There it is CDub....

and... mmmm big red

i wear it on my left hand cause my right hand finger has been jammed and broken on multiple occassions and the ring doesnt fit on there anymore.

so i guess i'm part of the secret society of 'aggies with repeatedly jammed or broken right hand ring fingers'.

interesting article: http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2005/03/04/News/Professor.Cites.Racism.In.Universitys.History-885763.shtml

i thought that name didn't sound like the best idea when i first heard it...

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I've never heard of the left-hand ring thing being symbolic of membership in some secret society

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Some truth to several of these...

Left hand is definitely more old army. My dad, his uncle.. his uncle .. my brothers etc.all wore on left hand.

Most people wear on left because of this type of "tradition". There are practical reasons..

If you're right handed wearing a big ring can alot of times cause pain when shaking hands with someone (particularly if they have a decent handshake), hammering a nail, etc

When I got married we just used my Aggie ring in the ceremony figuring a gold ring is a gold ring . My family goes pretty far back in Aggieland- have never heard of any secret club - other than the VIP newsletter from Frantastic.

I am class of 1965 and wear my Aggie ring on my left ring finger. I started this practice about three years ago.

REASON: The ring was too tight on my right ring finger... simple enough?

I know an older Ag here at work who wears his on the left hand with his wedding ring, but I've never asked him about. After reading this thread and wanting be a higher-ranking Ag, I switched mine to my left.

15 minutes later an envelope slid under my door. In it was a single plain white sheet of paper that had written on it, "The football bat is broken. The pigeon will elope at noon tomorrow."

I don't know if I'm in the secret club or in grave danger.

Guys in the Corps will get this:

Don't forget to drink your

back "in the day" when I was in school (mid to late-80's), I was told a lot of people choose to wear it on their left hand (to show they are "married" to the school)... until they get married, at which time you move it to your right hand.

wow, i just asked a dude why he wore it on his left hand and he told me he'd kill me if i asked him again (he was being very serious).

wth?

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i wear it on my left hand cause my right hand finger has been jammed and broken on multiple occassions and the ring doesnt fit on there anymore.

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Same, and during the winter it keeps my wedding ring in place. Have worn it like that for the last 6-7 years, been out 8.

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I believe everyone that has the number "7" in their username. They appear to have real insider info.

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but musicman has the number "55"! Who is telling the truth? I feel like I'm watching National Treasure or The DiVinci Code.

I just ran into the older Ag at the coffee machine. When I got back to my office, I reached in my pocket and found a small pill case with a roll of microfilm in it.

ok so it seems as though the majority of people just wear it there for personal reasons and that it doesnt symbolize anything; however, i do have one more question that i have been curious about

why will you get kicked out of the university if you go down in the tunnels below A&M?

My dad always wore his Aggie ringin front of his wedding band on his left hand. I always assumed it was a matter of what he preferred since he was right handed.

My father graduated in '71 and where's it on his left hand instead of a wedding band. He told me that it's a military tradition to wear the class ring on the left hand (I believe West Point and the Air Force Academy do this). I think it's more a military tradition than a "secret society" tradition.

How stupid would a secret society have to be to choose wearing your ring on your left hand as a sign of membership? If there was a secret society membership wouldn't be secret for long if they all did this.

I can't speak for the Aggie Ring since even though I have been a lifelong diehard fan, I was never fortunate enough to earn one. However, I do know about the West Point Ring and Ags and West Pointers do share a lot of "attitudes" and "opinions", even though they are both very different schools. There may be some common history or thinking from "back in the day".

When we earned our West Point Rings, we (most of us) put them on our left hand. This was traditionally done to place it closest to the heart which was thought to be more on the left side; the same reason you place your right hand over the left side of your chest when saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Although I have heard some commentary to the contrary, I never heard anyone actually say they were trying to indicate they were married to the school. If you talk to someone from West Point in the first few years after graduation, you will get a very different feeling about the school than from an Ag. My opinion is that comes from being in that environment 24/7 for four years without much of a break.

