What does "Hook 'em Horns" mean?

[kasia]

I haven't a clue what this means?

[Miss Kitty]

Well to be honest I don't either but I have a theory.

Have you ever seen to bulls fight? They put their heads down and push against either and tangle up (hook up) their horns.

I would think a longhorn could do some bad *** tangling. So I imagine the term hook'em means put your head down, ram that sucker, tangle up and whip some butt.

[Redneckn]

It's a communication thing. Sort of like 2 apes making racket at each other. Only "hook em horns" is the signal for "I like same-sex relations"...


okokok.. Kidding... I don't want to get all the UT fans in an uproar.
I don't know what it means either. Here at work, a lot of people say that back and forth. I always look at them and say "honk the horn? What are you talking about?" And they always start to explain the UT craze that goes on around here. I have had some of the same people explain it to me more than 5 times. Almost like an aggy. :eek:

[wide-e-wide]

Almost like an aggy.


No such thing...Just "aggy"...no need for the "an" part.

[BAMF cowboy]

i like miss kitty's theory...has some logic

now wtf is sic 'em? or gig 'em?

[dada]

i like miss kitty's theory...has some logic

now wtf is sic 'em? or gig 'em?
I could be wrong...but I'm pretty sure "Gig'em" was a very old old wooden ship.

[wide-e-wide]

i like miss kitty's theory...has some logic

now wtf is sic 'em? or gig 'em?

Oh Lawwd...why did you go there?

Standby for a lecture on old army,dead dogs,yell practice,milkmen,Little Debbies,little scoreboards for dead dogs,dog funerals,meat judging,elephant walking,chugga-maroo my neck,my neck,..............did I leave anything out?

[Miss Kitty]

Sic'em - that is kind of easy to understand.

But Gig'em......the only giging that I ever knew of was poking something, like a frog. And that really fits Rednecken's UT theory of the same sex thing better. :D (just kidding, just kidding)

[kasia]

Well to be honest I don't either but I have a theory.

Have you ever seen to bulls fight? They put their heads down and push against either and tangle up (hook up) their horns.

I would think a longhorn could do some bad *** tangling. So I imagine the term hook'em means put your head down, ram that sucker, tangle up and whip some butt.

:p

[dragons08]

probally my sister be stupid again..

[dragons08]

probally my sister be stupid again..
ahh nvm shes not home, and kasia is on..

[Sacred Ground]

Rose Bowl: GETTIN' SCHOOLED

09:37 AM CST on Wednesday, January 4, 2006


Live mascot

UT: Stoic longhorn Bevo

USC: Noble white horse Traveler


Coolest local happening

UT: South by Southwest Music Festival

USC: Rose Bowl and Tournament of Roses Parade


Big ol' band

UT: Showband of the Southwest

USC: The Spirit of Troy


Embarrassing nickname

UT: Teasippers

USC: University of Spoiled Children

DMN


If you don't mind me asking, what is a teasipper?

[GTown02]

If you don't mind me asking, what is a teasipper?
Im sure an Aggy could help you out.

[dragons08]

the startelegram did an interesting thing comparing texas and cali...they used Carroll and De La Salle in it as well..pretty sweet to be talked about during the rosebowl if you ask me..

[Sacred Ground]

Im sure an Aggy could help you out.
Any Aggies out there?

[Miss Kitty]

A teasipper is someone who sips tea I would suspect.

Nothing that they would know about at TAMU, as thay only chug beer.

[GoOwls]

I haven't a clue what this means?

OK, here goes, I wasn't tied for 4th place in the Most Knowledgable category for nothing.:D

Hook 'Em Horns comes from the old cowboy term that is used in Rodeo today, for when a bull or steer twists his head into a cowboy and gores him in his torso, or elsewhere, with one of his horns, as in "the bull hooked him in the abdomen". I don't really think they intended harm to their opponents by using this term, but it covered the necessity of proclaiming dominance over your opponent with a single phrase. Plus, it sounded better than "trample 'em", or "stomp "em", or whatever else a steer could do to you to instill fear.

As for Gig 'em, I'm no aggy, by I am a Garland Owl, and "Gig 'Em Owls" is our catch phrase. When a raptor, like an owl, extentds his talons to catch prey and grabs the prey, thereby piercing the preys body with the talons, it is known as gigging, hence the term for gigging frogs, etc. So gig 'em, much like Hook 'em, is a term for the respective mascot to show dominance and thereby, defeat of the the opponent.

I hope this help those of you who don't know.

[wide-e-wide]

OK, here goes, I wasn't tied for 4th place in the Most Knowledgable category for nothing.:D

Hook 'Em Horns comes from the old cowboy term that is used in Rodeo today, for when a bull or steer twists his head into a cowboy and gores him in his torso, or elsewhere, with one of his horns, as in "the bull hooked him in the abdomen". I don't really think they intended harm to their opponents by using this term, but it covered the necessity of proclaiming dominance over your opponent with a single phrase. Plus, it sounded better than "trample 'em", or "stomp "em", or whatever else a steer could do to you to instill fear.

