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re: Can the Aggies explain the fish thing with recruiting?
Posted on 8/13/22 at 11:06 am to Mulkey Man
Posted on 8/13/22 at 11:06 am to Mulkey Man
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Because you gig a fish? The whole gig em thing always seemed dumb to me.
No you gig a frog. Gig 'em comes from way back in the day when a yell leader was talking about beating TCU's arse at a yell practice.
In most cases at A&M "fish" is just slang for freshman.
This post was edited on 8/13/22 at 11:13 am
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Posted on 8/13/22 at 11:07 am to Dr RC
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No you gig a frog.
Why isn’t he holding up frogs?
Posted on 8/13/22 at 11:10 am to Dr RC
Down the bayou we catch frogs by hand and gig flounders.
Posted on 8/13/22 at 11:16 am to Dr RC
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No you gig a frog. Gig 'em comes from way back in the day when a yell leader was talking about beating TCU's arse at a yell practice.
There's also a line out there that "Gig'em" was/is also used to indicate a demerit on an inspection in the Corps, ie, one guy was doing the inspecting and asking a note taker to record the infraction.
Could be that this usage came after the TCU thing, and the term was just a general "Get him" kind of thing.
Could be that this is completely made up. The origins of some of the traditions have gotten somewhat opaque over the years.
Posted on 8/13/22 at 11:16 am to Dr RC
Fish stands for Freshman In Senior High
This post was edited on 8/13/22 at 11:17 am
Posted on 8/13/22 at 1:36 pm to Dr RC
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No you gig a frog.
On the Florida beaches we light up the beach and gig for flounder at night.
Posted on 8/13/22 at 1:37 pm to Dr RC
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No you gig a frog.
You can gig fish. Especially flounder. They lay on the bottom in ambush mode, and you can see their eyes and pop 'em with a gig. Damn good blackened or with a rich creamy style shrimp/crab/crawfish sauce as a topping.
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