Part of the ball - Page 2

dblref · #16 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 25, 2002, 05:17am

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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
For those of you who have never visited the Pacific Northwest, please come during our annual rain festival. It runs from January through December each year.

Notice that my smilie at the top of my post is wearing "rainglasses".

This is probably why the OU and OSU mascosts are "water related"....Ducks & Beavers.

BTW, the Evergreen State College (my son's alma mater) mascot is a Geoduck....some sort of slug that likes water.

iref21 · #17 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 25, 2002, 07:42am

PLAY SELECTIVITY, PLAY SELECTIVITY.....

ChuckElias · #18 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 25, 2002, 09:39am

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Originally posted by iref21
PLAY SELECTIVITY, PLAY SELECTIVITY.....

Ummmmm. . . Huh?

iref21 · #19 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 25, 2002, 09:44am

Chuck,

Thanks, I was reading one forum and posting in the other. So recall the Play seclectivity comment

ChuckElias · #20 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 25, 2002, 09:58am

Whew! Thought I was losing it!!

rainmaker · #21 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 25, 2002, 06:29pm

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Originally posted by dblref
BTW, the Evergreen State College (my son's alma mater) mascot is a Geoduck....some sort of slug that likes water.

Either your son hasn't been ther very long, or you aren't visiting often enough. The Goeduc (note correct spelling-- pronunciation: Goo-ey-duck or Gwee-duck) is a clam, which clam-lovers treasure as the very best there is. I personally hate clams, so I'm not endorsing anything here, just repeating facts.

Mark Padgett · #22 (**permalink**) Thu Apr 25, 2002, 08:57pm

While we're on this subject, let's not forget our other Oregon major college, Portland State. Their teams are called the Vikings. I have no idea why. Vikings never made it this far west. However, when Darryl "Mouse" Davis was the head football coach, the team was affectionally known as the "Fighting Mice."

BTW - Mouse was the architect of the run-and-shoot offense and coached Neil Lomax using it when Neil threw for about 10 million yards in college. PSU actually won games then by scores of 93-6 and 102-14. One of the teams they beat was Cal-Poly San Louis Obispo coached by Darryl Lamonica. The other victim was Delaware State. After that game, the PSU baseball coach was quoted in the paper as inquiring if Delaware State had a baseball team.

That was cold.

[Edited by Mark Padgett on Apr 25th, 2002 at 09:00 PM]

dblref · #23 (**permalink**) Fri Apr 26, 2002, 06:59am

Rainmaker: My bad! You are correct about it being a clam. As soon as I saw your post, I remembered. I think I thought (??) that it looked sort of like a slug. My son has been in Olympia since 1995. I will be working in Bangor sometime in September -- right after the week of summer you guys have.