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One Ring Rules the MIT Dome 234

Posted by Hemos from the awesome dept.
Patiwat Panurach writes "The Great Dome of MIT was overtaken on the morning of Monday the 17th by a great golden ring, inscribed in red Elvish with text that translates to: "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them." The hackers were apparently not completely successful, for neither the Great Dome nor Building 10 managed to vanish into the realm of shadows."
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  • Way more impressive than my tribute (Score:3, Funny)

    by typical geek ( 261980 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:37PM (#2728652) Homepage
    all I did was bite off my ring finger.

  • R2D2 (Score:1, Informative)

    by xinu ( 64069 )
    I saw that on my way into work this morning and flashed back to when they did the dome up as r2d2 years ago...

  • The ring IS working! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Victor Danilchenko ( 18251 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:39PM (#2728668)
    It's making hacks.mit.edu [mit.edu] server disappear...
    • Little known fact: The slashdot effect is actually the unleashing of the devasting effects of the ring.
      Even lesser known fact: CowboyNeal is Frodo.

    • It's making hacks.mit.edu [mit.edu] server disappear...

      Don't worry, you are not missing out on much - its just a yellow banner with red text placed around the dome.

      They could at least have used mirror gold banner material.

  • Buildings (Score:4, Funny)

    by sulli ( 195030 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:40PM (#2728670) Journal
    The hackers were apparently not completely successful, for neither the Great Dome nor Building 10 managed to vanish into the realm of shadows.

    However, they were successful in making Building 15 vanish.

    • Oh, c'mon...nobody else on here gets that? Isn't this full of MIT folks???

      I'm with ya sulli....:)

      nlh

    • Re:Buildings (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Jason Scott ( 18815 )
      They probably mean building 20, an asbestos-tiled "temporary" structure built in 1943 during World War II that went on to be a vital place of innovation for 57 years. It was finally decomissioned and destroyed this year, but not before MIT pranksters made one last comment: sticking an MIT "discard property" tag on its side, a tag that indicates MIT has dropped it from inventory and the item can be removed. (Usually done for smaller pieces of MIT equipment, of course.)

      Information on building 20:
      http://tmrc.mit.edu/bldg20.html [mit.edu]
      • Hmm, not sure if the discard property is the last comment, of the elevator would be considered a statement...

        http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1999/elevator _2 0/
  • maybe City Hall in Redmond, or the Harvard Psych Department, or even the Capitol building in DC?

    I am sure that we can come up with lots of suitable places.

    • Redmond City Hall IS invisible already. Stop any random Redmond passerby and see if they know where it is--2 outta 3 will probably remember it more as "that building close to where the carnival rides are set up for Derby Days".
      Hell, I wouldn't even remember where it is if I hadn't had to take my brother over there for a few licenses and exams. The City Annex probably gets more traffic.

  • Language (Score:3, Informative)

    by Zepalesque ( 468881 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:40PM (#2728674)
    I could be horribly wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the script on the one ring was written in one of the ancient languages of Mordor, not Elvish.

    • Re:Language (Score:4, Informative)

      by el_nino ( 4271 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:49PM (#2728723) Homepage Journal
      The language is the Blask Speech, however the alphabet is Elvish.

      "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"
    • hey dude.. read the book. mordor had no written language. elvish was used ya big doof ;)
    • The letters are Elvish but the actual language is from Mordor. Meaning that you can read it if you can read elvish script but will not be able to understand it unless you understand the language it is writen in. An example of this would be any language using the standard 26 letter alphabet. You may be able to read and pronounce what something says but not understand it because it is in a different language.

    • Re:Language (Score:5, Informative)

      by MajorBurrito ( 443772 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @06:21PM (#2728905)
      The script on the ring was in Sindarin, one of the Elvish languages. Gandalf says (p. 80 in my copy of FOTR), "The letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here."

      Note, however, the commonly used character set in Middle Earth is Tengwar. The characters used on the MIT dome are indeed Tengwar. I haven't been able to find an image of the complete ring on the dome, so I can't fully translate it, but it does appear to be correct, from what I can see.

      (Yes, I am truly a geek when it comes to Tolkien).

      • Re:Language (Score:5, Informative)

        by Frater 219 ( 1455 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @07:05PM (#2729152) Journal
        The script on the ring was in Sindarin, one of the Elvish languages.

