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Wed Sep 27, 2006, 10:37am

Dakota

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Quote:

Originally Posted by argodad

since the school emblem is a chambered nautilus, a lot of opponents call them the "Fighting Snails."

Funny.

But, wrong.

Snails are gastropods.

The chambered nautilus is a cephalopod.

They'd at least be in the same class of mollusk if they called them "fighting squid" - but it wouldn't be as funny.

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