Cheers-n-chants
Lori Smallwood
so one the cheers we shout to the other side of the stadium is:
"That's all right! That's OK! You'll all work for *us* someday!"
Anyone have any others?
-- Lori
John R Laplante
a follow up to the Northwestern U chants --
at Kalamazoo (MI) College, the theme was the same, worded differently
"that's ok, no great loss, someday i'm gonna be your boss."
Northwestern? Isn't that where they played a football
game and the result was Interstate 80, Northwestern 0?
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Liu
Funny, we at Stanford have the exact same cheer for the Big Game against
Cal. It's funny because we haven't lost Big Game in the past four or
five years (there was one tie, I think...)
.....Elson.....
Elizabeth Fike
"You may be winning, but you suck as people"
"2 4 6 8
Our school is really great
3 5 7 9
You lead petty little lives and live in a cultural wasteland"
"Cerebral fortitude over mindless muscle"
(at away games) "You may be winning, but *we* get to leave"
and my personal favorite (join in if you know it):
Demosthenes, Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
a^2, b^2, H2SO4 Fight!
e^x, e^x, e^x, dy/dx
cosine, secant, tangent, sine
3.14159
Label the axes Y and X
To hell with football, WE WANT SEX!
:-)
G(TB)^2
betsey
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CC '94/SEAS '94, Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
Columbia University Marching Band, the Cleverest Band In The World (tm)
Austin Burke
>Northwestern? Isn't that where they played a football
>game and the result was Interstate 80, Northwestern 0?
Hey, we're the only Big Ten team never to lose the Rose Bowl! Big
win in '49!
Austin Burke
ajb...@nwu.edu
Northwestern University
Elizabeth G. Levy
we beat Princeton to end the Streak. On the front, it said,
"Princeton Sucks" and on the back, "But Harvard Swallows."
And, in ref to Yale, we have "We own New York...They own New Haven."
The Ahkond of Swat
>so one the cheers we shout to the other side of the stadium is:
>
>"That's all right! That's OK! You'll all work for *us* someday!"
The following were (are) actual Williams College football
cheers (I was there from '84 to '88).
Clap your hands and stomp your feet! We want blood on every cleat!
Kill, kill, hate, hate! Murder, murder, mutilate!
Fumble the ball! Fumble the ball! Embarrass yourself and your team!
Pericles, Sophocles, Peloponnesian War!
X squared, Y squared, H 2 SO 4!
Secant Cotan Tangent Sine
Come on Williams, hold that line!
- Note: this also sometimes used the universal "3.14159" line which
we originally stole from Renssalaer, but I understand it's quite
widely used (U. of California, MIT...)
(the following cheer only makes sense if you know that Hamilton
College's color is blue)
Hamilton, Hamilton, don't be blue! Oedipus loved his mother too!
The marching band was a crack-up too. When I was there, they had
a guy playing stand-up bass, which was mounted on training wheels,
and also a guy playing acoustic guitar (both of which were quite
inaudible from the stands). At the first football game of the year,
the President of the College used to "throw out the first trombone".
Then we got a new President who was too dignified for that kind of
thing.
Also, Brandeis once cheered at Harvard: "Get a real workload! Get a real
workload!".
--
Bill Sherman R^n / Z^n = T^n she...@math.ucla.edu
Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo / So little time, so much to know!
--Jeremy Hilary Boob, "Yellow Submarine"
Jim Kasprzak
e to the x! e to the x!
e to the x dy dx!
Tangent, secant, cosine, sine!
3.14159!
Square root, cube root, log of pi!
Disintegrate them, RPI!
This clearly falls into the realm of folklore, as I have NEVER heard
this chant in my nearly six years at RPI. Yet I knew it even before I
came here, and all the incoming freshmen seem to know it. Weird.
The best chants that actually were used were the ones from the hockey
games. I can't repeat them here, though, this is a family newsgroup. (-:
Actually, RPI is rife with college folklore. I'll post some more of
it when I've got more free time, unless Kristopher Martin Nasadowski
wants to beat me to it. But the Nazman's not allowed to post any RPI
folklore until he completes his research on Kibo and Yerazunis...
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Daryl D. Spillmann
According to a friend here at Texas A&M, the football fans at Rice were
reported to chant, "We beat the spread, We beat the spread!"
Daryl D. Spillmann
Texas A&M University
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Agricultural Engineering
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Bitnet: DDS4193@tamzeus
Tom Davis
ruined a 40 game losing streak while I was there) that
whenever our team got the ball, we'd all cheer:
"Hold that line!"
