RANDOLPH DUKE THE AGS LOVE YOU

[J.B. TexasEx]

A&M still has its trademark and horn bows out of the NCAA tournament early.

As the world turns....

 

[tejasrulz]

A&M still has its trademark and horn bows out of the NCAA tournament early.

    As the world turns....

As I stated in a different thread: "I swear aggy was more excited about our loss than their win. They have no clue how pathetic they really are. Be that said, their basketball team has the potential to make a decent run."

They win their 1st conference title in like 30 years and now they think they're friggin' Duke or North Carolina! 

 

[MikeV73]

I'm still waiting for the bearded genius to respond to my aggie QB question. I figured he was such an expert copyright/trademark wizard he might actually have some critical sports knowledge regarding his 5th place division placing team. Only wants to argue, doesn't want to actually discuss his team. I figured as much, and that prompted my questioning regarding the collies.

 

[Randolph Duke]

Here is yesterday's Houston Public Radio episode where Lomax discusses the aggy 12th trademark and the Texas Monthly article he wrote about it. It starts at the 14 minute mark.

https://soundcloud.com/houstonmatters/atlantic-drilling-halt-and-12th-man-trademark-thursdays-show-march-24-2017

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

Here is yesterday's Houston Public Radio episode where Lomax discusses the aggy 12th trademark and the Texas Monthly article he wrote about it. It starts at the 14 minute mark.

https://soundcloud.com/houstonmatters/atlantic-drilling-halt-and-12th-man-trademark-thursdays-show-march-24-2017

Houston Public Radio? How many listeners does that channel get?

"a&m was a quasi-military school..." Got a laugh outta that line!

 

[Randolph Duke]

Houston Public Radio? How many listeners does that channel get?

"a&m was a quasi-military school..." Got a laugh outta that line!

KUHF gets a respectable audience. I'm just glad to see the story make it out of the online world and into a different medium. Making the true story much more accessible during the off season will provide a lot more info for others to use this fall when the season gets closer. I am working on a few surprises for the aggys come August.

 

[BeardedTexan]

I am working on a few surprises for the aggys come August.

That's what you said about March. And yet here we are. Is August going to be a total let down as well?

 

[Randolph Duke]

That's what you said about March. And yet here we are. Is August going to be a total let down as well?

I guess we will have to wait and see, won't we?

The only thing we can be sure of is that no matter now much information to the contrary is presented to the aggys, they will continue to lie about their "tradition" and militantly embrace the fairy tale version of events.

It's amazing to learn that in some backwater farm hamlets in Texas, deep-seated low esteem trumps honesty and integrity.

I read somewhere "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Just not in College Station, Texas.

 

[doc longhorn]

I guess we will have to wait and see, won't we?

The only thing we can be sure of is that no matter now much information to the contrary is presented to the aggys, they will continue to lie about their "tradition" and militantly embrace the fairy tale version of events.

It's amazing to learn that in some backwater farm hamlets in Texas, deep-seated low esteem trumps honesty and integrity.

I read somewhere "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Just not in College Station, Texas.

You're just resentful because aggy didn't give you a gold Trans Am.

 

[streettopeschel]

Why UT fans give two shits about this, much less spend time researching it, mystifies me.

 

[MBHORNSFAN]

 

[MikeV73]

You're just resentful because aggy didn't give you a gold Trans Am.

They gave that gold Trans Am to Officer Poncherello of the California Highway Patrol.

 

[Randolph Duke]

I have started working on the research for this year's Memorial Day aggy tribute. I find it amusing that such a highly esteemed military academy, whose focus is on teaching engineering, produces so many graduates who don't know a $#@!ing thing related to the military or about engineering. So, this year, we will discuss Trench Warfare of WWI.

For the uninitiated, last year an aggy came up with the claim that his grandfather was the author of their school song where they obsess about "sawing varsity's horns off." As with any story related to aggy that talks of their greatness and their glory, the aggys utterly failed to question whether any of the story was actually true. Just before Memorial Day last year, I penned a piece that raised just a few questions (which, in typical aggy fashion, the aggys have left unanswered).

Noted aggy professor and historian Henry Dethloff explains the origins of the song on page 60 of his history of the school:

So, we know from Professor Dethloff that the aggy school song was written by a Marine slacking off on guard duty after hostilities ended following WWI. I am not sure what the punishment would be today for a Marine assigned to guard duty in occupied territory slacking off and writing songs, but for aggys, evidently it's a terdition.

The ags have a version of events far removed from Professor Dethloff's version which includes storming of hills, flying bullets, bombs bursting in air and aggys being the only people fighting to save their country. In the new version, in the final days of the war, with the enemy in full retreat and the Americans (all aggys, of course) pushed to their limits trying to keep up with the retreating Germans, the aggys stopped to build defensive fortifications in a driving rain storm. It was in one of these waterlogged trenches, by a Marine seeking shelter from retreating Germans, that the ags claim their school song was written.

For Memorial Day, we will examine the facts a little closer and discuss the basics of trenches in WWI.

 
 

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

 

[streettopeschel]

Good grief

 

[MBHORNSFAN]

 

[BeardedTexan]

Wow, this might actually turn out worse than the abortion that was the Texas Monthly blog post.

 

[BeardedTexan]

For Memorial Day, we will examine the facts a little closer and discuss the basics of trenches in WWI.

Randolph Duke, letting everyone down once again.

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

Randolph Duke, letting everyone down once again.

You, in particular. Right, aggy?

 

[BeardedTexan]

I was actually looking forward to the drivel that is a Randolph Duke post. It's always good for a laugh.