Please, please, make it stop I saw something horrible today. It's the kind of sight which can keep a guy up all night. It was one of them one-shoulder t-shirts which look like they got torn by some assailant looking for an easy rape. Those shirts bother me in general, but this one was even worse, because it had this statement on it: Go Bears Or Go Home It was quite epiphanic. You see, all my life, I had figured that the "Go" in "Go Team" meant something like "go do well and represent us and kick some ass," as in "you go, girl," and that the comma in "Go, Bears" was dropped out for convenience. But this usage of go doesn't make a lick of sense in "Go Bears or Go Home." Either the Bears should do well or your house should do well? What? Besides, who are you telling to go home? The Bears? They already are home. It must, then, be sort of a cultish plea for support, as in "Join the dark side and be a Bears slave, or turn your sorry ass around and go home." In this case, "Go" would have to mean "become one of those who is a Bear or supporter" or some such, in the sense of "Go vegan." This is a little disturbing, though, because it means that absolutely none of "Go Bears" is actually directed towards the Bears. Maybe more punctuation was dropped out, and "Go Bears or Go Home" was actually a simplified version of "'Go Bears' or Go Home." As in "Say 'Go Bears' or Go Home." It fits, I suppose, but it doesn't settle. posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 9/27/2003 06:58:00 PM # Comments (0) . . .
