(Merriam-Webster Online)
Mascots are fun. MSU has Sparty, The Lugnuts (Minor League Baseball) has Big Lug and Ratchet, and that lame school down the road has a giant weasel. Fitting. One of my favorite mascots was The Moose, who represented the minor league hockey team, The Rochester Americans. I never did understand the link between a moose and ice skates, but the Moose took a lot of grief from the fans, and we loved him for it.
Long, long ago, in an ad campaign far-far away, mascots were everywhere, representing everything from lard to plywood to roacher killers. Nowadays, mascots mean serious business. Just ask my boyfriend, and he'll tell you it's Mascot Mania -- from camps, to classes, to roadside cemeteries, it's obvious that not just any old shmoe can shill for the corporate bigwigs.
More training?
![](http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/396532/mascotfire.gif)
"More training."
But nowadays, being a mascot doesn't necessarily mean being the embodiment of good. Take Polyp-Man, for example. He embodies, well...POLYPS. This isn't exactly resume building material.
![](http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/396532/polyp.man.jpg)
But my new favorite is a local. It has been declared that in the mitten, this week is known as Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week -- complete with a sunglass wearing, smirking mascot and her evil green dump truck of doom.
(Poor thing. It's not exactly the Batmobile, now is it?)
![](http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/396532/smallemeraldashborer.jpg)
Emerald Ash Borers.
Don't let this happen to you.
6 comments:
Your tax dollars at work. I'm pretty sure the Boy had something to do with the costume acquisition. ;)
My high school mascot wore--I kid you not--a giant potato costume. We were/are the Spuds.
Hilarious, Tuna! This post must have taken hours of research. It makes me wonder how you come up with these topics.
On a more serious note, the bits about the cemetery mascots reminded me of this story:
http://www.novareinna.com/bridge/bobby.html
An uncommon loyalty, even among humans..
Aww, G -- that's a sweet story.
Bwah!
you're welcome. Great picture!
the boy
Post a Comment