Homecoming Game Announced

[MaxyJR1]

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

I miss the pins they gave out for every home coming game.

 

[Ski U Mah 55]

Do people really say "HOCO"?

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Do people really say "HOCO"?

Gosh I hope not

 

[Schnauzer]

Hope it goes better than the stripeout hoco game against Purdue a couple years back. At least I think that was homecoming that year.

 

[MNfootballfan]

Do people really say "HOCO"?

I am 40 and cringe when I hear HOCO... Seems like low 30s and younger only refer to Homecoming as HOCO.

 

[STPGopher]

Do people really say "HOCO"?

I did see someone write" FOMOCO is a MOFOCO" once...

 

[PeoplesFront]

Gosh I hope not

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[2nd Degree Gopher]

Do people really say "HOCO"?

The high schoolers do on their signs for their dates. #HOCO

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

Little early in the season for hot chocolate….

 

[Some guy]

I am 40 and cringe when I hear HOCO... Seems like low 30s and younger only refer to Homecoming as HOCO.

I literally had never heard of anyone using HOCO until this thread

 

[MNfootballfan]

I literally had never heard of anyone using HOCO until this thread

Guessing you are older than 40

 

[60's Guy]

I miss the pins they gave out for every home coming game.

I remember when they sold them and they were popular.

 

[60's Guy]

Urban Dictionary

 

[Ope3]

I literally had never heard of anyone using HOCO until this thread

It was news to me as well.

 

[Sparlimb]

I remember when they sold them and they were popular.
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[Zeppelin Gopher]

Guessing you are older than 40

41 here...hands up, had also never heard of "HOCO"

 

[restovich]

I'm 64. HOCO is not a word, no matter what the "urban dictionary" says....

 

[fatgopher]

Early/mid 40s here. Oldest kid is a high schooler...DEFINITELY heard HOCO before and cringed when I first heard it. I've resigned myself to the fact that if I battle youth slang I'm just accelerating the "get off my lawn" aging process.

 

[Unregistered User]

I'm 64. HOCO is not a word, no matter what the "urban dictionary" says....

It's a portmanteau, or a combination of two words to make a new word.

Examples:
Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch
Smoke + Fog = Smog
Motor + Hotel = Motel
etc.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

 

[Jack jones]

Kind of like Natty.

 

[2nd Degree Gopher]

I've resigned myself to the fact that if I battle youth slang I'm just accelerating the "get off my lawn" aging process.

I like to try using the new slang myself around my kids and, in extreme cases, their friends. From my experience that usually put an end to it, at least in my presence.

 

[short ornery norwegian]

put me on the list of never knowing "HoCo" was a thing before now.

but at 69, I am not in touch with what the youngsters are into today.

and now, from "Bye-Bye, Birdie:

Kids!
I don't know what's wrong with these kids today!
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs!
Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy, loafers!
While we're on the subject:
Kids!
You can talk and talk till your face is blue!
Kids!
But they still just do what they want to do!
Why can't they be like we were
Perfect in every way?
What's the matter with kids today?

 

[fmlizard]

I always thought HOCO was a name for a chain of brothels

 

[Schnauzer]

Every tagboard sign Homecoming Date request my daughter (HS grad 2022) ever received had the word "Hoco" on it.

 

[fmlizard]

Every tagboard sign Homecoming Date request my daughter (HS grad 2022) ever received had the word "Hoco" on it.

Kids are getting dates with signs that say HOCO on them? Or signs that say anything on them?

Do i need to change my approach with the (18+) ladies to magic markers and poster board? Maybe some construction paper in the club?

 

[2nd Degree Gopher]

Kids are getting dates with signs that say HOCO on them? Or signs that say anything on them?

Google "promposals"

 

[Ope3]

It's a portmanteau, or a combination of two words to make a new word.

Examples:
Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch
Smoke + Fog = Smog
Motor + Hotel = Motel
etc.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Bob Motzko, the HOCO.

 

[highwayman]

Guessing you are older than twelve

Fixed it for you.

 

[Ski-U-Ham]

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Winner of "Throw back button design least likely to be used the next time we play Illinois for HOCO" award