        Actually, the script -- or "character set", as you put it, is the Tengwar. Tengwar and Cirth are the common character sets throughout Middle-Earth. Cirth (runes) is used for carving in stone or clay; Tengwar for writing with pen or brush and for ornamentation.

        However, the Tengwar can be used in several different ways, or "modes". Each mode is a mapping of the sounds of a language onto the character set. Quenya uses one mapping; Sindarin another; and so forth. The most distinction between modes is whether they place vowel signs atop the consonant preceding or following the vowel sound. However, the consonant sounds attributed to the characters also vary. For instance, the character for "n" in one language may represent "ng" in another.

        • It's times like these (Score:1, Funny)

          by Anonymous Coward
          These are the times when I think slashdot needs a (+1 Obsessive) mod point.
    • Oh shit! What character set does this use? I have an i18n proposal that's supposed to encompass all langauges due tomorrow.

      Can this be enoded in UTF8? Please say it can or I'm really screwed.

  • Not bad. (Score:3, Funny)

    by Mike Schiraldi ( 18296 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:40PM (#2728677) Homepage Journal
    Hey, good for them. But you'd they'd put a new lock on the roof access door by now...

    • Re:Not bad. (Score:2, Interesting)

      by bn557 ( 183935 )
      the lock was the earliest security feature they added to a site(I'm guessing that site was a bathroom or front door at first) and it was the easiest to get past. Even your average 12 yearold can figure out how to pick a lock with the proper tools and a little patience(neither of which that 12 year old probably has). Now we're talking about some guys at MIT. I'm sure that they could get past even a mid to high level electronic lock. I know that I've figured out how to open the electronic locks at my school with nothing more than a bad credit card.

      Pat

    • Re:Not bad. (Score:2, Insightful)

      by gaudior ( 113467 )
      Are you kidding. I bet the administration at MIT really Love this stuff, in a Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge sort of way. As long as no one gets killed, and the hackers don't burn the place down....
    • Apparently, you've never heard of this [lysator.liu.se].

    • Re:Not bad. (Score:2, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      It's a tough lock right there on the roof door (which is flush with the roof, like the door on the top of the Millenium Falcon). When we went there (frobozz magic graffitti company) it was clear that it would be much harder to pick than almost any of the other locks we encountered. Our first guy gave up. One of us took a look at it and realized that someone had hacked the entire mechanism, so that the un-pickable lock actually did nothing to actually secure the door, if you simply pushed on the door, instead of concentrating on the handle.

  • Image Mirrors Due To Slashdotting (Score:5, Informative)

    by citizenc ( 60589 ) <caryNO@SPAMglidedesign.ca> on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:41PM (#2728683) Journal
    onering-2.large.jpg [3dactionplanet.com]
    onering-5.large.jpg [3dactionplanet.com]

  • Compared to other Hacks . . . . (Score:3, Interesting)

    by actappan ( 144541 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:43PM (#2728695) Homepage
    Compared to MIT's history of frankly, wicked cool Hacks (What the students and faculty at the nerdiest of the nerd schools call prectical jokes) this one is pretty lame. Topical, but lame. See the MIT Campus Police Car Hack [http] for one of the better ever performed.
  • but their website, on the other hand, seems to have vanished quite quickly.

  • My Favorite MIT Hack (Score:2, Interesting)

    by adamy ( 78406 )
    The MBTA (The T) is a subway in Boston, but runs as trolley cars in Cambridge. One night, a swarm of MIT students surrounded a stopped trolley car.

    And welded it to the tracks.

    y Friends Dad was student there at the time. His report is the only evidence I have that this happened. Any one else know about it?
    • I believe the T is a subway in Cambridge too (Red Line). I've only taken it as far as Harvard Square though.

      The Green Line(s) runs as a trolley, going past Fenway, BU, my apartment, and out to BC.
    • Here is how I heard the hack described when I was an undergrad. I heard it from an alumnus who claimed to be one of the perpetrators. The hack took place on one of the Green Line trolleys at one of the BU stops that is consistently crowded. The hackers made up several dixie cups of thermite (a mix of several metal powders). This stop was chosen because the traffic volume would ensure that they would have enough time to place the cups in front of the wheels on the rails. When the trolley rolled over the cups, the current flow through the thermite ignited it, welding the wheels to the track. Another hack on the trolleys involved greasing the tracks where they come up from underground past Kenmore Square... Steve
  • The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!). Note that this has nothing to do with computer (or phone) hacking (which we call "cracking").

