Countdown To Football Season: 78 Days

by Peter Bean on Jun 15, 2007 12:42 PM CDT in Football Comment 29 comments

Our daily countdown to the return of Texas football continues with yet another reason to love the fall in Austin.

If you're thinking to yourself, "That's Silvio Berlusconi throwing the hook 'em!" then you're half-right. He's clearly throwing the index and pinky up, like we do, but whereas in America the gesture was captured by Longhorn fans as their universal sign of awesometude, it turns out that in other parts of the world, the meaning is quite different.

I was vaguely aware of that, of course, but needed this Wiki entry to understand all its worldwide uses. So, there. Educational Friday. You learned something new today in the long slog through the offseason.

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--PB--

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jesus i love wikipedia

from the related articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker...

by Vice President Coco on Jun 15, 2007 1:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

wichita state shockers

by billyzane on Jun 15, 2007 1:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Making her parents proud

by Wells on Jun 15, 2007 1:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is it

supposed to be a "W" for Witchita St.?

by BrooklynHorn on Jun 15, 2007 1:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Funny Article

http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story...

As he said, I am sure that is what they tell the administration, but they know exactly what they are doing.

by Wells on Jun 15, 2007 1:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

haha

in my anthropology class we discussed this, and the prof said that in italy(if Im not mistaken) it is an offensive sign(or something degrading of some sorts) and a bunch of ut kids were walking around rome pullin the hook em and they looked like idiots because they didn't understand the culture (anthropology rocks!)

by carsondude on Jun 15, 2007 1:48 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

What did he say about the Aggies

walking around Rome squeezing each others' balls?

So take that.

by Kahuna on Jun 15, 2007 2:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

ok?

by carsondude on Jun 15, 2007 5:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Sweedes thought..

the Bush twins were giving the Hail Satan sign in Bush's inagural parade.

I used to have an article pinned up above my office desk that read, "Bush twins are Satan worshippers?" -- with a picture of them giving the Hook'em.

Stick to beach volleyball and wooden shoes people.

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Jun 15, 2007 2:05 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have a soft spot for Satan humor

http://www.thefirsttwins.com/hail.html

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Jun 15, 2007 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

sure you're not thinking of the Dutch?

in the realm of wooden shoes, that is.

by DC Trojan on Jun 15, 2007 3:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don't the Sweedes have clogs?

I live in an old Swedish neighborhood and they sell clogs at stores that look wooden.

They also drink Glog in the winter, which I would suggest staying away from. Warm yes. Good no.

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Jun 15, 2007 3:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

They probably do

But when I think wooden shoes, I think Holland. It's not like either country was exactly rocking high-tech footwear until recently.

by DC Trojan on Jun 17, 2007 5:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Most of Europe

it is offensive in some way.

In Italy it is saying you are a Cuckold; which means your wife is a cheating whore, which is explained in the article PB linked to.

Who need anthropology classes when you have wikipedia.

by Wells on Jun 15, 2007 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hand signs

I was walking out of a meeting the other day and a woman there saw my badge lanyard and said, "Texas?!" I smiled and flashed her the Hook'Em Horns. She flashed back an inexplicable Shocker-like hand symbol and when I asked what she was doing, she was surprised I didn't know the U of H hand symbol. I responded, "There's a University of Houston?"

So take that.

by Kahuna on Jun 15, 2007 1:59 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

ever seen this?

The hand gesture is also used frequently and prominently in Gangsta Rap.

by abcdmetrius on Jun 15, 2007 2:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Seen what?

by Wells on Jun 15, 2007 2:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

it used in gangsta rap

sorry

by abcdmetrius on Jun 15, 2007 2:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah

I thought that was weird. I have never seen it. Though I am admittedly not very gangsta'

Destroyer!

by DestroyerUT on Jun 15, 2007 3:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Probably wrong,

but the picture looks photoshopped (fingers appear to be different color).

On another note, the cheerleader is cute. Keep that stuff coming.

by cliffaudit on Jun 15, 2007 2:41 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

it's not.

i remember seeing it live (it's from the 2006 NCAA tourney) and saying to myself, "did that cheerleader just give the shocker symbol?" and then reqinding the tivo to be sure. the next day, the mighty mjd had a post about it on his (sadly, now basically defunct) blog.

and yeah, she's hot. you can tell she totally into the shocker.

by billyzane on Jun 15, 2007 2:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs