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Cat Box

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I used to be a Pekin "Chink" until they renamed to "Dragons" in 1980.
Here is a short documentary on the subject of the Chinks mascot.
 
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USD24

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Some good nicknames in there:
HIllbillies
Alices
Anchormen
Mighty Arabs
Yellow Hammers
Townies
 
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Sparty Jones

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In Illinois, for example

Teutopolis Wooden Shoes
Cobden Appleknockers
Hoopeston Cornjerkers

are my favorites
 
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GMAN81

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Skeeters, Mesquite, TX
Spoofhounds, Maryville MO
Syrupmakers, Cairo, GA
Vixens, Ft Sumner, MN (girls) and not very flattering if you think of some of the definitions of a vixen.
 
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LWeastDad said:
Freeport Pretzels is my favorite.
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Yes, one of my favorites.

Took a meandering drive through Freeport on my way back from Galena last weekend. What's the history of Freeport? I was really surprised to see a lot of really old beauitiful large colonials, tudors, victorians. Not at all what I expected from the pretzels.
 
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novaknation

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DeKalb Barbs! Pretty sure we're the only "Barbs" out there. Always loved the barbed wire layered on a script D.
 
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SOUTHSIDECFD

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Marist changed their nickname from Redskins to Redhawks to appease the political correct crowd.

Should Brother Rice and Mount Carmel change their nicknames from Crusaders and the Caravan?
 
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Cat Box

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SOUTHSIDECFD said:
Marist changed their nickname from Redskins to Redhawks to appease the political correct crowd.

Should Brother Rice and Mount Carmel change their nicknames from Crusaders and the Caravan?
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I would be super disappointed if there were pressure for Brother Rice to drop Crusaders. Too many people don't know church history (or history in general). Too many people have accepted a one-sided and misleading story as truth.

For anyone interested in the subject, here is a very well written and researched article published in Christianity Today, "The Real History of the Crusades"... http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/mayweb-only/52.0.html

The Crusades were "a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense."
 
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MC63

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The Cobden Appleknockers were IHSA basketball runners-up in '64 or '65. Four of the five starters had the same last name.
 
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Normdog

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Clear Creek County (Idaho Springs, Colorado) Golddiggers. And yes they do have women's sports....
 
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Capt Morgan

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Beaver Dam High School in Beaver Dam, WI - home of the Golden Beavers, and yes they have women's sports...
 
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Cat Box said:
I would be super disappointed if there were pressure for Brother Rice to drop Crusaders. Too many people don't know church history (or history in general). Too many people have accepted a one-sided and misleading story as truth.

For anyone interested in the subject, here is a very well written and researched article published in Christianity Today, "The Real History of the Crusades"... http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/mayweb-only/52.0.html

The Crusades were "a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense."
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Maybe I am off base, but I cannot imagine there is any pressure for a Catholic school to drop Crusaders as their nick name.
 
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UlbKA91

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Maybe I am off base, but I cannot imagine there is any pressure for a Catholic school to drop Crusaders as their nick name.
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Not really, and I don't think a people with numerous small businesses in crime plagued inner city neighborhoods want to pick that fight with what is perceived to be a big-time cop school.
 
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illini14

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UlbKA91 said:
Not really, and I don't think a people with numerous small businesses in crime plagued inner city neighborhoods want to pick that fight with what is perceived to be a big-time cop school.
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And firefighter, and City of Chicago union employee school.
 
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Voodoo Tatum 21

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Cat Box said:
I would be super disappointed if there were pressure for Brother Rice to drop Crusaders. Too many people don't know church history (or history in general). Too many people have accepted a one-sided and misleading story as truth.

For anyone interested in the subject, here is a very well written and researched article published in Christianity Today, "The Real History of the Crusades"... http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/mayweb-only/52.0.html

The Crusades were "a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense."
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I wish I had time to post a pic of a "can of worms". Or even Indiana Jones and the last Crusade. I'm trying to stay away from this topic as it could turn into a flushable event and I have avoided two already and I don't want this topic to take me down the turd shoot!!:)
 
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