I looked up Mini-Van. I think I have led a very sheltered life.

My goodness...

Guns Up to the "Shocker" nation...lol.

dcaggie04 said:

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Wichita State has been using the gesture for over a decade.

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Try over half a century.

I'm blown away that people have apparently
A) never heard of Wichita State
B) never heard of the shocker
C) OP thinks that not only WSU folks are blissfully ignorant about this, but the rest of the world doesn't know WSU exists and that he's uncovered some vast goldmine of comedy


Regarding the Cougar High hand gesture…that's signifies something else. "F" Texas (the university). Flip the bird and then while keeping it up, make the hook 'em gesture. "F@$# Texas"

Hank the Grifter said:

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dcaggie04 said:

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Wichita State has been using the gesture for over a decade.

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Try over half a century.

I'm blown away that people have apparently
A) never heard of Wichita State
B) never heard of the shocker
C) OP thinks that not only WSU folks are blissfully ignorant about this, but the rest of the world doesn't know WSU exists and that he's uncovered some vast goldmine of comedy


Regarding the Cougar High hand gesture…that's signifies something else. "F" Texas (the university). Flip the bird and then while keeping it up, make the hook 'em gesture. "F@$# Texas"

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Excuse me, sir, but the Cougar High hand signal is clearly a cougar paw

Cougars have five toes on their front paws and four on their back paws. The original cougar mascot, Shasta I, served from 1947-1962. Shasta's name is a crasis, an abbreviation of a phrase. In this case, "She has to", as he "Shasta have a cage, Shasta have a keeper, Shasta have a winning ball club". The original Shasta only had three toes on her back right foot, so the members of the Cougar Guard, the student org in charge of taking care of the mascot, used a three-fingered salute as an inside joke to greet each other. Since Cougar Guard members were the only ones who knew she had exactly three right toes on her back foot, it was a popular habit among group members that increased morale. If someone gave the three-fingered salute with the left hand, they quickly identified themselves as an outsider, and were roundly beaten. Fellow Houston students, noticing this habit, adopted it as their own in an attempt to take it away from the Guard, and it grew in popularity. It was officially adopted as the school hand sign in 1953.

If your thumb is tucked in, its the "shocker". If your thumb is sticking out, its a "W" for Wichita State.

Buck Turgidson said:

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If your thumb is tucked in, its the "shocker". If your thumb is sticking out, its a "W" for Wichita State.

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Or W for a WestPac Widow.

University of Houston actually throws the shocker.

Went to see them play Oregon at Reliant Stadium with a couple of A&M buddies in 2005, had great seats in the 1st deck because UH students don't care about anything.

6:00p kick so we were feeling great but we couldn't handle the cheerleaders and fans all throwing the shocker over and over, we were laughing at everyone very loud like drunk 22-year-old *******s. Almost got kicked out

OMG. I just learned that my niece is a student at WSU. She isn29 and returned to school recently andI didn't know.