Anonymous wrote:It’s not a nickname for the school but a building on the school - I hate Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning is now referred to as Cathy.

Agree! Hate it, hate it, hate it!

Anonymous wrote:People have been saying "Bama" a lot around here and it's like nails on a chalkboard for me. I think I remember finding "Cal" mildly annoying once upon a distant time, too, so maybe I'm just not a nickname fan, but I feel like a university's name should have some gravitas, and I'm sorry but "Bama" has absolutely none.

"Ole Miss" bugs me a little less than "Bama," but I have a hard time imagining it pronounced in any voice other than Foghorn Leghorn's.

What other dumb school names am I missing?

If it annoys you so much why do you want a longer list?

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Very few people use this term.

Well that's a good thing! I've seen it here more than once.

It’s a good thing, then, that life exists out of here.

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Anonymous wrote:Mizzou

That one I actually like. It looks like the name - MSU.

Wrong school

Anonymous wrote:Rock Chalk Jayhawk

you misunderstood the post

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Nails on chalkboard for me! And SMUG social climber to boot.

I feel a reaction to someone using Vandy as I do when local families with girls at Visitation call is Visi
I will smile politely to your face, but it provides me with an insight to who you really are

I just returned from moving my kid into the dorms at Vanderbilt, where I interacted with a lot of parents and observed far more.

Your reaction correlates with the type of person who uses Vandy in place of Vanderbilt. She — it’s overwhelmingly a mom — would look right at home on the sidelines of a GV game.

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Anonymous wrote:“Hokie” - dumb and annoying name

That’s the mascot, not the nickname of the school.

Not according to Virginia Tech

https://history.unirel.vt.edu/traditions/mascots_nicknames.html

Hokie is the nickname and HokieBird is the masoc

You are confused. People don’t say, “I attend Hokie.” They might say, “I am a Hokie - I go to VA Tech.”

Did you not click on the link? "Hokie" is NOT the mascot. The school literally tells you their nickname is Hokie and their mascot is a HokieBird.

Yes, I read your link and you are mistaken if you think anyone is referring to VT (the school) as “Hokie.” No one “goes to Hokie.” But I encourage you to try it out and see what kind of reactions you get!

You said the Hokie was the mascot. That is factually incorrect as evidenced by the link from the source identifying the name of the mascot as the "HokieBird."

Feel free to take it up with the school if you think it named the mascot incorrectly and in contradiction of your sincerely-held belief.

OMG. And YOU said “Hokie is the nickname.” You were wrong. Please move on.

Actually, the UNIVERSITY says "Hokie" is the nickname in the link provided earlier, although the response was to your fairly rude (and, as it turns out, incorrect) assertion that Hokie is the mascot and not the nickname, when the mascot is actually the "HokieBird."

This is all pretty pedantic, but if you weren't so defensive, rude, and condescending in response to someone saying they didn't like Hokie, asserting that it was somehow out of bounds for this conversation because, as you incorrectly asserted, it was the mascot not a nickname, I wouldn't have brought it up. The VT page saying exactly the opposite made it easy pickings to stand up for the PP. You apparently have it in your mind that there is a certain definition of nickname that is different than how the PP (and other PPs in this thread) have used it, but I suspect what you are really upset about is (1) someone disparaging the Hokie name, and/or (2) someone correcting you (which is why you keep trying to insist I am wrong and you are right without acknowledging that the VT link uses the words that you insist don't apply to the term Hokie).

Bottom line, it's OK if someone doesn't like the Hokie nickname. I wouldn't say it's annoying myself, but it is a pretty odd word. It's not an attack on the university. No need to be defensive.

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Anonymous wrote:“Hokie” - dumb and annoying name

That’s the mascot, not the nickname of the school.

Not according to Virginia Tech

https://history.unirel.vt.edu/traditions/mascots_nicknames.html

Hokie is the nickname and HokieBird is the masoc

You are confused. People don’t say, “I attend Hokie.” They might say, “I am a Hokie - I go to VA Tech.”

Did you not click on the link? "Hokie" is NOT the mascot. The school literally tells you their nickname is Hokie and their mascot is a HokieBird.

Yes, I read your link and you are mistaken if you think anyone is referring to VT (the school) as “Hokie.” No one “goes to Hokie.” But I encourage you to try it out and see what kind of reactions you get!

You said the Hokie was the mascot. That is factually incorrect as evidenced by the link from the source identifying the name of the mascot as the "HokieBird."

