re: Now I'm nervous

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I know, I know, but they're actually good people when isolated from their cult. It's when you get more than two of them together that their eyes glaze over and they start marching lock step, doing stupid hand signals, saying gibberish like "Gig'em" "Whoop" and "Saw 'em off".

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This had me cracking up at work. I had to join for the sole purpose of saying how very true that is. I LOVED my time at A&M, but I'd probably qualify as a two-percenter (someone who doesn't fully embrace every single A&M tradition, no matter how ridiculous) in the eyes of some Aggies. I'm not the typical Aggie: long, blonde surfer hair, came from out of state, moved to California after I graduated, etc. BUT, if you put me in a room with a half dozen Aggies, I'll start saying nonsensical things like hullabaloo and gig 'em. I can't help it dammit!

Being an Aggie is like being a Christian: 95% of them are normal, cool, intelligent, great people, but the extremists (the Corps comes to mind) are the ones that get the most attention and TV time, so they give the whole organization a bad name. So I guess football games are our version of Church, the yell leaders the pastor; the weirdos get to rule the roost Still love it though.