SmokinDVM

[cigar no baka]

Hey WW,

College Station huh?
I visited TX A&M's Vet School there quite a few years back. Went to a bar that all the Vet school students were hanging out at, the chicken something?. Anyway, I learned not to get too drunk before a test, but CAN'T get too drunk after the test.

I bet that was the Dixie Chicken. Went to A&M for two semesters in the mid 80's and we were always going there. Don't know if it is still there or not but if it is, that's probably it.

[Drake]

I bet that was the Dixie Chicken. Went to A&M for two semesters in the mid 80's and we were always going there. Don't know if it is still there or not but if it is, that's probably it.

an aggie i work with was boo-hooing a few weeks ago because that was being closed down and all the crap on the walls on the inside was sold on ebay for a crapload.

[SmokinDVM]

That's the place.
Seems as though a lot of people visited that place, or have some kind of opinion on it.
I was there over 10 years ago, and it was explained to me to be a tradition of the Vet school students to visit there after a big test.
Oh well, so much for tradition.

[WhiteWidow]

That's the place.
Seems as though a lot of people visited that place, or have some kind of opinion on it.
I was there over 10 years ago, and it was explained to me to be a tradition of the Vet school students to visit there after a big test.
Oh well, so much for tradition.

Unfortunately many people think it is a tradition, but its just a piece of crap and has only been there for about 20 years. A&M has been there for over 125 years and my grandpa and dad didn't give a crap about some heap where you have to piss into a trough of ice.

[basil]

I was there in 1976 - 30 years ago. Don't remember a trough with ice.

[cigar no baka]

Well I have a lot of memories at the Dixie Chicken, sad to hear it's going away. But that's progress.

[SmokinDVM]

Unfortunately many people think it is a tradition, but its just a piece of crap and has only been there for about 20 years. A&M has been there for over 125 years and my grandpa and dad didn't give a crap about some heap where you have to piss into a trough of ice.

I've pissed into much worse places than a trough of ice, and was damn happy to have a place to piss.
It was tradition to the students I went with.
Somebody must have had a bad experience in there.

[WhiteWidow]

Somebody must have had a bad experience in there.

It just that I don't like that place being the stereotype for my entire school, when things like the cadets and actually having a defense should be instead. And the guy that owned it, Don Gainer, was an insult to humanity.

And Basil is correct on the age, I believe 1976 was the first year it was there, maybe 78.

[bigpoppapuff]

hmmm...i don't think white widow is happy with the dixie chicken or its owner...

[SmokinDVM]

It just that I don't like that place being the stereotype for my entire school, when things like the cadets and actually having a defense should be instead. And the guy that owned it, Don Gainer, was an insult to humanity.

And Basil is correct on the age, I believe 1976 was the first year it was there, maybe 78.

I don't think it's a stereotype for the school. It was, however, well known as a night spot that was frequented by a seemingly large number of students. It is what it was.

I remember many other things from my visit there. I wish my school had as nice of an exotics/zoo animal section.