Bolled over by alums, Texas Tech backs off on new seal (would've removed cotton bolls)

Lubbock Avalanche Journal ^ | 5/6/05 | Elliot Blackburn

[Army Air Corps]

The pics are on my HDD and I would have to send them via e-mail. Unless you know a way to post pics on FR without linking to a URL.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Hmmm, maybe I'm the cat that leaves gifts in the larger sandboxes?

[Army Air Corps]

Thanks! That'll give me something to do while studying for my Vietnamese final exam.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Perhaps our idea of "gift" is different? lol

[WestTexasWend]

"Ski Lubbock"

...I remember it fondly. Someone should bring back the
"Lubbock or Leave It" stickers (and plaster Smith's car with them).

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

When I was a student we could legally drink at age 18 - we were trying to get the Administration to put in a pub at the UC - I still have a tshirt iron on that says,

"Take a Regent out for a beer"

[hobson]

Ever been to Lubbock? Have you? Were your eyes wide shut?

[Deguello]

"unusual amount of rain recently"

So do you still see people fishing in the previously dry playa lakes around town?

[hispanarepublicana]

They all go to Lake Alan Henry, south of Lubbock in Garza County (Post), which among professional anglers is beginning to be regarded as among the top fishing lakes in the state.

[Deguello]

"Take a Regent out for a beer"

Uh, that wasn't you I met in Cold Water back in '79 was it?

[hispanarepublicana]

coldwater in '79? ya'll remember...what happens in coldwater, stays in coldwater

(do you have any idea how this reads for people not from here?)

met in Cold Water back in '79

[Army Air Corps]

Not as many folks fish in the playas since Lake Henry opened. Some pople still fish in Buffalo Springs Lake...

[Army Air Corps]

The nice thing about grad school is that we have the final class for a semester at Cricket's from time to time...

[Deguello]

"Not as many folks fish..."

Ya'll missed the point. The playa lakes in town would be dry until it rained. The next day you would see people in the parks with lines in the water.

[hispanarepublicana]

Here's a pic of the lake that includes a famous West Texas sunset just to make you homesick. We were on vacation at a tropical vacation spot a while back when we saw a bunch of people running toward the beach with their cameras, so we followed them (yeah, if it had been a tsunami, we'd have been S.O.L.); they were running down to take a pic of the sunset. We took one look, and thought, "whatever--we see sunsets like those in Lubbock almost every day), All the folks shooting photos of the sunset were those who live in big cities and/or where trees & block the view of the sunset.

[OKIEDOC]

Texas Tech is trying to be politically correct just like it's sister University over in left wing Austin.

[OKIEDOC]

Oh thats terrible.

Have you been to Lubbock it's a nice community out on the plains of Texas, cold in the winter and hot in the summer just the way people out there like it.

It's about time people stuck a hot rod under and up administrations butts for wasting tax dollars on changing tradition.

I see nothing wrong with Texas Techs symbol.

Next thing you know the administration will want to change the mascot from the Red Raiders to the Fighting Pink Flamingos.

I hope this post does not upset the Tip Toe Through the Tulips bisexual school administration.

[Xenalyte]

Yes, it is terrible. I've been there and I know how terrible it is, which is why I'm in Houston. ;)