Great stuff below

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Subject: RE: Ouch!


> Well, even though it wasn't 9/26/01, nor was it Jim Rome, it is
nonetheless
> true and warms my heart knowing that UT's (or perhaps TU  is  actually
more
> correct..."The University") margin of victory will be 30...on their home
> turf.  Hear me now, believe me later.  Let's pool some $$$ together to
keep
> RC at atm...
>
> Happy Thanksgiving y'all.  And to everyone I know on this email, I'm
> thankful for our friendship.
>
> Hook 'em
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stanzel, Mike [mailto:MStanzel@icgcommerce.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:10 AM
> To: Andrew Hamilton McCaig (E-mail); Andrew Barton Bradford (E-mail); Mark
> McBride Macatee (E-mail); Joel Lawrence Bush (E-mail); John Harbin Robuck
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> Subject: Ouch!
>
> Have a Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy Jim Rome's column below. Might as well
> get this thing started early.....
>
>
> This was heard on Jim Rome's radio show today (9-26-01). For those of you
> who don't know who Rome is, he is a nationally syndicated sports talk show
> personality based in California with no other connections to Texas.  You
> see, ESPN is spending the season following the A & M Football team for
some
> documentary.  Well, I guess Rome has something to say about the Aggies &
> College Station.
>
> Here is goes:
>
> "They won't shut up. They have to go on about spirit, and old army, and
red
> ass, and how bonfire represents the burning sensation they have in their
> urine to beat UT, and blah blah blah. Shut up. You start to get the
feeling
> the entire school was built to spite UT. Forget the fact that when the
> Texas Legislature back in the 1870's passed legislation to start a state
> university they also decided to have a subsidiary branch of the main
> school(University of Texas) that would teach agriculture and mechanics.
> Aggies love to say their school is older, from where they get that I don't
> now......the fact is, the State intended A&M to be a branch of UT. They
are
> like the afterbirth from the original creation. Like Danny Devito in
> "Twins".
>
> So they apparently have this complex, so much so, that they must devote
> their entire school to trying to prove to UT that they are just as good.
> All the while, nobody at UT denies that A&M is a good school, yet they
> won't shut up. So they write a fight song ...... about? ....Texas, and how
> they want to beat them. They have a Fish Camp for freshman where they tell
> them how bad Texas is and how good A&M and all its traditions are. It is
> the world's largest known case of penis envy, and it is manifested in
> everything A&M does.
>
> The people at A&M. Now we all have friends who went to A&M or are at A&M.
> There are some nice people there. However...there is the Corp.   East
> Texas' answer to dreams of ROTC kids everywhere. For every boy scout who
> never learned to stop playing with his GI Joe Toys, there is the Corp.
Now,
> forget the fact that A&M will actually let people with sub-par grades
> enroll if they agree to join the Corp. Forget the fact that the Corps
> looked like a Gestapo hate rally while beating down students on Kyle Field
> in 1995. Forget the fact that along with the numerous hazing charges that
> have been filed against them, and swept under the rug over the years, they
> just this past month  have had one Corps member bring charges against
> another Corps member who apparently had been propositioning others for a
> little actual sodomy.
>
> Not only could I go on with more instances of idiocracy by these
> Khaki-clad-shaven-headed-dorks, I am sure each of you have your own
> stories. The point is: We all respect West Point, Annapolis, The Air Force
> Academy; however, nobody respects the Corp. I imagine they are kind of the
> laughing stock of the military world. Just because you dress like the
Army,
> and try and act like the Army, does not make you the Army. People at A&M
> don't even respect these clowns. It is not cool to shave your head and
> dress up.  Halloween is only supposed to be one day of the year. If you
> want to carry guns and beat up civilians, move to Israel.
>
> It is even less cool to slobber on somebody's daughter on national
> television and call it a tradition. Dry humping 18 year old girls in the
> stands at football games is not cool. Not only is it not cool, it should
be
> against the law. I know that in College Station, students are just prone
to
> mount each other on the campus lawn, or in the middle of class, or anytime
> anything good happens you can just grab the girl sitting next to you and
> start sucking on her face. But everywhere else in the world, it is looked
> down upon. Especially if you are doing it on my TV. That is why we have
> moved the game from Thanksgiving.   Because people across the nation were
> gagging on their turkey when in the middle of watching a football game,
> some boy scout is tongue thrashing some overweight co-ed during somebody's
> Thanksgiving dinner. We do not need to see burly women engaged in a
> suckfest every time your woeful offense manages to put points on the
board.
> Some of these girls are in desperate need of a trip to the Clinique
> counter. Screw that, forget make-up, it is too late for that, just give
> them a veil. "t.u." is not funny. It is NOT insulting. It is dumb. Just
> imagine if folks from Texas kept talking about M&A and giggling. That
would
> not be funny. In fact, it would be retarded. That's why UT fans don't do
> it.Please learn.
>
> You want to lose the image of country bumpkins, of a people fond of sheep,
> of people that aren't stupid? Then quit building things that fall down.
> Quit chasing cheerleaders around with swords on national TV. Quit whooping
> in church. Quit whooping period. Quit putting up scoreboardsfor the
> enjoyment of dead mammals. Quit spending your Friday nights practicing how
> to yell. Quit telling rape jokes to reporters when you're running for
> Governor.   When you are filling out season ticket renewals, and the form
> asks for your phone #, H & W, quit putting 258-3999, Height 6'3", Weight
> 185. Just, collectively, stop making asses of yourselves. Go to East
Texas,
> tour every small town, and ask every red neck with a 5th grade education
> whythey cheer for A&M and wear maroon. That is your fan base. This is why
> you are perceived by the educated masses as stupid.
>
> Nobody cares if you think your band is better. They might be louder, they
> might march in neat little zig zags, but they have no musical ability. The
> point is, nobody cares who wins halftime. Quit getting geeked up about
> marching bands. I find it hard to believe you stood through your high
> school band's entire halftime performance. And why? Cause nobody cared
then
> and nobody cares now. Plus, you can hear them fine sitting down even if
you
> do care. Why is it cool all of a sudden now that you're in college?
>
> Men should never let out high pitched whooping sounds.   Perhaps the only
> justifiable situation in which this can be tolerated is perhaps during an
> anal probe. Oh wait...I understand now.
>
> Dogs are not ladies. They don't look or smell like ladies. Dogs eat their
> own feces and should be treated accordingly.
>
> Finally, College Station is an arm-pit of a town. Quit pretending that it
> is a great college town. It is a town and there is a college there. That
> should be the end of this comparison. If you feel that life doesn't get
any
> better than the Dixie Chicken, and enjoy being stuck in a never ending
> "Dukes of Hazard" episode, then move there. More importantly, don't move
to
> Austin.....they are trying to create an educated, technological, and open
> minded population base. Austin is, and will continue to be, the birthplace
> and final resting place of all that is cool.  As my friend Stephen Johnson
> once said: "If the world were ever to get an enema, College Station is
> where you would connect the hose." If you go to school at A&M, please
don't
> be an Aggie. God Bless the Great State of Texas.
>
>
>
>
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