My HOA chatboard is full of win this morning...

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Someone complained about boy "gigging" (basically spearing frogs).
Someone else posted their church was have a gigging fundraiser
Someone else pointed out the cruelty of letting children gig frogs as a church fund raiser
a couple "frogs are yummy, taste like chicken" posts
finally someone pointing out the irony of church sponsored animal cruelty.

[y4m]

I definitely needed the definition. I read it as giggling.

[batsteph]

Gigging is new to me, too.

Wonder how exactly a gigging fundraiser works... First prize to the kid with the most frogs on his spear, I'd guess? They must have a lot of frogs. Throw in some flies and locusts and they could charge money for the Plagues Experience instead.

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[shadow]

i've never heard of this. Is it pronounced w/ a hard G or soft?

[decemberwedding07]

May 27, 2012 7:45:44 GMT -5 @246baje said:

Is that what "Gig 'Em!" means?

As in "Gig 'em, Aggies?" I was told that that saying goes back to the days when A&M was just a military college and everyone was in the corps. The cadets would be told to "gig 'em" if their shirts were askew, so that their buttons on their shirts didn't fall into one straight line that lined up with the button and zipper on their pants. It meant, "Straighten out your shirt." Basically, it's the same thing as saying, "Straighten them out, Aggies."

[charminglife]

May 27, 2012 7:49:56 GMT -5 y4m said:

I definitely needed the definition. I read it as giggling.

me too. And I had no idea how giggling frogs tied into church fundraisers. Now that I know what it really means I'm MORE confused about the frog - fundraiser connection!

[statlerwaldorf]

I have never heard of gigging before.

[emisi]

May 27, 2012 7:49:56 GMT -5 y4m said:

I definitely needed the definition. I read it as giggling.

Same here. Maybe it's more of a Southern thing? I grew up in hicksville up north, and have never heard the term.

[lolapants]

May 27, 2012 8:48:15 GMT -5 decemberwedding07 said:

May 27, 2012 7:45:44 GMT -5 @246baje said:

Is that what "Gig 'Em!" means?

As in "Gig 'em, Aggies?" I was told that that saying goes back to the days when A&M was just a military college and everyone was in the corps. The cadets would be told to "gig 'em" if their shirts were askew, so that their buttons on their shirts didn't fall into one straight line that lined up with the button and zipper on their pants. It meant, "Straighten out your shirt." Basically, it's the same thing as saying, "Straighten them out, Aggies."

Finally a post that has brought me out of lurking.

Gig' em Aggies started way back when the Aggies were playing the TCU horned frogs. Someone used the phrase Gig' em Aggies as a reference to frog gigging. It stuck around and basically means spear your opponents on a stick like a frog.

[Nonny]

I also needed a definition. I also need to know how you have a church fund raiser around gigging.

[Deleted]

They are having a church fundraiser around torturing frogs? WTF. Jesus did not preach cruelty to animals people.

[shadow]

So a hard G like when a band has a gig somewhere? weird word

[KateAggie]

May 27, 2012 12:31:33 GMT -5 lolapants said:

May 27, 2012 8:48:15 GMT -5 decemberwedding07 said:

As in "Gig 'em, Aggies?" I was told that that saying goes back to the days when A&M was just a military college and everyone was in the corps. The cadets would be told to "gig 'em" if their shirts were askew, so that their buttons on their shirts didn't fall into one straight line that lined up with the button and zipper on their pants. It meant, "Straighten out your shirt." Basically, it's the same thing as saying, "Straighten them out, Aggies."

Finally a post that has brought me out of lurking.

Gig' em Aggies started way back when the Aggies were playing the TCU horned frogs. Someone used the phrase Gig' em Aggies as a reference to frog gigging. It stuck around and basically means spear your opponents on a stick like a frog.

Both are correct in Aggie Lore. A Gig is an 'ol Army term for a uniform demerit. So "Gig 'em, Aggies", is basically a call to punish your opponent.



lola, are you an Aggie? Don't lurk! Stay!

[lolapants]

Kate, I am an Aggie, but I was only at A&M for three years because I just had to get married and move across the country with my husband before I graduated so I ended up transferring schools. I have been lurking forever, but now that I've finally made the leap and posted something I will try to stick around.

[twotrue]

It's evident most of you do not listen to country music ;-)

sent from phone

[jena]

May 27, 2012 15:37:16 GMT -5 KateAggie said:

May 27, 2012 12:31:33 GMT -5 lolapants said:

Finally a post that has brought me out of lurking.

Gig' em Aggies started way back when the Aggies were playing the TCU horned frogs. Someone used the phrase Gig' em Aggies as a reference to frog gigging. It stuck around and basically means spear your opponents on a stick like a frog.

Both are correct in Aggie Lore. A Gig is an 'ol Army term for a uniform demerit. So "Gig 'em, Aggies", is basically a call to punish your opponent.



lola, are you an Aggie? Don't lurk! Stay!

Gig is an old Army term? As in they don't use it anymore for demerits? Because it was a current term when I was there. It was also not just a uniform demerit, any deficiency in your room inspection or uniform inspection was a gig.

- Jena
B-Battery '96

[basilosaurus]

I knew I'd heard this term somewhere. I had a vague connection that it was something from tv.

Then I remembered Anthony Bourdain went gigging in the Everglades on his show. Even though I grew up right near there, I'd never heard the term before, nor afterward until this thread.

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So my neighbor I refer to as "the stupid aggie" got on a posted that this is just proof of the wimpificiation of America.

[Seesaw]

I've heard of noodling for catfish but not gigging frogs.

I don't view frog hunting, since that's what this amounts to, as cruelty to animals or counter to most churchy ideas. Food is food. Food are not people.

The cafeteria always served frog legs when we played TCU.

[KateAggie]

Jena, B Battery and B company are separate, right? I'm Class of '98, and a couple of my friends were B Company '98. Any chance you know them? I'm pretty sure they still use gig...I meant 'ol Army in the Aggie way, not as in an old term that the Army used to use.

I'm ridiculously excited to see some fellow Aggies in here. I'm in withdrawl living so far from Texas now.

Septimus, do you have any neighbors that you don't label in a negative way?

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May 29, 2012 1:29:06 GMT -5 KateAggie said:

Jena, B Battery and B company are separate, right? I'm Class of '98, and a couple of my friends were B Company '98. Any chance you know them? I'm pretty sure they still use gig...I meant 'ol Army in the Aggie way, not as in an old term that the Army used to use.

I'm ridiculously excited to see some fellow Aggies in here. I'm in withdrawl living so far from Texas now.

Septimus, do you have any neighbors that you don't label in a negative way?

quite a few... I just share the bad ones. The same guy wanted to cut free and reduce lunch to kids at school yet calls himself a christian.

[SusanBAnthony]

May 27, 2012 22:11:40 GMT -5 twotrue said:

It's evident most of you do not listen to country music ;-)

sent from phone

I have heard the song many times but I never knew what it meant. Now I am horrified.

Signed, northern girl who loves country, except for the horrifying southern songs and the pro-Amurica songs.