    There must be alot of 1337 hackers out there who dont even know it.

    Anybody got any good college prank stories?
    • My fave was a series between my room and the room next door. Just a bunch of small things here and there...nothing major like the MIT stuff

      There was the usual buckets of water, soda cans stacked in front of a closed door so opening causes an inrush, placing the beds outside (fully made).

      The two funniest were:
      Removed the door next door and put up a sign saying "Damn Termites". Friend walked in, tearing down the sign saying "okay...what did you do?"

      Made a small hole from our room to theirs, and ran a wire to his speakers, so when he had his girlfriend over later and had nice soft Enya playing, we replaced it with Slayer.

      Like I said...nothing major, but fun for us.
    • One year I was in engineering school, the graduating year took a car and (somehow) got it hung beneath our tilting bridge/causeway (Kingston Ont). And this is on one of the main arteries into or out of town... and it took the city the better part of a day to get it off safely so they could get boat traffic through...

      Another good one: Some U of T students had access to some Ministry of Transport kit... they went to RentAll and picked up some pneumatic jackhammers, a generator, a tamper, etc. Then they went to downtown TO, setup a dig, even had the cops come by, talk to their foreman-type guy who had all the right paperwork, and had the cop direct traffic for them. After digging a big ass hole, they packed up, put up sawhorses and flashing lights and signs, and buggered off, never to be seen again.....

      Another exploit: A student's dad is an electrician. Gets a new white panel van, no logos yet. Summer time. So one of the major Toronto libraries has summer staff (read: without a clue). So they go down in coveralls with a fake work order for "annual dry cleaning" of the carpeting. They bamboozle the staff, pack up a really nice carpet into the van, off they go. It subsequently adorned their cottage floor.

      Then there was the year that graduating engineers at Queen's U covered all of the street lights along University Avenue with .... giant sized condoms. It was... a site to see. And gave new meaning to the phrase "size matters!".

      • Those are not pranks (Score:3, Insightful)

        by DiveX ( 322721 )
        Destruction of public property, impeding the flow of traffic, forgery, and the theft of a rug would not be considered pranks. There is nothing subversive nor ironic about any of those things. It sounds more like high school kids in a hick town behaving as drunks. Realy pranks have a value of humor or irony to them and cause no harm nor damage.

  • More "the ring" at MIT (Score:5, Funny)

    by mr100percent ( 57156 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:46PM (#2728710) Homepage Journal
    Over here [mit.edu] we see a photoshopped poster of the LoTF, but instead holding the "brass rat" (MIT class ring) with the slogan "One ring to rule them all."

    Made me crack up.

  • thought of making the dog taking the shit [3dactionplanet.com] in the picture disappear?

  • CalTech is better... (Score:1, Flamebait)

    by rossz ( 67331 )
    ...because their servers wouldn't have been /.ed.

    Yeah, it's a troll. So what.
  • My Highschool Social Life would have been much more elaborate had more people cared about Lord of the Rings.
  • With the slashdotting MIT's getting right now, I'd say the 31337 h4x0rs from /. own joo, MIT. ;-)

  • Speaking of MIT folklore (Score:3, Funny)

    by 4of12 ( 97621 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @05:55PM (#2728761) Homepage Journal

    The undergraduates used to award a nice-looking trophy with a large aluminum left-handed screw to that professor that best exhibited the kind of callous attitude that makes getting through MIT more difficult than it needs to be.

    You know, like scheduling a 4 hour final exam at an inconvenient time, etc; the kinds of things that drove the sale of the IHTFP T-shirts.

    There wouldn't be such a list on the web, would there?

    • Re:Speaking of MIT folklore (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      The Institute Screw Contest is run by Alpha Phi Omega each spring. Here's a list of recent winners...

      http://web.mit.edu/apo/www/charity.html

      (at lael (dot mit edu))

  • Hacking? (Score:2)

    by LS ( 57954 )
    There seems to be an incongruity here. Hacking is usually associated with computers and mechanical things unless it involves fraternity-type pranks executed by MIT engineering students. Someone clarify please.

