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Weenies - Langdude - 11-21-2015
Does anyone know where that moniker came from?
Just last weekend, I was flown down to Puerto Vallarta to officiate a wedding (I know, tough life). Anyway, I met a Cal fan there who insisted, based on his limited experience in northern New Hampshire, that the East Coast is prejudiced, as is, basically, everywhere outside of Berkeley where there are "no boundaries." Not to downplay the reality of prejudice, but it seemed to me that this sort of sweeping generalization is precisely what he was decrying. At any rate, I decided not to argue because he was drunk. I nodded and smiled, slowly making my way toward drowning my sorrows after my smartphone screen told me the result of the Oregon game.
-m.
Re: Weenies - BostonCard - 11-21-2015
(11-21-2015, 01:16 PM)garvin link Wrote:We discussed this before, without getting very far. I can tell you I've seen the word "weenies" referring to the 59ers in Stanford Daily stories back the 1940s. But the specific way in which it came to be associated with them is unknown.
But were they the 59ers in the 1940's?
BC
Re: Weenies - FarmBoy - 11-21-2015
Quote:But were they the 59ers in the 1940's?
BC
They have always been 59ers. They just didn't know it until 1960.