Yes, they do...
And their school spirit... 
is unsurpassed!
The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets provide... 
many of the US Armed Forces Officers!
And if I ever go to war... 
I want an Aggie on my six!
Posted on 08/19/2007 6:06:46 AM PDT by tpaine
Aggies have all the fun!! >:-}
Yep.
Yes, they do...
And their school spirit... is unsurpassed!
The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets provide... many of the US Armed Forces Officers!
And if I ever go to war... I want an Aggie on my six!
Good job on your coverage!
LOL. I can relate. So far I've bought 3 or 4 copies of the 1632 even though I can download it for free because I keep loaning it out, and you know what happens when you do that...
Jim Baen was a hell of shrewd businessman who realized that when you treat your customers like decent human beings they'll do the same to you. The music/vid industry could learn a few things from him.
AmP
Tanniker, what was your qustion about the Dragon series?
Those books went back into Ye Old Packing Crate of Paperbacks to await my locating the beginning of the series. (Actually, I just picked up "Category 7" from the library, so it'll be a while.)
If you find a 1st edition of The Dragon and the George, it is worth a pile of money.
On the other hand, this whole Heinlein thread got me looking... I found my copy of The Past Through Tomorrow, which I passed over because I'm going on vacation in a few days and I wanted something smaller to carry (like I'm actually going to find time to read!) and found a copy of "The Star Beast" from 1954. It was in a pile of books that an old couple gave me before they moved after 10 years ago. There's nothing on the copyright page to indicate that it's a reprint or 2nd or 3rd, etc printing. And the cover says that it cost 95 cents. It's just an old Ace paperback with a Steele Savage illustration on the cover and a review from the Denver Post taking up the entire back cover. This one's going into the queue.
Heh. I spent 11 years looking for a book, once.
Mr. C. is tremendous Heinlein fan. I liked Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Didn’t care for Stranger in a Strange Land, but liked some others.
Probably written by some limp-wristed, Ivy League, "Humanities" major.
“On The Bounce!”
I'm not quite that bad, but ...
In the late 90s, I picked up a few "bargain" books for about 49 cents each, figuring that if one was good, I still got my money's worth. The first one I read was "The Western King" by Ann Marston. I hadn't noticed when I picked it up that it was the 2nd book in a trilogy. Oh, well. It turned out to be a very good book, and there was only a little bit in the beginning that I did "get" right away because I hadn't read Book 1 (which took place 20 years earlier). I enjoyed the book, but really didn't think about it much afterward. Occasionally, I scanned the library and the bookstores, but I never saw her name.
Finally, it occured to me to use the library catalogue system and just reserve the other books. I got book 1 and enjoyed it as much as the second book, which I'd read about 5-6 years earlier and then read again, enjoying it even more. And the third book -- well, let's pretend that it doesn't exist.
The third book of the first trilogy suffers because of the word "first" in that description. It was okay by regular standards but sucked in comparison to books one and two. And basically, you had to read the second trilogy for any kind of closure. (This is something that was NOT true for book 1 and 2 which could stand alone.)
Anyway, I read five books (4 and 5 not much better than 3, but the story was progressing at least) and then found that neither the Brooklyn Public Library nor the New York Public Library had a copy of book six. I really didn't want to shell out ten bucks (incl shipping) to buy it from Amazon, especially if it might prove disappointing.
Finally, a librarian, who said that she was familiar with Marston's work, but whom I think had mistaken her for someone else, told me about interlibrary loans. I was able to borrow a copy from a library in Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, I think. It was the third best book in the series, but that is faint praise (although "second best" would be high praise indeed). Those are the only six books that she ever published, and I wonder if someone else had written the last four.
I haven't gone to that length to find a book since then, but it's nice to know that it's an option if I really, really want to read something obscure or out-of-print.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it - find an extant copy of “The Witches of Karres”, by Schmidt.
Naw, it was written... 
by some limp-wristed teasip.
What do University of Texas grads call the Aggies they meet after graduation?
Boss...
BTW most of my family on my late Father's side are Aggies except for my cuz Larry, a UT grad who is a millionaire. Balancing him out is my cuz David, an Aggie who is also a millionaire.
I, of course, went to six different colleges... 
and am a hundredaire several times over
Well, now you're just bragging.
He ain’t got no hunard dollars!!
Not all at once, anyways.
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