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November 22, 2004
Life's reassuring constants
Morgantown is about an hour's drive from Pittsburgh; the geographical distance between WVU and Pitt isn't great. And every year the two schools play a hotly contested football game. Just before the annual match one autumn in the late 70s (when I was in grad school), as I was crossing the bridge that connected the WVU campus to Sunnyside (the slum where I lived), I saw the usual array of homemade anti-Pitt signs. Particularly memorable was a paper plate taped to a pole. Taped to the paper plate were a knife and fork (in proper position, I might add) and, in the middle of the plate, a baggie of dog dung. Above it was the message, "If you're from Pitt, eat this shit." I see in today's news that the sentiments in that locale have not changed.
Posted by senioritis at November 22, 2004 07:59 AM