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TTUN '19 Recruiting Class Name: #Goonsquad19

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1MechEng's picture
September 11, 2018 at 8:22am
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Why is it so easy to poke fun at TTUN?! Probably because they tend to bring it on themselves.
Case in point: the self-imposed nickname for their 2019 recruiting class is #Goonsquad19.

Example: 
 

Let's see what our friends at Wikipedia have to say about the nickname: (link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goon_squad)

Etymology[edit]

The term "goon" was reputedly coined by F. L. Allen in 1921,[6] perhaps a variant of the US slang "gooney" which had been around since at least 1872, meaning a simpleton or fool,[7] which may have derived from "gony", applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (c.1839). In the late 1930s, E. C. Segar’s comic strip Popeye had a character named "Alice the Goon". It was from this character that large stupid people or stupid things came to popularly be called "goons" and the term entered into general use. [6][8] "Goon" evolved into slang for a thug (1938),[9] someone hired by racketeers to terrorize political or industrial opponents (1938),[10] or a German stalag guard for American POWs (1945).[9]

 

In the United States, a goon squad is a group of criminals or mercenaries commonly associated with either pro-union violence or anti-union violence.

So, according to Wiki, TTUN's '19 class is either criminals or fools (or both?!). 

SMDH.

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