    LS

    • The Meaning of Hack (Score:2, Informative)

      by bADlOGIN ( 133391 )
      Please see the Jargon File Apendix A which discusses "The meaning of 'Hack'" at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/The-Meaning -of-Hack.html [tuxedo.org].

    • Re:Hacking? (Score:3, Informative)

      by nlh ( 80031 )
      Ah, a wise question. Allow me to enlighten: (from the IFTHP page @ mit):

      "The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!)....hardly a term goes by without strange objects appearing in odd places."

      In other words, "hacking" in the MIT-sense of it has developed as an internal term that's gotten mixed-in with with mainstream usage. In the same way that traditional hackers tinker with computers and mechanical things, MIT hackers tinker with the campus itself -- they put 'strange objects in odd places'.

      Also, look up the phrase: "Institute for Hacks, Tomfoolery, and Pranks." for more info...;)

      nlh
    • you must be new, I am guessing?

  • Inscribed in <i>Elvish</i>? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Zen Mastuh ( 456254 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @06:16PM (#2728876)

    What kind of fool risks life and limb to inscribe a high dome in a fictitious language? For crying out loud, haven't these people heard of sex?

    There goes my karma, but a man's gotta take a stand!

  • Not so great (Score:2, Insightful)

    by owenferguson ( 521762 )
    As far as MIT hacks go, I'd rate this a 3 or 4 out of ten. Usually, the pranks exhibit a certain flair of engineering knowhow, not simply a bungh of guys breaking onto the roof of a building a putting up a (pre-made, obviously) banner. I'd have been much more impressed if they'd forged a giant metal ring and somehow hoisted it up onto the dome. It wouldn't even have had to have the circumfrence of the dome's base - just have been large enough to sit on the dome comfortably and require some real genius work to get it up there. I guess we can expect little in the way or creative genius from this year's graduating class...
    • I'd think that a banner that was made ahead of time is just about as "pre-made" as a giant ring that was made ahead of time. Maybe it should actually be forged on the dome or something. Yeah, that'd be clever...might burn down the building as well.

      I'll agree that it's not the most impressive hack ever, but it still took some ingenuity.
      • Of course, what I ment was that it would have been more impressive if they'd painted it directly on the dome wall, as that would have required a longer period of exposure and a greater chance of getting caught doing it. As for the metal ring, if it were made of a light metal, or hollow, or filled with some kind of honeycome composite, the weight on the dome would be minimal and, thanks to the circular distribution of the weight, unlikely to lead to structural failure
  • ...how much Elvish resembles Arabic to the untrained (my) eye?

    I wonder if any non-LOTR fans got freaked out over this.

    • Actually arabic is quite unlike elvish. They are both non-roman writing systems, but among some of the similarities you might have noticed are the large, broad strokes, and the vowel diacritics (arabic is rather confusing by sometimes IMPLYING vowels by context)

      Arabic, like Herbew and other older semitic languages, uses consonant-only word roots, and places vowels in various way that alter the meaning ('book' and 'library' are similar because they share a root)

      Arabic (and Hebrew) also read right to left

      I can see how at a glance, Arabic and Elvish would looks KIND of similar, but if you look at them side-by-side, you would see each has a unique look =]
    • One fairly noticable difference is that most Arabic letter connect to each other, while it seems that Tengwar character do the same.

  • Middle Earth mural MIT Bldg 24 (Score:4, Interesting)

    by peter303 ( 12292 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @06:26PM (#2728940)
    For you people at MIT, there is a mural of
    Middle Earth on the sixth floor of Building 24
    painted by yours truely some time ago.
    MIT used to have lots of wall murals, but they
    come and go.
    The new coffee house one in the Infinite Corridor
    is neat.
  • when i first saw the pics (without knowing the story) i thought this was like a protest by islamic activists or sth. like that cause the "letters" look very similar to arabique(?).
  • ...using V in place of U in English does not make you seem Roman, and neither does it make you seem erudite. A point lost on many neo-classical architects, it would seem.
  • "One ring to rule them all..."

    I'm a big Elvis fan, and he never had a song
    with those lyrics.

