Not sure why you insist on moving the target.
Neither I nor anyone else ever claimed "The Swamp" was used more than "Cajun Field" that is its official name, after all.
But and however, your claim was that "Nobody uses" The Swamp as a reference, and that simply is not true.
“Why can't albino alligators survive?
This lack of pigment, though viewed as beautiful, has its downside. Most albino alligators rarely make it to adulthood because they are not able to camouflage themselves making them an easy target in the wild. Their skin is said to be extremely sensitive to sunlight in which too much sun will burn their skin.”
In the not-too-distant past, we showed a video, “The One and Only” that depicted Cajuns as a resilient group of survivors.
Again, on the surface, maybe a cool idea.
But, when you think it through, maybe not.
IMHO.
Uh yeah, you need to get out more.
Its common enough that no fan will ever say what are you talking about?
You are imposing "commonplace" on me. Something i I did not say.
I simply reject your other blanket statement "nobody uses it." You are wrong.
Your pretending to reject The Swamp as a pretext to claim that Alligators don't fit in at Louisiana or that the Campus Swamp isn't legit is very revealing.
You are grabbing a snippet in time without context.
Louisiana's Campus Swamp really is a reclaimed Swamp that (pre-university) captured its own water from the surrounding area draining into it. The fact that a university grew up around it is undeniable.
The Swamp was artificially drained in the 1920s and reflooded in the 1940s. The pretext for reflooding the Swamp was the need for a water reservoir during WII. If that was all they needed they could have done this off campus with rice levees.
They flooded the Swamp in the middle of campus because it was a natural basin lower than the surrounding area because historically it had been a natural swamp, and the Cypress Trees were still there to prove it.
The Campus Swamp is a legitimate Swamp.
Anyone calling it a lake has always shown ignorance on the subject, because in the 1940s Swmp was still a four-letter word.
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