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Today I gave Reveille a toy monkey as a gift. She sniffed at it for a second, then turned her head away deeming it unworthy. It saddened me greatly. One day I will impress her...one day.

"those darn 'sips..."

Yes, yes...the rumor's are true: tu is in fact suing Aggieland Outfitters, a popular clothing company in College Station, over the "saw 'em off" logo. tu's Board of Regents is suing because they claim "the similarities among the marks and the goods are so great to create a likelihood of confusion". You serious? I mean seriously. Seriously? Dear heavens. Board of Regents of tu, I just have two questions for you. First, why did you wait a full decade to do this? Couldn't you have consider suing a wee bit earlier? Second, don't you have other things to worry about? Are you really sitting around your conference table, twiddling your thumbs and so bored out of your minds that you decide to sue over a rivalry? Interestingly enough, you decided to file the suit just days after we BTHO you in football. Hmmm...

Honestly, I'm happy they are suing. The more poop they throw at A&M the better. Perhaps we can then sue tu for making their own "saw 'em off" shirts. Their shirts, however, had a picture of Reveille with her legs cutt off (which I have to admit made me chuckle a bit).



I heard about the lawsuit as I was working on accounting (my new hobby) in the class center. Claire shouted out in exclamation after reading the Batt, "Oh my gosh...are you serious? Are they really going to sue over the 'saw 'em off' logo?" Across the room we heard Mama reply, "Oh yes dear. Those darn 'sips did the same thing to me a few years ago also." Claire and I both looked at each other with perplexed faces. Does Mama have another story for us today? We stood up and walked over to her desk as she told her story.

Apparently back in the early nineties after a tu game in Austin, Mama had an idea - she was going to make the "saw 'em off" logo by taking a longhorn car decal and cutting off the horns. She succesfully cut the horns off and placed it on her car. After a few weeks, Mama got many compliments from friends about her new decal; everyone thought it was witty. She then took the idea even further by designing the logo, patenting it, and selling it through her athletic clothing company (a company I had no idea she owned...she's full of surprises I tell you). She made quite a profit - a commonality among the Wehner family. However, back in the ol' army days, the logo said in maroon "hook this!" instead of "saw 'em off".

At the end of her story Mama said, "I think I have those files somewhere around here. Give me a minute and I'll try to find them, dear." After digging around in her purse she pulled out a brown envelope holding two floppy disks laballed "Hook this! #1" and "Hook this! #2". No lie.

Unfortunately, I was never able to look at the files because there were no compatible floppy drives in the class center. Too bad, huh?

Whatever the case, if you ever wonder where the "saw 'em off" logo came from, be sure to think of Mama Wehner. I know I will now.

Oh mama...you make me laugh. I look forward to the day you say "dirty hippies" again when you talk about tu.

Makes me Laugh Everytime

This picture from Flo Bowl cracks me up EVERY time I see it. On the left is my friend Stacey who owns at every sport known to man. On the right is some girl from another FLO...who looks like she's about to die.

So funny...