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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
That'll werk...
Someone needs to buy Wyoming, though. So as to make travel easier. Utah, too.
Wyoming should be cheap, at least. Maybe I'll pick it up, too.
These are Aggies. They attend Texas A&M, which is one of the two public university systems in the State of Texas.
A&M, also known as TAMU, is one of three schools with a full-time corps of cadets program, and it provides more commissioned officers to the United States Armed Forces than any other non-military institution.
They do other tricks, too ...!
OK...so Aggies are from A&M, but not all from A&M are Aggies? That about right?
See, you and your equally character-rich friends each buy a pair of $1000+ custom-made boots ...
Then you break 'em in ...
Then you show 'em off ...
No, no ... if you attended A&M, you're an Aggie. Your blood is maroon, and you despise Tea-sippers. You are the 12th Man at the games --- you never sit down, you get kissed when the team scores, and, for some reason, you bend over a lot and cheer in strange tongues.
If you attended UT --- University of Texas, never-never-NEVER "Texas University" --- you're a Longhorn. You "bleed orange," and you tell hideous Aggie jokes. You flash hand signals that, in some cultures, are considered to be the sign of the devil (remember when Laura Bush was accused of casting a curse when she flashed a horn sign at someone during the first Inauguration?)
Have you met an Aggie up yonder? If they're an Aggie, ask them about College Station, and watch their faces light up!
Yeah, yeah, the sign of the devil ...
Them's some fine lookin boots! Look like something a cavalry officer would wear!
They are that... they're riding boots :~)
Osage, did you ever get a pair of boots and go splashing in the fountain?
Evening Rose; very well described and the photos of Senior Boots were great; we couldn't have done near as good as you did, a tip of the hat to you, M'am.
Nope, we weren't in the Corps of Cadets, we were civilian grad students.
Yeah, kind of. There's a guy who works for one of our clients who has an A&M sticker on his truck (which still has TX plates), so I was trying to remember if that means he's probably an Aggie or if that was the other TX university. Idle curiosity. ;-)
Is he from a nice Catholic family? ;o)
Oh dear...I'm gonna get asked that every single time I mention a "he", aren't I?
Actually, I don't know.
Just taking up the slack for Corin, since he's out of pocket.
Uh-huh...
Well, I'm off to take the Jeopardy online contestant exam. Eeek!
Once an Aggie, always an Aggie. And yes, all A&M students are Aggies. You can never be a ex-Aggie, rather you become a former student.
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