Tales from the West Texas Dust

This week, I wish to introduce a new feature that I might be doing from time to time occasionally to keep you in touch with web links relating to Texas. We inaugurate this part of our effort by exploring what the Web has to offer in regards to a quintessential Texas tradition: the traditional lambasting of Texas A&M University graduates (otherwise known to Texans as Aggies).

To understand this kind of humor, you must first understand a bit of the history and background of A&M itself. For those who are geographically illiterate (or from other nations), A&M is located in the Bryan/College Station area (you Yankees can just find Interstate 35, try to find Dallas, and move your finger south towards Austin and San Antonio, It'll be somewhere in between those two cities.). A&M was one of the first universities founded in the state and is world-renowned for several things--football, the Corps of Cadets, the traditional rivalry with the University of Texas on Turkey Day, and the home of Texas' Agricultural Extension Service.

But if you talk to any Texan about A&M, it usually won't start any real intellectual conversations. Instead, more than anything else, the more common reaction around here is the telling of what is known as an "Aggie joke". Oh, sure--you have your ethnic jokes or those that have very explicit or controversial themes. But to a Texan, none of these can withstand the quality of a good Aggie joke. It is a tradition that even some Aggies themselves indulge in (or counteract with a joke about UT or Texas Tech). It is with this in mind that I offer you a few things that I've found in case you need a good Aggie joke to impress your family, friends, or potential sweethearts at dinner parties, barbeques, etc. Ergo:

COY'S GUIDE TO AGGIE JOKE NETSURFING

(1.) The biggest common problem you will find when you start your Aggie joke search is that you might find a number of sites containing the same jokes as another site. Your main problem in this quest will be in trying to find something original and different. Don't be surprised if your netsurfing yields sites that either contain the exact same jokes as the others or the 1001 different variations of them. Just be patient and keep wading through--you'll find what you need eventually.

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