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TexasTowelie

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Thu Nov 9, 2017, 07:42 AM Nov 2017

High-roller Aggies spend big for hotel 'room option' on Texas A&M campus

The process began with $10,000 just to enter the auction.

Opening bids ranged from $125,000 to $475,000.

What’s at stake? Priceless art? Rare antiquities? High-end luxury goods?

No. What you win is the right to pay to stay at a hotel room across from Kyle Field on the Texas A&M campus.

This is not an Aggie joke. No, this is serious money for Texas A&M University.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/local/high-roller-aggies-spend-big-for-room-option-texas-campus/JCScisktiipdHPNFQ7uogP/

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High-roller Aggies spend big for hotel 'room option' on Texas A&M campus (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2017 OP
Obviously those folks need a tax cut exboyfil Nov 2017 #1
Bigly. TexasTowelie Nov 2017 #2
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