  • hmm (Score:3, Funny)

    by poemofatic ( 322501 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @06:48PM (#2729067)
    The hackers were apparently not completely successful, for neither the Great Dome nor Building 10 managed to vanish into the realm of shadows."

    Fool! That works only on mortals. Bombadil did not vanish when he put on the ring, and I'm assuming that Sauron didn't either, since he used his powers to take human form, and his power was in the ring.

    The real question is, in which category does MIT fall?

  • Watch out for Ashcroft (Score:3, Funny)

    by sharkey ( 16670 ) on Wednesday December 19, 2001 @07:00PM (#2729128)
    Hackers are terrorists now, aren't they? These clever folks from MIT may have just made themselves disappear.
  • After seeing a couple of hacks appear here on /. , I am half tempted to start my own chapter of the Hack group here at the University of Wyoming [uwyo.edu]. Although it would just be a flagrant ripoff of MIT, it might give a couple talented engeneering students an excuse to something (instead of getting drunk!).

    Would this bea good idea, or just looked down apon?

    Would the University (or any school for that matter) be willing to accept the hack team as one of there own?

    How do you recruit people to do it?

    And most importantly: How would you fund such a project? Those hacks have to cost some money!

    Well just an idea as I search though the hacks done at MIT. I'll look forward to your replies.
    ~Brandon
  • If you want, you can double-check their handiwork from this page [geocities.com] which was taken from the books.

    Not to presume anything, but the preparation for this might have been a copy-paste job.
    Even if it was, it's still more work than I'd do, and the execution deserves some serious props. It was fucking freezing out there on monday. And the wind up there must have been brutal. Hope they still have all their fingers.

  • How much of a fangirl would you have to be to name your firstborn son after Strider of Aragorne? ;)

    My mother earns my eternal love for my middle name.
  • In the large version of the first photo, near the left it looks like a guy wearing an overcoat and a hat walking to the right, and a wild turkey walking to the left. Both of them are looking down, like they are dejected. Is there more to this story? What just happened?
  • The first sight of it should strike me with awe. Or if not awe, at the very least I should be somewhat surprised. Momentarily after that, I should ponder "How the heck did they DO that!".

    This feat does neither. Its a banner. They wrapped it around a building. I'm sure a lot of work went into its creation, but in the end, I remain unimpressed.

    And its not that I'm faulting them for their motives. Its just that they need to reach further. The dome has featured many glorious hacks. They need to strive to top those, not suffice to simply let past events overshadow the present ones.

    -Restil

    • Re:The whole point of a hack.... (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Actually, it is harder than you think to get it up there. You'll note the dome has a trench around the base. The banner is hung 18 feet above this trench. Also, how do you think one gets a banner up that high? Fabric does not slide on concrete so you can't just raise it. How is it held in place.

      It took about 20 MIT students over 12 hours and two nights to get it up, and that doesn't include the month of design, planning and construction.

      -N
  • Cute,but unimpressive. Real geeks hang cars off of bridges [sfgate.com], or as we British Columbians like to say:

    All your bridges are belong to us!

    Karma hell, here I come!

  • For those interested in the whole MIT/Caltech hack/prank scene, this is an excerpt of a review I did some years ago of books from The MIT Press, the Caltech Alumni Association and St. Martin's Press.



    First up, Legends of Caltech and More Legends of Caltech. These two 80 page volumes chronicle technopranking at Caltech from the 1920s to the late 1980s. Learn about the classic Rose Bowl card section prank that was broadcast live on NBC, See the HOLLYWOOD sign become the CALTECH sign before your very eyes. Vicariously enjoy the revenge of Caltech students upon a greedy police department.

    These books MUST be ordered from the Caltech bookstore, as they are privately published by the Caltech Alumni Association. Ordering info is at the bottom of this page.

    Ah, but what of MIT? For their history we must turn to a pair of books.

    The Journal of the Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery & Pranks at MIT. Published by the MIT Museum, this is a 158 page book with lots of photos and text concerning the hacks pulled by MIT men and women over the decades. See The Great Breast of Knowledge, The Great Pumpkin, the legendary Smoot Marks on the Harvard Bridge. Read about the chronic humiliation suffered by the inmates at Harvard as MIT has its way with the statue of John Harvard and the Harvard Stadium.