-- Tom Davis
Silicon Graphics
peter lavallee
There's the cheer Harvard uses at BU games (to the tune of that
annoying song "Safety Dance"):
S-s-s-s
A-a-a-a
F-f-f-f
E-e-e-e
T-t-t-t
Y-y-y-y
SCHOOL!!!!!!!
pjl
--
Peter J. Lavallee : "Oh Owsley, can you hear me now?"
lw2...@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu :
Starcap'n Ra
> Actually, RPI is rife with college folklore. I'll post some more of
> it when I've got more free time
One of my best friends went to RPI,
so this is no legend, I saw it myself.
When he showed up in the doom as a freshman
and opened a clothes cabinet, there was
magic marker scrawled inside saying, "Kid,
you just made the biggest mistake of your
life."
One thing that's always had me
curious: Why do so many of the posters
to alt.sex.bondage have "rpi" in their
domain? What in hell goes on at that
place?
I went to Union, and one time at the
RPI football game I remember the highlight
was when two dogs started fucking in the
middle of the game.
--Starcap'n Ra {ames,gatech,husc6,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!kennedy
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Jim Kasprzak
>kas...@jacob.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:
>> Actually, RPI is rife with college folklore. I'll post some more of
>> it when I've got more free time
>
> One of my best friends went to RPI,
>so this is no legend, I saw it myself.
>When he showed up in the doom as a freshman
>and opened a clothes cabinet, there was
>magic marker scrawled inside saying, "Kid,
>you just made the biggest mistake of your
>life."
recall correctly. (I left my own "mark" in Nason 201 a few years
back, but it's not easy to find.)
>
> One thing that's always had me
>curious: Why do so many of the posters
>to alt.sex.bondage have "rpi" in their
>domain? What in hell goes on at that
>place?
The Ahkond of Swat
>In article <1992Feb21.0...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> l...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Lori Smallwood) writes:
I just remembered another Williams cheer:
Ra, ra, ree! Kick 'em in the knee!
Ra, ra, rass! Kick 'em in ... the OTHER knee!
It's fun to watch the faces of parents who have brought small children
to the game when we do this one.
Michael Parks Swaim
>reported to chant, "We beat the spread, We beat the spread!"
>
We did.
Another recent chant was "Supress them, Intimidate them, Make them
relenquish the ball!"
When Reville died, the Marching Owl Band played "Where, oh where, has
my little dog gone," at the next A&M game. They left in food service trucks
to protect them from the Corps.
Mike Swaim
sw...@owlnet.rice.edu
Brian Donaldson
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Brian Donaldson
Randell Jesup
> RPI supposedly has a chant that goes like this:
> This clearly falls into the realm of folklore, as I have NEVER heard
>this chant in my nearly six years at RPI. Yet I knew it even before I
>came here, and all the incoming freshmen seem to know it. Weird.
I never heard it either.
> Actually, RPI is rife with college folklore. I'll post some more of
>it when I've got more free time, unless Kristopher Martin Nasadowski
>wants to beat me to it. But the Nazman's not allowed to post any RPI
>folklore until he completes his research on Kibo and Yerazunis...
That is is. So what is he researching about Crash? There are
*lots* of good stories about Crash, and a bunch of them are even true! ;-)
(God, I must be getting too old, if someone needs to research Crash...)
--
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do not blame the operating system." - The Zen of Programming
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
Sadiq Yusuf
Another Northwestern Chant, never heard it myself but it's supposed
to have been used a few times :
"Northwestern them, Northwestern Them ,
Make them pay heavily each quarter !!"
Sadiq
Frank McConnell
> One thing that's always had me
>curious: Why do so many of the posters
>to alt.sex.bondage have "rpi" in their
>domain? What in hell goes on at that
>place?
"RPI: where men are men, women are scarce, and sheep are nervous."
-- from a friend who went there a few years ago; maybe from
the forum listings he used to bring back when he came home
for breaks.
Disclaimer: I went to the Maryversity of Uniland. We had cattle,
horses, and chickens on campus. I don't remember any sheep.
-Frank McConnell "I want my MPE" (w/apologies to Dire Straits)
<fr...@twg.com>
Daryl Kirihara
-- Daryl
Ali Lemer
>In article <1992Feb21....@cs.tulane.edu> lw2...@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (peter lavallee) writes:
>>In article <1992Feb21.0...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> l...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Lori Smallwood) writes:
>>>Anyone have any others?
