No More Townies

[NadaTownie]

This is a word from a "townie", representing my fellow "townies"...

Yeah, it's tradition, but we don't aprectiate being called "townies". We're not townies. Well not all of us.

So please, cut back on, "townie's up". Say something else. I don't care about tradition. We don't like to be called townies.

Thank you,

A Non Townie

[DeltaOne81]

townie = non-student

got a better word?

'nuff said

Edit: at first I thought this was gonna be a thread saying all the tickets should go to students... at least it was more sensible than that :-)



Post Edited (10-31-03 23:48)

[DisplacedCornellian]

"So please, cut back on, "townie's up". Say something else. I don't care about tradition. We don't like to be called townies."
--it happens once a game.  Not exactly sure how you "cut back" on that.  

If you and your fellow townies would just stand up, the chant wouldn't be necessary!  You'd think after being told to stand up game after game, you people would be able to do it without being told to...
;-)

But then that spoils the fun.

What would you substitute for Townie, mr. nadatownie?

[NadaTownie]

I don't know. But stop calling us damn townies.

And it's MRS.nadatownie,, thanks!!

[DeltaOne81]

"Townies, alums, and other non-student members of the Cornell University community up! Townies, alums, and other non-student members of the Cornell University community up!"

Rolls *right* off the tongue :-P

[French Rage]

Considering a vast majority of the non-students are townies, "townies" is the most applicable word.  Further, it's not like "townies" is meant in a pejorative sense.  Rather, I and most of the students recognize "townies" as people who are there year after year, game in and game out, and always able to fill up the seats and get Lynah full.

[French Rage]

Further, hoping to get something of this magnitude done will be as futile as the administration's attempt to get rid of cursing in cheers has been.

[Jim Hyla]

As a "townie", although I don't live in the town, all I can say is "Lighten up". If that's all you've got to worry, complain, or talk about, I feel sorry for you.::rolleyes::

[yahoo]

oh c'mon, seriously.

you are a townie, accept it. It isn't derogatory.

If it were up to me, all tickets would to go to cornell students/alumni.

[Will]

I guess we could just say "Stand up" and not address those residing in sections H-N and C (and sometimes O) specifically at all.  Would that be acceptable, NadaTownie et al?

Of course, maybe I shouldn't be telling anyone to stand up, since I'm stuck in the sitting portion of G. ::pissed::

[Greg Berge]

I've always thought of "townies" as a positive term.  Townies have kids, jobs, and dignity.  ;-)

[jtwcornell91]

While I doubt something like a chant will actually get changed, one possibility would be "On your feet!" which fits into the same rhythm.

At SCBern games, they would sing-song "Steht auf, wenn ihr Berner seid," which means "Stand up if you're Bernese."  The Cornell equivanlent (in English, since I know how much you all love my attempts to start German cheers) would be "Stand up, if you're for Cornell."

[Greg Berge]

How about "Stand up if you can!"?

This would distinguish us from Dartmouth fans, at least.

[NadaTownie]

I like "On your feet!"
Works for us. :-D

[Al DeFlorio]

Or why not "everybody up?"  

As a kid who grew up in New Haven, I have to agree that "townie" has a pejorative connotation, intended or not.  And the all-inclusive "everybody" gives it less a sense of one group ordering another to do something.  Nobody likes having someone else tell them what to do.