OLE MISS WANTS ADMIRAL ACKBAR
02.23.10
The University of Mississippi (“Ole Miss”) retired their old mascot in 2003 due to its slavery connotations. Now the students are voting on a new mascot for their Rebels. Some students are campaigning through Twitter and Facebook to make Admiral “GQ m-f-er” Ackbar from Star Wars the mascot.
Like the residents of Mississippi, he has gills and wears a uniform at all times. Like the residents of Mississippi, he likes alcohol to excess and has relatives who can’t read. Like Mississippi, he has had an ugly personal experience with the issue of slavery, having been enslaved with the rest of his people when his home planet of Mon Calimari* was invaded by the Empire. Finally, and most importantly, HE’S A LEADER OF REBELS. [Spencer Hall via Geekosystem]
Will Admiral Ackbar become the mascot for The University of Mississippi? No. George Lucas would end them. He could buy Mississippi and turn it into a wildlife refuge for his cloned dinosaurs (yes he has them). On the other hand, there’s nothing stopping them from having a “squid-looking military dude who is very concerned about traps” as a mascot. Fleet Admiral Achoo, you could call him. He outranks Ackbar.
[Thanks to Geekosystem for the tip.]
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Admiral Ackbar spells Mississippi: M, dotted letter, crooked letter, crooked letter, dotted letter, crooked letter, crooked letter, dotted letter, humpback, humpback, dotted letter.
Many Bothans will die if Lucas has anything to say about this.
The mascot of my college was a roadrunner, and not the cool coyote-thwarting kind.
Ole Miss shot first!
(I had to beat Dormammu to it)
Is it me, or does the original Missouri mascot look like a very homosexual Colonel Sanders?
*Mississippi
It’s possible. My idiot hometown renamed its AAA baseball team after an episode of The Simpsons.
@Martin – I personally think the Albuquerque Isotopes have the best name in all of minor league baseball.
Shit, how is this more gay then the Akron University Zips? The mascot is a Kangaroo. That’s right…a college in Northern Ohio with no native kangaroos made their school mascot a marsupial that lives a half a world away.
The character still appears at pregame tailgating festivities on the Ole Miss campus, but he has no official role with the school. Admiral Ackbarhttp://usspost.com/admiral-ackbar-ole-miss-usspost-com-6258/
George Lucas has been VERY generous with his millions, giving them to the George Lucas Educational Foundation in CA. Perhaps he will gift Ole Miss with the use of Admiral Ackbar like Disney gifts the University of Oragon, but he’d better do it soon, because without written permission, it’s doubtful Ackbar will be put onto the ballot of potential mascots.