Comments: JAVELINA.

This is only tangentially related, but Major League Baseball runs a developmental league called the Arizona Fall League. One team in that league is the Peoria Javelinas.

Here is their hat:

http://www.minorleagues.com/681004.html

Posted by Geoff at September 26, 2004 10:45 PM

Hey, that's bang on topic as far as I'm concerned! I may have to order one of those hats.

Posted by language hat at September 27, 2004 07:50 AM

My supervisor read The Three Little Javelinas last year to the kids at our school. I've never heard of the term before, so when I first saw the title the first thing that came to mind were three javelins who were short and couldn't make it to a track meet. Silly, I know.

Posted by Christopher Sundita at September 27, 2004 08:35 AM

Does that mean we can start muttering "Mountain swine!" under our breath when we feel like being impolite?

Posted by Zackary Sholem Berger at September 27, 2004 11:23 AM

I knew what javelinas were from Old Yeller, a book I read when I was a kid.

Posted by teep at September 27, 2004 02:07 PM

There's a Javelina cameo in The Royal Tenenbaums — a mounted head on the wall in one of the stairways in the family house.

Posted by Jack at September 27, 2004 08:34 PM