Or have you ever heard that term used? I always assumed that it mean someone that was giving 2% of the required effort / someone who was not really gung ho about whatever was being discussed... As it turns out - I was wrong. I just finished this book about Einstein. During the period between WWI and WWI Einstein was a pacifist who advocated the 2% idea... the idea went like this - if there is ever a draft again, if only 2% of the draftees from all nations refused to serve, then the government would be forced to jail a huge amount of people and thus all nations would lose the ability to wage war. I thought that was interesting. I dabbled in pacifism once, not in Nam of course. So the next time an Aggie calls you a 2%'er you'll know what he is talking about - even if he doesn't.
Alas, I have never be called a 2%er as that is a derogatory expression of fanatical aggy describing another agroid who doesn't surrender to all the cult's weird ways. In fact I shall never be called one. But I have been called a stupid, ******* t-sipper, which I wear loud & proud. No aggy could ever bestow a higher honor than that.
I thought only an aggy could be a 2%er. Isn't that about the right percentage of how many of the aggy fake army guys actually join the real military?
I think Aggy's definition of it is that 98% of A&M students are fanatical about their traditions and true-blooded diehards who never leave early, know all the chants, etc ... so you insult another A&M fan's lack of commitment by saying that he's part of the other 2%.
I doubt many aggy 98% er's are aware of Einstein's definition of the term "2%er." Like all their cultist lingo, it has its own meaning to them, which even Einstein could never divine, since they defy all known laws of the universe.
When directed at a fellow aggy, two-percenter refers to someone who leaves one of their blow-out home losses before the other team's scrubs run out the clock. When directed at UT fans, I suppose it means a "sip" who puts 2% milk in his tea.
I have on several occasions informed an Aggie that my SIL is an Ag, but that she's a 2%er. That really seems to get under their skin.
Honestly if an aggy said that to me I would laugh out loud. Most aggy don't know what they are talking about half the time in my experience anyway. Frankly my dear, I REALLY don't give a damn what any aggy thinks of me.
Isn't a 2%er the polar opposite to a tshirt fan? I been told that all Texas fans are tshirt fans and that all Texas graduates are the equivalent of 2%ers (which for UT would be more like 98% in the weird denial infused conscience of aggy). Considering my two degrees from the fine institution we all know and love, my fanatical following of all Texas sports, and the 7 years I spent on campus this is a rather ridiculous charge. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that fits this pattern.
I didn't realize aggy could do the math well enough to figure out what a "2 percenter" really is. By that standard, there is no such thing as 100 percent aggy. By the way, what I've called aggy over the years is a lot worse than 2 percenter.
I suppose it could refer to the fact that most UT students graduated in the top 2% of their HS class, and most aggys scored in the 2nd percentile on the SAT.
There is actually an expression in the U.S. Army of 5 percenters. It means the guys who are rated in the top 5% of their piers. The Pentagon watches these guys closely and if they get a bad rating, Uncle wants to know why. Before I read this post, I would have been honored to be a two percenter.
Sitting next to a aggy kid and his date at this years game he makes fun of my $70 Nike UT pullover saying that I am a "t shirt horn who gets his gear from Wal Mart". Little douche is wearing a faded, torn, t-shirt that looks like it came free with a notebook purchase in the school bookstore
Funniest thing aggy has ever called me took place at this years football game. Goofy nineteen year old kid called me a "tshirt" sip because I was wearing a $70 Nike UT pullover. he was wearing a raggedy *** t shirt that looked like he got it for free at the campus book store because he bought an official aggy pencil.
Yes, their "T-shirt fan" meme always cracks me up. How quickly they forget during their salad days under Sherrill and Slocum, they had legions of T-shirt aggy fans -- including pretty much every hillbilly and bubba east of I-35 in Texas. Their complaints about "sip T-shirt fans" now is nothing but pure jealousy at its finest on display. Man, those were some lean years to be a Longhorn fan, though.
