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Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

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Calli - Jan 07, 2011 1:29:51 am PST #15278 of 30001

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Happy birthday, MM!

I'm a tarheel born

And a tarheel bred

And when I die

I'm a tarheel dead.

Bum badda bum badda bum badda bum badda bum

Go tarheels!

Bum badda bum badda bum badda bum badda bum

Go tarheels!

My school's fight song, ladies and gentlemen. UNC-Chapel Hill threatens the opposition with zombie alumni. Our main rival, Duke, has devils in theirs. It's all very supernatural in NC collegiate sports.

flea - Jan 07, 2011 1:41:16 am PST #15279 of 30001

information libertarian

My alma mater is in Greek. That means I win, right?

Sophia philae paromen
philokaloumen met'eutelias
philosophoumen...

The words are adapted from Pericles' funeral oration.

Our fight song is in Greek, too.

smonster - Jan 07, 2011 2:20:09 am PST #15280 of 30001

We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Calli, you forgot the best part!

Rah rah, Carolina-lina, rah rah, Carolina-lina, rah rah Carolina-lina, GO TO HELL STATE!!

The Alma mater starts with "Hark the sound of Tar Heel voices, ringing clear and true" but that's all I remember.

Theodosia - Jan 07, 2011 2:39:50 am PST #15281 of 30001

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

The only song I can associate with my alma mater is "Muddy Water" by the Standells, because the dorm specified in the song is supposedly the one I lived in Junior year.

Ginger - Jan 07, 2011 2:51:49 am PST #15282 of 30001

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Eureka! I think otaheite apples are the fruit I fell in love with when we went to Jamaica when I was about 14. Boys were selling them by the side of the road and I kept getting my father to stop so I could have another one.

From memory:

On the city's western border
Reared against the sky
Proudly stands our alma mater
As the years roll by.
Forward ever be our watchword.
Conquer and prevail!
Hail to thee, our alma mater
Vanderbilt all hail!

Of course, it's no longer on the city's western border, but it was in 1873.

Jesse - Jan 07, 2011 3:02:50 am PST #15283 of 30001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Happy birthday, MM!

I would have thought I knew my alma mater, but no. It is none of the regularly-sung songs.

Sue - Jan 07, 2011 3:23:42 am PST #15284 of 30001

hip deep in pie

You Americans have weird traditions. My school had no song. (If it did, it would have been some plainsong Latin thing -lots of High Anglican wooo going on there.)

brenda m - Jan 07, 2011 3:24:10 am PST #15285 of 30001

If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I'm waiting for ita to come and tell me if we had one.

Sue - Jan 07, 2011 3:27:05 am PST #15286 of 30001

hip deep in pie

Wikipedia says there are several McGill songs: [link]

Clips here: [link]

Hil R. - Jan 07, 2011 3:40:34 am PST #15287 of 30001

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

IIRC, mine was,

A one! A two!
A helluva Hullabaloo!
A hullabaloo ray ray
A hullabaloo ray ray
Hooray! Hooray!
Rah rah tee-ay!
Tulane!

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