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What’s the mascot for your favorite sports team?

This week, Tidbits explores the origin of mascots and passes along some info on some of our favorites, as well as the unusual and unknown.

• The word “mascot” has its beginnings in France, with the first recorded use of the French word “mascotte” which translates “lucky charm,” in 1867. Earlier derivations of the word meant “witchcraft, charm, or amulet.” In the mid-19th century, mascottes might have been a lock of hair or a talisman, similar to a rabbit’s foot.

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• The San Diego Chicken made his debut in 1974, but not at a Padres game. The chicken first made appearances at the San Diego Zoo, concerts, and other sporting events before first performing at the Padres stadium in 1977. A 20-year-old college student named Ted Giannoulas first donned the suit at the Zoo for $2 an hour, and is still playing the part. This fowl character doesn’t limit his appearances to Padres games, but works independently around the world, having made more than 17,000 appearances, with 8,500 of them at sporting events in 917 different arenas in all 50 states, four continents, and eight countries. Giannoulas has worn out more than 100 chicken suits.

• The Philadelphia Phillies introduced the Phillie Phanatic in 1978, a furry green creature designed by puppeteers who had done work for Jim Henson. The Phanatic can be seen on the roof of the Phillies dugout at the seven-and-a-half inning stretch, performing The Phanatic Dance. He also shoots hot dogs into the stands using a pneumatic gun.

• According to legend, Wally the Green Monster, the furry mascot of MLB’s Boston Red Sox, lived within the Green Monster wall from 1947 (the year the wall was painted green) until he emerged from inside in 1997. Named for the 37-ft., 2-inch left field wall at Fenway Park, Wally wears Red Sox jersey No. 97, the year he emerged from the Wall.

• The only “human” mascot in all four major North American sports cheers on the Minnesota Vikings. Ragnar the Viking exits the tunnel on his motorcycle, wearing his Norse attire. It may well be that Ragnar will be retired soon as Joe Juranitch, who has played the part for 21 years, has asked for a rather large increase in pay, from $1,500 per game in the 2015 season to a hefty $20,000 per game. ...continued

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• Four NFL teams have no mascot – the New York Giants, the New York Jets, Oakland Raiders, and the Green Packers, although thousands of Packers fans don cheeseheads for their team’s games. The most recent team to add a mascot was the St. Louis Rams, who added Rampage in 2010. Rampage will be on the move back to Los Angeles for the 2016 season.

• Three Major League Baseball teams also have no mascot – the Angels, the Dodgers, and the Yankees.

• Detroit Red Wings hockey fans have been throwing octopuses onto the ice since 1952, when two brothers who owned a fish market did it for the first time. The eight tentacles of this cephalopod represent the eight wins it took to win the Stanley Cup at that time. (It now takes 16 wins.) When the Wings scored a perfect eight, the octopus became the official mascot, named Al after their arena building operations manager Al Sobotka. Al has been updated a few times, including the removal of a tooth so that he had a “hockey player” look, as well as

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• Bailey the Lion is the mascot of hockey’s Los Angeles Kings, named in honor of the team’s Director of Pro Scouting, Ace Bailey, who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to Bailey’s reign, the Kings had a snow leopard named Kingston. Bailey wears the No. 72 jersey, not as a tribute to any Kings player, but because that’s the average annual temperature in Los Angeles. ...continued

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Mosquitoes do not hatch out of tall grass unless there’s enough water below to keep them submerged throughout the larva and pupa stages (10-14 days).

Most insects including mosquitoes, undergo complete metamorphosis. Each stage of their life cycle looks different.

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• Each time the Olympics are held, the mascot symbolizes the host city. In 1968, Grenoble, France was the first city to have a mascot for the Winter Olympics, a little man on skis named Schuss. The 1972 Munich Olympics featured a dachshund named Waldi, and the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games introduced a bald eagle named Sam. The first Olympic mascot couple appeared at Calgary’s 1988 Winter Games. Hidy and Howdy were polar bears chosen after a contest sponsored by the Calgary Zoo brought in 7,000 entries. Most recently, the Sochi, Russia Olympics featured three mascots, a hare, a polar bear, and a leopard, symbolic of the three places on the Olympic podium.

• Although mascots contribute to entertainment, enthusiasm, and team spirit, they are also the source of multi-million dollar income for a team in sales of souvenirs and team-related merchandise.

• Exceptional mascots are inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame, created in 2005 by the original Phillie Phanatic. Originally an online-only organization, the city of Whiting, Indiana, agreed to construct a permanent Mascot Hall of Fame on the shores of Lake Michigan. Only mascots in place for at least 10 years are eligible for induction. Inductees include Mr. Met, Rocky of the Denver Nuggets, the Phoenix Suns Gorilla, Jazz Bear of the Utah Jazz, the San Diego Chicken, and, of course, the Phillie Phanatic.

