a picture on their clothing etc.

No idea about football, I watch rugby, our mascot is the Batley Bulldog (Battler), I took this pic of him playing ping pong against the Sheffield Eagle (Freddie)

 

[MagicMe]

Not just any slug, a banana slug. Their mascot was made briefly famous in a scene in "Pulp Fiction" where one of the characters wears one of their T-shirts. IIRC, Tarantino's former girlfriend was a professor there so it was his homage to UCSC.

check this article out: http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2009/05/17/top-10-worst-college-team-names/

My elementary was Roadrunners, IIRC correctly middle school was Warriors, high school was Silver Hawks, undergrad Knights and grad school was Gators!!

Well I must say he is a very cute studious little banana slug!!

 

[poohluv2u]

I didn't know how closely Australia followed British schools til today. We never had a school mascot, but had houses that were named after Australian poets. To the best of my knowledge your house was not chosen by any particular skills/talents you possessed. As we often competed in sports against other houses, it wouldn't be fair to have a house just made up of sporty people

Lawson -blue
Dennis - yellow
Paterson - red (who wrote Waltzing Matilda)
Gordon - green (my house)

Here are some wise words from Adam Lindsey Gordon:


Life is mainly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone —
Kindness in another’s trouble.
Courage in your own.

 

[poohluv2u]

Not just any slug, a banana slug. Their mascot was made briefly famous in a scene in "Pulp Fiction" where one of the characters wears one of their T-shirts. IIRC, Tarantino's former girlfriend was a professor there so it was his homage to UCSC.

check this article out: http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2009/05/17/top-10-worst-college-team-names/

My elementary was Roadrunners, IIRC correctly middle school was Warriors, high school was Silver Hawks, undergrad Knights and grad school was Gators!!

I'm surprised that the slug was not chosen by Oregon teams as a mascot, we certainly have a surfeit of them here
Happily though we have the Oregon Ducks, that by some miracle gets to use Donald Duck as their mascot

 

[thedonduck]

I didn't know how closely Australia followed British schools til today. We never had a school mascot, but had houses that were named after Australian poets. To the best of my knowledge your house was not chosen by any particular skills/talents you possessed. As we often competed in sports against other houses, it wouldn't be fair to have a house just made up of sporty people

Lawson -blue
Dennis - yellow
Paterson - red (who wrote Waltzing Matilda)
Gordon - green (my house)

Here are some wise words from Adam Lindsey Gordon:

Life is mainly froth and bubble
Two things stand like stone —
Kindness in another’s trouble.
Courage in your own.

Y'all that had houses, how did that work? Separate buildings with all different teachers? Did you ever have classes with students from other houses?

We had houses in MS (grades 6-8). It meant we were spilt in groups of two or three depending on the amount of students per grade. Each house had teachers for all core classes (Math, reading, Lang. Arts, science, social studies/history) and then each grade (and sometimes the whole school) shared the elective teachers (phy. Ed, tech, music, Spanish, etc.)! For elective courses we could be with anyone in the school, core classes were just with our house.

 

[NWmom]

Wildcats in middle school. Great in ladies volleyball and history bowl

Knights in HS still remember the school anthem. Not very good in football. Great in swimming, history bowl and math competitions.

Warriors in college. We won a game in basketball once. Cheerleaders were great.

Knights in my current school no teams, just great in Youth and Goverment/Mock trial events

 

[poohluv2u]

Y'all that had houses, how did that work? Separate buildings with all different teachers? Did you ever have classes with students from other houses?

We had houses in MS (grades 6-8). It meant we were spilt in groups of two or three depending on the amount of students per grade. Each house had teachers for all core classes (Math, reading, Lang. Arts, science, social studies/history) and then each grade (and sometimes the whole school) shared the elective teachers (phy. Ed, tech, music, Spanish, etc.)! For elective courses we could be with anyone in the school, core classes were just with our house.

In my school all the students were divided into teams, it wasn't about separate buildings or teachers. I would have been sad if it had been that way, as my very best friend was on a different team from me.

 

[wayneg]

Y'all that had houses, how did that work? Separate buildings with all different teachers? Did you ever have classes with students from other houses?

It was for sport events after school hours, everyone belonged to one of the 4 houses. I believe Harry Potter was based on something similar (I only saw the first film and that was 12 years ago so not certain but I remember 4 houses being part of it)
Over the year points are added, at the end of the year a trophy awarded to the house with the most points.

