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Mounting of The Phildo, fully erect and sheathed, inspires next generation

To quote an anonymous Duck PR flack, who’s taken up The Phildo meme with enthusiasm.

“Mounting of crown on tower at Hayward Field sets in motion installation of graphics honoringUO greats and inspiring the next generation of university excellence.”

11 Comments

  1. a UO GE 03/19/2020

    That sentence is a grotesque butchery of language. It’s not even just the PR buzzwords – it’s just a bad sentence.

    • uomatters Post author | 03/19/2020

      Yeah maybe it wasn’t such a great idea for Kyle Henley to outsource Duck communications to that North Korean brand management firm.

    • apt 03/19/2020

      bad but great if they want “mounting” to be the thrust of the message. I mean look at all this mounting is accomplishing!

  2. Anas clypeata 03/20/2020

    That’s no moon….

  3. M. Sanger 03/20/2020

    The reason to use a sheath during mounting is to *prevent* the next generation, not inspire them. You boys really need to figure that out.

  4. [email protected] 03/21/2020

    Sheath = Safer Branding.

    Imagine if there were any brandingly transmitted diseases.

    (How’s that for a bad sentence AND a bad pun?)

    • uomatters Post author | 03/21/2020

      We’re relaxing our grading standards this quarter, so that’s a C-.

      • unclassifiedUO 03/21/2020

        Not so far from the truth. The Academic Council approved temporary changes to academic policy for winter term:
        – no students will be academically disqualified based on winter grades
        – all students can retroactively request a grade change (graded to pass/no pass) until april 24

  5. Anonymous 03/22/2020

    Where are they getting their face masks from?

  6. marie 05/10/2020

    Waste of fucking money. I’m thinking they may need it in the future.

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