I was a valedictorian. Not only could I have gone to Texas, but my tuition would have been waived. Told them to **** off.

does anyone know how old the guy is?

Don't be jelly

53ish. tu class of 84 IIRC.

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But of course.

As an example, imagine Vince Young's house burned down. My first thought would be "damn that's too bad."

If JFF's house burned down, they would have MS Paint jokes about it posted within the hour.

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That might be true for you, but if you think there isn't a large amount of posters on this board who would whip out the crylol smileys as soon as they heard about VYs house burning down, you're lying to yourself.

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If only Texas A&M did as wonderful a job of honoring the fallen of WWI as the sips. Then we could have a fountain that we pretend was built to honor WWI vets with this lovely little dedication:

"To the men and women of the Confederacy, who fought with valor and suffered with fortitude, that States Rights be maintained, and who not dismayed by defeat nor discouraged by misrule, builded [sic.] from the ruins of a devastating war a greater South. And to the men and women of the nation who gave of their possessions and of their lives, that free government be made secure to the peoples of the Earth, this memorial is dedicated.

The Gift of George W. Littlefield, Solider in the Confederate Army, Leader in Texas Industry, Regent of the University"

Not quite what those liars claim: http://www.texasexes.org/uthistory/campus-tour.aspx?tourstop=0

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The spelling "builded" was correct usage.

And it is a lovely dedication. That it is not politically approbated currently, or that the Longhorns by historical sleight-of-hand disavow it, informs to no effect the nature of the sentiment expressed.

That we accept today's reality should not require us to reject an honest past.

Once I was certain that no one was hurt, I would be keen to see if he had been using the toaster to dry his clothes. But.......I would not use the laugh/cry emoticon.

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If only Texas A&M did as wonderful a job of honoring the fallen of WWI as the sips. Then we could have a fountain that we pretend was built to honor WWI vets with this lovely little dedication:

"To the men and women of the Confederacy, who fought with valor and suffered with fortitude, that States Rights be maintained, and who not dismayed by defeat nor discouraged by misrule, builded [sic.] from the ruins of a devastating war a greater South. And to the men and women of the nation who gave of their possessions and of their lives, that free government be made secure to the peoples of the Earth, this memorial is dedicated.

The Gift of George W. Littlefield, Solider in the Confederate Army, Leader in Texas Industry, Regent of the University"

Not quite what those liars claim: http://www.texasexes.org/uthistory/campus-tour.aspx?tourstop=0

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The spelling "builded" was correct usage.

And it is a lovely dedication. That it is not politically approbated currently, or that the Longhorns by historical sleight-of-hand disavow it, informs to no effect the nature of the sentiment expressed.

That we accept today's reality should not require us to reject an honest past.

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That fountain was unveiled in 1933. Nearly 70 years after the Civil War had concluded. Even the artist knew that former slave owner's design was a mistake.

Go wave your confederate flag elsewhere.

whatever.

The point here is that they tout the fountain as a WW1 Memorial, when it is a civil war memorial. There's nothing wrong with the inscription... and dont give me any **** that the civil war was fought over slavery.

About the fountain. It does have the Confederate inscription:

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To the men and women of the Confederacy, who fought with valor and suffered with fortitude that states' rights be maintained and who, not dismayed by defeat nor discouraged by misrule, builded from the ruins of a devastating war a greater South and to the men and women of the nation who gave of their possessions and of their lives [so] that free government be made secure to the peoples of the earth this memorial is dedicated.

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Littlefield was pissed by the northerners redefining what the South and the Confederacy were all about. So he wanted a monument to the confedereacy and saw Utx as a southern university. The artist, an italian, however wanted Littlefield to make the fountain a part of a bigger monument to the divisiveness of the Civil war that was later healed by the unity of the US during the Great War. He wanted pillars and statues of Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson to flank the central figure, Columbia.

Littlefield soon died in 1920. It appears that the president of the school resisted both Littlefields vision in full and that of the artist and moved the statues to other areas of the campus. The inscription still stands and it is an irritant to them now.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2015-05-29/written-in-stone/

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(The official name of which "Frank Erwin Center for Entertainment and Sports" or "F.E.C.E.S.")

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(The official name of which "Frank Erwin Center for Entertainment and Sports" or "F.E.C.E.S.")

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Damn you! I actually looked that up.

