Offlist: Re: Team Names

Tue Feb 5 13:52:42 UTC 2013

Most excellent.

If something like this happened, I could get much more into sports.

I vote for changing the name of our soccer team to the New England
Transcendentalists.

---Amy West

On 2/5/13 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:42:42 +0000
> From:    Charles C Doyle<cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Team names
>
> In reference to the Baltimore Ravens--named for Poe's poem--Dennis Baron posted these possible "literary" names on his Facebook page:  "St. Louis Prufrocks? The Camden Leaves? Patterson Wheelbarrows? Tennessee Jars? The Amherst Slants of Light?"
>
> --Charlie

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