I'm sure all UGA alumni know this, but I thought I'd mention it for those elsewhere reading this thread.
An interesting thing about the University of Georgia bulldog mascots is that they don't reside anywhere near Athens, Georgia. Savannah is about 226 miles from Athens, and on game day the owner of the mascots, Sonny Seiler, flies UGA to the game in his private jet.
Seiler, obviously an extremely enthusiastic alumnus, is a lawyer in Savannah. He was the lawyer for the guy on trial for murder as retold in MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. In fact, Seiler has a cameo in the movie MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL (As does one of the UGA bulldawgs, playing its ancestor). --------------------- As for the kid killed by the rollercoaster, yeah, it was pretty dumb what he did, but for those Internet wags who'll chortle about Darwin Awards, he was a 17-year-old kid who had a momentary failure of perspective. Suddenly his lost hat became the most important thing in the universe. I think I'm smarter than the average bear, but I've done things where later I've thought, "That was pretty stupid, that could have been fatal."
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Date: 2008-06-29 11:40 am (UTC)An interesting thing about the University of Georgia bulldog mascots is that they don't reside anywhere near Athens, Georgia. Savannah is about 226 miles from Athens, and on game day the owner of the mascots, Sonny Seiler, flies UGA to the game in his private jet.
Seiler, obviously an extremely enthusiastic alumnus, is a lawyer in Savannah. He was the lawyer for the guy on trial for murder as retold in MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. In fact, Seiler has a cameo in the movie MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL (As does one of the UGA bulldawgs, playing its ancestor).
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As for the kid killed by the rollercoaster, yeah, it was pretty dumb what he did, but for those Internet wags who'll chortle about Darwin Awards, he was a 17-year-old kid who had a momentary failure of perspective. Suddenly his lost hat became the most important thing in the universe. I think I'm smarter than the average bear, but I've done things where later I've thought, "That was pretty stupid, that could have been fatal."
(Several more increasingly bile-filled paragraphs deleted).