Butte Pirates, remember this gag?
I know this is old news, but before it disappears into the void, I'd like to revive it. Back in 2000, someone discovered the Butte County School District #111, in Arco, Indiana Idaho, which surprisingly enough, had a website! In the logo presented on their school website, it was clear that their high school's mascot was a pirate -- slightly less common than the ubiqutous bulldog, but still not unusual. What was unusual was the perhaps accidental but wholly sophomoric humor value in what the name of their athletic teams might have been referred to: The Butte Pirates. Here's the logo:
The reason I'm bringing this up again? I tried to Google for this old bit of history and it was nearly impossible to find. The school's current website (which is horrible from both a design and usability perspective, compared to the simpler site of years earlier) lacks any mention of the school's mascot -- probably due to the attention it got several years ago, but that's just a guess. Luckily, Google had this gem buried in amongst the 26,900 results for "butte pirates", which contained the original URL to the school's site with the mascot on it. Unfortunately, Google's cache didn't have the site's contents, but the trusty Wayback Machine did! So, I was able to retrieve the logo and share with you links to the original site circa 2001.
Here's to my attempt to prevent this little tidbit of trivia from getting lost. Maybe I'll even make it to the first search results page for "butte pirates," too.
Congrats. I did the search on GOOGLE and you made it. Front page!!!!
You, sir, are a legend.
Keep the dream alive!!!
Big Ramifications: Uh, thanks! Just doing what I do best, you know. :-)
Hi. Thanks for posting this and doing whatever you did to get it to the top of Google's "Butte Pirates" search results. I looked around for pictures of the place, but besides the front entrance to the school, I couldn't find anything.
While I was driving around visiting national parks, I wasn't far from Arco and decided to see what was there. I was not disappointed, and I've posted the results on LiveJournal (http://sailhome.livejournal.com/5162.html) which links to pictures on flickr (search for Butte Pirates).
Enjoy!
Thanks, Carl. You've got some great pics of the school ... nicely done!
It would be nice if this person would of gotten the state right! Its Idaho!! trust me I know!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my goodness, Jake--you're right! It's Idaho, not Indiana. Thanks for pointing that out.
If you built a High School across the street from a state mental institution what would be the most inapropriate mascot for your high school? Perhaps Maniacs. Well leave it to Idaho to do the most inapropriate. Check out the Orifino Maniacs. Yes, they are located across the street from State Hospital North.
Ryan: Haha! Thanks for the tip--yes, it looks like Orofino High School hails itself as the "Home of the Maniacs" and is right around the corner from Idaho Correctional Institution-Orofino. Google Maps of 300 Dunlap Rd. shows how close everything is.
Too funny!
If you look at the picures on the frontpage of Butte's website you can see it says "home of the pirates"
