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Origin of "Fear The Thumb"...
Jul 15, 2013, 3:01 PM
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Found out through some research that it was originally something given out to all the Football players that graduated from SCar:
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Means they didn't give a lot out.***
Jul 15, 2013, 3:42 PM
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Orange Blooded [2989]
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They ripped it off from Auburn; don't see what the big deal
Jul 15, 2013, 6:24 PM
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is. *L* Not like they are rich in a history of come up with much original anyway.
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It originated in their rear end and stayed there for over 100 years !
Jul 15, 2013, 7:40 PM
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I thought it came from "Fear the Dumb!"
Jul 15, 2013, 8:31 PM
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But I could be mistaken.
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I do fear losing to them a fifth time.
Jul 15, 2013, 9:25 PM
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But I don't fear some white trash, Wal-Mart tshirt buyin', 1994 Buick drivin', welfare check gatherin', doo-doo ice drinkin', uneducated gamecock bandwagon fan flashing his hand at me "FIVE IS THIS MANY! HU HU HU"
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Originates from the early century when the dirtpecker that
Jul 15, 2013, 9:46 PM
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could actually count all the way to five (the thumb) automatically became the student body president, and hence, "fear the thumb."
Many years there was no student body president.
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I thought it was based off of their 6 strikes and you're out
Jul 15, 2013, 10:00 PM
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discipline policy...
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Re: Origin of "Fear The Thumb"...
Jul 15, 2013, 11:25 PM
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I thought it was because they have their thumb stuck up their ### and it smells like the ice.
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Re: Origin of "Fear The Thumb"...
Jul 16, 2013, 3:07 PM
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LOL, that to!!!
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Re: Origin of "Fear The Thumb"...
Jul 16, 2013, 2:34 AM
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The coots came up with fear the thumb years ago, because they thought that a chicken had 3 fingers and a thumb. Years ago when all of them would get together to fight their chickens. They would always say that those metal spurs they used on their fighting chickens were hard to get on their thumbs. They actually believed that the TOE at the back of their chickens leg was a thumb. And that is where they came up with fear the thumb.
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Re: Origin of "Fear The Thumb"...
Jul 16, 2013, 8:16 AM
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that's pretty obvious where the term came from but it wasn't just coots in those days everybody fought chickens.
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Re: Origin of "Fear The Thumb"...
Jul 16, 2013, 3:05 PM
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Yes but, the coots thought that the Roosters spur was a thumb, and they were to be feared with the metal spur. Just more coot logic in reviving their fear the thumb slogan.
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