As for Gig 'em, I'm no aggy, by I am a Garland Owl, and "Gig 'Em Owls" is our catch phrase. When a raptor, like an owl, extentds his talons to catch prey and grabs the prey, thereby piercing the preys body with the talons, it is known as gigging, hence the term for gigging frogs, etc. So gig 'em, much like Hook 'em, is a term for the respective mascot to show dominance and thereby, defeat of the the opponent.

I hope this help those of you who don't know.

While I respect your obvious knowledge of said subject.........

at what point ....does "gig 'em" and "bury dead dogs...give them their own scoreboard...midnight yell...milkmen....we suck...." come in?

[bullrock]

Usually about the last week of November. Sometimes you win and the rest of the time the clock runs out.

[dada]

OK, here goes, I wasn't tied for 4th place in the Most Knowledgable category for nothing.:D

Hook 'Em Horns comes from the old cowboy term that is used in Rodeo today, for when a bull or steer twists his head into a cowboy and gores him in his torso, or elsewhere, with one of his horns, as in "the bull hooked him in the abdomen". I don't really think they intended harm to their opponents by using this term, but it covered the necessity of proclaiming dominance over your opponent with a single phrase. Plus, it sounded better than "trample 'em", or "stomp "em", or whatever else a steer could do to you to instill fear.

As for Gig 'em, I'm no aggy, by I am a Garland Owl, and "Gig 'Em Owls" is our catch phrase. When a raptor, like an owl, extentds his talons to catch prey and grabs the prey, thereby piercing the preys body with the talons, it is known as gigging, hence the term for gigging frogs, etc. So gig 'em, much like Hook 'em, is a term for the respective mascot to show dominance and thereby, defeat of the the opponent.

I hope this help those of you who don't know.
I watch Animal Planet all the time....and I have yet to see a Collie with Talons. That's like saying "Swoop down on them Penquins" Or "FLy away Rabbits"

[Miss Kitty]

Yeah, but think, it's A&M. They have the ability to create their own species.
hee hee hee

[dada]

Yeah, but think, it's A&M. They have the ability to create their own species.
hee hee hee
Lassie with Talons.....

[garlandowl08]

A gig is a pronged spike used to kill stuff. Wide, you are the only one interjecting that other stuff into the conversation, A&M doesn't shove it in all the time, it's the tea-sips who do that.

The reason A&M calls sips sips is actually rooted in the corps. The theory is that while the Ags were off fighting the war, the sips were sitting at home sipping tea like girlie men.

oh and sic em refers to like when animals attack...have you never heard anyone say to a dog "sic em boy!"

[Sacred Ground]

A gig is a pronged spike used to kill stuff. Wide, you are the only one interjecting that other stuff into the conversation, A&M doesn't shove it in all the time, it's the tea-sips who do that.

The reason A&M calls sips sips is actually rooted in the corps. The theory is that while the Ags were off fighting the war, the sips were sitting at home sipping tea like girlie men.
oh and sic em refers to like when animals attack...have you never heard anyone say to a dog "sic em boy!"
Finally, an answer to the teasipper question.
Wow.....what a low blow.....to be called a "tea sippen girlie man."
This aggie-longhorn war must go way back!

[garlandowl08]

Finally, an answer to the teasipper question.
Wow.....what a low blow.....to be called a "tea sippen girlie man."
This aggie-longhorn war must go way back!

Since 1883...

[Redneckn]

oh and sic em refers to like when animals attack...have you never heard anyone say to a dog "sic em boy!"

http://www.txrd.com/holyrollers/images/missconductmain_full.jpg


I prefer "sic 'em honey" myself. Seems to have a better effect...

[garlandowl08]

http://www.txrd.com/holyrollers/images/missconductmain_full.jpg


I prefer "sic 'em honey" myself. Seems to have a better effect...


BAAHAHAHA

[DragonBand06]

Alright, here is the answer to your question.
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HAND SIGNALS

Blame it all on an Aggie named Pinky Downs. A 1906 Texas A&M graduate, Downs was a member of the shcool's board of regents from 1923 to 1933. He was the kind of Aggie who wore a maroon tie every day and who prodded the school into spending an extra $10,000 so that its new swimming pool would be longer than the one at the University of Texas. When the Aggies had a yell practice before the 1930 TCU game, Downs naturally was there. "What are we going to do the those Horned Frogs?" he shouted. His muse did not fail him. "Gig 'em, Aggies!" he improvised, appropriating a term form frog hunting. For emphasis, he made a fist with his thumb extended straight up. The Southwest Conference had its first hand sign.

