escape goat

[Victor Steinbok]

Picked up on intertubes... "Escape goat" http://goo.gl/Kjeac

Not the first time someone noticed it, for sure, but still something I
would not have believed as a creation/mishearing, except in very young
kids... Of course, grown college football fans probably have the same
mental age... http://goo.gl/B7kCs

>     If Rodriguez an architect and Stewart a painter, then Holgy is..
>     [ed: the architect/painter dichotomy comes from a famous WVU
>     booster quote]
>     ...
>     Wvrefugee: a poor Hal Mumme impersonator! [ed: ouch. he's an
>     excellent Hal Mumme impersonator.]
>     wvdave902: .....the 'escape goat' that all of the 'fair weather,
>     bandwagoner, "I want it NOW!" kids,...... want to throw under the
>     bus...........
>

     VS-)

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