I'm delighted with this holiday practical joke: some enterprising pranksters placed a Santa hat atop a spire at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
The authorities (of course) were not amused.
FYI: Cambridge does have a long and legendary history in student pranks. It was, after all, the site of what is arguably the greatest student prank of all time.
(OK, rival Oxford! It's time to step up.)
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Babes in the woods and mastery of such high tech engineering solutions as block and tackle. Three years later the students at Caltech altered the flip card half time show at the Rose Bowl to spell out Caltech instead of Washington. During the Voyager I and II launches JPL discovered that the first response from both satellites was a message in morse code spelling out C-a-l-t-e-c-h and then the best was altering the Hollywood sign to the by now obvious Caltech sign.
One of the minor pranks they pulled off was disassembling and then reassembling a Volkswagen Bug inside the President's office. They changed all the seals and gaskets during reassembly to make sure the V-Dub didn't leak oil on the carpet.
I am quite ill at the moment, so my self-control is non-existent. Frankly, I weary of your contrarian perspective on this blog. I have only to express my enthusiasm/amusement/fascination for something for you to feel the apparent need either to one-up me or produce a critical response. Whether it's dumping on the Cambridge prank or my love of MINI Coopers -- or even likening my newly acquired Mary Janes to the shoes worn by the Wicked Witch of the West, the trend is deflating.
By the by, while I cannot speak for every woman on earth, I can say that THIS one is not amused that a man has compared her footwear to that worn by the WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST, for goodness sake. Either compliment a woman's shoes or don't say anything at all about them, because a girl goes to great trouble to choose her shoes in a labor of love.
http://madminerva.blogspot.com/2008/11/nerd-journal-shoes-for-classes-and.html
Or perhaps if one doesn't want a comment about her shoes then keep the choice to herself. Ok, I didn't notice the subheading that stated only agreeable people need comment here. Adieu!
Also I think that if you looked over my comments you will find that I agree or even expand on some of the posts have written because I found them to be interesting and well-thought out.
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