The teams for my junior high were the Broncos. High school was the Fighting Colts. College was the Mustangs.

In a small town, sources of inspiration were somewhat limited.

High school team names: Oredockers, Rails, Eskimos, Hilltoppers, Hurricanes, Yellow Jackets

My favorite team name I have ever heard was from a high school not too far from where I grew up. They are known as The Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms.

Now my high school at one time, according to what I understand was known as the Faribault Ferries. I'm not exactly sure how they got that name, as I don't think you could get a ferry up or down the rive we had running through our town, but I am glad they changed it, if this were a true story.

Post edited 9:30AM – Dec-09-09 by Bill 5

I see SNL's weekend update doing Really!?! from October 2006 with Seth and Amy. Wikipedia says Really!?! was introduced in the 2006-2007 season, but not exactly when. The same month, South Park ran their "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" episode (10/11/06). That's where Kyle is told, by the President, the real truth behind 9/11, and then behind the 9/11 conspiracy theories. All he can manage is Really?!? Really??!!??? Using it in the same exact way as Seth & Amy, except just the pure incredulity listening to explanations, rather than describing behavior and adding Really!?! (Kyle's goes way up in tone, going up into high falsetto voice about mid-first-syllable, while Seth & Amy's Reallys mostly end down, like followed by a period.

So that's where *I* got it. Perhaps the amazing Tina Fey did it first, though I haven't found it Googling. The first reference I've found so far is after she left and Seth started doing Weekend Update with Amy in 2006.

For the last three years, whenever discussing stupid politics, upper management decisions, or other sources of incredulity at idiocy, we've used Kyle's Really?!??.

Well, either it was grand coincidence, or one of them stole it from the other immediately.

And, whatever happened to Moon Unit Zappa and the Valley Girl "Ruh-lly."?

In response to "journey proud" (love it, by the way) I had 2 thoughts.

One is the term I use for what I get before a trip…not so much about the anticipation and excitement (although that's part of it) as the agitation that goes with that horrible nagging feeling that I've forgotten to take care of something important or will forget the tickets or something. I call it a "trip tizzy".

The other thing "journey proud" reminded me of was, my friend's description of it… it's the adult equivalent of a child with his bags packed, jacket on, sititng and bouncing up and down on the end of the bed just waiting for tomorrow's leave-taking.

While I was listening to the podcast, I wondered if "uh-huh" and "nuh-uh" or "uh-uh" could be considered tonal.

tatiana.larina said:

There is a word in German for the state of excitement before journey: "Reisefieber", or literally "travel fever".

This word can actually be of Germanic origin, as it can also be found in the Scandinavian languages (reisefeber in Norwegian, resfeber in Swedish, rejsefeber in Danish). It is also common in Finnish: matkakuume (matka = travel, kuume = fever), probably a translation from Swedish. Google knows it also in French – fièvre de voyage – although rare & used rather by the Belgians than the French.

How is using online generators cheating, when the option is plainly available between both parties? Unless it is listed specifically in the rules that online generators or otherwise assistance (such as a paper dictionary), isn't it merely an implied social rule — and therefore NOT a genuine rule? When the option is plainly available to both competitors and isn't noted in the rules specifically, how can't it be considered cheating except only by suggestion or as a hold-over/honor-code from another similar game that forbids it?

I most often found myself "journey proud" the night before a new school year or college semester began, the night I need to get good rest to be bright and awake to take in all the new surroundings, but the anticipation of the next day obstructed calming down enough to taper off to sleep.

I often say SERIOUSLY?! to myself or whatever malfunctioning device I am frustrated by, in the same context of the really sentiment. I enjoyed the SNL segment but had heard it used years upon years prior so I know that was not the origin of the usage — it's a bit of a sarcastic bit of snark spat by many a teenager in my high school days ('92-'96) in north Texas. I think the use the phrase by Tina/Seth/Amy made it more of a pop-culture confirmation that the phrase is alive and had thus, at that point, been legitimized by use on national media.

I am encountering a similar problem with attempting to locate the origin of the phrase (which varies to minor degrees), "I am 12, and what is this?" that I had seen used on 4chan long before the commonly accepted origin that most meme sites describe. As part of a 4chan raid on YouTube, users began registering random accounts and uploading pornographic film clips but giving them titles like "Jonas Brothers" and "Miley Cyrus" and setting them to private so they wouldn't be seen yet, until one specific attack day when all of the videos would simultaneously be set to public. The BBC made a video article about the issue, the reporter covering noting that one of the pornographic videos she found, as evidence that children were viewing the material, a comment stated, "I am 12, and what is this?" The phrase had already been in use with some frequency on 4chan for no fewer than 3 months prior to the raid and was already an established meme by then. The fact that the BBC thought it was an actual comment is what made the article so funny, and what made the article so widely distributed — however, most meme-origin sites cites the BBC article as the actual origin of the phrase, that its use specifically mocks or refers to the BBC article, which is utterly untrue. There were several 255+comment threads on 4chan around the time the article came out about how the BBC got trolled into thinking the "I am 12 and what is this" was an actual 12 year old wondering what the material was, expressing the event as a major victory for 4chan's raid efforts.

Post edited 5:16PM – Jun-29-10 by lux rationis

There seems to a suspicious thread of commonality between the Kewpies and the Spoofhounds. According to this summary on Public School Review (http://www.publicschoolreview……l_id/46866), the name "Spoofhounds" originated with one L.E. Ziegler, a football coach at Maryville who later became Superintendent of Public Schools for the Columbia School District. Two schools in Missouri with early 20th-century doll names for mascots…one educator who was influential in both districts…coincidence?