>
>I just remembered another Williams cheer:
>
>Ra, ra, ree! Kick 'em in the knee!
>Ra, ra, rass! Kick 'em in ... the OTHER knee!
>
Well, we in the Columbia Band use a similar cheer, but it's
"Rah, Rah, RALLS".
>It's fun to watch the faces of parents who have brought small children
>to the game when we do this one.
Speaking of parents and children, Columbia once played a football game
at Yale on Parents' Day, and the theme of our show was "Birth Control". We
formed a diaphragm being attacked by sperm and played, "I Hear You Knockin',
But You Can't Come In" and distributed condoms to everyone in the crowds.
-- Ali.
Ali Lemer | "So he went inside there to take on what he
Columbia University | found, but he never escaped them, for
New York, NY | who can escape what he desires?"
a...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | -- GENESIS, "The Lady Lies"
Dirk Valk
Hey, that's what we yell at the Aggies!
--
: Dirk Valk |"And if it doesn't work out, :
: Rice Univeristy | There'll never be any doubt, :
: di...@spacsun.rice.edu | That the pleasure was worth all the pain." :
: Space Physics & Astro.| - Jimmy Buffett :
Jeffrey A Magee
?????????????????........
No sober sophmores.......
?????????????.........
?????????????.........
?????????????.........
For the glory of old Rensselaer!
--
I'm a *Sun-King* baby... (mag...@rpi.edu)
--
Daryl D. Spillmann
>|>
>
>
>--
>: Dirk Valk |"And if it doesn't work out, :
>: Rice Univeristy | There'll never be any doubt, :
Considering Rice may graduate about 500 a year and A&M graduates about 3000
a year (I'm guessing these numbers off the top of my head), I think the
laws of probability suggest NOT! Then again, we can't all be eggheads.
rocker
> One thing that's always had me
>curious: Why do so many of the posters
>to alt.sex.bondage have "rpi" in their
>domain? What in hell goes on at that
>place?
It's the ACM meetings. Trust me.
-rocker
Secretary, RPI-ACM
Sharon Casteel
>According to a friend here at Texas A&M, the football fans at Rice were
>reported to chant, "We beat the spread, We beat the spread!"
Yep, that's one of our favorites...up there with "We scored
first!" and "We won the toss!"
Other Rice Cheers....
e^x, dy/dx, e^x dx
Secant, tangent, cosine, sine,
3.14159,
Cube root, square root, BTU,
Compass, slide rule, Go Rice U!
We're from Rice!
Ain't that nice?
Who are you?
Do you know?
The Spell-Out Cheer:
T-H-E-W-I-L-L-I-A-M-M-A-R-S-H-R-I-C-E-I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-E-F-O-R-T-H-E-
A-D-V-A-N-C-E-M-E-N-T-O-F-L-E-T-T-E-R-S-S-C-I-E-N-C-E-A-N-D-A-R-T-.
Kill! Kill! Blood makes the turf grow!
(because of the 100% genuine astroturf in the stadium)
And one a couple friends and I introduced--we'll see if it sticks
around:
Buckminsterfullerene!
Buckminsterfullerene!
Buckminsterfullerene!
Roll! Roll! Roll!
slc
--
sl...@cs.rice.edu
"The Voice that calls through space and time speaks my name again...."
Jeff Erickson
| >|> "That's all right! That's OK! You'll all work for *us* someday!"
| >
| >Hey, that's what we yell at the Aggies!
| >
| >: Dirk Valk |"And if it doesn't work out, :
| >: Rice Univeristy | There'll never be any doubt, :
| Considering Rice may graduate about 500 a year and A&M graduates about 3000
| a year (I'm guessing these numbers off the top of my head), I think the
| laws of probability suggest NOT! Then again, we can't all be eggheads.
You're right, of course. No Rice graduate in their right mind would
ever hire an Aggie! ;-)
Other meaningless Rice cheers:
"High School Band!" (Shouted at any band with uniforms and marching
patterns. I remember one game where there a real high school band
played at halftime. We shouted "Junior High Band!")
"Pork and Beans! Pork and Beans! Pork and Beans! Pork and Beans!"
(Actually, any three syllables will do: "Ham and Cheese", "Rock and
Roll", "Tits and Ass", "MTV", "A and M", whatever. My personal
favorite is "Three Word Cheer!")
