A loyal University of Washington alum, I never warmed up to the permanent name of the school's "live mascot": Dubs.
Dubs? Isn't that the name of Sonny Crockett's partner on Miami Vice? The substitute town drunk on the Andy Griffith Show? An unpopular former president?
Hate the name, love the mascot.
Name not withstanding, Dubs is a worthy ambassador of the self-proclaimed "university of a thousand years." The media savvy UW athletic department created an Internet site and blog for the Husky icon. A prolific poster, Dubs posts items on his "blawg" about every two or three days. For those of us with too much time for trivial thinking: Is Dubs an Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Microsoft System 7 user?
Would Dubs journey to lovely Rainier Valley to visit the Genesee off-leash area? Dubs seems more like a frequenter of Full Tilt Ice Cream or Geraldine's Counter than the Silver Fork restaurant or Taqueria Los Potrillos. (Thankfully, the one year-old Malamute isn't old enough to patronize Angie's Cocktails.)
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