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Somebody explain what "taters" means. I don't get it.
Sep 13, 2010, 10:25 PM
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Why is Clemson the "taters"?
I understand the cows -- I guess the Coots think we have a lot of pastures up here or something, but the "taters"?
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Re: Somebody explain what "taters" means. I don't get it.
Sep 13, 2010, 10:28 PM
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IPTAY I Plant Taters All Year was an old coot joke.
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I like being called a Tater. Lots of my friends are Taters.***
Sep 13, 2010, 10:39 PM
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I just got your name
Sep 13, 2010, 11:38 PM
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wow, now I feel stupid...
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Tater is coot for Clemson fan, and insinuates redneckedness
Sep 13, 2010, 10:33 PM
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For example, there were three other Tim's besides me at work. So the coots distinguished me as "Tater" Tim.
Idiotic, and a ripoff of Ron White if you ask me, but that's my interpretation. Typical coot talk, not original, claiming someone else's "thing" as their own, i.e "SEC National Championships"
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Re: Tater is coot for Clemson fan, and insinuates redneckedness
Sep 13, 2010, 10:41 PM
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I thought that it was b/c Clemson being an Agricultural school. Farmer plant potatoes,, and folks here and around call potatoes a tater. Since Clemson is an AG school they call the fans of Clemson a tater.
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Think that pretty much sums it up***
Sep 13, 2010, 10:57 PM
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Coot gradss think Clemson is in Boise. LOL***
Sep 14, 2010, 8:26 AM
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What's taters, precious?
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Sep 13, 2010, 10:40 PM
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Point for the picture***
Sep 13, 2010, 10:56 PM
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It started here when we began calling them "coots"
Sep 13, 2010, 10:44 PM
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which is the common name for the American Marsh Hen. At least our "diss" was a less complimentary version of their precious fighting chicken.
Tater was just the best they could do.
This happened around 1997. Those were good times on the internet message boards.
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Apparently, it's because
Sep 13, 2010, 11:34 PM
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Thomas G. Clemson was thrown out of a bar in New York City. The fuzz asked if he had an alias and he said that in SC he's known as Thomas "Tater" Clemson. Then he said, "you caught me, you caught the tater".
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Funny.
Sep 14, 2010, 8:55 AM
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Still laughing.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. Tater implies a product from
Sep 14, 2010, 10:00 AM
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farming, "potatoes", or tater for short. Just a nickname like coot, a bird, for GAMECOCK.
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Re: Wrong, wrong, wrong. Tater implies a product from
Sep 14, 2010, 10:02 AM
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DUH!
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