i took some advice and i am asking for specific info. for now im asking for descriptions on the different pots(nonreg and corps) and any vocabulary used. Thanks for any help given.....

And yes I was ButtPot this year...I still have not passed it down yet....

I think you are the guy who emailed me the other day...if so maybe this will help. Also, feel free to IM me (its in my profile)

Sr. Red - There were 9 of them that were were in charge. In the later years it was more of a ceremonial positition without much work involved (I'm probably gonna get flamed for that one)

Jr. Red - The workhorse of Aggie Bonfire. There were 9 jrps, usually 5 cts and 4 non regs. They all had specific responsibilities they were in charge of (eg: Head Stack, Head Civilian Woods, Climber, "Shock", Truck Pot) but they all had a lot of common responsibilities. These guys worked harder for Aggie Bonfire than anyone else. From the time they were asked until the time it burned, that was all they did. Anytime they were on campus they had to run from place to place because they "didn't have time" to be walking around. There are several reds on the board that would be a lot more help than me at filling in the blanks here.

Brown - There were 5 of them, usually 4 cts and 1 non reg. They kind of had 2 job positions. one was to run interference for the jrps and do whatever was possible to help them out in any way. The other was that they walked around with saws and rope out at cut and took care of the perimeter fires. There is a brown or two on here that learned to use a computer and can help you out so more.

Butts - Each outfit had a buttpot that was in charge of Bonfire for that outfit.

Yellows - Each male dorm (and OCA) had a yellow pot. The yellow was in charge of bonfire for the dorm and ultimately responsible for his dorms actions (or inaction) to the reds.

Crew Chiefs - Each dorm had 2-5 crew chief who were assistants to the yellow to help him manage all of those people. All of the dorms did it different. Some of them were done by floor, some had specific responsiblities.

There also was the Load Pot who fits in there somewhere. He worked out at Load all day and worked with the Truck pot.

Hope this helps.

A dorm had to have 90% participation of Bonfire to be eligable for a Yellow Pot. Not all dorms had Yellows. But once you got a yellow pot you got to keep it no matter how low your participation went. Davis-Gary (female dorm since 92) was up for a yellow pot in 99 (due to 90% participation), just never happened... Moses and Walton still passes down yellow and crew chief pots and they still have active roles in running the dorm. Nothing has really changed over here, we're still keepin the spirit alive.

just a question.....whats hell is RAB?and whats the mohawks?....and what is the jrp called "shocker" do?
thanks for all the replys...im sure ill be thinking of more questions...

RAB = redass *******. I've heard some garbage about people wanting that to change to "real Aggie brothers" so it's less vulgar. Some people just don't understand...

A-A-A WHOOP

The guys with the mohawks are crew chiefs, if I'm not mistaken. Reslife seems to be going to a lot of trouble to convince the Moses guys that they don't need them around anymore.

A-A-A WHOOP

Hotard is still passing down as well.

quite a few corps outfits still have bonfire pass-downs and positions - but of course no one can be overly public with it at this time.

For about a year after the accident, there was a wonderful website up, posted by a young lady who had been at the site when stack fell. It had a complete student based history and while it was not politically correct, it gave the best insight to the experience of 99.

I lost the link, but I also imagine she no longer has the site, but someone might have it saved on their hard drive.

The Shocker pot was a Red pot that was in charge of all of the electrical stuff out at stack (like for the perimeter poles.)

The letters on his pot were always supposed to be halway peeled down because supposedly one of the jrps kept getting shocked and the juice going through him made his letters peel down.

The 90% participation thing is BS. No dorm EVER had 90% participation. SImply not possible WHENEVER you were talking about it. As far as DG is concerned, first off, no girls dorm would EVER have a yellow pot. End of story. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Second of all, I know what DG's numbers were like that year, we cut with them. Although DG had great numbers for a girls dorm (and prolly outpulled some guys dorms) they were NOWHERE near 90%. 10% would be a lot better number. That would be pulling over 200 girls. That's just silly.

