CLAYTON COBB

UNLV MA English/Lit 2020 Writer | Teacher | Musician

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@BuffaloBills @lanovawings 🦬🦬🦬Can't say no to this! I live around the corner from the Grant/Ferry location and they kill it every time!

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I am so proud of this man right now! Perseverance paying off big @j_veydt Congrats!!!

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@mikevargovich

[Tig Notaro @TigNotaro]

If you make fun of my messy car, don't come crying to me when you need 350 hot empty water bottles.

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@leximcmenamin I scrolled pretty far and didn't see anyone mention V for Vendetta.

Gotta also say Matilda.

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SNL is already starting out in an odd way. Cold open?

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@jumibello Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood comes to mind, though it may not be a perfect fit for your query.

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@mikevargovich

[Isaac Fitzgerald @IsaacFitzgerald]

I was going to try and figure out the story behind this place but some of God's mysteries are so beautiful that they are best left unexamined.

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@mariabamfoo I would like this opportunity!!!

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If skinny jeans aren't cool anymore, I wish I had a picture of me from middle school in my JNCO jeans so I could prove how cool I was to all these Zers

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@j_veydt Happy Birthday!! Love the pics of baby Jord.

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...Just folded a letter into perfect thirds, so I think I'm just gonna go out on a high note and call it a day.

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@SunSuzSunTzuing

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@LasVegasLocally @unlv @unlv_president And out of a sense of decorum, even though I stand by my argument, I will apologize for the snark that attended my first tweet. I could have entered the conversation with a bit more tact, so I deserve the heat.

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@LasVegasLocally @unlv @unlv_president "Reb" itself was confederate slang for fellow Confederate soldiers. We're going to have to agree to disagree on this

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@LasVegasLocally @unlv @unlv_president Dude, I know what their intentions were, and as I have stated already, I don't think that Hey Reb was a far enough departure from the original confederate mascot. The gray uniform, the similarity between mountain attire and military garb, the 19th-cent mustache. Not to mention...

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@jakewagnermusic @Bischoff_Tyler Yes, they are. I waded into the conversation and I am taking a beating for thinking that Hey Reb needs to go, haha.

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@McLovinVegas @LasVegasLocally @unlv @unlv_president I'm well aware of this. Unfortunately, the origin of the mascot remains a confederate soldier, and a mountain man isn't exactly a total departure so the iconography of each character overlaps in an unfortunate way that will always bring to mind the original for some people

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@DavidDennison @McLovinVegas @LasVegasLocally @unlv @unlv_president No he wasn't what?

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@McLovinVegas @LasVegasLocally @unlv @unlv_president The original mascot was a confederate soldier, and every decade or so UNLV has taken half measures to move the imagery away from that without ever fully committing. So, yeah, Reb is a mountain man, but a mountain man that originated from confederate colors and fashions

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@McLovinVegas @LasVegasLocally @unlv @unlv_president ^This for instance

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