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Aggie Hurricane Preparedness
Claim: Photograph shows Texas Aa:tM bookstore windows boarded up
from the wrong side in advance of Hurricane Rita.
Status: Rea! photo; inaccurate description.
Examples: jCollected on the Internet, 2005]
was wondering if this photo is real, or if the people at Texas A&M
deserve their reputations as idiots...
Oh my goodness! This is hilarious! Damn Aggies..always good for a
laugh!
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http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/aggie.asp 12/13/2005
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Plywood to protect your store from Hurricane Rita ... $200
Supplies to hang the plywood ... $50
Using your Aggie education to hang the plywood on the wrong side of
the windows ...PRICELESS!
Origins: Students and others associated with Texas A£tM University
(known as "Aggies") in College Station, Texas, are often the butt of
regional humor portraying them as dumb hicks. (University of Texas and
Texas A&tM students trade jokes casting each other as buffoons, just as
here in southern California the same jokes circulate with versions
featuring either USC or UCLA students.) The image displayed above
(taken from a student web site on which several other i tures of the
same scene are displayed) is in that vein, a spoof of the familiar
MasterCard "Priceless" commercials supposedly showing an
A£tM-associated store (Loupot's Bookstore) whose owner presumably
boarded up the "wrong" side of the shop's windows (i.e., the interior
rather than the exterior) to prevent them from breaking when
Hurricane Rita hit the Gulf Coast in September 2005. Without more
contextual information, however, we could also assume that the
proprietors were resigned to window breakage and were most
concerned about keeping shattered glass out of the store, and
therefore they deliberately boarded it up from the inside. .
Our assumption proved to be correct (i.e., the store's windows could
not support exterior-mounted plywood, so the boards were placed
inside to protect the shop floor from glass shards), as the project
director at Loupot's informed us:
Our windows will not support the weight of plywood screwed into
their frames - neither is there sufficient masonry wall
surrounding them for an attachment -therefore our contractor
a "good Ag" suggested saving the store from a major cleanup
and letting the glass go - it wasn't a difficult decision to make!
Additional information:
http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/aggie.asp 12/13/2005