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re: random question about TexAgs: Why do they charge for the radio segments
Posted on 5/28/14 at 12:29 am to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 5/28/14 at 12:29 am to TbirdSpur2010
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That would have been radio gold
I know, right? I probably would have been put on a blacklist of callers you never, ever accept a call from. I could live with that.
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Fortunately my knowledge of the origin isn't firsthand
For your dad it probably was, and I'll gloss over how hard it must have been for a black kid in the Corps in those days. Short version: Your dad has my eternal respect. I'd HOPE the practice was on it's way out by then, but don't know. My fish year I and my best friend from my hometown... call him DP, because that was his name... got called down to a Jr's room to have our arse beat. Not for any transgression but for some idiotic sense of "good bull". Before the arse-beating DP told the Jr, "Mr. Boyd, sir. I don't believe you could beat your way out of a wet paper bag with that axe handle, sir." Oh, thanks, DP
DP was a Cobra pilot who went down and died with his crippled Cobra 32 years ago. Seems like yesterday. I miss him every day, but not for his comments to Mr. Boyd
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Posted on 5/28/14 at 12:29 am to greenbastard
I can't tell you exactly because I'm not an old fart like finest but basically a hazing ritual back in the day used to involve turning somebody's arse red from a beating with Bonfire ax handles.
I myself got my arse reddened from my dads ax handle after one of my many adventures at Bryan High went south.
but basically a hazing ritual back in the day used to involve turning somebody's arse red from a beating with Bonfire ax handles. I myself got my arse reddened from my dads ax handle after one of my many adventures at Bryan High went south.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 12:37 am to greenbastard
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So what/where exactly does Red arse come from and what was its original meaning?
Not a stupid question at all, unless you're Gabe. Then it's stupid. There's no way anybody who went to A&M in the last 20 years could possibly know, unless it was through relatives or older friends.
It comes from the time-honored (?) tradition of beating the crap out of underclassmen's asses with an axe handle swung by a junior or senior. As far as I know it was strictly a Corps thing. At least I would hope it was. Really, really stupid thing that I'm guessing became a "tradition" sometime around Vietnam and I sure as hell hope has gone away. I like to give guys like TBird a hard time about lax Corps life, but this is one that definitely needed to die. How Gabe picked up on "red arse" I'm not sure. I imagine he just heard the term one day being associated with being a "real" Aggie and it stuck in his head.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 12:44 am to WhiskerBiscuitSlayer
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I myself got my arse reddened from my dads ax handle after one of my many adventures at Bryan High went south.
Damn! Salute your dad for me. Anybody who went to Curtis Dickey's HS deserves to have his arse beat. Because Cleburne HS, that's why.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 2:05 am to finestfirst79
With all due respect sir, I believe you are misinformed about the timelines.
It's older than you suggest, and was understood much longer than you think.
It's older than you suggest, and was understood much longer than you think.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 2:36 am to PowerTool
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It's older than you suggest, and was understood much longer than you think.
Quite possible - that was just a guess. My deal is there's no way in the world Gabe knows where it comes from and would be very embarrassed if he knew. Which would make me happy.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:11 am to finestfirst79
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I don't think this is specifically a Texags thing. I would guess there are a LOT of younger Aggies touting somebody or something being "red arse" and not having one clue.
This. The term has evolved into a something that roughly means "badass/cool in an Aggie way."
Posted on 9/3/14 at 1:41 pm to Mirthomatic
thanks for the radio link
Posted on 9/3/14 at 2:43 pm to finestfirst79
This post was edited on 9/4/14 at 5:51 am
Posted on 9/3/14 at 3:27 pm to prisonpunk
There's also a radio aggieland app that let's you download and listen later for those w/out access to Wifi
Posted on 9/3/14 at 4:19 pm to finestfirst79
I lived in the North side dorms in the fall of 07/spring of 08 and the entire dorm used red arse very frequently.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 1:51 pm to TeLeFaWx
bump before the link falls off.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 6:51 pm to Mirthomatic
quote:By the time I was at TAMU in the mid-80s, the random beatings had pretty much ended, but the axe handle came out if an underclassman was caught doing something reserved for an upperclassman.
The term has evolved into a something that roughly means "badass/cool in an Aggie way."
"Red arse" had already started assuming the "cool" meaning, because it was cool to try "pull out" something you were not allowed to do ... At the risk of the axe.
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