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Leanderman

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  1. The Texas Quote of the Day:

    "Will Rogers never met Barry Switzer."

    ----- Darrell Royal, former coach of the Texas Longhorns football team, talking about the former coach of the Oklahoma Sooners football team.

  2. As has been discussed before the pup doctor school in gomersville has slipped in their rankings big time as well. The aggie solution lets expand our population base and throw more tax payer money at the problem.

  3. The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:

    On December 26, 1993, Reveille VI, the future Texas A&M mascot, was kidnapped from her handler's family home in Dallas. She was four months old.

    Both Reveille V and VI were staying with Mascot Corporal John Lively's family's home in Dallas ahead of the New Year's Day Cotton Bowl game against Notre Dame. Reveille VI was let outside in the fenced backyard early in the morning, according to The Bryan-College Station Eagle newspaper. When a family member went to let her back in the house, she was gone.

    Lively and other E-2 cadets spent the next few days searching for Reveille before notifying A&M officials on Dec. 29. The alleged kidnappers, who called themselves the "Rustlers," contacted the Austin-American Statesman and demanded a ransom: "A&M had to publicly announce that Reveille had been stolen and state that UT was superior to A&M," according to The Eagle.

    Reveille was valued at more than $750 so her abduction was classified as a third-degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.

    The puppy was returned Dec. 31. She was found tied to a sign post near Lake Travis. It was the first time an A&M mascot had been stolen by a rival school.

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