The primordial image of sticking frogs with a spear captured the essence of Aggieness--a good ol' farm boy who was not so much unsophisticated as anti-sophisticated. When other schools later developed their own hand signs, the signals likewise started out as visual representations of school mascots. But they soon evolved into more. All those horns (long and frog), claws (bear and cougar), and the rest have become totems, symbols of belonging to a tribe. Or a sect: They are, to borrow a phrase from The Book of Common Prayer, "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." In Texas it still matters what school you went to and who won the last game. That is why the Southwest Conference, defiled though its reputation may be, remains the best habitat for hand signals since charades. Of the nine SWC schools, more have hand signs (seven) than NCAA investigations (six). For that matter, one school, SMU, has more hand signs than football teams.

For a quarter of a century after Pinky Downs's moment of inspiration, the Aggies had a monopoly on official gestures. But by 1955 archrival UT had fallen on hard times, made harder by a corresponding rise in the fortunes of A&M. A UT cheerleader named Harley Clark syllogized: (1) A&M has a hand sign, (2) A&M is winning, (3) UT has no hand sign, therefore (4) UT is losing. (Such reasoning prowess would later lead Clark, as an Austin judge in 1987, to conclude that the state's system of financing public schools was unconstitutional.) At a pep rally before the TCU game, Clark held up his right hand in a peculiar way. The index and little fingers were sticking up, while the thumb held down the two interior digits--the head of a Longhorn, Clark said. The creation proved not to be the immediate answer to UT's football plight, however, as signless TCU won the next day, 47-20.

Once A&M and UT had hand signs, everyone else wanted one. Even before 1955, SMU students had been raising their index and middle fingers in a generic V for victory. By the late fifties, Mustang rooters had changed the meaning to . . . pony ears. Baylor was next. In 1960 cheerleader Bobby Schrade came up with the idea of holding the hand aloft with all five fingers curved to suggest a bear claw. Only alcohol had a harder time getting accepted on the Baptist campus. For twelve years students and administrators argued whether the sign was sufficiently dignified before it was formally blessed in 1972.

When the University of Houston was seeking admission to the conference in 1972, cheerleaders decided that U of H needed a hand sign, too. The result--the UT sign with the middle finger added--officially represents a cougar claw; unofficially, it indicates the students' attitude toward UT. At Texas Tech, members of a spirit organization called the Saddle Tramps decided in 1971 that the Red Raiders were getting left behind. Emulating Raider Red, the costumed mascot who discharges a brace of large pistols after each Tech score, the Saddle Tramps began brandishing thumb-and-forefinger pistols of their own. TCU cheerleaders began experimenting with hand signs in 1980 on the way to a cheerleading camp in Tennessee. To represent Horned Frogs, they first tried the UT sign with the outer fingers bent at the knuckles. No good: it could be seen as an admission that TCU was only half as good as UT. So they switched to bent index and middle fingers.

Even Rice students occasionally use a sign, but it is not pictured here because university officials, suspecting that a middle finger poked outward has a meaning other than "peck 'em, Owls," have declined to sanction it. Not surprisingly, the only conference school without a sign is Arkansas, whose adherents have a state all to themselves and thus have no need to proclaim in sign language that they Belong.

[GoOwls]

While I respect your obvious knowledge of said subject.........

at what point ....does "gig 'em" and "bury dead dogs...give them their own scoreboard...midnight yell...milkmen....we suck...." come in?

Hold it now Wide, I never said anywhere in my post that I was trying to explain how a dog related to Gig 'em. I only explained how it related to my Garland Owls. Why in the world aggy would relate "gig 'em" to their mascot or a dog is totally unfathomable to me. Explaining aggy is impossible.

BTW, it's 1:33 AM and OU still sucks.

HOOK 'EM HORNS!!!

TEXAS LONGHORNS - 2005 NCAA FOOTBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

[KT2000]

What war were the Ags fightin' in while the Horns were supposed to be sippin'?

(serious question)

[garlandowl08]

What war were the Ags fightin' in while the Horns were supposed to be sippin'?

(serious question)

My guess is WWII, but it may have been WWI. I realize that students were drafted from both schools, but I don't know...I know its not from as recently as Vietnam or anything so it has to be one of those two.

[rancher52]

My guess is WWII, but it may have been WWI. I realize that students were drafted from both schools, but I don't know...I know its not from as recently as Vietnam or anything so it has to be one of those two.
It was WWI where the term originated. Other than the military acadamies, no other institution has put so many in the armed forces. Over 20,000 Aggies served in WWII alone. I don't know if it can be confirmed but Patton was alledged to have said, "Give me an army of West Point graduates, I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war!" Only in the last 5 or 6 years have I learned much of the Texas schools and rivalries and whether you love it or hate it, it is impressive.

[garlandowl08]

It was WWI where the term originated. Other than the military acadamies, no other institution has put so many in the armed forces. Over 20,000 Aggies served in WWII alone. I don't know if it can be confirmed but Patton was alledged to have said, "Give me an army of West Point graduates, I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war!" Only in the last 5 or 6 years have I learned much of the Texas schools and rivalries and whether you love it or hate it, it is impressive.

I really like the Patton quote, whether it is real or not. I read somewhere that it was on display in a War Museum in New Orleans that got destroyed...not sure about that though.