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Ex-newspapers, now alumni comms. Texas Aggie '94. I write a lot about Texas A&M and its history: linktr.ee/aggiejournalist. Known to emit Muppet noises.
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Mom said she was not impressed because she expected no less š¤£š¤£ā¤ļøā¤ļø
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I mean, you did pretty good considering *gestures at everything*
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Now singing this š
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yessss. semi-related, I have a patented spiel where I explain that the "news talk" shows are not news. Unless the people on that show pass a law or do a crime while on air, etc., none of it is "news." It's simply yelling
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Honestly agree and used to grumble about this at my old paper. Readers and sources blamed us on the news side constantly for whatever was on the op-ed page (which was a range, so it was going to anger a range of folks too)
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Nooooooooooo
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iām so sorry for spamming your timeline with stable journalism jobs but we have yet another opening at texas monthly, this time for a mid-career senior editor (7+ years experience) focused on travel, outdoors, service, maybe sports as a bonus www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...
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We do need the fur family! And good people to lean on. Thank you, and I'm so sorry about your dear cattle dog ā¤ļø
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Yep. It manifested as having a cry over missing my longtime buddy (pictured) but i think it's really a lot of stuff. Sending you hugs!
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Shakespeare sidekick š¤£š¤£š¤£ that's awesome. One neat feature of the monitors was how they would sometimes literally start emitting smoke!
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You are wonderful, thank you! So no "fish" meaning "recruits" until the Civil War began? (Which, obviously, they were recruiting an extraordinary number at that time, and language changes a lot in such periods!)
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You were so kind to offer - please let me offer to allow you off the hook; I would love to know if there's anyone you think might be a good source for me to try! You've got to be concerned with many other things in these days
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Blackberry Dr Pepper might actually lure me
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Surely unrelated, but I never had looked up the "23 skiddoo" origin before, and it seems almost as mysterious and widespread š¤£ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_skid...
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And great fun we had with them. All TAMU dorm room phones began with 847, and nothing else did, so you could do things like randomly dial 847 numbers and poll fellow students on burning topics such as "Boxers or briefs?" Facebook had nothing on us. š¤£
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We just enjoyed sitting there in the sun. As I recall, we would redo our outgoing answering machine message to say "We're studying on the hill," which meant "Come find us, we're sitting on a blanket watching boys play basketball." š¤£š¤£
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So, so good. First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect. Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect.
Gotta love a man who can handle meter well.
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I'll see if I can't find out! It had a better H than American Scribe, which was useful in this instance
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and then.... okay I thought I had the ones used for this new web story but i can't find them. I'll ask around!
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First let me put on the record what the fonts are in this image, designed by Brandon Cozart '03 for AggieNetwork.com, which was the inspiration for the Muster package's design - we all love this image and it's widely used:
cursive = American Scribe roman = Attic Antique
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Extremely kind of you! This is book research for me, and Iām very grateful.
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Oh my goodness, you're wonderful! "Fresh fish" meaning recruits. There are post-war recollections from both sides saying they used this during the war - I was wondering if it goes back farther (especially since both sides used it!)
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š It was once so livable
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We used to have so much food š¤£
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That makes good sense
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I don't know of any in B-CS that I can think of right now - I'll update if i learn of one or someone corrects me! I hear that Magnolia Cafe and Kerbey Lane in Austin are (mostly) no longer 24-hr, and I don't know what to do with this sadness. Why the trend?
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You're so right! I think it opened in the '70s? Folks were saying it was the oldest continuous CS business when it closed recently
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šš»āāļø I very much want to read about this!
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I'm not sure - and i don't see anybody from the TAMU System in this first story - maybe in a followup!
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ngl I'd be mad if I were Ole Miss but we hung in there and it paid off!!
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On a smaller scale, I hear anecdotally that it could mean TAMU has to rename the Women's Chorus choir