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• You've doubtless heard of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" -- or at least the famous line "Quoth the Raven, nevermore." When the poem was published in 1845, it immediately became wildly popular, catapulting the previously obscure poet to national celebrity. Future president Abraham Lincoln liked it so much that he reportedly committed the lengthy verse to memory. Despite criticism from such literary lights as William Butler Yeats (who called the poem "insincere and vulgar ... its execution a rhythmical trick") and Ralph Waldo Emerson (who said, "I see nothing in it"), the popularity of "The Raven" continued unabated, inspiring a plethora of parodies, including "The Gazelle," "The Turkey" and "The Pole-Cat." Popularity didn't translate into financial success, however; Poe died in 1849, shortly after being found a penniless wanderer on the streets of Baltimore. His death has been blamed on consumption, alcohol poisoning or an opium overdose, but the true cause remains a mystery.

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One of the nation’s most popular pets is the ferret, currently in third place after cats and dogs. Let’s get the facts on this member of the Mustelid family.

• Ferrets are carnivorous mammals in the same family as otters, badgers, weasels, minks, and wolverines.

Their name comes from the Latin word furittus, meaning “little thief,” which is indicative of their habit of hiding small items.

• A male ferret can reach of length of 18 inches, and weighs between 2 and 5 lbs., While the female might grow to a length of 16 inches, she only weighs half as much as the male. A baby ferret, called a kit, is so tiny that it can fit in a teaspoon. Ferret owners can expect their pet to live between six and eight years.

• Ferrets have been domesticated for over 2,000 years, and were pets in the Middle Ages. In fact, a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci features the subject, Cecelia Gallerani, holding a ferret.

Queen Victoria of England raised albino ferrets and frequently handed them out as gifts to visitors.

• These pets are very intelligent and can be trained to perform a variety of tricks. Typically happy little animals, they often perform a “weasel war dance,” during which they jump about wildly with their tail puffed out while making strange hissing noises. This is just their way of playfully expressing their joy! The dance must wear them out, because ferrets sleep between 14 and 18 hours a day.

• Ferrets can also be useful in the community. Since a small one is able to squeeze through a hole just over 1 inch in diameter, they been used for running wire and cable.

• In the 1960s, Boeing used the little weasels to string wire through airplanes. They were used to run underground cable for London’s Y2K Millennium concert, coaxed with bits of meat and the end of tunnels. Ferrets have displayed their usefulness in dragging cleaning brushes through tubes that were otherwise impossible to clean.

• Sadly, ferrets are not all fun and games. They have been known to attack infants when left unattended, even killing a 10-week-old baby. A 10-day-old baby was attacked as her mother napped, and fortunately was saved by the family dog who bounded to the rescue. A pet ferret chewed off the fingers of a fourmonth-old baby sitting alone in a rocker. These small mammals have an amazing 34 teeth in their tiny mouths! They are excellent mousers, killing rodents by biting the base of the neck at the junction of the skull and spine.

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acter. Or how about Derek Walcott, whom a Yale professor sympathetic to the petitioners suggests adding to the required course?

He told The Guardian newspaper a few years ago it would be absurd to say, “Don’t read Shakespeare because he was white.”

Anyone reading widely in the English canon will encounter supremely talented female, black and gay writers. In fact, many other Yale courses feature them. But the creative stream began with so-called dead white males. It is their genius that their words transcend their time and place and have given us phrases, characters and stories that are still vital today.

An official description of the Major English Poets seminar says the classes seek to create a heightened “curiosity about the way language works,” as well as “a confidence in engaging with historically and formally diverse literary texts.” This is a reasonable enough academic goal -- unless the students involved are willfully incapable of curiosity or confidence.

There is an easy solution to the dilemma of the aggrieved petitioners: They shouldn’t study English, or anything else that might challenge their absurdly small-minded ideological hobbyhorses.

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Never mind that the The poet Maya Angelou said Poets is a danger to their well-being. Never absurd say, “Don’t read offending Shakespeare, Chau- it would oncebethat as to a child she thought, “Shakemind that thepoets, offending poets, Shakespeare, because he was white.” cer, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, et Shakespeare speare must be a black girl. ” It was because, Chaucer, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, et al., Anyone reading widely in the English al., are the foundational writers in the up in thesupremely Jim Crow talSouth, a victim areEnglish the foundational writers the English canongrowing will encounter language. It’s as if in chemistry unspeakable abuse, SonnetIn29 spoke so language. as if chemistry students objectentedoffemale, black and gay writers. studentsIt’s objected to learning the periher.courses feature ed odic to learning fact, powerfully many othertoYale table. the periodic table. them.

