Hotty Toddy Traditional Cache
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Hotty Toddy is hot for the picking. Located close to trail entrance at the end of La Cuenta Drive. Right off the trail where you can see a canyon to the west and a canyon to the east. The container has changed (thanks to NavalAv8or) and was decorated by my son. This cache was created to be family friendly with some trade items.
Please see below excerpt from an excellent essay (the full piece is available at http://www.hottytoddy.com/ole-miss-notes-from-the-past/) on the meaning and derivation of Hotty Toddy. Are You Ready? By Gerald W. Walton "Perhaps we should start with the word. No one seems to know exactly when “Hotty Toddy” was first used, and it has no definition as such. It is part of a cheer, but it means more than something like “Go, Rebels”! It identifies people as being from Ole Miss. It might mean nothing to a resident of Connecticut who graduated from Yale, but it means a great deal to an Ole Miss grad... "There are numerous stories of people seeing strangers in distant places and yelling “Hotty Toddy” if something suggests that the person is another Ole Miss grad. I have heard it in Paris, London, New York, and Washington... "We can at least ask how we got it. But no one seems to know for sure when it was first used. Most people assume it came from hoity-toity, a French word meaning something like “show off.”... "At some point, and in a number of places, Hoity Toidy became Highty Tighty... “Highty Tighty” was often spelled or pronounced in other ways, such as “Hidey-Tidey. It is assumed that “Highty-Tighty” became “Hoddy Toddy” because of the association of cheers with a warm alcoholic drink, often a nightcap. "No one knows exactly when “Highty-Tighty” became Hoddy Toddy at Ole Miss. The November 19, 1926, student newspaper The Mississippian carried this: "Heighty! Tighty! Gosh A Mighty! Who in the he-- are we? Rim! Ram! Flim! Flam! Ole Miss, By D--n!" The version used today is below: Are you ready? He-- yes! Da-- Right! Hotty Toddy, Gosh almighty Who the he-- are we, Hey! Flim Flam, Bim Bam Ole Miss By Da--!
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