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Re: What is Homecoming? (Re: Somebody help.)
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Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:11:31 GMT
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Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
> B. It's to celebrate the home team returning triumphantly. (So they plan
> this dance and cancel it if the home team loses? Do they plan on winning only
> one distant game?)
Hrmmm... not sure about the coming home part but in my experience
the games scheduled for homecoming are normally sure-things. You'll
never see UTK playing Florida on homecoming.
> E. It's an excuse for local flower shops and tux rentals to siphon more dough
> from the pockets of high school students and their chaperones. (Second-most
> plausable explanation I've heard.)
Hrmmm... tuxes? We never wore tuxes to homecoming. Prom yes,
homecoming no.
> So what is Homecoming? Why is it so important? Is it in any way related to
> how well the home team scores in the "Big Game"? Does it have anything to do
> with shuttling the local team out-of-state, ot with lighting that huge
> mysterious letter on the side of the mountain?
Dunno - it's sports-related. Doesn't have to make sense.
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| (...) (!) Okay, this is going to sound dumb, so I'll let you reply after you've picked youself up from the ground, still convulsing from crippling bouts of laughter... So Homecoming, then, is also a college thing? (...) I hear you. :-, Cheers, - (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) Okay, y'all gotta help me on this one. I came to the States after graduation, and my high school didn't have this...thing. "Homecoming" baffles me. It's so much a part of the local culture everywhere I go, and it gets everyone all hot and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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