But the creative began Toni MorThe root of the plaint against the Yale’s petitioners stream must consider The root of the plaint against the seminar so-called dead white It is gender. She is, the of course, thebean-counting, usual PC with rison a traitor to hermales. race and is, seminar of course, usual PC their had genius their words transcend bean-counting, where prodigious tal- the anthat argument with a theater director where prodigious talents who have stood time and and have us “Othello,” whoand have stoodthe thedeepest test of questions time their years agoplace in which she given defended testents of time explore phrases, characters and stories that are and explore the deepest questions and went on to write a production based on about what it means to be human are found today. about what it means to be human are still vital Desdemona, the play’s doomed wanting.

The petition whines that “a year An official description of the Majorfemale charfound wanting. The petition whines that “a year spent around a seminar English Poets seminar says the classes table where the literary contributions seek to create a heightened “curiosity of women, people of color, and queer about the way language works,” as folk are absent actively harms all stu- well as “a confidence in engaging with historically and formally diverse literdents, regardless of their identity.”

This is a variation on the widespread ary texts.” This is a reasonable enough located back 2 pages. students belief on campus that unwelcome academic goal — unless the*Answers speech is tantamount to a physical involved are willfully incapable of threat. In this case, the speech happens curiosity or confidence.

There is an easy solution to the to be some of the most eloquent words written in the English language. One dilemma of the aggrieved petitioners: can only pity the exceedingly fragile They shouldn’t study English, or anysensibility it takes to feel assaulted by, thing else that might challenge their say, “Lines Composed a Few Miles absurdly small-minded ideological hobbyhorses.

Above Tintern Abbey.”

The petition’s implicit contention is Rich Lowry is editor of the National that the major poets are too circum- Review. scribed by their race and gender to © 2016 by King Features Synd., Inc. speak to today’s socially aware stu-

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• Scottsdale, Arizona Community College’s athletic teams have a rather unique team name, the Fighting Artichokes. The college, which opened in 1970, was without a mascot for its first two years. There was a little animosity between the administration and the student body over distribution of scholarship money. Consequently, students put three suggestions on the ballot for the team – the Scoundrels, the Rutabagas, and the Artichokes. Put to a vote, the Artichokes won out.

• Another team with an edible mascot name is the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, located in Winston-Salem. The Fighting Pickles was the name selected by the student body in 2010, and in 2012, it was named the “Cheesiest College Mascot.”

• Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia proudly calls their team the Fighting Squirrels.

The school was established in 1842 as the Augusta Female Seminary, and was a very state-of-theart school during the Civil War Years. Mary Julia Baldwin was one of the Seminary’s first students, and became its principal in 1863, where she remained for the next 34 years. The school was renamed in her honor, and because the squirrel was the central figure in her family crest, it became the school’s mascot.

• Eighteen different varsity teams at Texas Christian University are known as the Horned Frogs. In 1897, the year the team was named, the school was known as AddRan Christian University. The name came about because of “the abundance of those creatures around campus.” The name was changed to TCU in 1902, but the mascot remained the same.

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The first Mike was really named very large number: the numeral one, followed Sheik, and waszeros. purchased in 1935 from the by a hundred He asked his two young Little Rock, Arkansas Zoo for $750, with funds nephews what name they would suggest. raised by collecting a quarter from every LSU • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name student.

He lived 20 years.

Mike VI (whose out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character name is Barney actuallywas Roscoe) lives in Milton a $3 million, named very popular. chose Barney’s lasthabitat name for the number.

15,000 sq-ft. created especially for the mascot, which a waterfall, •school’s Kasner announced the includes new name for the biga stream, a pond, abundant greenery, rocky number in his next book, altering theand spelling.

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Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergeyteams Brin must pass by Mike’s cage-on-wheels, which is developed a new internet search engine.

Other always the locker room. search situated engines by searched each webpage and ranked them according to how many times toa • University of California at Irvine is home specific term appeared on them, but Page and the whosearch received their name for in BrinAnteaters, designed their engine to search 1965.

Two of theand school’s water playthe specific term then find out polo how many ers were great fans of the Johnny Hart comic links there were that led back to that page, strip “B.C.”, which made search its newspaper which resulted in a better engine. debut in 1958.

The prehistoric cartoon an • They decided they needed a featured name that anteater snatched ants with reflectedwho how many up websites thea “Zot!” search sound.

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