Yeah, but nobody names a football team the Titanics for obvious reasons.TheConfessor wrote:I guess you're just trying to stir things up, but you seem to be in the minority if you consider the term "Titan" a pejorative. A standard dictionary confirms the generally positive attributes of the word.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/titan
Tennesseans are not aberrant in choosing to align themselves with the Titans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan
I was in Belfast two weeks ago and saw the shipyard where the Titanic was built, so I guess they must admire Titans around there. I didn't notice anyone engaging in the kind of scandalous behaviour you attribute to Titans. Maybe you're just perpetuating a tired old stereotype, like all Scots are misers, all Irish are drunks, and all Titans are incestuous cannibals.
See, it's my opinion that the word Titan would be a pejoritive, if more people knew about who the Titans of mythology were and what they did. I was just trying to educate folks a bit.
Bud Adams said that the Titans were heroic, and I suppose they were if you consider incestuous, losing, inbred, child-eating heroic activities.
Lots of odd stuff in Greek literature. We should be fortunate for BiT that they didn't pick a Greek name involving man-boy love because the Greeks talked about that stuff a lot and that wouldn't be pretty to watch in toy theater form.
Though I have to say, I am in awe of the job the Rice Marching Owl Band did in a semi-literate slagging of their ex-head coach by doing a program putting him in Dante's inferno:
Item 9: "Please Do Not Call the Douchebag a Douchebag Over the Loud Speaker."
http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/11/ ... -to-blame/
That's some nice junk talk there.
