Bill Fenwick writes:
 
>Anyway, Cornell
>does a slightly more elaborate version of the same thing:  an appropriately
>timed, "HOW MUCH TIME IS LEFT?" followed by PA announcer Arthur Mintz's one-
>minute announcement, followed by "THANK YOU!"  For no particular reason, I
>find this incredibly annoying.
 
        When I heard that at the Army and Colgate games over break, it
bugged me as well.  I couldn't help thinking it sounded like a Rocky
Horror thing.  The best fan-to-announcer back-talk I remember is from
Cornell football games.  The concession stand sold Domino's pizza, and
late in the second quarter of every game, Arthur (we didn't know that
was his name at the time) would say "Wouldn't halftime be a great time
for Domino's Pizza?"  By the end of the season, the entire student
section was replying "NO!"
 
>Might as well pass along my nomination for Best Cheer Never Used.  This one
>comes from 1986, when Cornell won the ECACs and headed west to take on
>Denver in the first round of the NC$$ tournament.  A bunch of us came up
>with, "You can't spell DUMB without D-U!" which seemed like a monstrously
>clever line to put down the Denver-ites with... that is, until we remembered
>that at least half of the Cornell team were brothers in the Delta Upsilon
>fraternity, which is also known as D-U.
 
        When I was an undergraduate science fiction/RPG/physics geek,
I decided that a jock frat whose letters were DU was just asking to
have it pronounced "duh..."  Imagine my surprise to learn that at
UCSB, DU is a geek frat...
 
                                        John Whelan
                                        Cornell '91
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(Hint to Cornellians; it concerns a school whose name rhymes with D-U.)