1 Bobby Jones is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 1958. 2  He is also a member of the 1997 Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame Class.
The phrase âa chip on oneâs shoulderâ is reported as originating with the nineteenth century U.S. practice of spoiling for a fight by carrying a chip of wood on oneâs shoulder, daring others to knock it off. This suggested derivation has more than the whiff of folk-etymology about it.
Straphanger is sometimes used to mean a person who benefits from the actions and exertions of someone else, with no efforts of their own; someone who is just along for the ride. (See also free rider problem.) In the military slang used by airborne units: airborne qualified personnel conducting an airborne operation with another unit. In the central Down East region of Maine, straphanger has become an insult used against persons who are perceived as being from away. The term is generally restricted to use by the lower social strata of the area.