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Bob Juch · #1 Post by **Bob Juch** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:29 am

Bob78164 should not answer.

What is the mascot of Caltech?

ulysses5019 · #2 Post by **ulysses5019** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:33 am

Spoiler

Beaver

andrewjackson · #3 Post by **andrewjackson** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:45 pm

I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo

Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

Appa23 · #4 Post by **Appa23** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:48 pm

andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo

Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

Not to mention Stanford Cardinal, whose mascot is an ugly dancing tree.

andrewjackson · #5 Post by **andrewjackson** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:02 pm

Appa23 wrote:
andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo

Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.
Not to mention Stanford Cardinal, whose mascot is an ugly dancing tree.

And, yet, you did mention it.

I was not trying for an exhaustive list, just illustrative examples.

mrkelley23 · #6 Post by **mrkelley23** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:16 pm

[schoolyard chant]AJ's touchy, AJ's touchy!![/sc]

Ooh, and there's the Purdue Boilermakers, whose mascot is Purdue Pete.

Just for a more obscure example.

ulysses5019 · #7 Post by **ulysses5019** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:25 pm

Ok....I think it's Bucky Beaver......

Bob Juch · #8 Post by **Bob Juch** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:26 pm

andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo

Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Tech

It's not always true that the nickname is the same as the mascot, but in this case it is.

ulysses5019 · #9 Post by **ulysses5019** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:27 pm

...Bob of the many numbers can confirm this if he's not still reminiscing about Richard Feyman.

mrkelley23 · #10 Post by **mrkelley23** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:31 pm

Just in case you're like me, and suspicious of wikipedia as a source, here's a Caltech document that says its mascot is the beaver:

http://hr.caltech.edu/Education/courses ... update.htm

Bob Juch · #11 Post by **Bob Juch** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:32 pm

I see the Wikipedia article says the women's ultimate Frisbee team is known as "Snatch" and not the "Beavers". There's a difference?

wbtravis007 · #12 Post by **wbtravis007** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:35 pm

andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo

Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.

I'm pretty sure that it's considered appropriate to refer to the Cal Tech mascot as any Tom, Dick or Harry.

Well, maybe not "Tom."

andrewjackson · #13 Post by **andrewjackson** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:35 pm

mrkelley23 wrote:[schoolyard chant]AJ's touchy, AJ's touchy!![/sc]

Ooh, and there's the Purdue Boilermakers, whose mascot is Purdue Pete.

Just for a more obscure example.

BUZZZZZZZZ.

Purdue's mascot is not Purdue Pete. He is a cheerleader.

The Purdue mascot is the Boilermaker Special, a replica train engine.

andrewjackson · #14 Post by **andrewjackson** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:38 pm

Just because those websites use the term "mascot" doesn't make it so.

I still think they they are using "mascot" when they mean "nickname".

mrkelley23 · #15 Post by **mrkelley23** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:43 pm

andrewjackson wrote:
mrkelley23 wrote:[schoolyard chant]AJ's touchy, AJ's touchy!![/sc]

Ooh, and there's the Purdue Boilermakers, whose mascot is Purdue Pete.

Just for a more obscure example.
BUZZZZZZZZ.

Purdue's mascot is not Purdue Pete. He is a cheerleader.

The Purdue mascot is the Boilermaker Special, a replica train engine.

Touchy, I tell ya.

Bob Juch · #16 Post by **Bob Juch** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:50 pm

andrewjackson wrote:Just because those websites use the term "mascot" doesn't make it so.

I still think they they are using "mascot" when they mean "nickname".

The mascot is a beaver. The mascot may have a name.

Appa23 · #17 Post by **Appa23** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:44 pm

andrewjackson wrote:
Appa23 wrote:
andrewjackson wrote:I don't think they have a mascot.

Their sports nickname is the Beavers.

I know some people use the two interchangeably but they are not the same thing.

A good example is the University of Texas.
Nickname: Longhorns
Mascot: Bevo

Indiana University, for example, has a nickname "Hoosiers" but no mascot. I don't find an official mascot for Cal Tech.
Not to mention Stanford Cardinal, whose mascot is an ugly dancing tree.
And, yet, you did mention it.

I was not trying for an exhaustive list, just illustrative examples.

Someone's a bit uptight today.

Appa23 · #18 Post by **Appa23** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:10 pm

Bob Juch wrote:
andrewjackson wrote:Just because those websites use the term "mascot" doesn't make it so.

I still think they they are using "mascot" when they mean "nickname".
The mascot is a beaver. The mascot may have a name.

Wow. The Great and All Powerful Juch actually was right.

From a Christian Science Monitor article dated March 7, 2007:

A brown-fleece Beaver mascot shimmies along the sideline where seven grad students flex their bare chests to spell out "Caltech" in body paint.

andrewjackson · #19 Post by **andrewjackson** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:33 am

I'll concede that Cal Tech may, in fact, have a Beaver mascot.

peacock2121 · #20 Post by **peacock2121** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:57 am

This just made me laugh and laugh.

I like it when aj gets this way - especially when it gets this way with Juch and HD.

Not sure how I feel about mikey being in the mix.