Tractor clubs, etc

Any of you folks in tractor clubs have secret handshakes and code words????
I had a ball today.......
Little German lesson first...... Most of the old tractors here are diesel, so have to be preheated before starting.

Pre heat in this case in German is vorgluh (sounds like forglue). Grammar is different here so... To start the tractor, you have to vorgluh. If someone is actually doing it and you ask what they are doing, they say "ich gluhvor" ( I glue for).

I was with a guy that belongs to a tractor club and we went to the local tractor dealer/farm&fleet (lack of better description). He ran into some more tractor club buddies and they were doing their little tractor club greeting.

If you are an elite member of said tractor club (EMTC) and happen to meet another elite member of said tractor club, you look each other dead in the eye and one says "glue" and the other says "for"
Gotta do this 3 times in a row, kinda like ...

EMTC 1 "Glue"
EMTC 2 "For"

EMTC 1 "Glue"
EMTC 2 "For"

EMTC 1 "Glue"
EMTC 2 "For"

Then they have a conversation until another EMTC comes along and they get to do it again.....

That was my entertainment to last me the rest of the month. And, I won't be joining that tractor club anytime in this lifetime....

Dave

Soooo. . . Are these guys able to keep a straight face through this? One reason I've never joined a fraternal organization is my fear of "losing it" when otherwise serious grown-ups go through their "rituals". Dad (who wasn't a member) always characterized the Grange initiation ceremony as "riding the goat."

Nothing secret around here. Just get a 6 pack, each one drinks 3 beers

(quoted from post at 13:13:47 03/10/10) Soooo. . . Are these guys able to keep a straight face through this? One reason I've never joined a fraternal organization is my fear of "losing it" when otherwise serious grown-ups go through their "rituals". Dad (who wasn't a member) always characterized the Grange initiation ceremony as "riding the goat."

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Serious stuff.............. I didn't do so gooda job though. Managed to get out of the area before I busted though.....

Hi Dave, you can join our club we are only just across the north sea in Nottinghamshire UK MJ

now that's funny. Proud of you for maintaining your cool until out of sight or hearing.

Dave2 and MJ: you better join our club (near the geographical center of The Netherlands). We do not, I repeat NOT, have such silly rituals
Our US friends should not get the impression that all Europeans are equal or of frightening character ;-)
Our Tractor Club

(quoted from post at 11:45:53 03/11/10) Dave2 and MJ: you better join our club (near the geographical center of The Netherlands). We do not, I repeat NOT, have such silly rituals
Our US friends should not get the impression that all Europeans are equal or of frightening character ;-)
Our Tractor Club

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I get a kick out of them. There is a club for just about everything. Lot of tradition and makes for some nice organized shows but.....
I was asked to join the local rodeo chapter when I first got over here and almost did until they told me I had to wear a cowboy hat and chaps when I went anywhere with the club.
Hunters and fishermen (women) really kill me....How are they in the UK and Netherlands. Americans couldn't even begin to understand or believe
the customs/regs here.

Dave

If I remeber correctly, the glennster and I were chanting HEE - HAW, HEE - HAW, HEE - HAW, etc when we loaded them tires with the wrecker!

Course that wasn't the password for the secret meeting.