No one expects the Vandals!

[with apologies to Monty Python]

Sarah Palin attended the University of Idaho, whose mascot is the Vandals.

As a man whose professional interest is early Medieval Europe, I am charmed. What a remarkable mascot. Huns in Berlin! Vandals in Carthage!

This assumes that they actually mean the barbarian tribe that conquered North Africa, tore up Rome and committed numerous other acts of unspeakable violence and not the more modern variety 'small v' vandals.

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