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re: Hilarious article about Aggy

Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:36 pm to
Posted by Slippery Slope
Hail Satan
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:36 pm to
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Please, tell us more about how our traditions(some of which are older than your school itself), are manufactured.


12th man

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donned the uniform of injured player Heine Weir and stood on the sidelines to await his turn. Although he did not actually play in the game, his readiness to play symbolized the willingness of all Aggies to support their team


Cool so yall tried to cheat. Instead of hiding from the world that aggy are terrible cheaters, lets remember forever that time that we broke the rules (yall so naughty) to remind bertha in section 12 how much she should care about the game.


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bonfire


we really hate texas. it burns in our loins. we should personify that hatred and set a bunch of trees on fire. tradition.

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rings


wear this ring forever aggy bro. its proof positive that at one point you had to interact with another human being.

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Yells


Everyone yells. Aggy decided that yelling was too hard for the average student and keeping with the ritualistic destruction of fun embedded in aggy history yall had to set times so that the student body could practice these yells at nothing like complete maniacs.

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elephant walk


hey one day some students were walking around campus looking at shite. what a killer idea. let's make everyone do that forever.

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asking for luck


some old guy might've tutored some people so lets build a statue of him and throw pennies at it. that'll be rad and totally helpful.

All of this:

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Privileged words For much of its first 100 years, Texas A&M was a small, all-male, military academy. The school became coeducational in the 1960s, and membership in the Corps of Cadets became voluntary. In military tradition, privileges are meted out as one climbs the ranks, and Texas A&M has several such traditions. The most obvious are the uniforms worn by the Corps of Cadets. Corps members wear different uniforms for each year, culminating in the prized Senior boots.[66] Vocabulary is also restricted by class. Freshmen may not say the word Pisshead, a nickname for sophomores.[44] Juniors are known as "Serge Butts", so neither freshmen nor sophomores can say any form of either word. Juniors are also the first class to be allowed to say "Whoop!" Seniors, known as "Zips" for the black and gold braid on their garrison caps, which resembles a zipper, have reserved the word elephant and all forms of the words "death," "dying," "shoot," or "reload" in reference to the traditions surrounding Elephant Walk.[38] However, saying the phrases "pass away," "decease," "fire," "load again," etc., are all acceptable substitutes. Students caught "pulling out", or saying words that are reserved for other classes, are forced to "push."[38][111] Traditionally, this means the students must do a "class set" of pushups, one for each year of their class. The Class of 1945 did only 45 pushups and an extra pushup has been added for each subsequent year; the Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 2012 now does 112.[111] Pulling out privileges of the class directly above is considered "Good Bull", but pulling out two classes or more is "Bad Bull."[38] Members of the Corps of Cadets generally take privileged words more seriously than non-reg students.[78] See also
Posted by EKG
Houston, TX
Member since Jun 2010
44138 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:41 pm to
There, there.
It's ok.
We know.
Just let it all out.
Posted by cardboardboxer
Member since Apr 2012
34357 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 12:44 pm to
Slippery Slope I like you but you are trying to hard. We really really really don't give a shite about what anyone thinks of our traditions, and the sad part is you don't know the full story.

If you are going to do this, you have to go after the really embarrassing traditions. Problem is, the Rant covered those like two years ago and now we all accept the worst and internalize it ("nice jizz jar.")

If you really want to grind us, say something like "Jackie Sherrill and Emory Bellard were better at MSU" or something football related.

Our wagons are so circled around our traditions its not funny. Like literally not funny or fun.
Posted by Masterag
'Round Dallas
Member since Sep 2014
18853 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 1:09 pm to
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Slippery Slope


Thanks for your thought out response. I can see why some think our traditions are "weird, cultish, silly, etc;" But I don't understand your claim of "manufactured." It's not as though we were sitting around thinking, "hey we need some tradition around here, let's find something to do." On the contrary, I believe you've pointed out why they mean so much to us, because they conserve what sets us apart.

I'm sure every school has had some guys/gals who for some serendipitous reason came up with something special to them, but along the way it was dropped for whatever reason; I find that sad. They succumbed to people telling them their tradition is weird/gay/whatever and appeased their peers instead of keeping what was meaningful to them.

I understand y'all have the cowbell tradition, but what else? Is there even a good story for it? Any Ag can tell you the origins of why we wear our ring and what it symbolizes, the story of EK Gill, the first Aggie Muster, Silver Taps, Gig 'em, etc.

In my travels, I've met Aggies all over the world and have great stories to tell strictly because of the rings we wear.

What stories do you have to tell? Assuming you went to State, what makes you love your University?

Posted by OBReb6
Memphissippi
Member since Jul 2010
37961 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 1:13 pm to
On the 12th man thing:


They essentially made a statue and named a student section after a dude who sucked at football and wasn't good enough to be on the team.

That's unique alright
Posted by cyde
He gone
Member since Nov 2005
31793 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 1:43 pm to
The whole 'words' thing is actually sort of off-putting... both the words used and the prohibition of using them.

I'd be temped to run around shouting them, and when a pretend soldier came around to chide me, tell him to go frick himself.
Posted by finestfirst79
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Member since Nov 2012
11646 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 2:46 pm to
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we really hate texas. it burns in our loins. we should personify that hatred and set a bunch of trees on fire. tradition.


Damn straight.

The other stuff I don't get what's funny about, but you go do your thing.

They left out several on the "Privileged Words" section, btw. And I know the rant will love this one: On door cards in the Corps it is a sophomore privilege to capitalize "Hole". (Freshmen door cards said "hole".) I often thought to myself, "Oh my God, I can't wait to make it through this hellish year so that I can capitalize 'Hole'".

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