One of the wrong-est things I've seen...

Gee, I didn't really expect this to get this much of a response...!

Jeff, I did go to high school, and I am proud to say that in the entire 30-year history of my high school, they have never lost a football game. :) Our mascot, just to make things really complicated, was Pegasus, of which there was only one, and that was mythological. (We had an unofficial fight song, too: the Muppet Show Theme.)

I do think it interesting that it wasn't until the fourth response (tambo) that someone figured out that "real" Quakers are, in fact, pacifists, and unlikely to be brandishing rifles. Although I suppose it could also be argued easily that Friends would argue that to twirl it in a drill routine may be the highest and best use of a rifle.

Oh, and while the school in question in this case did not appear to be the "Fighting Quakers", I did see exactly that tag used in reference to New Philadelphia High School on a bumper sticker in the train station at Tuscora Park. (See the second slide show down on the linked page)

On further review, I still think the rifle-wielding Quakers is still a "wrong" combination. But the more I think of it, I think the real tragedy is still that I couldn't get chili on my chili cheese fries and it's still only September. :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(didn't respond sooner only because it was a busy day at work...)

My school is the Battling Bishops, and I have yet to see a bishop battling anywhere, except maybe on a chess board....

Penn University beat everyone to it....

University of Pennsylvania Oxymoronic Fighting Quaker Marching Band

Aren't Quakers also teetotalers?

^^^Apparently you have never seen the old Monty Python shows?

The Bishop was one of my all-time favorites. :)

-Tambo

Rifles are part of color guard as are flags. Sometime they use flags or rifles. There not guns there shaped like guns but there wood wrapped in white tape. Nothing is wrong with it...it's harder then it looks.

Are you kidding me? They aren't really guns wrapped in tape? It's just wood under there?

I figured if a war broke out during a parade they'd be able to just start shooting.

Hmmmm, well at least I don't have to fear for my life at parades anymore. Thanks for that info!

^^Reading that post was harder than it looked.

Let's review:

There is no chance that they're going to use their guns to kill people.

There. ;)

For the record, our team was the Grizzlies. I am neither large, nor hairy, though if I could sleep all winter and have an excuse to be grumpy and growl a lot, I'd go for it.

Loopy said:
Yeah, seriously, you're looking at the situation entirely too analytically.

Nah. That's the thing. I'm not looking at this too seriously. I realize these are just high school mascots and shouldn't be taken in the literal sense. Which is why I commented on the irony of the mascot name and riffle thing. I'm looking at the two with a sense of humor, not too analytically.

Rihard 2000 said:
"The fighting Quakers" are an odd choice of a mascot.

Who ever said they were the "fighting quakers"?

Who ever said their not for that matter? ;)

^Seriously?? ;)

Ensign Smith said:

Let's review:

There is no chance that they're going to use their guns to kill people.

There. ;)

^ Doh! Seereeuhslee. (and I appreciate the winky).

^^^
The analytical comment was directed at Dave, the OP, not you. Hence why I made the comment and then quoted you afterward. If it would have been directed at you I would have just quoted you first.

I still have my doubts about your use of "their" in your post since you really think rifle is spelled "riffle". Winky or not.

I just ate a whole bag of riffles. They have ridges (or should that be 'riddges'?) . . .

We were the Anchor Bay Tars. A tar is a drunken sailor. Nice, huh?

No the "Wrong-est thing" would be if Snoopy had a AK-47, and posing with kids...it would look something like this

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w73/CRISKO8/snoopy.jpg