"Pee! Tee! Ee are ay! Dee ay see tee, why ell!" (Figure it out.)
"The, William, Marsh, Rice, Insitiute, for, the, Advancement, of,
Letters, Science, and, Art, PERIOD!"
"Gimme an S! Gimme an O! Gimme an F! Gimme a T! Gimme an E! Gimme
an R! What's that spell?! (Softer.) LOUDER!! (Softer!) Louder!
(Softer!!) Louder. (SOFTER!!)"
"We won the toss!" (Occasionally "We lost the toss!")
"We scored first!"
"We scored last!"
One free beer at Valhalla to any Rice grad who can identify this one:
"Let Bruno Play! Let Bruno Play! Let Bruno Play!"
<later>
"Take Bruno Out! Take Bruno Out! Take Bruno Out!"
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92S02648
>
[cheers deleted]
Speaking of Rice, the only chant I've heard is :
"What comes out of a Chinamen's a**?"
"RICE! RICE! RICE!"
James
Melanie A. Miller
University, we learned a number of hilarious cheers for the games,
the best of which was:
"We're gonna rape, kill, pillage and burn,
"We're gonna rapekillpillageandburn--
"EAT BABIES!"
And then there was the rather queenish:
"Repel them! Repel them!
Make them relinquish the ball!
Knit one, purl two--
Oh (insert name of team)
(and the men would jointly start fluttering their
eyelashes here)
YOO-HOO!"
But one of the best things (which the marching band did) was the
Oh-Lady-Cheer song. It helps if you could hear the music to this,
but the lyrics went:
"Oh, an Austrian went yodeling
On a mountaintop high,
When along came an avalanche,
Interrupting his cry:
"Ohhhh Layyyyy Deeee
Oh Lady-Cheer, Oh Lady-Cheer
SWISH!
Oh Lady-Cheer, Oh Lady-Cheer
SWISH!
There were a whole range of additional verses, where the avalanche
was replaced by other things and the SWISH by other sound effects.
In order:
Polar Bear "Grr!"
Circus Clown "Ha ha!"
moo cow "Squirt-squirt"
milkmaid "kiss-kiss"
milkmaid's pa "bang-bang"
Mr. Eggleston "My tempo!"
Girl Scout "Cookies!"
Roger Bradford Jones Jr.
> RPI supposedly has a chant that goes like this:
>
> e to the x! e to the x!
> e to the x dy dx!
> Tangent, secant, cosine, sine!
> 3.14159!
> Square root, cube root, log of pi!
> Disintegrate them, RPI!
>
> This clearly falls into the realm of folklore, as I have NEVER heard
>this chant in my nearly six years at RPI. Yet I knew it even before I
>came here, and all the incoming freshmen seem to know it. Weird.
Actually, as a current RPI student, I have heard this cheer done exactly once.
Specifically, it was done at Freshman Convocation, led by...whatever high
muckty-muck was running the show. I don't remember which one off-hand. He
led the cheer, and the assembled Freshamn class half-heartedly folloed along.
Whee.
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"I disagree with what you say, but I | control, I am master of my fate
will defend to the death your right | and captain of my soul."
to say it." -Voltaire | -Ashleigh Brilliant
Richard Alan Schafer
Jones Jr.) writes:
> kas...@jacob.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:
>
> > RPI supposedly has a chant that goes like this:
> >
> > e to the x! e to the x!
> > e to the x dy dx!
> > Tangent, secant, cosine, sine!
> > 3.14159!
> > Square root, cube root, log of pi!
> > Disintegrate them, RPI!
I heard this cheer many times as a student at Rice, although the wording
was slightly different in the last line, obviously. Also, our version
of the "Tangent, ..." line was "Secant, tangent,..." as I remember.
Allon Stern
>"RPI: where men are men, women are scarce, and sheep are nervous."
> -- from a friend who went there a few years ago; maybe from
> the forum listings he used to bring back when he came home
> for breaks.
>Disclaimer: I went to the Maryversity of Uniland. We had cattle,
>horses, and chickens on campus. I don't remember any sheep.
>-Frank McConnell "I want my MPE" (w/apologies to Dire Straits)
> <fr...@twg.com>
You don't remember the sheep!?!??!?
Right by the Computer Science Center building, next to the horses,
are the sheep barns! How can you not even remember the
smell in midsummer? :)
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>> kas...@jacob.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes:
>>
>> > RPI supposedly has a chant that goes like this:
>> >
>> > e to the x! e to the x!
