Interested Noises for Peg & OT Stuff (jackrabbit - all OT)

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 3007

Hi --

Peg -- please, please do continue with the 7 Heavenly Virtues!!!  I have
really enjoyed the 7 Deadly Sins discussions -- printed out all your
essays in fact.  <g>  Even though I haven't chimed in too much in
analyzing them, I've loved them.  So . . . please do continue.

Now, OT answers for Storm & then I will abandon this completely
irrelevant discussion of my hometown (I was just *so* shocked & amazed
to find someone -- hi Jim! -- from Odessa & on a HP listserve to boot &
then Amanda chimed in with "Go Permian" & I had to respond).  Anyway --
skip the rest if you're not interested --

Snuffles Macgoo wrote:

> What's a jackrabbit?

A rabbit (wild) with long ears & long tail -- common to the southwestern
U.S.  They're very fast!

> > Go Permian!
>
> M-O-J-O!!!!
>
> huh?

Hmmm . . . don't even know where to start.  It would be very complicated
to answer what that means to anyone not from Texas (maybe since Mojo
originated during or not long before Jim's tenure at Permian, he might
take a crack at explaining it as long as he combines it in a post that's
on-topic -- <g>).  It is in short the rallying cry for my high school
(which I believe is still on the record books as the high school with
the best football record of all Texas high schools -- no small feat in
this state).  MOJO gets chanted at football games.  I can make it
"slightly" OT by adding that it often gets referred to as Mojo Magic.  I
also believe I've read "somewhere" (God knows where) that the word comes
from some African-American magical tradition (Louisiana in particular).
It also has some meaning in jazz music but I couldn't tell you what.

I found this on the school's official website -- "That same year [1965],
supportive and loyal fans coined the term "Mojo" during an emotional
game. Since its birth this four letter word is echoed by the fans and
chanted at the games, causing outsiders to envy the "magic" of Permian."

> this odessa must be a reeeallllyyyyy boring place! <g>

It's often referred to as "Slow-Death-A" -- a term my husband uses
regularly when we're compelled to visit.  :--)

End of OT discussions.  Email me privately if you want more info!

Penny


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