Feel free to take it up with the school if you think it named the mascot incorrectly and in contradiction of your sincerely-held belief.

OMG. And YOU said “Hokie is the nickname.” You were wrong. Please move on.

NO YOU were wrong!

Run along, troll. Your shtick is old.
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Anonymous wrote:People People People - we are NOT talking about the mascots. Get with the topic please.

but c’mon. Gamecocks.

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Anonymous wrote:“Hokie” - dumb and annoying name

That’s the mascot, not the nickname of the school.

Not according to Virginia Tech

https://history.unirel.vt.edu/traditions/mascots_nicknames.html

Hokie is the nickname and HokieBird is the masoc

You are confused. People don’t say, “I attend Hokie.” They might say, “I am a Hokie - I go to VA Tech.”

Did you not click on the link? "Hokie" is NOT the mascot. The school literally tells you their nickname is Hokie and their mascot is a HokieBird.

Yes, I read your link and you are mistaken if you think anyone is referring to VT (the school) as “Hokie.” No one “goes to Hokie.” But I encourage you to try it out and see what kind of reactions you get!

You said the Hokie was the mascot. That is factually incorrect as evidenced by the link from the source identifying the name of the mascot as the "HokieBird."

Feel free to take it up with the school if you think it named the mascot incorrectly and in contradiction of your sincerely-held belief.

OMG. And YOU said “Hokie is the nickname.” You were wrong. Please move on.

NO YOU were wrong!

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Anonymous wrote:“Hokie” - dumb and annoying name

That’s the mascot, not the nickname of the school.

Not according to Virginia Tech

https://history.unirel.vt.edu/traditions/mascots_nicknames.html

Hokie is the nickname and HokieBird is the masoc

You are confused. People don’t say, “I attend Hokie.” They might say, “I am a Hokie - I go to VA Tech.”

Did you not click on the link? "Hokie" is NOT the mascot. The school literally tells you their nickname is Hokie and their mascot is a HokieBird.

Yes, I read your link and you are mistaken if you think anyone is referring to VT (the school) as “Hokie.” No one “goes to Hokie.” But I encourage you to try it out and see what kind of reactions you get!

You said the Hokie was the mascot. That is factually incorrect as evidenced by the link from the source identifying the name of the mascot as the "HokieBird."

Feel free to take it up with the school if you think it named the mascot incorrectly and in contradiction of your sincerely-held belief.

OMG. And YOU said “Hokie is the nickname.” You were wrong. Please move on.

Anonymous wrote:The University

Grates on me when people say THE Ohio State University. Except they do have TBDBITL. Show/performance wise, that is. Another thread fav, the Aggies, have the best traditional one. All in my opinion, of course.

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Anonymous wrote:“Hokie” - dumb and annoying name

That’s the mascot, not the nickname of the school.

Not according to Virginia Tech

https://history.unirel.vt.edu/traditions/mascots_nicknames.html

Hokie is the nickname and HokieBird is the masoc

You are confused. People don’t say, “I attend Hokie.” They might say, “I am a Hokie - I go to VA Tech.”

Did you not click on the link? "Hokie" is NOT the mascot. The school literally tells you their nickname is Hokie and their mascot is a HokieBird.

Yes, I read your link and you are mistaken if you think anyone is referring to VT (the school) as “Hokie.” No one “goes to Hokie.” But I encourage you to try it out and see what kind of reactions you get!

You said the Hokie was the mascot. That is factually incorrect as evidenced by the link from the source identifying the name of the mascot as the "HokieBird."

Feel free to take it up with the school if you think it named the mascot incorrectly and in contradiction of your sincerely-held belief.

Anonymous wrote:“Your spouse actually sounds like an idiot.“

And I suppose if you moved to a new country and there was a school called Institute des Macaroni and Cheese you would love for your kid to enroll?

Exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:“Hokie” - dumb and annoying name

That’s the mascot, not the nickname of the school.

Not according to Virginia Tech

https://history.unirel.vt.edu/traditions/mascots_nicknames.html

Hokie is the nickname and HokieBird is the masoc

You are confused. People don’t say, “I attend Hokie.” They might say, “I am a Hokie - I go to VA Tech.”

Did you not click on the link? "Hokie" is NOT the mascot. The school literally tells you their nickname is Hokie and their mascot is a HokieBird.

Yes, I read your link and you are mistaken if you think anyone is referring to VT (the school) as “Hokie.” No one “goes to Hokie.” But I encourage you to try it out and see what kind of reactions you get!