SnapeFAQ, Jargon, Welcomes, and ORANGE?

[Cindy C.]

Elkins confided:

 
> On the lighter side, however, my school's football team was, due 
>to a sense of regional pride divorced from any conception of either 
>real history or plain old *propriety,* actually named "the 
>Quakers."  This meant that every year, we were treated to the 
>spectacle of people chanting "Go, Quakers, go!  Fight, Quakers, 
>fight!"  


Oh, you should have attended Marcos de Niza public high school in 
suburban Phoenix, then.  We were the *Padres.*  Uh, huh.  Our mascot 
was a smiling fat friar wearing brown robes.  Our colors were brown 
and yellow.  (Now, that is just butt ugly, isn't it?)  So sporting 
events at rival schools featured slogans like "Kill the 
Padres!!!!!!!!"  That just seemed *wrong,* somehow.  ;-)

We had snazzy band uniforms, though.  They were all brown, with a 
shiny gold cape!  Yeah, shiny band capes were prized among dorky 
marching band geek types.  And we had tall furry hats, not those low-
profile cloth ones a lot of bands use.  And we had matte white 
shoes, and we were expected to keep the grass stains off the white 
shoes.

Cindy -- who was a clarinet marching band squad leader and so had 
responsibility for making sure three other people walked a straight 
line at parades, and who has a certain high school homecoming 
picture in the yearbook that provoked *screams* of laughter during 
the slide show at her 20-year high school reunion not long ago