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Originally posted by Tramps:
I love it! I just like saying the word...ookpik.
AKA "Ooks," Tramps. And they would devour those Slugs ... without saying a word.
(Hey, La T. Do you think the DSM-IV covers ookpik gender identity iss-yoos?)
A court case involving mascots? (Slump)
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"The Banana Slug even figured in a court case involving campus mascots. Judge Terence Evans, writing the opinion for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, stated the following: 'We give the best college nickname nod to the University of California-Santa Cruz. Imagine the fear in the hearts of opponents who travel there to face the imaginatively named "Banana Slugs"?' (Crue et al. v. Aiken, June 1, 2004)
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"... when the men's tennis team played in the NCAA championships, their T-shirts read: 'Banana Slugs-No Known Predators.'"
ETA: Tet, I don't know the answer. Wish we had been taught some Inuktitut in school. (I did have an ookpik doll, like many Canadian children, long time ago.)
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