 

[karentan]

Must just have been me with the boring houseless mascotless school then

 

[hazelandannie]

Yes we had the points system and trophy also. House cup it was called.

 

[JustAnnieNotHazel]

Must just have been me with the boring houseless mascotless school then

We had houses, but no mascot

 

[NWmom]

Y'all that had houses, how did that work? Separate buildings with all different teachers? Did you ever have classes with students from other houses?

We had houses in MS (grades 6-8). It meant we were spilt in groups of two or three depending on the amount of students per grade. Each house had teachers for all core classes (Math, reading, Lang. Arts, science, social studies/history) and then each grade (and sometimes the whole school) shared the elective teachers (phy. Ed, tech, music, Spanish, etc.)! For elective courses we could be with anyone in the school, core classes were just with our house.

Were the houses the rooms you had classses in that were all in one building?
Were they places you lived?

Or were they figurative houses not literal ones?

 

[SapphireMind]

Were the houses the rooms you had classses in that were all in one building?
Were they places you lived?

Or were they figurative houses not literal ones?

Think Harry Potter houses, not residential houses

 

[NWmom]

Think Harry Potter houses, not residential houses

I need another example.

I haven't seen Harry Potter. I refuse to see the movies before I can read the books and have not had time to read the books. They are on my list.

I know that may have just caused a few minor/major gasps. Everyone okay?

 

[TotallyAngelic]

Were the houses the rooms you had classses in that were all in one building?
Were they places you lived?

Or were they figurative houses not literal ones?

They are figurative .... basically the students in the school are divided into groups when they join the school, the groups are called "houses". It is nothing to do with residential houses, places where you live or even buildings in most cases. Everyone mixes up to do lessons etc, but the "houses" do sports and competitions against each other during the year and score house points. In our primary school you could get "house points" for things like good behaviour, using the welsh language, being helpful as well as academic achievement, eisteddfod results or sports.
In our secondary school I think they only used the house points for sports.

I hope that makes sense.

 

[poohluv2u]

Sarah, do you speak Welsh?

 

[JessicasMom]

I need another example.

I haven't seen Harry Potter. I refuse to see the movies before I can read the books and have not had time to read the books. They are on my list.

I know that may have just caused a few minor/major gasps. Everyone okay?

I'm also in the "never saw it" club; I also never saw any of the Twilight or Iron Man movies....everyone still breathing??? I promise you, I'm a good person anyway!

They are figurative .... basically the students in the school are divided into groups when they join the school, the groups are called "houses". It is nothing to do with residential houses, places where you live or even buildings in most cases. Everyone mixes up to do lessons etc, but the "houses" do sports and competitions against each other during the year and score house points. In our primary school you could get "house points" for things like good behaviour, using the welsh language, being helpful as well as academic achievement, eisteddfod results or sports.
In our secondary school I think they only used the house points for sports.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks for the explanation...I was also picturing different buildings . In our elementary and middle schools, there are often "teams" (as opposed to houses) that are named...usually colors or animals...and serve the same purpose. Some schools make it very competitive; others just use the groups for organizational purposes. Not every school does things this way. I love the idea of "houses" with literary monikers....seems so very British .

 

[squitty]

Must just have been me with the boring houseless mascotless school then

No we didn't either

 

[PFlamingo]

I need another example.

I haven't seen Harry Potter. I refuse to see the movies before I can read the books and have not had time to read the books. They are on my list.

I know that may have just caused a few minor/major gasps. Everyone okay?

*GASP*

I'm such a Harry Potter geek! I have all of the books - in hardback, on CD, and on my Nook. I've read them so many times! In fact, my DH and I are so geeky, I made us "wizard's robes" and we wore them to every book release and movie opening from Book 4, on.

 

[wayneg]

*GASP*

I'm such a Harry Potter geek! I have all of the books - in hardback, on CD, and on my Nook. I've read them so many times! In fact, my DH and I are so geeky, I made us "wizard's robes" and we wore them to every book release and movie opening from Book 4, on.

We are split on our family, I never read any of the books, saw the first film, just didn't do it for me. On the other hand Karen & Matt have read all the books and seen all the films, they are going to the Warner Bros Studio tour in a few weeks http://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/ I will stay at home.