My alma mater had a bitter rivalry with a neighboring school. But as both schools were equally incompetent at all sports while I was there, it was not the typical rivalry. The football game between us usually determined who would rank the lowest in the conference and was hence known locally as the Toilet Bowl, with the distinctive outcome awarded to the loser. Now the school ranks nationally in sports, but not necessary because I left.

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"Facts are stubborn things." --John Adams
Clavius Moon Base

It's in my alma mater's charter that we not have a football team or athletic scholarships, and our mascot was chosen based in part on the belief that we'd never have any sports at all.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

My Ala Mater was demolished last year, what does that say? lol

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'The eye can only see what the mind is prepared to accept'

My Alma Mater always lost the rugby game with our traditional rivals, but we always won the after-match drinking session.

Now for some reason you have me singing....

In the eyes of a ranger,
The unsuspected stranger
Had better know the truth of wrong from right,
Cuz the eyes of a ranger are upon you,
Any wrong you do he's gonna see,
When youre in Texas look behind you,
Cuz that's where the rangers are gonna be

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Howling from the Shadows

It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

My alma mater was pretty good at basketball, but, on the other hand, we celebrated when more than 999 people would show up at Baker Field for a football game.

Meanwhile here at Ole Miss the slogan is

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Y'know, Rice has always been the first to explote a rivary to it's advantage.

Ah, the Tholian strategy: "Let's you & him fight!"

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"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures - in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." St. Exupery

And then there's the German national anthem, which, IIRC, has had the same tune for over 100 years, but has changed lyrics several times

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There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

No. Just as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "God Save the Queen" originally had multiple verses, the Deutschlandlied originally had three stanzas. The Federal Republic of Germany merely pruned some of the anachronistic and nationalistic text when the "Deutschlandlied" was adopted as West Germany's official national anthem. See here.

Only the third stanza is official.

The Wikipedia article's translation:

Although my knowledge of German is far from fluent, I've studied the words to the "Deutschlandlied," and I have some issues with the preceding translation. I prefer a less modern, more literal and more poetic translation, which I believe better captures the spirit of the original German.

Unity and right and freedom
For the German fatherland!
Let us all strive thereto
Brotherly with heart and hand!
Unity and right and freedom
Are the pledge of happiness.
|: Flower in the brilliance of this happiness,
Flower, German fatherland. :|

Anyone who speaks German (or English, Gillian and Jay ) better than I please feel free to comment.

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor