That's some excellent acquisition, msbelle and shrift.

When my sister got married, we did this thing at the reception tossing balls of yarn (25-50 of them, I'd estimate) to each other to make this enormous sort of woven spider webby thing. It was a neat experience, but the end result, once everyone let go, was more of a giant tangle than anything else. Her mother-in-law patiently picked it all apart and rolled it all back into discrete balls. It took her months. I was amazed it could be done at all.

Eta: I know my college alma mater but (a) it's silly and easy to remember and (b) we didn't have a fight song to confuse the issue.

What if tomorrow bring, sorrow or anything, other than joy.
What if't be wintry chill, rain, storm, or summer's thrill?
Tomorrow's the future still,
This is today.
Tomorrow's the future still,
This is TO-DAY!

The only thing I remember about my college alma mater is that there's a line about sorrows being as transient as April's Brief Showers and we all had to try not to laugh in the middle of graduation because it rains ALL THE FUCKING TIME in April.

Also, that was the first time I ever heard the thing.

The fight song, everyone knew the drinkified words better than the official ones. Note: Not a school known for much in the way of "fight".

Can someone get a copy of CSI and edit some scenes to super slo-mo? I need to send it to bon.

I googled to confirm, and apparently we got a less silly (but still a little silly) "college song" after I graduated. Huh.

Do y'all KNOW your college's alma mater? I know...the TUNE to mine, because I was in the pep band and we had to play it. But I don't think anyone but some few people in one of the choirs knows the words!

Please, when else do you get to say "swift Potomac's lovely daughter"? Of course, I probably only know it because I was in the bicentennial class and it was played all the time that year.

Please, when else do you get to say "swift Potomac's lovely daughter"?

Actually, we usually sang it in our heads as "Hail to Georgetown alma mater/sacrifice your sons and daughters/pay us thirty thousand dollars/each and every year..." :) I'm sure the price has gone up since...

But when you have such a silly fight song ("it's been so long since last we met/lie down forever lie down"), who needs silly alma mater?

Are you sure that's the fight song? And not, say, the hookup song?

Are you sure that's the fight song? And not, say, the hookup song?

Basketball games ARE really well celebrated...

Bennington had no alma mater, or fight song for that matter, or school colors or sports teams. We did have a gamelon orchestra with handmade instruments and a contact improv dance troupe, though. We put the artsy in artsy-fartsy.