A few months ago, we at The Lost Ogle threw around some potential name ideas for the hopefully soon to be here NBA team. It started off fun, but now hearing someone give their “2-cents” on the name of our future NBA franchise is torture. Seriously, I’d rather listen to Danny Williams spit out tongue twisters for an hour or watch Jenni Carlson and Gan Matthews reenact the pottery scene from Ghost before I’d choose to listen to some caller on the Sports Animal spend five minutes talking about how cool it would be if the team was named the “Barons.” Hell, the Oklahoman even started a cheesy Ogle March Madness style tournament to pick out the name. If they are doing it, the topic has to be lame.
Anyway, to help get everyone off the “Name that NBA Team” kick, we figured it would be nice to throw out a new topic:
Come Up with a mascot for Oklahoma City Community College
In all reality, this is probably more important than naming the NBA team, because at least the Sonics are…well…the Sonics. Oklahoma City Community College doesn’t have a mascot. I just has a few nicknames like “Harvard on May,” “O-Triple-C” or O-C-Cubed.” That’s really unfair to alumni like (gulp) myself who don’t want to say we went to Oklahoma City Community College, and would rather say we went to the “Home of the BLANKS.”
Find out 10 potential BLANKS after the jump.
The Commuters
Okay. I’m not technically going to count this one in the Top 10, because we kind of brought it up back when we were listing our Top 100 Ideas for the Oklahoma Idea’s Initiative. We even proposed the following fight song:
“We are the commuters…of O’ Triple C.
Drive Drive Day or Night. Drive Drive Fight Fight Fight.
We are the commuters of O’ Triple C.
Fight!”
p.s.- We also mentioned that I should be declared as the city’s first ever Wet T-Shirt contest laureate. That hasn’t happened yet. Can someone hurry up and make that happen?
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Soccer Moms
I bet if you drive through the OCCC parking lot, you’ll see a bunch of messy mini-vans or late 90’s SUVS. That’s because Soccer Moms flock tot his school. Apparently, OCCC has a good day care or something.
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GEDs
One neat thing about being a High School Graduate attending Harvard on May is that you have something most of the other students don’t have: a High School diploma.
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Sonics
This name would be good to simply satisfy all those people who liked to <sarcasm> cleverly </sarcasm> mention that Sonic Drive-In could sponsor the Sonics when they moved here. Also, if you take a good look in the Soccer Moms vehicles, you are probably guaranteed to see a couple of empty Sonic cups on floorboard of the backseat.
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Southsiders
Originally, we were going to call this one The Poor People. But then Clark Matthews mentioned that we shouldn’t make fun of Tony, so we went with Southsiders instead.
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Roses
Rose State Junior College is one of the few schools that OCCC students can look down upon. That and some school in Stillwater.
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Top Dawgs
Although his act gradually got old, we still miss Top Dawg. This could be an easy way to bring him back. And since OCCC has no sports team, we wouldn’t have to see him spin his head around for the TV camera when coming back from a TV timout.
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Thunderbirds
Some people think this should be the name of our NBA franchise. What a terrible idea. What happened, were the Monte Carlos already taken? Anyway, I’m so terrified that our NBA team will be named the Thunderbirds that I would love for OCCC to snatch it up first.
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Associates
Since this is the only degree you can get at Oklahoma City Community College, it makes perfect sense for this to be the schools mascot. Students could even audition to be the mascot at all College events…if there are any.
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Broncos
When you Google “Bronchos”, which happens to be the mascot of the University of Central Oklahoma, Google asks:
Did you mean: broncos
That probably means that UCO spells the word wrong. Here’s a chance for OCCC to one-up the 4-year commuter school from Edmond.
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Lifeguards
Perhaps the oddest thing about Oklahoma City Community College is that they have an Olympic sized swimming pool and diving center. I’m not sure if it is good or bad that this this the most lasting thing from the 1989 Olympic Festival.
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Well…that’s the list. What did I forget? Whoever leaves the best one wins a FREE copy of this weeks Gazette, which some are already calling the greatest Gazette ever. EVER!
