Fortunately for the Houston/Galveston area Hurricane Rita weakened and veered north of it’s original projected path, but the Aggies in College Station were prepared if it came their way.
Loupot’s, the school bookstore, boarded up their windows in a fine example of Aggie Engineering.
Aggie jokes don’t get much easier than this. This sure hasn’t been a very good week to be an Aggie, though I’m not sure there’s ever a good time for that.
Click here to view their genius full-sized.
Update
Just had a response from the bookstore forwarded to me in an email:
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, suggested saving the store from a major cleanup and letting the glass go. It wasn’t a difficult decision to make!
Thank you for your interest,
Suzanne Pledger
I have no idea about it’s authenticity but it sure sounds like something an Aggie would say. They have a reason for everything.
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Elian
September 27th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
MAN Alive, hire some UTEP engineers because this just isn’t right.
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Scott Smaistrla
September 28th, 2005 at 11:54 am
Sounds like backwards Aggie Engineering if you ask me!!!
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop!
Gig em’ Ags!
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An Aggie
September 28th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
Oh come on now, you wouldn’t want some tsip to come along and steal the ply wood! It SHOULD be inside 😀
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mike
September 28th, 2005 at 9:12 pm
Vince is god ya feel me
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Matt
September 29th, 2005 at 7:28 am
Tsips: these are the same people that said that the Aggies do not know how to build a camp fire after the Bonfire Tragedy. Face it, Tsips are classless!
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Brian
September 29th, 2005 at 9:00 am
Actually, a Texas A&M student is the one who took the photos and started the whole thing but good try Matt. And after the bonfire tragedy many UT student groups and the university as a whole organized quickly and donated a ton of money to the victims.
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Raulph Jamerson
October 1st, 2005 at 9:52 am
Why would you do all that to protect one book?
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Pat Braswell
October 2nd, 2005 at 2:01 pm
Amazing how many people fell for this…..and they tell jokes about Aggies??????
Gig ‘Em!
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Brian
October 2nd, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Hate to break it to you Pat but there’s four different photos of different windows. Good try though buddy, and congrats on the hard fought victory over the mighty Baylor Bears yesterday.
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Craig
October 4th, 2005 at 11:36 am
Lets’ think about this for a minute, so if the outside windows can’t support the weight of the plywood; then the magical inside windows can? How was the plywood attached inside? With magical inside screws? Lady – the glass doesn’t support the weight of the opening, the window’s mullions do. If a force such as wind were to put pressure against the glass and inside plywood, causing the glass to shatter. The screws attaching the plywood would be pulled off in an instant. The plywood must be on the outside to suppress the force of the wind BEFORE it reaches the glass.
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BJ
October 5th, 2005 at 3:06 am
Raulph Jamerson
Why would you do all that to protect one book?
Because it’s the Aggie joke book!
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Gailla Ward
October 5th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Aggie… lol… Backward construction..They can kiss that book good-bye!!
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texas longhorns stink
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:27 am
well, the texas longhorns are not i repeat NOT as good as the aggies
The Aggies know you NV us
GO AGGIES
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chris
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:58 am
Q) Anyone here know what a Aggie cocktail is?
A) Its a glass of water with a booger in it.
Remove comment #14 on the grounds that it looks like an 8th grader wrote it.