Ketch is a big guy, I'm not sure about his strength though.

Frankie T and CenTx - I think Fish Camp is strictly for actual students of A&M. I'm not sure T-shirts are allowed to go.

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Why do you even HAVE a "fish camp"?

Is being an Aggie that difficult that it can't be picked up with a few days of observation on campus?

Are there code words and secret handshakes, a blood initiation or what?

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whatever the reason is, apparently you all thought it important enough to create your own ripoff version.

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the jokes write themselves

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whatever the reason is, apparently you all thought it important enough to create your own ripoff version.

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So you think it was an Aggie idea to get freshmen students together prior to their first year of college?

I simply asked if "T-sip" was covered during Fish Camp since an earlier poster stated the the OP should understand basic Aggie traditions. Still waiting for an answer to that question.

BigTK, "teasip" (not T-sip as you call it), was a term coined during WWII when people noticed the significant discrepancy in the number of Aggies fighting for their country overseas and the number of Longhorns fighting for their country overseas. People made the joke that Longhorns stayed home and "sipped tea" instead. Thus, you have the term "teasip"

Any more questions?

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Now is where he pretends the thread doesn't exist because he just got owned.

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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=t-sip

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tea-sip

urban dictionary?


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"teasip" ...was a term coined during WWII "


BZZZZ - wrong!!! And not even close.

It has been around since the early 1900s and was used to differentiate between Texas churning out doctors, lawyers, poets, teachers - the more genteel sit-on-the-porch-and-sip-tea occupations and Texas A&M production of farmers, ranchers, ehgineers and military officers.
If you like I can tell you what the 'A' and 'M' stood for?

tk is such a ****ing punching bag

And now we can begin the discussion about ownage too .....

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urban dictionary?


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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(Is that really what it sounds like when you laugh?)

Regardless, CenTx, as usual, you miss the point.

Note the handles on Urban Dictionary. Are you saying "Aggie09" and "Red Ass Aggie" got it wrong?

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Guys, my offer to run a slimmed down, faster, MORE ACCURATE version of Fish Camp is still on the table????

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BZZZZ - wrong!!! And not even close.

It has been around since the early 1900s and was used to differentiate between Texas churning out doctors, lawyers, poets, teachers - the more genteel sit-on-the-porch-and-sip-tea occupations and Texas A&M production of farmers, ranchers, ehgineers and military officers.
If you like I can tell you what the 'A' and 'M' stood for?

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Are you seriously disputing a fact because of what someone put on Urban Dictionary?

Dude, anyone can put anything they want on UD.

Are you just mad that your students were ******* during WWII?

Every six months some sippie starts a thread about this, then the same jack off sips respond with Wikipedia and Urban dictionary quotes and/or links.

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Texas churning out doctors, lawyers, poets, teachers

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Thanks for the poets?

poets

Permaban. Start another name, and it'll be gone too.---Staff

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Here's a suggestion - ask an older Aggie.

It had absolutely nothing to do with WWII, service to the country, charging a machinegun nest wearing your maroon undies, stories about wrapping yourself heroically in the flag because of a massive inferiority complex or anything remotely like your claim. The term was common well before WWII and there are plenty of folks still around that can explain it to you.

And no one has said 'no' to my Fish Camp offer so I am assuming we are good to go on that. Is there a classroom or auditorium I could use that is available in August?

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Dude, anyone can put anything they want on UD.

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1. FXST 1 up, 1 down
A 60 year old biker with a long pony tail that spends his waking hours on a message board arguing with 20 year olds. Most FXST's coach peewee girls' soccer and give young men bike rides around town.
There was a young student riding on the back of a Harley with an FXST.

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2. tea-sip 92 up, 43 down
buy tea-sip mugs, tshirts and magnets

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Did some dumbass teasip really come on here and mouth-off about us having a fish camp when the teasips have their own that they stole from us?

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It had absolutely nothing to do with WWII, service to the country, charging a machinegun nest wearing your maroon undies, stories about wrapping yourself heroically in the flag because of a massive inferiority complex or anything remotely like your claim. The term was common well before WWII and there are plenty of folks still around that can explain it to you.

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Someone is defensive about his school's military service history.

Teasip.

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Did some dumbass teasip really come on here and mouth-off about us having a fish camp when the teasips have their own that they stole from us?

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Yes.

So you truly believe that the concept of a freshman orientation did not exist until aTm thought it up?

You really, really think that?

If either explanation is true, WWII or intellectuals versus laborers, it's pathetic that the term is still used today as an insult.

If you can't understand that, then that is sad.

Every school has an orientation. Not many have camps.

A&Ms was first. You all started yours after ours.

Imitation flattery etc.

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If you can't understand that, then that is sad.

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Not as sad as paying tens of thousands of dollars for an education and still not understanding what an oxymoron is.

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intellectuals versus laborers

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Engineers and agriculturalists aren't intelligent

Here is my answer to why you are called a teasip:

Texas Aggies are the true, manly, hardworking men who get sh*t accomplished, while the Austin intelligentsia sip tea with their pinky fingers extended and b*tch about the world's problems!

I didn't realize farmers and ranchers needed to go to college .

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How old are you, Methusaleh? You use a quote from some dude with a cartoon handle on UD to prove something and then act like you know our school and traditions.

You truly are an intelligent genuine sip (oxymoron)

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Actually, plenty of colleges offer freshmen camps. I guess they all copied the idea from A&M.

I just want to know if they teach you the term "teasips" at Fish Camp since SeeWhyPea says it's a basic aggie tradition.

Damn, I hate to agree with a 'sip on anything. But "teasip" was around long before WWII. No one in my generation of Ags ever heard of the WWII "sips stayed home" urban legend.

Heck, there was even a 'sip on the Doolittle Raid with the 6 or 7 Ags who went (out of 80) Of course he was outranked by the Aggie XO of the mission.

Sips were still patriotic in WWI and WWII. It was really the baby boomers that sent it so far left. And, sad to say, t.u. is still considered "moderate" by the standards of the east coast and Cali-f'ed up-fornia.

Buford had the true meaning correct when he said

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Texas Aggies are the true, manly, hardworking men who get sh*t accomplished, while the Austin intelligentsia sip tea with their pinky fingers extended and b*tch about the world's problems!

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