\m/ Hook'em
Whoop!
What’s the favorite new drink in College Station??.....Perrier and Water. (This is an oldie but still one of ny favorites)
“\m/ Hook’em”
I thought it was \m/ Hook’em horns!
Members of its Corps of Cadets have served our country valiantly. 14,123 Aggies served as commissioned officers in WWII, more than the combined totals of both Annapolis and West Point.
The school has perhaps more traditions than any other (Google "Aggie Muster" for a FR-worthy one).
On the other hand, God help the GOP if there's a photo hanging around of proud Corps of Cadets member Rick Perry engaging in the proud Aggie tradition of "Squeeze 'em, Ags."
Proud Aggie Grad Here!
I’ve voted for Perry more than twice. Sigh. He always manages to be less worse than his opponents. The same would be true if he gets a shot at Obama.
That said, THIS Aggie Grad is looking forward to energetically supporting Sarah Palin!
Sharp and Perry were at TX A&M together, with history as friends, competitors, "enemies" and now friends again.
Rick Perry started as a Democrat in West Texas (that was THE only party). He served in the Texas legislature - was known as one of the "pit bulls," conservative members who sat in the lower pit of the House Appropriations Committee and bitterly fought spending increases.
Perry changed parties in 1989, joining Phil Gramm and other conservative Texas Democrats, who now had a true ideological party with a burgeoning Texas GOP.
When Perry campaigned for Lt. Gov. [1998], he and his campagin staff were in it to win and his hard-nosed style was against the "friendly" advice and request of GWB and Rove to run easy against Sharp, a popular democrat (and Aggie friend of Perry's from their A&M years together). Rove wanted to broaden Bush's base for his upcoming White House run. Perry told them where to stick their advice, because he knew the voters would vote for Bush and then cross back over and vote for Sharp (D) if he just walked through the motions like the Bush-Rove team asked him to do.
Perry won the seat for Lt. Gov. -- the first GOP elected to that office since reconstruction. Now 13 years later and into his 3rd term as Texas governor, the GOP holds a super majority. So Perry has earned his conservative spurs -- fighting both parties!
[The Bushes and Rove supported Kay Bailey Hutchison's 2010 primary challenge against Gov. Perry this last election too--which he won and then went on to win the general election]
Aggies class rings: makes ‘em easier to spot when they’re pickin’ their noses...
Tradition says that A&M may get outscored on the field, but we never lose halftime. I was a *mortal* sports enemy of Texas until they day in 1999 when the Longhorn Band won halftime. I will never forget the class y'all showed that horrible week.
I guess we’re in for a whole new crop of Aggie jokes.