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What is your "O-H" "I-O" anecdote?

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Gatorubet;1963009; said:
Since you brought the subject up Dunk, why is Toledo Holy?
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Since I didn't:

Holy Toledo 16 up, 8 down
A phrase coined by gangsters and bootleggers in the 1920's. Due to Toledo's convenient location (Lake Erie Shore, ~halfway Chicago/Cleveland and ~a hour south of Detroit) it became the save haven for prohibition criminals after completing jobs in the larger cities previously mentions. A large portion of the crime in those cities was organized in Toledo. Toledo became known as the "Promised Land" to these mobsters, knowing they were in the clear once they made it back to Toledo. Hence the phrase Holy Toledo.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Holy Toledo
 
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I pulled the car over in downtown Milwaukee to shout "O-H!" at a guy in an OSU sweatshirt. He did the reply after a second, and also looked relieved that I wasn't shooting him.

I also passed someone at the airport (Atlanta, maybe?) on the moving walkway. I dropped my luggage for the "O-H!" It took a few seconds, but I heard the "I-O!" in the distance as I continued running for my gate. Actually, I did an awful lot of traveling between 2004 and 2009. If you were randomly "O-H!'d" at an airport during that time, it was quite possibly me. :)
 
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Deety;1963044; said:
I pulled the car over in downtown Milwaukee to shout "O-H!" at a guy in an OSU sweatshirt. He did the reply after a second, and also looked relieved that I wasn't shooting him.

I also passed someone at the airport (Atlanta, maybe?) on the moving walkway. I dropped my luggage for the "O-H!" It took a few seconds, but I heard the "I-O!" in the distance as I continued running for my gate. Actually, I did an awful lot of traveling between 2004 and 2009. If you were randomly "O-H!'d" at an airport during that time, it was quite possibly me. :)
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You time traveled?
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Not an uncommon place for the familiar OH-IO challenge / response... But a number of years ago we were at Purdue for a game. We were walking around the stadium to our gate and I had my youngest boy on my shoulders. He is a very outgoing kid and never shuts up (we say he has an outer monolog). Anyhow, he was just learning to talk and had figured out this game... Pretty simple game... Find anyone wearing red and yell OH at them as loud as you can and they will yell IO back at you.

Suffice it to say, we took the long way around RA stadium and my ears were ringing by the time we got to our gate.

OH!
 
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TDunk;1963006; said:
It is kind of hard to notice that with your "bearded" head up your ass. So don't blame yourself. I thought you were a scientist and had some secret concoction that involved OH(8)CH. Who knew?
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I thought I was nerdy... The closest I come to thinking of organic chemistry when I see Oh8ch is nachos.

Oh8ch;1963093; said:
I thought you just pulled that avatar off the internets.
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And where did you pull your avatar from?
 
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So there I was, Fort Stewart, GA. I see a guy in an Ohio State t-shirt. I yell, "OH!" The guy doesn't even look up. I yell louder! "OH!!!!" He looks up and stares me right in the eyes and says nothing. I asked him if he was from Ohio. He replies with, "yes." He still had no idea what I was doing. I asked him if he heard me yelling and nodded up and down. I then began to destroy his soul for not replying with IO! I wanted to pull his state citizenship but he left before I got his name.

On a better note. Sitting in Baghdad watching tOSU play the Catholic School of Indiana in a BCS bowl game. Of course the Catholics were letting me have it and so were all the SEC/Big XII and other fans. As soon as tOSU started to show dominance I stand up and yell OH! thinking I am the only one in the room. Only 5 other Soldiers chanted IO! Needless to say we became so loud that the Catholics moved to a room the size of a closet to avoid us. The SEC/Big XII fans still talked smack but they enjoyed seeing us run the Catholics out of the giant room we had just claimed for O-HI-O!
 
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I was stationed in England and a friend flew over to visit for a couple weeks. We decided to goto London and take the BIG Bus Tour around the city. We are sitting ontop of a Double Decker bus, it was open air and had just pulled into Picidilly Circus. On a whim my friend yells out O-H, and low and behold we recieved a resounding I-O. Never spotted you responded but we both got a kick out of it. Later on in the same visit we flew into Dublin, Ireland and took the same type of Tour around the city of Dublin. After finishing the Guiness Factory tour and having several pints of Guiness we decided to try it again. We weren't disappointed as we again received a resounding I-O. Buckeye Nation truley is world-wide!
 
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LovelandBuckeye;1963184; said:
So there I was, Fort Stewart, GA. I see a guy in an Ohio State t-shirt. I yell, "OH!" The guy doesn't even look up. I yell louder! "OH!!!!" He looks up and stares me right in the eyes and says nothing. I asked him if he was from Ohio. He replies with, "yes." He still had no idea what I was doing. I asked him if he heard me yelling and nodded up and down. I then began to destroy his soul for not replying with IO! I wanted to pull his state citizenship but he left before I got his name.

On a better note. Sitting in Baghdad watching tOSU play the Catholic School of Indiana in a BCS bowl game. Of course the Catholics were letting me have it and so were all the SEC/Big XII and other fans. As soon as tOSU started to show dominance I stand up and yell OH! thinking I am the only one in the room. Only 5 other Soldiers chanted IO! Needless to say we became so loud that the Catholics moved to a room the size of a closet to avoid us. The SEC/Big XII fans still talked smack but they enjoyed seeing us run the Catholics out of the giant room we had just claimed for O-HI-O!
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There are more Catholic Ohio State fans than Domers...just like there are more people who speak english in China than the US...in-fact two of them are running the program...Fick and Vrabes
 
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