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[LongJim]

Hadn't seen this...

LINK

[trud1966]

HAHAHAHAHA! Brilliant

[AnotherEagleFan]

That is fantastic...

[NT80]

Ha, "Home of the Flying Worm" is correct; "Vinnie?" the mascot never happened. Site needs some major editing.

[UNTFan23]

Interesting location for a satellite campus.

Edited April 18, 2008 by UNTFan23

[Ibleedgreen]

This is the best line:

"With an enrollment of more than 32,000 students, UNT is the largest university in north Texas and the fourth largest in the formerly independent and sovereign nation of Texas -- that's half the size of Denton Bible Church. "

[UNTFan23]

So much fun could be had with this site ...

[SAGreenFan]

"Some historians argue that when Henley dies (along with any other famous musical alumni), his ghost will be sent back in time to haunt Bruce Hall..."

I believe this is actually true...

[Guest 97and03]

The Curse of the Mean Green

Bruce Banner, the university's first athletic director, ran over a gypsy coming home from from the football team's first away game (against Texas University in the Soviet Republic of Austin) after losing the the TU Fightin' Cows 572-0. The gypsy cursed Banner with her dying breath to turn into a giant green monster causing wanton destruction whenever the university loses a sporting event. This monster was originally called the Incredible Hulk, but was uncreatively renamed to the "Mean Green" by the university's marketing department after Stan Lee stole parts of Banner's life story to create the comic book character of the same name.

This curse passes on from athletic director to athletic director, but the process of how this works is unknown.

The current bearer of the curse, Rick Villarreal, pseudo-successfully attempted to change the mascot from the eagle to himself (in "Mean Green" form). Under the pretext of there being hundreds of universities with an eagle mascot but only two with mascots based on cursed administrators, he threatened to consume a live squirrel a day for three days unless the university crowned him as "mascot for life" and commissioners a gold statue to be built by the Union of him mauling children. He would also refuse to be chained up during sporting games (a tradition based in pragmatism). The university compromised by keeping the eagle as a token mascot while putting "Mean Green" on all merchandise that matters and suppressing all other potential mascots, including the albino squirrel, the fightin' jack rabbit, the dragon, Gary Coleman, the Flying Worm, and "Vinnie."

I wonder if the author of this section (or at least the second paragraph) is a young lad with a name that rhymes with "Boner"??

[Censored by Laurie]

This is the best line:

"With an enrollment of more than 32,000 students, UNT is the largest university in north Texas and the fourth largest in the formerly independent and sovereign nation of Texas -- that's half the size of Denton Bible Church. "

Beat me to it...hands down the best line...although the Pragmatism reference is very high end and appreciated.

[Quoner]

I wonder if the author of this section (or at least the second paragraph) is a young lad with a name that rhymes with "Boner"??

Hell no.

Parts of this are funny, but there is so much room for improvement...

[LongJim]

Very much liked this quote:

"A ficus tree was admitted to the university in the Fall semester of 1998 -- the first Chlorophyl-American to enter a U.S. public university or college. The tree never finished its first semester, making its leave later that fall. "

[Travis]

Hell no.

Parts of this are funny, but there is so much room for improvement...

I concur... great idea... average execution.

[UNTFan23]

You should see the one on the state of Texas.

Today, Texas has a powerful workforce well beyond 6.5 billion. Oil changing, dry cleaning, and computer programming, are some of the many service industries that contribute the most gross product and employment. Other jobs can be found in wholesale trade, halfsale trade, retail trade, oil, federal/state/local government, military, oil, manufacturing, finance, insurance, real estate, construction, oil, transportation, public utilities, farming and agricultural services, oil, forestry, fishing, mining, and oil.

[DirtySavage]

funny for those in "the know" but i agree it could have been done much better.

[Texas Stranger]

My favorite so far