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UA homecoming this weekend is
all about Wilbur the Wildcat - the
beloved and furry mascot turns
50 on Saturday.

The UA used real animals as
mascots off and on between the
early 1900s and the late 1950s
(with at least one tragic mishap),
until two UA students (Richard
Heller and John Paquette)
pitched the idea of using a
costume-wearing human.

Wilbur made his first appearance
at the UA vs. Texas Tech football
game on Nov. 7, 1959, and was
an immediate hit, according to a
UA Web site.

Wilbur's look has evolved over the
years. It was during one of those
costume makeovers that Wilma
the Wildcat was created.

She made her first public
appearance on March 1, 1986,
during a "blind date" with Wilbur.
The pair later "married" before an
Arizona-Arizona State football
game.

For a chance to win a a set of
three audio books, tell us the
date of their wedding.

Click here to submit your
answer.

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Phil Villarreal has worked for the Daily Star since birth, but he's been the movie critic since February 2001. You could say he's a fan of the cinema. Each day he wakes up to a plate of steaming scrambled movies, which he washes down with a glass of movie juice, all while watching a movie. In his free time he plays video games and watches movies. Phil's new book, the humorous, money saving guide "Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel" is due out Sept. 1 and available for preorder.

OK, now we're in a depression

04/14/2009 12:53 PM
Phil Villarreal

Or at least I am personally. Because the “Neverending Story” Nothing that is our decaying economy has gone and swallowed up the last remnant of my fantasy world — the free Chipotle burrito.

I called around the four Southern Arizona locations and discovered that Chipotle is no longer giving out free burritos to salve our wounds on Tax Day. Worse, every employee I talked to said they’d never heard of the promotion. And still worse, three out of the four said they couldn’t say for sure whether the free burritos would be back in action for Halloween.

“We don’t know anything until the marketing department tells us,” a woman at the East University location told me. “Halloween is a long, long time away.”

Amen, sister. Halloween has never, ever felt farther away.

This is an outrage. An outrage, I tell you, for isn’t it written in the Constitution that everyone in the universe is entitled to free food at Chipotle on Halloween and Tax Day? (Last year, Chipotles statewide even threw in a bonus free-for-all on Jan. 31 to celebrate to the Cardinals’ Super Bowl appearance. The lines for the burrito that day resembled Soviet Union bread queues.)

Sure, Chipotle always makes you humiliate yourself for the food, but that was part of the fun. On Halloween, you technically had to dress up like a burrito, but they’d give you a pass so long as you at least made the effort to wear a tinfoil at. On tax day, you had to fill out little faux tax forms that worked as free burrito coupons. And on that magical Cardinals tribute day, you had to wear either red or Cardinals gear. (And since everyone in Tucson but me has always hated the Cardinals, most people here wore their threadbare U of A sweatshirts).

But now we’re lost and alone, forced to pay for our own food. Tax Day is just April 15. Halloween may be nothing more than an occasion for your house gets egged.

And when the Cardinals make the Super Bowl all it means is it’s parka weather in hell once again.

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