Eric J. Burton forwards:
 
> This is from a Gopher Fan I know...
>
> Where I'm from (that being Anyplace, USA), *I always had a rule to never
> try
> to match wits with nit-wits.  When people can't function in the real
> world, they withdraw to little holes like Grand Forks where they can
> focus on one thing, in this case college hockey, and one thing only.
> We, on the other hand, are above that type of single-minded pettiness.
> *These are people who kill gophers in the summer and keep them through
> the winter.  We, on the other  hand, need our freezers to store things
> like pheasants, ducks, and geese and the like.
 
Well.  First of all, it wasn't me.  Second, what better to focus on than
college hockey?  Third, it's not like I don't have opportunities to do
stuff like this, but most teams have bigger mascots.  For instance, I
found a dead badger on the side of the road in southern Minnesota last
summer.  Now, I suppose I could have tied it to the roof of the car, taken
it home, and stored it in the freezer for future use, but it would have
been ...  awkward.  Dead bulldogs and huskies would be even worse.  A guy
could get a strange reputation keeping an inventory of roadkill in cold
storage.
 
-- Erik
 
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