Ten Things You Might Not Know About Mascots-- Part 6: "The Tree Got Trunk"

Earlier today, I was at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in DeKalb, Illinois, and I saw that Mad Magazine, you know, Alfred E. Neuman, is still being published. Wow, after all these years. //// 9. The Census Bureau uses a FERRET mascot to promote a data-crunching tool called DataFerrett. That "FERRETT" is an acronym for Federated Electronic Research Review Extraction and Tabulation Tool. //// 10. Stanford University's marching band has a mascot called the TREE. which may be inspired by the trees on the school's seal and/or its home city of Palo Alto, California. // At a 2006 basketball game, police said they saw the Tree drinking from a flask and measured her blood alcohol level at 0.157. She was evicted from courtside and the tree and later fired. Sorry, this is bad, but Jacob and Benskofer said, "You might say the Tree got trunk and was asked to leaf." //// "Never Send a Ferret To Do a Lizard's Work." --Budweiser Lizard. --Cooter