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wow. i can't believe i just read that.

What chip said is right. You didn't have to have 90% particpation to get a yellow pot. And the whole reason girls dorms cut with the guys was because they couldn't have a yellow pot. DG was NEVER going to get a yellow pot, they're girls....that's just how it worked.

The last dorm to get a yellow was FHK in 96 I guess. I'm pretty sure if you go talk to anyone from FHK from that era they would tell you they weren't QUITE pulling 4 or 500 kids to cut

I wanted to know about bonfire dots, because i want them to come back....i know have somewhat of an idea about them...im pretty sure the ct's can help me out on this...or maybe some nonregs might know.... id like some info....i know b-1(blue), c-1(purple), sq. 6/17(red), and sq13(green) were the last to have had dots...how do you earn them?..thanks..

How do you THINK you would earn something like that in the Bonfire world?

Not to discount what has been said (Chip is right on here on the latest stuff), but there are a few things I'd like to add.

You mentioned that male dorms had yellow pots, but you missed one. Lechner had a yellow pot and crew chiefs, and is the only coed hall (to my knowledge) to have them.

The shocker and some other redpot positions derived from the jr/sr climber pot lines. They wore gray pots and worked as hard as the redpots did. They had lines going way back when they became redpots, and while I'm not sure about it I'd bet that they kept the old lines on their new pots.

Also, the 90% number is BS. If someone told you that, they either made it up, or they bought the lie from someone else.

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Cubby's correct on the stuff about the Climber line. They started that line (at least made it a red) while you were in school didn't they?

Cubby, you forgot FHK though. (Yellow of a co-ed dorm)

Here's a good sight put together by an old red (who posts on this board, don't remember his name)

http://users2.ev1.net/~johncoby/bonfire/ It has the history of all of the red pot lines and a lot of the people from those lines.

Also, I think in my original post I forgot about the Centerpole pots. These were pretty much on the same level with the reds. There were two juniors and two seniors. They were ultimately responsible for the centerpole splicing and all that crap (I guess, never was 100% sure what differed them from a jrp) Their pot was black.

Hey AggieCT...what outfit are you in...you have my email address, just email me if you don't want to post it.

only 4 outfits were allowed to wear dots - B-1 (blue), C-1 (purple), 13 (green), and 6 (red) -

Every flag that flies over bonfire on centerpole pays tribute to those 4 outfits with a diamond design (hard to describe but I'm sure you can find a picture of it somewhere ... Cushing?).

only redpots could deem an outfit worthy of sporting them. It's something that is earned.

If Squadron 13 came back as a pansy outfit that didn't do jack for bonfire - they wouldn't be allowed to wear dots - even though they carry the same name as the badasses that built the hell outta bonfire years ago.

No one new can sport dots until redpots come back - so it might be a lil while before anyone can "bring it back". Pulling them out would be bad bull, too.

ok, that's all for now.

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settle down man...somebody put too much sugar in your coffee tonight bud!

on the brownpot thing: 3 ct's, 2 non-regs were the norm. the class of 2001 would have had 3 non-regs (wes,tommy,cade) and 2 ct's (carl & jerry, 2 bad-arse 13 boys), this was because the majority of the buttpots were to mouthy.

mwfalosu! '00

yeah, you're right...didn't 00 only have 1 nonreg (Tommy) or am I forgetting someone? That was a strong, crazy mofo.

I had some friend that were at the Rec working out my freshman year, they finished up on a machine and Tommy walked up behind them. He got on the machine dropped on a couple more plates and started doing it ONE handed. Good guy.

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Tommy was going to be one of the baby browns. 00 had 3ct's and 2 non-regs(Shane from walton and Trey from southside somewhere)

Wrong Tommy. I'm talking about Mesican Tommy from Hart.

EDIT: Who was 99, I remember that now.