>> > e to the x dy dx!
>> > Tangent, secant, cosine, sine!
>> > 3.14159!
>> > Square root, cube root, log of pi!
>> > Disintegrate them, RPI!
>
> I heard this cheer many times as a student at Rice, although the wording
> was slightly different in the last line, obviously. Also, our version
> of the "Tangent, ..." line was "Secant, tangent,..." as I remember.
I have a copy of this that was circulated around the net three
years ago. I don't know where it originated, but if anyone's interested,
I'll dig it out of my .zipped archives and post it in a few.
Max Handelsman, Drew University | MHANDELS@DREW.{DREW.EDU,BITNET}
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Avi BELINSKY
|At Caltech, we had such a horrible football team (we
|ruined a 40 game losing streak while I was there) that
|whenever our team got the ball, we'd all cheer:
|
| "Hold that line!"
At the University of Waterloo (Canada) where for a while we had arguably
the worst football team in the world, whenever the team would score a
touchdown everyone in the stands (a dozen or two) would do a lap of the
track surrounding the football field.
Waterloo (nicknamed Yuppie U for a while) is also home to a precision
_briefcase_ drill team.
- Avi
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Avi BELINSKY
>
>Ra, ra, ree! Kick 'em in the knee!
>Ra, ra, rass! Kick 'em in ... the OTHER knee!
>
>It's fun to watch the faces of parents who have brought small children
>to the game when we do this one.
You have to know a bit of Canadian geography for this one but:
Roo Rah Ree
Kick em in the Knee
Roo Rah Regina
Kick her in the ... Saskatoon
Chris Adamson
PURSUE THEM, PURSUE THEM!
MAKE THEM RELINQUISH THE BALL!
There are others, but they'd belong in talk.bizarre, alt.sex, and
othersuch electronic dens of obnoxiousness...
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Gregory Lincicome
posted it yet...
In response to the classic "We've got spirit, yes we do...":
We've got spirit
We've got guts
We've got your team
By the nuts
PULL, TEAM, PULL!
Don't know why that never went over at my little Christian high school...a
few of us found it amusing, anyway.
-greg
this is ken bowers account
soccer team, the preferred cheer is
"Fight, fight, Inner Light,
Kill, Quakers, Kill!"
Ken B.
The Ahkond of Swat
>
>Waterloo (nicknamed Yuppie U for a while) is also home to a precision
>_briefcase_ drill team.
There's one of those here in Los Angeles. They perform every year at
the Doo-Dah Parade in Pasadena. I wonder if it was founded my Waterloo
alumni.
--
Bill Sherman R^n / Z^n = T^n she...@math.ucla.edu
Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo / So little time, so much to know!
--Jeremy Hilary Boob, "Yellow Submarine"
Michael Bauer
I might as well jump on the bandwagon and give you MIT's version of
this chant:
e to the x du dx
e to the x dx
cosine secant tangent sine
3.14159
integral radical mu dv
slipstick slide rule MIT
MJB
PS: I don't remember enough calculus to know if that first line is
good math or not.
Ann Laurel Kopchik
The Engineer's Cheer:
E to the X D-Y D-X
E to the Y D-Y
Cosine, Secant
Tangent, Sine
3.14159
Square root, cube root
Log of e
Water-cooled slipstick
C-I-T
(this dated back to when Carnegie Mellon was Carnegie Institute of
Technology... a slipstick, is of course, a slide rule...)
david e doughty
"Repell them, repell them,
make them relinquish the ball!"
I've tried it at every Clemson game I've been to, just for kicks, but it just
doesn't go over well in Death Valley.
David Doughty
sa...@hubcap.clemson.edu
Lori Smallwood
>Just for the why-not of it, my dad's old "intellectual english major" cheer:
>
> "Repell them, repell them,
> make them relinquish the ball!"
>
A variant I've heard from a friend at Drake:
"Smite them! Smite them!
Compell them to relinquish the ellipsoid!"
:-)
-- Lori
weis...@carina.unm.edu
there's a strong and stagnant smell
It's an old abandoned outhouse
everybody calls Cornell"
(this certainly does not reflect the opinion of the writer, and I would be
delighted to hear any of Cornell's responses.)
BEN JONES
DG...@psuvm.psu.edu
Old State. To wit:
Left side of gym/stadium: WE ARE
Right side of gym/stadium: PENN STATE
Repeat ad infinitum
Just in case you forget who you are playing, I guess.
