Agfan00,
You're obviously A&M's valedictorian or something and I congratulate you.
I know you are only seeing what you want to see, that UT is the same kind of oddball cult that you have in College Station, but you are missing a few points.
If someone here doesn't use "Aggy" (I rarely do), you don't have an immediate reaction from other Longhorns insisting that the term be used. Just like we don't assault strangers to campus who walk on sacred grass, we don't care that much about how other Texas fans pursue being Texas fans.
Aggy is written with a twinkle in the eye, very similar to the TCEH reference y'all use for Tech. Aggy is not spit out or the mouth like tee yew or "that school in Austin." It's merely a joke to us, kind of like the way in which Aggies claim pride in what makes them so very different.
Lastly, we're not identified by you as you are by us. We're the kinds of Texans that are pretty comfortable and content being who we are and don't worry too much about how we stack up to other people. We like irony and wit and aren't afraid to knock our university for its flaws. We don't spend our days constantly cheerleading and selling the institution of the University of Texas. The university doesn't need it and neither do we.
We're a Texas kind of a place. Sadly, A&M is the anti-Texas kind of a place. Insecure, conformist, largely humorless and unaccepting of people who don't fit in perfectly. You can hear this difference in the way a hard core Aggie says "tee yew" and the way a Longhorn says "Aggy."
You guys would fit in so much better in a backwoods town of the South instead of a backwoods town in Texas. Instead, your college is being changed slowly by young students who see the silliness of "old army." How alarming it must be that the future of your university looks a lot more like "tee yew" than Texas AMC. It's a shame so many old army Aggies are tone deaf to irony.