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When it opened, it was the "Special Events Center" or SEC. A few years later Erwin died and they renamed it. One of the suggested names was "Frank Erwin Center for Events and Sports." Until someone pointed out FECES acronym. That idea didn't make the final cut.

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Damn you! I actually looked that up.

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When it opened, it was the "Special Events Center" or SEC. A few years later Erwin died and they renamed it. One of the suggested names was "Frank Erwin Center for Events and Sports." Until someone pointed out FECES acronym. That idea didn't make the final cut.

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Should have called is ***gotland.

Eat your heart out Randy

A&M commits website to explaining the 12th Man origins, and why it's unique to Texas A&M

Royal was the AD at the time it was built and then renamed. He told one of his buddies about it, laughing, of course, at how close they had come to naming it that.

That buddy was a good friend and client of mine. He told me about it. It never came up the few times I was in Royal's presence.

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Eat your heart out Randy

A&M commits website to explaining the 12th Man origins, and why it's unique to Texas A&M

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I'm sure he will be on DefCon Alert when he finds out about this. It is primarily a rehash of what was already on the TAMU tradition web-site.

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Eat your heart out Randy

A&M commits website to explaining the 12th Man origins, and why it's unique to Texas A&M

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I'm sure he will be on DefCon Alert when he finds out about this. It is primarily a rehash of what was already on the TAMU tradition web-site.

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Eat your heart out Randy

A&M commits website to explaining the 12th Man origins, and why it's unique to Texas A&M

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I'm sure he will be on DefCon Alert when he finds out about this. It is primarily a rehash of what was already on the TAMU tradition web-site.

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Not sure what his argument will be; but since he's used the word "fraudulent" ever since he was first proven wrong.

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He will exhort some other shag poster to file a FOIA request, no doubt.

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That guy is as dumb as a post. Given the amount of $$$ NFL teams make and how much they can profit from marketing they would have sued A&M if our trademark was "fraudulent". NFL teams are looking at marketable items over the long haul, they had no ground to stand on for a lawsuit so they changed their marketing. Even Texas is enforcing their trademarks and the shag lost its damn name. He's legal knowledge could barely fill a thimble.

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Eat your heart out Randy

A&M commits website to explaining the 12th Man origins, and why it's unique to Texas A&M

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I'm sure he will be on DefCon Alert when he finds out about this. It is primarily a rehash of what was already on the TAMU tradition web-site.

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Not sure what his argument will be; but since he's used the word "fraudulent" ever since he was first proven wrong.

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He will exhort some other shag poster to file a FOIA request, no doubt.

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Which could be fulfilled by a link to the 12thman.com website.

Our esteemed colleague has spoken:

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Lol. Do you really think those lying idiots are going to answer any of my questions honestly? The entirety of the **** "traditions" are built on dishonesty.

Does anyone even see an opportunity to ask questions of give feedback?

Those chicken$#@! $#@!s. No opportunity to ask about E King Gill's 1964 muster speech when he explained the whole "12th man" thing was a fantasy.

Typical scared **** pieces of $#@!. Lying *******s. Chicken$#@! *******s.

Not very surprising they left this out of their timeline. $#@! ****.

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Lol. Do you really think those lying idiots are going to answer any of my questions honestly? The entirety of the **** "traditions" are built on dishonesty.

Does anyone even see an opportunity to ask questions of give feedback?

Those chicken$#@! $#@!s. No opportunity to ask about E King Gill's 1964 muster speech when he explained the whole "12th man" thing was a fantasy.

Typical scared **** pieces of $#@!. Lying *******s. Chicken$#@! *******s.

Not very surprising they left this out of their timeline. $#@! ****.

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How many hours did that pooooooor worthless ******* Randell spend scouring the microfiche in the College Station library to find that article?

He just can't come to grips with how our traditions evolve organically while all of theirs are quite contrived.

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I don't see wtf is incriminating in that article. Is it the fact that Gill downplayed it? It's well known that he was a humble man.

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Do you honestly think the word "humble" is even in Duke's vocabulary???? Much less the whole concept?????


He would never understand a man or woman who was self-deprecating. Now that I think about, there aren't many sips who have ever had that quality. Our esteemed colleague is made in the mold that way.

I haven't heard that story...

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jesus, he is absolutely seething in that last reply. he seems less and less stable lately. hopefully this season is so bad for them and also so great for us that he finally ends it all.

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