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Chip: yeah, I did forget FHK, but that happened after my early days. They were still three separate halls back then and Fowler (the only all-male hall of the three) wasn't worth a sh--. I think they combined sometime around 94 or so - someone who lived there can correct me on that.

It was later than that. I would say more like 96.

Can you imagine what a huge blow to your manhood it must have been to be from a guys dorm with no yellow? I can't imagine going out to cut and having to tag along with another dorm.

Ok........
Aggiealphamale...just to let you know...i am in one of those outfits that have dots...and i've seen some posts where you say what outfit you are in, and im not in yours....so you can probably figure which outfit im in....i know your outfit still wears them and passes them down. but it would feel weird to just pull them out, even though we have them.

Chip...thanks for all the info...ill probably email you with more questions....

FHK started in fall '96. One of my buddies from high school earned one of the Fowler chief pots in '95 and they became the FHK chiefs in '96. FHK got two additional chiefs and a yellow for '97.


There used to be three climber lines (grey pots). They were consolidated into one red line back in '92. One of the original Lechner chiefs (Bonfire '90 - guy named Reasoner) was one of the last group of climbers.

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I remember hanging out with Reasoner one morning, I think after his passdown. He is the oldest of 3 brothers, all crew chiefs IIRC. McKenna was there, first redpot from lechner. Did Lechner ever get any other upper leadership positions?

McKenna - Lechner's bast*rd yellow - and the elder Reasoner (he had a younger brother that was a Lechner chief in '96, and I think the other brother was in another dorm) were the only two upper leadership positions that I knew of from Lechner. I was told that the klimber Reasoner could have rewritten the boy scout knot-tying handbook.

Rumor had it that our yellow from '97 (David) was offered a red, but declined. One of the jerps spent like an hour talking to his dad (Ben) about him at stack, and another jerp even went up to Dave when he was off shift but working as a random in a swing on stack and straight up asked him what he would do if he was offered.

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The Climber redpot started w/David Meadows '96. He was a jr. climber in '94 (the year they built 2). Apparently his buddies quit (or so I always heard), and close to the end of that fall the seniors in charge made him the climber redpot and did away with the gray climber pot. One of the CC's from my dorm was in the last class of true climbers ('95). The climber redpot line only has a few names on it.

Keagan, what was your yellow's last name '97 that might have been offered a redpot? If he is who I think he is, then I think that's right. His younger brother was a CC in Crocker.

CP's were not quite on the same level as reds. In 1997 two of the JRPs quit over the summer, and were not replaced by other reds. The 2 JCPs that year took on much more responsibility than a JCP normally would have had-that could be why it was hard to distinuish the level of responsibility/authority.

I think the Brownpot from Hart that was impressing you in the weight room would have been Bobby-I don't remember a Tommy from '99.

That's probably why I thought that about the JCP's, I was a in fish in 97. In normal years, how was their responsibility level in comparison to jrps?

Htown..who is this? What are you initials?

edit: yeah, it was Bobby. Time and too many beers have eroded my memory. My fish year we were out at perimeter poles and Bobby just started throwing stuff into the perimeter fire. A huge blaze ended up going up and caught our tent on fire. A minute or two later all of the people who were asleep inside came running out. I guess they saw his good brown pot potential early on.

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Bobby wore the BP ******* pot the year before he was a Brown Pot. He called it a Butt Pot which was strange for a non-reg but he was pretty big so no one phkd with him.

the overgrown midget (bobby)you speak of was one hell of a brown, his only problem is that he was a puss.

Chip, I was out of Crocker, and was the Civilian Woods Jr/Sr in 97/98. Which dorm were you in?

Bobby was one of the best browns I ever saw in my 4 years. Among the Browns' responsibilites was to take care of the JRPs. Nobody did that better than he did.

Well I'll be darned if it ain't my favorite red that I didn't live with.

Ask your wife if she remembers any drunk little freshmen bonfire boys from Moore from Camp Hopkins. Guys that never show up to tailgate parties after RSVPing that they are coming?