This picture is in College Station, NOT AUSTIN!!!
Posted on 11/05/2003 3:56:31 PM PST by fishtank
I'm think I'm pretty hacked at Barbara Bush today. She was talking about her daughters today on Hannity and Sean wanted to know where they are graduating from this year.
Mrs. Bush then said that one of them is graduating from the University of Texas, "You know, Sean", she said, "THE University of Texas, that's how we say it here in Texas - THE University of Texas."
She repeatedly put the stress on "THE". I hate to seem petty, but that really chaps me the wrong way. The "THE" deal is something that the teasips in Austin have used to dig at Texas A&M for decades.
This is what irritates me: the George H.W. Bush (#41) Library is in College Station, TX, at Texas A&M University, a school of over 40,000 students.
Do you know why it's in College Station and not in Austin?
BECAUSE t.u. IS FULL OF LIBERALS AND THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A MARIJUANA FUELED RIOT IN AUSTIN IF THE LIBRARY HAD BEEN PLACED IN AUSTIN.
President Bush wisely placed his library in a friendly location, where true Texas hospitality was displayed to him and also several times to Vice President Quayle. Neither of them would have gotten the time of day in Austin in those years, and they know it.
I for one am sick of the condescending teasip attitudes towards Texas A&M, and I am very sad that Barbara Bush was repeating the snide little remarks that one expects from a teasip.
I certainly would not have expected that remark from a former First Lady against Texas A&M, which provided a location for a very fine library, complete with luxury apartment for Mr. and Mrs. Bush.
Shame on you, Mrs. Bush, for insulting Texas A&M by calling that little liberal arts school in Austin as THE University.
There are many fine universities in Texas, Mrs. Bush, and the one most friendly to your husband's administration was the one that gave his library it's permanent home.
The reason the Bush library is in College Station is that Michel T. Halbouty lobbied President Bush to put it there.
I went to UT as an undergrad and Tex A&M for my Masters. "THE" was said in jest and should be taken that way.
This picture is in College Station, NOT AUSTIN!!!
We just may find out how Austin would react to a George W. Bush Library in about 10 years? But if I were to bet on it? I would bet on Waco and Baylor University as the site. By the way Travis County has had more registered Republicans than registered Dems for a few years now!
Hook'em!!
Down with the Seminoles, Go Gators!!!
-PJ
Now, where will Dubya build his library? Will he pick Austin or Waco? And now that Presidential Libraries must be privately funded will Dubya's library be better than his father's taxpayer supported library?
BTW-I have seen Dubya cheering for the Longhorns at the Erwin Center and DKR Memorial. I do not believe I have ever seen him root for the Aggies.
One guess would be that the following was already at UT and thus President Bush chose to opt for the next most prestigious University that didn't have a Presidential edifice. You reckon that could be part of the reason?
Location: The Library is situated on a 30-acre site on The University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. The building is on a promontory-like plaza adjoining Sid Richardson Hall and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
LBJ and his fellow ultra-rats worked as diligently as possible to totally wreck what was an almost two century great Country.
I motored through Johnson City a couple of years ago, and almost got sick at my stomach.
*sigh* Note how the typical Aggie is so consumed w/ envy that they have to use these epithets.
A&M's biggest rival is UT, but UT has always considered OU and other national teams to be their true rivals. A&M just can't stand that.
How consumed w/ envy is A&M? Well, UT barely gives A&M a first, much less second, thought, while A&M actually mentions UT in their Aggie War Hymn, in the first frickin' line (since the first verse is rarely sung). Always thought that was pretty sad......
No sense of humor, and no perspective.
I was at a Rice-A&M game in Houston a looong time ago, prolly 1974. It was soon after the Rice M.O.B started (the Marching Owl Band, a kazoo band that started up after the real band was well, disbanded....) Great satire (lauded the Astrodome for being 'the World's Smallest Domed Stadium' **at a Rice-UH game in the Dome** that year after the Superdome opened, really pissed off Hofeinz royally), so-so kazoo playing.
But I digress..... anyway, on this hilarious night, The M.O.B. did a tribute to certain college mascots, including A&M's Reveille. The M.O.B., dressed in white, did a very good outline of a colley, then a bunch more folks ran out and formed a fire hydrant. Reveille's leg raised, a group that was helping form the dog's lower abdomen tore off their white oufits to show their all-yellow togs underneath. Then they commenced to run toward the hydrant, bouncing off and forming a pool. Well, you get the idea......
Fooking hilarious, except to the Aggies in attendance. Took several dozen of Houston's finest to get the M.O.B. into a bus.
And who can forget the Cadet who actually drew his sword against an SMU cheerleader at Kyle Field. Think the lad became a 'former student' for that one........
I love that line - it's like "I don't mean to interrupt". Of course they mean to interrupt, just as you can't 'seem' to avoid being petty. It's a physics thing - if you really hated seeming petty, you wouldn't be petty.
" ... but that really chaps me the wrong way. The "THE" deal is something that the teasips in Austin have used to dig at Texas A&M for decades."
"I for one am sick of the condescending teasip attitudes towards Texas A&M, and I am very sad that Barbara Bush was repeating the snide little remarks that one expects from a teasip. "
" I certainly would not have expected that remark from a former First Lady against Texas A&M, ....."
" Shame on you, Mrs. Bush, for insulting Texas A&M by calling that little liberal arts school in Austin as THE University. "
Oh, the irony contained in these lines - chiding Mrs. Bush for allegedly snide remarks while using the snide term 'teasip' (3 times, no less :), and...
...assuming facts not in evidence - that the thought of A&M ever crossed Mrs. Bush' mind when she referred to UT as "THE University".
It's aaallllll about the Aggies, isn't it, fishtank? Those mean ol' Longhorns are being mean to the poor widdle Aggies again, huh? Think the Aggies will ever be comfortable with just being A&M, instead of insisting on being "We're Not UT"?
Reminds me of that Doc Holliday / Val Kilmer line from Tombstone - "Oh, I'm sorry, Johnny, I forgot you were there. You may go now."
Enough said.
BTW, you can FReep Kennedy tomorrow.
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