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USCe fans: What is the origin and usage of "Taterhead"?
Posted on 8/31/16 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 8/31/16 at 3:53 pm
I have heard this several times but have no idea what it means.
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Posted on 8/31/16 at 3:55 pm to GnashRebel
They curse farmers with their mouths full.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 3:57 pm to GnashRebel
Basically when clemson started their scholarship booster program way back when, the old poor farm folk of the upstate were too poor to afford to pay ten dollars a year to contribute to scholarships. (IPTAY = I pay ten a year). Clemson knew their audience though and said you can bring sacks of potatoes weighing at least x amount and be considered a donor. At least that's the way I heard it.
ETA: I'll sit back and wait for the more aged fans to weigh in. I think I'm right but we'll find out.
ETA: I'll sit back and wait for the more aged fans to weigh in. I think I'm right but we'll find out.
This post was edited on 8/31/16 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 8/31/16 at 3:57 pm to GnashRebel
Coots and Taters are USCe & Clemson pet names for each other. That's all I got
Posted on 8/31/16 at 4:01 pm to atlgamecockman
This sounds plausible....
Posted on 8/31/16 at 4:14 pm to GnashRebel
In order to graduate from Clemson you need to stick 81 tater tots up your arse.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 4:19 pm to GnashRebel
I've never heard it irl
Posted on 8/31/16 at 4:31 pm to SlowEasyConfident
I've only seen it used online but everyone else seemed to know what it meant
Posted on 8/31/16 at 4:36 pm to SlowEasyConfident
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I've never heard it irl
I am gonna say you are a toddler or not a real Tater fan.
Taters is to Clemson
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Wild is to rice
Posted on 8/31/16 at 4:39 pm to SlowEasyConfident
I heard a Georgia Grad who ran one of the largest Media conglomerates on the planet nod and call the hick wearing an orange golf shirt with white paw and purple collar a "typical tater" at a restaurant in Charleston a few weeks ago.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 4:40 pm to atlgamecockman
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Basically when clemson started their scholarship booster program way back when, the old poor farm folk of the upstate were too poor to afford to pay ten dollars a year to contribute to scholarships. (IPTAY = I pay ten a year). Clemson knew their audience though and said you can bring sacks of potatoes weighing at least x amount and be considered a donor. At least that's the way I heard it.
This is accurate. They accepted food stores instead of cash, some people paid in potatoes, beans, etc... and that's why we call them Taters.
https://www.si.com/vault/1989/10/23/120837/paws-you-still-might-not-be-able-to-find-it-but-football-and-ol-frank-howard-have-put-clemson-on-the-map
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One of IPTAY's founders was Dr. Rupert Fike (Clemson '08), otherwise known as Rube. In the Depression years some members paid their IPTAY dues with checks for $2.50, and some paid with milk, sweet potatoes and turnip greens they had raised on their farms. R.G. (Red) Horton, a fertilizer dealer in Loris, S.C., used to add $10—"for IPTAY"—onto all his customers' bills. "I like that new ingredient," said one farmer. "Give me a triple batch of IPTAY next time." More sophisticated schools in the basketball-crazy Atlantic Coast Conference still regard Clemson as some bib-overalled, brain-dead, dung-heaped barnyard football factory and claim the P in IPTAY stands not for pay but for plow
Posted on 8/31/16 at 4:52 pm to CockInYourEar
And leave it to the tatertards to think they were so clever to come up with calling us "coots"....
I mean, WTF? I have always assumed they were shortening the word "cooter" to "coot" which is, in essence, the exact opposite of a cock since a female has one and a male, the other.
Makes sense if you think about it, though. Taters WOULD mix up cooters and cocks...probably goes a long way in explaining how they manage to mix up fricking their sheep instead of their womenz.
I mean, WTF? I have always assumed they were shortening the word "cooter" to "coot" which is, in essence, the exact opposite of a cock since a female has one and a male, the other.
Makes sense if you think about it, though. Taters WOULD mix up cooters and cocks...probably goes a long way in explaining how they manage to mix up fricking their sheep instead of their womenz.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 5:02 pm to Priapus
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I heard a Georgia Grad who ran one of the largest Media conglomerates on the planet nod and call the hick wearing an orange golf shirt with white paw and purple collar a "typical tater" at a restaurant in Charleston a few weeks ago.
Did you ask him if he wanted any ketchup with his meal too?
Posted on 8/31/16 at 5:11 pm to Carolina_Girl
quote:Cooters, Cocks, & Taters....Y'all a hillbilly bunch over there.
I have always assumed they were shortening the word "cooter" to "coot" which is, in essence, the exact opposite of a cock since a female has one and a male, the other.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 5:12 pm to RT1941
Pretty much
Posted on 8/31/16 at 5:14 pm to GnashRebel
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I have heard this several times but have no idea what it means.
It was started sometime in the '30s, '40s, '50s - I'm not sure when exactly, because it was before my time.
The story was on late Friday nights, you could drive down to the cow fields. Find the cows, and behind them you'd find the men folk of Clemson. All you'd see would be their heads sticking up from behind the cows.
Taterheads.....
Posted on 8/31/16 at 5:17 pm to RT1941
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Cooters, Cocks, & Taters....Y'all a hillbilly bunch over there.
At least we don't stick toilet paper and detergent on our heads.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 5:19 pm to GnashRebel
The IPTAY part is correct, and they were able to pay their dues with taters so ... Gamecock fans stated the acronym stands for I Plant Taters All Year.
The thing about them sticking tater tots up their arse is also correct.
Additionally, if you'll notice, most taterheads have these little tater looking things growing in their ears .... thus, tater"heads."
Not to mention that many Clemson fans actually look like, and dress like, Mr. Potato Head.
The thing about them sticking tater tots up their arse is also correct.
Additionally, if you'll notice, most taterheads have these little tater looking things growing in their ears .... thus, tater"heads."
Not to mention that many Clemson fans actually look like, and dress like, Mr. Potato Head.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 5:20 pm to RT1941
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Cooters, Cocks, & Taters....Y'all a hillbilly bunch over there
Seems we're a unique brand of hillbilly, too, y'all...
Our state dance is "The Shag." And of course we're known for "Beach Music".. which is what we "Shag" to. And one of the better known Beach Music bands that originates from SC is...wait for it..."The Swingin' Medallions."
I see a strong common thread with SC and sexual undertones. I mean..if you're gonna be hillbillies..might as well be the horny kind.
This post was edited on 8/31/16 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 8/31/16 at 5:32 pm to RT1941
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Y'all a hillbilly bunch over there.
I'll take being called a hillbilly a compliment.
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