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Claim: Photograph shows Texas A&M bookstore windows boarded up from the wrong side in advance of Hurricane Rita.
Examples: [Collected on the Internet, 2005]
Origins: Students and others associated with Texas A&M University (known as "Aggies") in College Station, Texas, are often the butt of regional humor portraying them as dumb hicks. (University of Texas and Texas A&M students trade jokes casting each other as buffoons, just as here in southern California the same jokes circulate with versions featuring either USC or UCLA students.) The image displayed above (taken from a student web site on which several other pictures of the same scene are displayed) is in that vein, a spoof of the familiar MasterCard "Priceless" commercials supposedly showing an Our assumption proved to be correct (i.e., the store's windows could not support exterior-mounted plywood, so the boards were placed inside to protect the shop floor from glass shards), as the project director at Loupot's informed us:
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 a "good Ag" suggested saving the store from a major cleanup and letting the glass go — it wasn't a difficult decision to make!
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