    "Is This The Way To Baker House?" - A Compendium of Hacking Lore. 165 pages of legends, essays, photographs and stories of and about hacking at MIT. This book, published in 1996, continues where the Journal leaves off. The MIT Campus Police car on the Great Dome, arguably one the greatest hacks in MIT history, graces the cover and several inside pages. Regrettably, only black and white photographs are used in the body of the book, as there are several hacks, most notably, the Cathedral of Our Lady of The All Night Tool (The "stained glass" panels in Lobby 7) that really should be seen in full color. That minor gripe aside, this is a fine companion volume to The Journal and shares the same binding dimensions as The Journal, making them a handsome pair of books to grace the shelves of any creative malcontent. (The title refers to the canonical reply to an MIT Campus cop when one is discovered in a spectacularly inappropriate location, such as the apex of the Great Dome at 4:00AM.)

    Our final book is published by St. Martin's Press and should still be available via any bookstore that will special order books for its customers.

    If At All Possible, Involve A Cow - The Book Of College Pranks, is a 240 page history of collegiate pranking in America, beginning with the earliest colleges in America, and even taking note of some hijinx taking place in Canada.

    This is an excellent companion volume to the preceeding four books, as it covers collegiate pranking in general, as well as detailing some events that are NOT covered in either the Caltech or MIT books.

    If I were sending a son or daughter off to college, I would certainly include all five of these books in their "books to bring to school" box. Start 'em off right!

    I have all five books and have enjoyed reading and re-reading them. I trust that these will be inspirational to all who enjoy a good hack and tweaking the nose of Authority, be it the State or the School.

    Ordering information

    Legends of Caltech is $9.00
    More Legends of Caltech is $15.00

    The mailing address of the Caltech Bookstore is:
    Caltech Bookstore Mail Code 1-51 San Pasqual Street Pasadena CA 91125

    The website [caltech.edu] for the Caltech Bookstore looks like you might be able to order these online.

    The toll-free number for the Caltech bookstore is 800/514-2665. For those of you outside the US, their non-free number is 818/395-6161.

    In my case, shipping was $6.00. Call to find out what your charges might be or to use a credit card.

    (Neither book has an ISBN, so ordering via your local bookstore is not recommended and may very well be nigh-impossible.)

    The Journal of The Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery & Pranks at MIT is $20.00 The ISBN is: 0-917027-03-5

    "Is This The Way To Baker House?" - A Compendium of Hacking Lore is $20.00. The ISBN is: 0-917027-04-3

    The address of the MIT Museum is:
    The MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139

    The Museum Shop online ordering is now being handled by Tha Harvard/MIT COOP.
    The URL for ordering The Journal of The Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery & Pranks at MIT is here [thecoop.com] and the URL for "Is This The Way To Baker House?&quot is here [thecoop.com]

    If At All Possible, Involve A Cow - The Book Of College Pranks
    by Neil Steinberg

    $9.95 St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-07810-2

    I'm told by Editor Keith [stonewallinn.com] at SMP that as of September 1994, there were about 4000 copies still in the warehouse and SMP will fulfill orders for the book. St. Martin's Press officially urges you to order this book from your local bookstore or Amazon.com [amazon.com].

    I've just found out that this book has now made it's way to the remainder tables at some bookstores. If you want a copy, order it NOW from Amazon or inspect those remainder tables very carefully.

  • The best part is if you follow the MIT links to http://hacks.mit.edu/ the "Gallery of Hacks". These guys really like to paint things, or do some really creative stuff with bulletin boards, Yeah! High Five! Oops! Missed again!

    But they are making "Frosh" cart around a giant tombstone despairing the "The End of Rush as We Know it." Are they claiming to have some frat thing going on? Like Animal House? Have you ever been on that campus? C'mon, Pinto and Flounder might be there, but Otter and Boon are nowhere to be found!

    Dean Wormer may work there, though.

    "She'll pay attention to this."
  • LOTR=Crappiest Xmas Movie Ever?
    A movie review parody contends that LOTR is the crappiest Christmas movie ever. Again, it is a parody. Unbunch panties, please.

    Another Short Barefoot Boy Saved by Fabulous Shirt

    http://www.ridiculopathy.com/index.php?display=2 00 11220

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