Dennis Shea
Adam Justin Thornton
P-T-E-R-O-D-A-C-T-Y-L
Existentialist cheer #1:
We're Rice!
Ain't that Nice?
Who are you?
Do you know?
Existentialist cheer #2:
One team wins!
One team loses!
What does it matter?
We're all going to die!
Adam
--
"This howling in the distance, it's a captivating sound/ Can't tell if it's
ecstasy or pain." | These aren't Rice's opinions, just mine, thank God.
"Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile. Nothing left to do but :-) :-) :-)"
>Radio Free Preterition from Pig Bodine and the Whole Sick Crew | 64,928<
Elizabeth Fike
>"In the plains of good old Ithaca
>there's a strong and stagnant smell
>It's an old abandoned outhouse
>everybody calls Cornell"
>(this certainly does not reflect the opinion of the writer, and I would be
>delighted to hear any of Cornell's responses.)
>
(sung to the tune of 'ornell's alma mater)
High above Cayuga's waters
There's an awful smell
Some say it's Cayuga's waters
We say it's 'ornell.
'ornell eats it
'ornell eats it
'ornell eats it raw (rah rah rah)
Some say it's Cayuga's waters
We say it's 'ornell.
High above Cayuga's waters
There's a small hotel (NOTE: Cornell has the only school of
'ornell grads all go to heaven Hotel Administration in the Ivy League)
'Cause they've lived in Hell.
(chorus)
High above Cayuga's waters
There's a font of knowledge
Some say it's Ezra [Cornell]'s creation
We say it's Ithaca College.
School songs? We've got em for every Ivy. :-)
G(TB)^2
betsey
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Betsey Fike <bet...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
CC '94/SEAS '94, Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
Columbia University Marching Band, the Cleverest Band In The World (tm)
Neal Whitman
as its new fight song a few years ago?
Rob Leitman
song during frosh week. Of course that was the only time I ever heard it:
Waterloo once, Waterloo twice,
Holy jumping Jesus Christ,
Rip Ram God Damn,
Son of A Bitch Shit,
(guys):
Salivate, Masturbate,
Think of all the girls you ate,
How do you like your meat?
Raw, Raw, Raw
(gals):
Take a bite, take a chew
Think of all the guys you blew
How do you like your meat?
Hard, very hard
Jolyon Silversmith
>Is it true that Harvard adopted Tom Lehrer's "Fight Fiercely, Harvard"
>as its new fight song a few years ago?
It's listed in programs here along with other fight songs, but as far as I know
none of them is itself the "official" fight song, and its certainly not the
most commonly played one. That would be the un-PC "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard"
I believe.
matt_garretson
[stuff deleted]
>"Princeton Sucks" and on the back, "But Harvard Swallows."
>
This is more of a saying than a sports chant, but:
Here at RPI in Troy, the campus is on top of a big hill over the city. One
building on the side of the hill is rumoured to be sliding down the hill,
giving rise to the hypothetical exchange, "Why doesn't West Hall just slide
right down the hill? Because RPI sucks and Troy blows!"
e
campus is on top of a big hill over the city, a situ
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Ron E Sperber
>Repeat ad infinitum
Well,at home hockey games here at RPI,we seem to have adopted the following:
Left side of the arena/whatever: Go Red!
Right side of the arena/whetever:Go White!
(those being the school colors,of course :) )
Of course RPI is also the school that after each player from the visiting team
every person claps once and yells "You suck!"
>Dennis Shea
-Ron
--
Ron Sperber spe...@rpi.edu Ron_S...@mts.rpi.edu Ron_sperber@rpitsmts
"All the World's indeed a stage/And we are merely players"
"Performers and Portrayers/Each anothers audience "
"Outside the gilded cage" -Rush,"Limelight"
The Ahkond of Swat
>Of course RPI is also the school that after each player from the visiting team
>every person claps once and yells "You suck!"
At Williams basketball games, we used to read newspapers while the other
team was being introduced. All those newspapers in the bleachers were
quite a sight.
This may be a common gag at other schools, but what the hey.
David Merrill
>"RPI: where men are men, women are scarce, and sheep are nervous."
> -- from a friend who went there a few years ago; maybe from
> the forum listings he used to bring back when he came home
> for breaks.
>Disclaimer: I went to the Maryversity of Uniland. We had cattle,
>horses, and chickens on campus. I don't remember any sheep.
