During the holidays my wife and I had a meal of capons (castrated male chickens) and the VA Tech mascot is the hokie (castrated turkey - go figure) - my question is:
Do birds have external gonads that are easily removed? If not, this seems like a whole bunch of effort for the results (and that goes double for Tech graduates).
“Hokie” is simply a nonsense word which introduced this cheer:
Hokie, Hokie, Hokie Hy!
Tech! Tech! V.P.I.
Sola-Rex, Sola Rah
Polytech Vir-gin-i-a
Rae, Ri, V.P.I.
Team! Team! Team!
The actual turkey mascot has a far different origin, as Jill answers in the mailbag question above. The castrated part no doubt comes from the continuous disinformation campaign executed by the degenerate poltroons at UVa, who also have managed to deceive a large number of people into believing that UVa’s history and engineering programs are superior to those of VPI&SU.
I can assure you that although I thought I was in imminent danger of losing The Boys at one point due to a testicular torsion, this Hokie still has his big ol’ cojones.
Having said the above, it would appear that capons are created because it fattens them up, while removing the genitals lessens toughening of the flesh associated with testosterone production. A castrated cock (heh, heh) is still a bigger bird than a hen. I have a lot of trouble pasting cached google links here, but I’ll try it:
That article, in case I screwed up the paste, says that capons are created by castrating day-old male chicks. Their genitals are very close to a major artery, so it’s a delicate task.
Okay, one final comment. Although it was a nonsense word in 1896, the term “hokie” is now actually used among turkey farmers, according to Wikipedia.
Another example of the fell Cavaliers taking a lie and turning it into a truth. May they burn in Hell.
Hey, SofaKing – did you go to Phoenix for the Insight Bowl? Helluva game.
Uh, go Bears, by the way.
No, I sat in a cold basement and thought about crying.
Been there, done that–my condolences. Good luck next year.