In my experience (took my last class there this semester and PRAISE GOD I passed and will graduate on Saturday) it’s less “soccer moms”, who strike me as younger and more attractive, and more of the “I’ve been hit with empty nest syndrome, forget to brush my hair everyday, enjoy eating Nacho Cheese Doritos during class, and wear magenta stretch pants” set.
What about the “MudPuddlers”? Ever since they built the red dirt pond in the front I’ve been waiting for them to host a State-Wide Noodling contest to help build another wing of the Day Care. I also think we’re going to need a new name for the ladies that give the appearance of being soccer moms but are actually dropping of their kids in order to attend their GED classes. How about MILFsters…..yeah that’s it! the OCCC MILFsters!
Actually, OCCC has a mascot. They are the Pioneers. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Maybe we could all rename UCO to the STUCK-UP-NORTH-SIDE-PRICKS, that has a nice ring to it.
I was going to suggest that the mascot name be the “Arrogant Pricks”, but I believe that this nickname has already been used by some who reside north of the North Canadian - OOPS! I meant the Oklahoma - River.
Watch it Cheesmo, some of the so called “NORTH-SIDE-PRICKS” like to keep up with whats going on here. And there is a long story as to why we spell bronchos with an H but it’s hardly worth the retelling.
Flick, please explain the H thing. In my four years as a “north-side-prick” I never knew why.
for fear that i may be channelling chris rock and his “community college is nothing but a nightclub with books” bit, i move to call them the dealers. or — in honor of all the shady asian kids who drive tricked out hondas, we could call them the “rice burners.” you know the asian kids who try to act gangster and thuggish even though they look ridiculous and weigh 115 lbs soaking wet. yeah, those asian kids.
Being the “north-side prick” that I am, I travelled down to OCCC back in the day, to look down on the students that I had in class. It was a boost for my self-esteem and my bank account.
I love all of the mascot suggestions! Especially the soccer moms…they have big butts and I cannot lie…
Rskes, the H stems from when the school was choosing its mascot in the early 1900’s, the president’s wife suggested bronchos (h included) because it was “unique and fitting”. besides that fact there is only one other school in the nation that has the same spelling.
So the President’s wife couldn’t spell?
We always called ourselves the “snowflakes” after the hideous logo they use at the entrance of the parking lot.
What do you call a person who spends, or worse, goes into debt for $10,000 or $15,000 more than they need to, when they could get the same degree with transfered credits from O-TRIPLE-C?
Funny how your name is required here but the Ogle boys don’t let Rod Lott tell OG readers what your real names are. Hmmm. Anyway, it was my buddy who suggested “Barons” on Sports Animal. Seems classy, like Knicks or Celtics. Let’s stay away from cutesy crap like “THE MIGHTY MATTRESS MEN”. Say what?
Yeah, because I’m sure Port-O-Potty Picasso is on that guy’s birth certificate.
Since OU is “Harvard in the heartland,” for OCCC, I prefer “Harvard on the Highway.”
I was born Port-O-Potty. My married name is Picasso. I REFUSE to do the hyphenated thing, but I must use both last names since I have an in-law also named Port-O-Potty. Without Picasso, it just creates too much confusion.
I like the OCCC
I was going to say that I like the OCCC Grendels, but then I misfired.
Now I think I like the OCCC misfires.
i would suggest the OCCCtopusses … or would it be OCCCtopi.
Brad, I LOVE your idea! OK kids, someone start working on a logo.
Wonder if we could get Squiggly Diddley from the old Hannah Barbara cartoons as a mascot…
OCCC Smegma. Kind of self explanatory. Bannana Slugs is already taken.
How about: “The Strippers Who Are Only Dancing To Put Themselves Through School And Raise Their 5 Kids As Single Mothers Yet Still Be Able To Afford The Occasional Bump Of Meth”
AND THE WINNER IS…
Gan M. …for “the most ignorant” post.
Congratulations! Your parents must be very proud of you.