>-Frank McConnell "I want my MPE" (w/apologies to Dire Straits)
> <fr...@twg.com>
When I was at RPI, we used to say:
"RPI: where men are men, women are men, and sheep are women."
PC-DISCLAIMER: The person who came up with this was female.
Brian Chung
>In article <v!4s...@rpi.edu> spe...@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Ron E Sperber) writes:
>>Of course RPI is also the school that after each player from the visiting team
>>every person claps once and yells "You suck!"
>
>At Williams basketball games, we used to read newspapers while the other
>team was being introduced. All those newspapers in the bleachers were
>quite a sight.
>
>This may be a common gag at other schools, but what the hey.
Och, you should try being in SUNY Ithaca^H^H^H Cornell. We have
raised the art of harassing the other hockey team to a state of...art(?).
We the Lynah Faithful have calmed down recently due to the admin cracking
down on us. But if there are any Cornell graduates who can tell us what
they used to do at Lynah, we'll be forever grateful.
>
>--
> Bill Sherman R^n / Z^n = T^n she...@math.ucla.edu
>
> Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo / So little time, so much to know!
> --Jeremy Hilary Boob, "Yellow Submarine"
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Sharon Casteel
Three word cheer! Three word cheer!
Two word! Two word!
One! One!
and a recent variant:
This cheer has five words!
slc
--
sl...@cs.rice.edu
"The Voice that calls through space and time speaks my name again...."
A biased source
school had several cheers which we used to drown out the actual cheerleaders
whenever they got particularly annoying. (They had a PA system, which we
found to be an unfair advantage. They also stole our better cheers and
trounced our songs. Didn't matter--they never stood a chance.)
Anyway, the one I liked was:
Kick 'em in the butt!
Shove 'em in the mud!
Tear their hairy arms off--
BLOOD!! BLOOD!! BLOOD!!
The one we used to salute rival bands--but not at formal events, alas:
Now behold the [insert rival here] band--
What they play is in their hand.
Play, band, play!!
A friend relates that HIS band's favorite cheer was:
Rape, pillage, plunder, and burn!
I said, rape, pillage, plunder and burn--
EAT BABIES!!
Somehow, that one didn't go over well.
Winston Churchill HS, in San Antonio, has the single most annoying school
song known to mankind (well, right below the aggie war hymn, anyway). It
is simply the first few measures of "Hail, Brittania" played over and over
(Da Capo Ad Nauseam, I believe the score says.) Fortunately, we had
creative elements in our school who realized that the song began (and
continued):
||:
Winston Churchill,
Upon your name we spit.
We think your whole school is full of shit.
:||
That's all I remember for now, but no doubt other Madison alums will pitch
it to help. Right?? :)
--
--Andrew Hackard Disclaimer: As usual, I wasn't consulted.
an...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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Ari Rapkin
Socrates, Euripedes, Peloponnesian War
A-squared, B-squared, H SO
2 4
Fight!
e to the x, e to the x, e to the x, dy dx
Cosine, secant, tangent, sine
3.14159
Label the axes y and x
To hell with football -- we want sex!
-- Ari
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sft...@garnet.berkeley.edu
>This, I've been told, is the Princeton "Engineer's Cheer" --
>
>Socrates, Euripedes, Peloponnesian War
>A-squared, B-squared, H SO
> 2 4
>Fight!
>e to the x, e to the x, e to the x, dy dx
>Cosine, secant, tangent, sine
>3.14159
>Label the axes y and x
>To hell with football -- we want sex!
>
> -- Ari
>
Dear folks,
I just had to tell you that this cheer looks suspiciously
like 2 cheers that the Williams College Marching Band used.
The first, composed by Bryan Lovely '86, is:
e to the x, dx, dx, dx
e to the x, dx
cosine, secant, tangent, sine
come on, Williams, hold that line!
We called it the "Calculus Cheer".
The second was composed in my presence by various members
of the band in 1984. It went,
Socrates, Pericles, Peleponesian War
X-squared, Y-squared, H2SO4
3.14159
Come on Williams, hold that line!
I've no idea how these things spread....
--Sarah
Brad
band at the Univeristy of California at Davis used to use, but the local
bigwigs found out some of them last week, so now we have to have all our
cheers approved through the chancellor's office before they are used.
Some of the more impressive now are:
Win...Win...Win...
Take it away...
Two for the band-uh...
Shoot for two...Shoot for two...
