Oh those silly cho-keys

**BlueWahooChambordDevil** · November 15th, 2007, 08:46 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vthokie22</div><div class="ubbcode-body">actually i do know that...and it's actually funny that outsiders would try and tell me what the heritage of our mascot is </div></div>
nobody was talking about the heritage of anything

your mascot is a turkey with no balls

we all know that.......but you guys lives in fantasy land.....so you concoted some dumbass story that gives it a different meaning because its embarassing and sounds moronic to say "our mascot is a castrated turkey, whats yours?"

bob barker would be proud of your neutered mascot

**gcdevil22** · November 15th, 2007, 08:46 PM

straight from the Virginia Tech website...

What is a Hokie? The origin of the word "Hokie" has nothing to do with a turkey. It was coined by O. M. Stull (class of 1896), who used it in a spirit yell he wrote for a competition.

Here's how that competition came to be held. Virginia Tech was founded in 1872 as a land-grant institution and was named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1896, the Virginia General Assembly officially changed the college's name to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, a name so long that citizens shortened it in popular usage to VPI. The original college cheer, which made reference to the original name of the institution, was no longer suitable. Thus, a contest was held to select a new spirit yell, and Stull won the $5 top prize for his cheer, now known as Old Hokie:

Hoki, Hoki, Hoki, Hy.
Techs, Techs, V.P.I.
Sola-Rex, Sola-Rah.
Polytechs - Vir-gin-ia.
Rae, Ri, V.P.I.

Later, the phrase "Team! Team! Team!" was added at the end, and an "e" was added to "Hoki."

Stull later said that he made up the word as an attention-grabber. Though he may not have known it, "Hokie" (in its various forms) has been around at least since 1842. According to Johann Norstedt, now a retired Virginia Tech English professor, "[Hokie was] a word that people used to express feeling, approval, excitement, surprise. Hokie, then, is a word like 'hooray,' or 'yeah,' or 'rah.'" Whatever its original meaning, the word in the popular cheer did, as Stull wanted, grab attention and has been a part of Virginia Tech tradition ever since.

so...suck it long, and suck it hard

**BlueWahooChambordDevil** · November 15th, 2007, 08:49 PM

again......they are embarassed by the fact they have chosen a neutered turkey as their mascot

if any of that other nonsense was true......they would have done what st louis university did with the billiken.....and made up a creature......or adopted something like a beer keg as a mascot......not snipped the ballbag off of a turkey costume

**gcdevil22** · November 15th, 2007, 08:52 PM

wrong again...but i guess you're at least persistent

VT used to be called the Fightin' Gobblers (turkey) and just kept the mascot when Hokie became more prevalent

anything else you wanna know about??

**BlueWahooChambordDevil** · November 15th, 2007, 08:55 PM

dont you find it funny that gobbler and turkey are the same??

try and spin it however you want......and trust me if i was embarassed by something id would do the same......its a turkey with no balls......no manhood.....no reproductive ability

which pretty much describes 95% of the VT fans ive ever met.....and the fact that i wish 90% of them had no ability to reproduce

**gcdevil22** · November 15th, 2007, 08:59 PM

gobbler and turkey are the same...umm, duh b/c that was the intention

but i guess if you're looking for irony look at the date in which "castrated turkey" was used for the word Hokie...well after Hokie was adopted by VT as the nickname

and actually that definition came about b/c opposing fans didn't know what a "Hokie" was so they looked at our mascot and saw that it didn't have balls (which i'm not sure why any mascot would, unless living animal) and tried to make it seem as though that is what a Hokie was...which, was ignorant and incorrect...much like yourself

**imported_GC1** · November 15th, 2007, 09:10 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlueWahooChambor</div><div class="ubbcode-body">dont you find it funny that gobbler and turkey are the same??

try and spin it however you want......and trust me if i was embarassed by something id would do the same......its a turkey with no balls......no manhood.....no reproductive ability

which pretty much describes 95% of the VT fans ive ever met.....and the fact that i wish 90% of them had no ability to reproduce </div></div>

[img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/sleep.gif[/img] [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/sleep.gif[/img] Boring. Wonder what Hokie mean't umpteen years ago? Heck gay used to mean happy and now it's a term used of a sexual deviant....Go back to the Noah Webster Dictionary and you'll see just how much language has changed.