Taking FAIL to a new level

[captainsblog]

Once again, there's a big college football game this weekend. You may have heard ESPN mention something about it.

I could care two Ratatouilles' asses about the whole business myself, but this part of it? I LURVE. When the top-rated college football team in the nation, LSU, heads into the stadium of the #2-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide later today, they are doomed to FAIL. 

Literally.


From the 2008 announcement of this ultimate Naming Rights win:

The University of Alabama is set to honor Mobile native James M. Fail by placing his name on a prominent fixture at Bryant-Denny Stadium. A donation by Mr. Fail to the Crimson Tide Foundation will result in the visitors' locker room being officially named "The Fail Room."

Not to be outdone, Alafreakinbama's arch-rivals, the Auburn Tigers, renamed the brothel on the campus's Fraternity Row as the "Whore Eagle."

Badum ching. But seriously: another of that ilk comes from my own alma mater Far Above Cayuga’s Waters.

One of the most populated and centrally located spots on the Cornell campus is the space between the main student union and the Campus Store, where fraternities and other organizations all post signs and chalkings for their events. Long after I graduated, I started seeing people referring to it as “Ho Plaza,” which I just assumed was a reference to all the shameless pimping going on there.

Erm, no. The authoritative site “Uncle Ezra” explains:

The Ho family have had four Cornell graduates since 1955. Hau Wong Ho received a bachelor's of engineering physics degree in 1955; his wife Christine received a bachelor's in chemistry in 1961; and their son, Jet King Shing Ho '91, has a bachelor's in physics. Mui Ho, Hau Wong's sister, has bachelor's degrees from Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (1962) and the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (1966).

Tours of the campus originate from Ho Plaza. Price? Twenty bucks, same as in town.

 

Comments

[glenmarshall.livejournal.com]

I am somehow reminded of a president of Harvard who, unlike others, did not have a dormitory (called "houses" at Harvard) named in his honor. His name was Leonard Hoar. However, it was not his surname that was objectionable. In his tenure as president all students but 3 left the college, and he was forced to resign.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

There is a tower with a light on top of it at King College. It is called the Virgin Tower, and no, no Virgin family is involved. If you sit down on the base of the tower in the day and light comes on, or if you sit on the base at night and the light goes OFF, your reputation is in peril. The good news is, that if you sit down and are proven to be a virgin, then no one will sacrifice you.

HUGE PROPS to Alabama!