Know Your Enemy said:Username does NOT check out. I am class of '95 and we absolutely did this as students.92Ag95 said:
When did the crowd start doing that dumb Oooo-ing and Ahhhh-ing when the buglers roll their flags?
The crowd didn't do that stupid crap when I was in school.
MouthBQ98 said:
Coincides with the rise of the uptalker inflection with later millenials. Listen to many of the young women at the time talk. Most sentences end with that upwards inflection like they are unsure what they are stating is true and are searching for affirmation. Even many males picked up that speech pattern over the last 15 years or so, though it is beginning to fade.
I beg to differ sir. I don't recall that.Know Your Enemy said:Username does NOT check out. I am class of '95 and we absolutely did this as students.92Ag95 said:
When did the crowd start doing that dumb Oooo-ing and Ahhhh-ing when the buglers roll their flags?
The crowd didn't do that stupid crap when I was in school.
This makes perfect sense because that's the impression I get when I hear it....that's why it bugs me...seems kind of disrespectful.MouthBQ98 said:
It started right about when I graduated. The bugle rank "flourishes" at the start of the drill had been getting more lengthy and extravagant to the point of being pretentious, and a couple of the CT units in the corps block had their fish start the "ooh" "ahh" thing to mock them in turn. Then more of the CT's joined in.
Well, the naive third deck non reg fish heard that, assumed it was something that was normally done, and within a game or two, a new stupid tradition of appearing to mock the bugle rank at every game was locked in, apparently for all eternity.
The bandsmen who understand its origins still HATE it.
The jealousy must be painful.McInnis80 said:
CTs versus BQs. It good to see the some rivalries never die. My son was a CT. Still finds ways to avoid watching the band to this day.
BQAG02 said:
I got out in 2002 and don't remember it then, but I think it was shortly after during the Fran or Sherman years that it slowly started. I don't really care about that as much as the dumb "hump it Ags!" DURING the War Hymn.
(Yes, I know my diploma is old enough to legally drink and I also see a cloud that needs to be yelled at).
McInnis80 said:
CTs versus BQs. It good to see the some rivalries never die. My son was a CT. Still finds ways to avoid watching the band to this day.
I have never observed anyone around me at Kyle Field speaking negatively about the oohs and aahs or the grunts when the base rank turns. Moreover, multiple non-Aggie guests have commented that it is cool.MouthBQ98 said:
I have to admit, it has been the master stroke of genius in the CT Vs BQ corps rivalry, probably of all time.
With a single well timed act of mockery, some still anonymous Ct upperclassmen got his fish to start a tradition of most of the Aggies in the stand openly and loudly mocking the band leadership on the field right before every halftime drill of every home game in front of ever set of visiting fans.
As a rivalry move, it has to be considered unparalleled in the history of the university, and most of the people participating have no idea why.
If I had to choose between getting rid of Jimbo and eliminating this from happening, I would keep JimboAgBQ-00 said:
The Hump it Ags sing songy addition to Spirit started in the late aughts or early teens. Absolutely was not a thing while I was in school I don't even recall hearing it the year I had season tickets in 07.
If you were a BQ class of '02, the first guys I knew who did it were some of your upperclassmen when we were super seniors. Think it started w/ some ct's when y'all were on the field, and gradually spread out into the student section. One of my buddies had been in the bugle corps and he was doing it with a smile by then.BQAG02 said:
I got out in 2002 and don't remember it then, but I think it was shortly after during the Fran or Sherman years that it slowly started. I don't really care about that as much as the dumb "hump it Ags!" DURING the War Hymn.
(Yes, I know my diploma is old enough to legally drink and I also see a cloud that needs to be yelled at).
Wait…it was a Steelers tradition Sherrill imported.nu awlins ag said:greg.w.h said:
Whiniest fan base that isn't in Baton Rouge or Tuscaloosa…the current students own the traditions. Each generation makes changes to traditions that the previous generation grumbles about. For example, as a Cowboys fan I despised waving a terrible towel when Sherrill introduced that. And I was a current student at the time…
Wait, A&M was waving yellow towels?
"Hump it Ags" in the middle of Spirit came about a decade ago thanks to Fish Camp.AgBQ-00 said:BQAG02 said:
I got out in 2002 and don't remember it then, but I think it was shortly after during the Fran or Sherman years that it slowly started. I don't really care about that as much as the dumb "hump it Ags!" DURING the War Hymn.
(Yes, I know my diploma is old enough to legally drink and I also see a cloud that needs to be yelled at).
I effing HATE that addition to Spirit. It needs to die in a fire
The Collective said:
The worst is the echo you. I used to think it was a timing thing, but it is intentional and it sucks.
ABattJudd said:The truest words ever written on TexAgs.94AGBQ said:
Well to be fair, a lot of our bugle rank brethren were/are pretentious. They probably deserved the mocking.
