is smoking a fish for whooping a good punishment?

help me out Ol Army

Used to call this 'crapping out' some one. 'Smoke' is a modern term.........

Good bull is costly sometimes....

Are you a current cadet/student?

How do you know the fish?

Better get the axe handle

Come by fish Jones. 1600 hrs. Bring a fish buddy.

smoking a fish?

You want want to try baking or even blackening it. Smoking will not be good unless the fish is salmon. Add a little bit of lemon and it will taste great.

Wasnt it called "Crap outs" because they happened in the bathrooms with all the hot water on?

Don't know where the term 'crap out' originated, but it could happen anywhere, anyplace. Not just in the old shower area. I do remember the term 'Make it rain', though.....that was a rare event in my era.

One thing about a fish pulling out a "whoop", his buddies better do it with him. I would crap out the entire class, either fish or pissheads, for not being together. the most effective means of dealing with this were being put on a "List". These were several different activities that had to be followed for several days if not weeks. These activities could be anything a depraved mind of a Zip could come up with.

By the way crap outs in the showers were called "Steam Showers". They were bad news.

In my day, it wasn't a whoop, it was a who-ah.

I heard it used to be a "hoo-ah," like what soldiers say. Anyone know the origin of the "woo-ah," and subsequent transformation to "whoop"? Have y'all old Ags adopted the whoop?

I still hoo-ah (although not very often). Don't have a clue how it transitioned. Assume it was a gradual thing. Yell leaders used to just give signal for yells. Now they are very animated with all the spinning. Hands during wildcatting used to be - fish, arms straight above head; PH, arms bent but hands above shoulders (?); SB, hands above belt; zips, hands below belt. Hands were not necessarily together. Now it appears everyone holds their hands together with index fingers pointed and pointed toward ground. Don't know how these things transitioned, but can see the roots from the origins and how they could evolve.
I think the subtle difference from hoo-ah and whoop sounded special especially when it rippled through the ranks during "pass in review". The first review at Ft. Sill during ROTC Summer Camp was interesting as we introduced the rest of the Army to the hoo-ah. I switched to the Air Force last semester for opportunity to fly so my experience with the Army was limited. That said, I don't recall anything like that in the Army at the time. I always wonder if the roots of the hoo-ah in the Army came from Aggies.

THe "Whoop" is the old Rebel battle yell. When I was at A&M it was a junior privelege to whoop. Not sure what the origin of "Ho-ah" is but that was a senior privelege as I recall.

Through '71 there was only the hoo-ah. Never heard a whoop. It was junior and senior privilege at that time.

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Hands during wildcatting used to be - fish, arms straight above head; PH, arms bent but hands above shoulders (?); SB, hands above belt; zips, hands below belt. Hands were not necessarily together. Now it appears everyone holds their hands together with index fingers pointed and pointed toward ground. Don't know how these things transitioned, but can see the roots from the origins and how they could evolve.

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Well, fish are still both hands straight up and yell. Sophomores form two pistols with their thumbs and index fingers, hands separate, and yell 5 A's (cadets tend to do them fast, nonregs tend to draw out each A). Butts make the pistol, but put both hands together and cover their right pinky through middle finger with their left pinky through middle finger to symbolize that they don't have their rings yet, and they point to the ground. Seniors point up, typically as high as they can if it deserves a good whoop, and interlock their fingers so their ring can be seen. I have no clue how zips went from below their waists to above their heads, or why sophomores through zips started some form of pistols with their hands, but it is very interesting. I think I'll try and talk to one of the bulls that has been around a while, or one of the Old Ags that never really left campus.

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I think the subtle difference from hoo-ah and whoop sounded special especially when it rippled through the ranks during "pass in review". The first review at Ft. Sill during ROTC Summer Camp was interesting as we introduced the rest of the Army to the hoo-ah. I switched to the Air Force last semester for opportunity to fly so my experience with the Army was limited. That said, I don't recall anything like that in the Army at the time. I always wonder if the roots of the hoo-ah in the Army came from Aggies.

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Reading up on online I have my doubts that Aggies introduced the Army to it, but that would be very interesting y'all did.

Does anyone know how far back Aggies said "hooah," or something similar to a whoop?

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Hooah is what we did in the Forties - don't know where "whoop" came from.

Same with Hoddy instead of Howdy ( some idiot wrote that ). Not even a hick ever said Howdy !

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Hooah is what we did in the Forties - don't know where "whoop" came from.

Same with Hoddy instead of Howdy ( some idiot wrote that ). Not even a hick ever said Howdy !

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You do know that "howdy" is from saying "how d'ya do?" With a drawl, right?

I can't believe any upperclass CT has to come to TexAgs to ask this question....

1) from 89-93 we used smoke interchangeably with crapout, with one notation... smoke implied a significantly more harsh punishment, whereas crapout could mean good bull as well.

2) huah was really for the crunchies. we more developed wing-walkers declined such pedantic expressions.

3) it truly IS a SAD commentary on the condition of A&M that useless shovelers of whale excrement are doing 2 class pullouts.

4) don't tell me... you let CTs in battle dress take grass on their way in to the MSC...

Well this turned into an interesting conversation. I enjoy reading about how Ol Amy used to be.

Times change.
What I remember, from back in 78-82 is very different from today.
The closest I can get to hearing that ancient history is to go back to my recording of "Live at Kyle Field" made in 1976 for the yells thereupon.

Non-regs mostly went "Aaaay!!" and some would "WHooo!!; the Corps would enunciate the "p" in "WhooP!!" more clearly. The current student response of "Ay!WHOOoop!" was unknown. There was a (sort of0 zip privilege in adding an "ah" to one's whoop to denote special merit--for "WHOOOp-Ah!" as a from of "Whoop!AY!"

Also, it was still a fifth-year privilege to add "Reload!" to Military, too (this can be heard in the live recording).

As to other places--the Marines were OOO-RaH (sometimes, very rarely "HOORAH").

The Army Engineers had Leigh-HO (Heave).

The Air Force just had "Cool!" (or "Tee-Time!")

I remember getting talked back to several times when I told pissheads to get off the grass, peak their biters, etc. Something about it being a privilege in their outfits/special units, yada yada. The first time I believed it, after that I either just smoked them right there, gave them a good talking to, had them rammed, or some combination of the above depending on how they responsive they were to my second request.