At 10:30 AM 02/08/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Every year the administration
>asks the students to sing "win for UAB" instead, but it's never worked.
The University of Texas' fight song includes the line "Give 'em hell,
give 'em hell, Go Horns Go!" The "Go Horns Go!" part of that is usually
replaced, at least on the students' side of the stadium, with an
exhortation to force-feed ordure to the opponents. It went so far in
the early '90s that the band director threatened not to play Texas
Fight at all if the offending phrase was not stricken from the lexicon.
He backed down when one of the move irreverent student groups (maybe
the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, I don't recall) said they would buy a
thousand or so kazoos, and the students could hum the fight song
themselves.
However, social pressure has at least lessened the volume of "Make 'em
eat..." - um, the phrase in question, I meant to say. Or perhaps it's
because I'm not sitting on the students' side anymore.
(Some groups have objected to the "Give 'em hell" line as well. They're
usually ignored. And a serious suggestion has been made to replace the
other phrase with "OU sucks!," even at games with opponents other than
Oklahoma. For the record, this suggestion was made well before the
pasting in Dallas last fall.)
All of this is by way of saying that I don't think "Bad-Ass" requires a
parental advisory, though I *do* think it requires a hyphen, at least
adjectivally.
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