Go Ags...
Brad
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Josh Fielek
|> Well, I was going to post some of our more memorable cheers that the
|> band at the Univeristy of California at Davis used to use, but the local
|> bigwigs found out some of them last week, so now we have to have all our
|> cheers approved through the chancellor's office before they are used.
|>
Post 'em anyway. Posting them is not the same as using them.
Besides, teh administration needs to be tested on a regular basis or
they become oppressive.
|> Some of the more impressive now are:
|>
|> Win...Win...Win...
|> Take it away...
|> Two for the band-uh...
|> Shoot for two...Shoot for two...
O0h. Aah. Thrills me to no end.
|>
|> Go Ags...
|>
|> Brad
Sorry Brad, but you need to buck the administration a bit.
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Fineman, Stephen Elliot
sft...@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:
>Dear folks,
>
> I just had to tell you that this cheer looks suspiciously
>like 2 cheers that the Williams College Marching Band used.
>The first, composed by Bryan Lovely '86, is:
>
> e to the x, dx, dx, dx
> e to the x, dx
> cosine, secant, tangent, sine
> come on, Williams, hold that line!
>
>We called it the "Calculus Cheer".
> --Sarah
I hate to tell you this, but I'm afraid Bryan Lovely was not the originator
of that cheer. The Rice Marching Owl Band (MOB) has a traditional cheer:
E to the x, dy/dx,
E to the x dx,
Secant, tangent, cosine, sine,
3.14159,
Cube root, square root, BTU,
Compass, slide rule, GO RICE U!
But I knew a high school teacher who had a similar chant in HIS college days
(he used it as a pep talk before a math competition). So it looks like Will-
iams' claim to the cheer falls short. Sorry.
Steve Fineman (sfi...@ricevm1.rice.edu)
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Justin D. Bukowski
, Stephen Elliot) writes:
> I hate to tell you this, but I'm afraid Bryan Lovely was not the originator
>of that cheer. The Rice Marching Owl Band (MOB) has a traditional cheer:
> E to the x, dy/dx,
> E to the x dx,
> Secant, tangent, cosine, sine,
> 3.14159,
[etc.]
>But I knew a high school teacher who had a similar chant in HIS college days
> Steve Fineman (sfi...@ricevm1.rice.edu)
I first heard this (at least the first 4 lines) as a Tau Beta Pi
(engineering honor society) cheer. Don't know if it was local or
a national thing for Tau Bates. Anyone know how far back it
*really* goes?
--
Justin D. Bukowski | |
University of California | I feel like an alien, |
Berkeley, CA 94720 | a stranger in an alien place. |
Fantasyland | - Phil |
Gennis Emerson
>Well, I was going to post some of our more memorable cheers that the
>band at the Univeristy of California at Davis used to use, but the local
>bigwigs found out some of them last week, so now we have to have all our
>cheers approved through the chancellor's office before they are used.
>
No! Say it isn't so! The Aggie Band-uh censored? And standing
still for it? Next you'll tell me that they almost skipped the
Sack State (S.) game because it was raining. How could the
administration and dear old Chancellor Ted object to
"Lay them on the virgin earth?" Nothing objectionable there.
And "Stiffen up D?" The horn motions were merely illustrative.
To encourage the team and all, you know. Surely they have no
trouble with "Smother the mother;" everyone knows that these
things are all in good fun anyway. So what's left? (I've been
away; the last game I was at was a basketball game over winter
break.) None of the rest that I can remember could cause a problem.
"Repel them, repel them, make them relinquish the ball...
the ball, the ball, make them relinquish the ball :
they only have one, collectively."
"Around the rim and in." (basketball, of course)
<fanfare> "Eat 'em up, eat 'em up, rah rah rah go Ags."
"Interception, contraception, stop that score."
"Rip it off."
Those quiet little things we did to mark scores of 69 were probably
never even noticed outside the band section. But then, I suppose
if Chancellor Ted won't even milk a cow, there's not much hope
for him. This is the man who spent $100,000 (so I was told) to
put up screens in front of the air conditioners on top of the library
because he didn't like to look at them from his office window.
Go Ags!
P.S. What's the Picnic Day show this year?
k.s.b.n...@aol.com
> Here at Northwestern, we're not exactly known for winning football games,
> so one the cheers we shout to the other side of the stadium is:
>
> "That's all right! That's OK! You'll all work for *us* someday!"
>
> Anyone have any others?
>
> -- Lori