<p>"The Williams college mascot is a purple cow, possibly derived from Gelett Burgess's nonsense poem:</p>
<p>I never saw a purple cow
Nor do I hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one."</p>
<p>Lol. I know we're on College mascots here... but one h.s around in CT is the "Hatters" (formerly the "Mad Hatters" I believe). Yep, I'm shivering in my boots over a hat. </p>
<p>Supposedly the name comes from the old hat factories. The guys would use mercury in the making of the hats and it eventually drove them crazy... hence, Mad hatters.</p>
<p>"Orangemen" comes from the Protestant Orange order of England, I think. It's this religious thing over there.</p>
<p>WPI Engineers
Wichita State Shockers
Virginia Tech Hokies
Georgetown Hoyas
University of South Carolina Gamecocks</p>
<p>the best mascot is JOE BRUIN FROM UCLA</p>
<p>wooooooooooooooo yea</p>
<p>Stetson University are the Hatters, lol</p>
<p>FAU Owls</p>
<p>Hurricanes, Miami, but its a bird (Ibis)</p>
<p>UCF is now the golden knights, but before, we were the citronauts, a giant piece of citrus fruit (an orange) in medieval armor.</p>
<p>Syracuse's modified nickname is even dumber...
About the UNC charolotte 49ers.... The tour guide at Charlotte claims that there WAS a gold rush in the queen city in'49. Also, the campus is off of RT 49.</p>
<p>stanford's trees</p>
<p>OK all you AP biology students, please explain to everyone what is so "special" about the banana slug... <em>DING</em> time's up. Read the link below for a full explanantion of the mascot.
The "pride" of the banana slug, amongst other things, is that its male organ (its hermaphroditic-- has both) but the male organ is not only often bigger than the entire animal, it has the largest organ of all animals in ratio to its body size. <a href="http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/09.26.01/slugs1-0139.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/09.26.01/slugs1-0139.html</a></p>
<p>No comments about the issue of the size of the male organ (and the need, at times, to amputate their mates organ) on the banana slugg?? Gee, are you guys preoccupied with more important things like college acceptances or something? :)</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure most ppl just didn't know how to respond to that...</p>
<p>Humboldt State(Arcata, Ca) Lumber Jacks</p>
<p>Rabo-
Awwww come on, you give yourself and your HS colleagues too little credit. It led to a very lively discussion in my s's AP bio class last yr when he first heard about it from his teacher.</p>
<p>UCSD maybe?</p>
<p>William & Mary tribe...please tell me why! haha, we don't even know what type of tribe it is or if is an native american one...haha and to top it off the dude that dresses up like a green "tribe" I guess lol, his name is Ebirt (tribe backwards)...omg sooo gay</p>
<p>Amherst Lord Jeffs is the worst. Ever.</p>
<p>jumbo shrimp....it was from some bad community college or something</p>
<p>I agree with Ecliptica, but I must point out the the "Ephs" of Williams is not much better as a nickname...</p>
<p>Gotta be Penn's fighting Quakers. Ah, the shame of having an oxymoronoic mascot! Plus, the actual mascot is quite terrifying, since it involves a giant papier mache head and stuff. <em>shudders</em></p>
<p>The worst and ugliest mascot is Western Kentucky's "Big Red".</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wku.edu/bigred.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wku.edu/bigred.html</a> </p>
<p>The best: The Texas Longhorn's Bevo.</p>
<p>As I think has already been noted, there's a difference between "mascot" and "nickname". Most of this discussion focuses on a school's nickname. Many of these schools, like Stanford, do not have a mascot (although Stanford's unofficial mascot is the Stanford band's tree).</p>