Our Ring has a Class Crest on one side and the Academy Crest on the other. Prior to graduation, you wore the ring with the Class Crest on the side of your ring finger towards your thumb, where it was visable to you since your class meant the most to you then. After graduation, you turned the ring around where the Academy Crest was more visable to you since that was what mattered most from then on. I have also heard a similar explanation as to the top of the ring which has "West Point" and the Class Year on it. As a cadet, if you wore the ring as I described, you could read the inscription on top. After graduation, those to whom you extended your hand could read it. I'm not so sure about this, since even though the West Point Ring isn't as distinctive as an Aggie Ring, the traditional WP Ring with the overly raised stone is fairly distinctive and doesn't need much help to be identified, at least by "family".

Anyway, not being able to read my Dad's or Uncle's Aggie Rings, (worn smooth becoming part of the Greatest Generation) I can't say for sure how they wear theirs. And with "New Army", I wouldn't trust my sister, brother, or cousins to have it right

One thing about leaving the Class Ring on the left after marriage, many West Pointers choose to do that (fewer as the years go by). They say they do it for the same reason, keeping both of them close to their heart. However, the Wedding Ring always goes on first and the Class Ring above it toward the fingertip, keeping the Wedding Ring closest to the heart. One caution about this, however, many guys have the two rings soldered together so one doesn't rub away at the other. If you don't do this, you are looking at destroying one ring or both, especially if you get a 10K Class Ring and an 18K wedding ring.

As for me, its Wedding Ring on the left, moving the Class Ring to the right with the tradition of Academy Crest where I see it rather than my Class Crest. With this change, it does make it where I can read "West Point" and "1981" rather than someone I meet, but I kind of like it that way. It helps remind me where I come from, what I've experienced, and what I'm supposed to be. Also, like many West Pointers (contrary to popular belief) I do not try to shove my school up anyone's nose. In fact, most of my contemporaries used the codes "when I was at school", or "I went to school in New York" rather than be perceived as arrogant. I have since grown out of that with the understanding that I got a shot at some great opportunities, different from those I would have had at A&M, but still significant, and it's what we all make of those opportunities that matters.

Because they're members of the Stikas.

I thought everyone at A&M knew about that.

I'm class of '04 and I wear mine on my left hand. It's because it's tradition, not because of any secret societies. If you look at Ags from the 50s or 60s and before, most of them wear theirs on their left hands, too.

As far as secret societies are concerned, if you were in the Corps, you are well aware of what this conversation is about. If you weren't....well you should have been. Then you'd know all about that plus plenty of other much more interesting things about A&M. Long live the Corps...

My father ('57) wore his Aggie Ring on his left hand along with his wedding band. Wedding band first, then Aggie Ring. I've seen quite a few old Ags do the same thing.

Seriously, folks...do you think a "secret society" would have something as their "signal" that would be so easily replicated by anybody? Doesn't make a lick of sense.

In the 90s, I knew tons of people who wore it on their left hand with the simple explanation that it was closer to their heart.

That's the problem with conspiracy theorists... by all logic and reasoning, nine times of ten the simplest answer is the right one, but conspiracy theorists are always prone to accept the bizarre and far fetched.

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I've always heard that folks choose to wear it on the left because they were married to the university first.

Personally, I only swith it to the left when I'm about to punch someone in the face because I'm right handed.

I have heard of men doing this before. In most cases they were covering up their wedding band with it.

I wear mine on the left in honor of my grandfather class of '44 who also wore his on the left.


Also, the left hand is supposed to be closer to your heart and whatnot, so you keep the university closer to your heart.

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I once asked some guys in the Corp about the rumor and I woke up one day with a can of Big Red decapitated next to me.

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How many times is a thread about this come up? At least once a month

Who wears their ring on their left hand?

Who drinks big red in a can?

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WE DO!

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good post, CCAD AG

I read it all, and enjoyed it

secret societies, stickas = gay

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This guy had better watch out for the Sticka retaliation.

Not sure what it means but my father, step-father, and grandfather all wear/wore their Aggie rings on their left hand. My dad wears it with his wedding ring.

I don't think it's a secret society thing. A friend of mine wears it on his left hand with his wedding ring and said it's a corp thing.

I'm a member of the NO-HOMERS club!