https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=137.165.219.254&feedformat=atomWillipedia - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T08:41:07ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.32.1https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Pranks_involving_rooms&diff=4059Pranks involving rooms2005-11-03T21:16:46Z<p>137.165.219.254: </p>
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<div>==Pranks involving rooms==<br />
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* At the beginning of this school year, [[Brian Hirshman '06]] and suitemate [[Johannes Pulst-Korenberg '06]] decided to mirror-image the room of their fellow suitemate [[Dan Burns '06]]. Everything that was on the left side of Dan's room was moved to the right side, and even the books on his bookcase were placed in reverse order. Burns decided that it was too much trouble to switch everything back, and his room has remained in the mirror-image configuration ever since. <br />
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* Over Halloween night, Dan Burns '06 struck back with a vengeance. He turned Brian's room literally upside down. He took the bed and turned that upside down. He took the bookcase and turned that upside down, then proceeded to take the books on the bookcase upside down. He turned Brian's desk upside down, and everything that was sitting on top of it upside down. To top it off, he even went into Brian's closet and turned Brian's clothes upside down, tying shirts to the hangers to make sure that they would stay upside down until Brian returned. <br />
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* Cover the outside of someone's doorframe with newspaper, duct tape, TP, etc. Or stretch a piece of clear packing tape, sticky side in, across the doorframe at chest level. Wait for the victim to wake up and try to leave their room. If newspaper or some other continuous material is used to cover the doorframe, the intervening space between the paper and door can be filled with small objects that will spill into the room when the door is opened. This technique was used to great effect against [[Esa Seegulam '06]] in his freshman year.<br />
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* Fill a room with three thousand balloons. If you don't have the time, money, or energy to blow up three thousand balloons, the large trash bags found in any campus trash room can be inflated pretty easily by holding them in front of a fan. Trash bags can also be pretty hilarious filled with water (though it's best to double- or triple-bag them to prevent leaks) and/or other items.<br />
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* Steal all of someone's clothes except for their tuxedo and then send them on a campus-wide treasure hunt to locate said clothes, creatively prolonging said treasure hunt so that the victim is forced to wear said tuxedo to breakfast the next morning. For more information, contact [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06lds Lisetta Shah '06] or [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06eac Eric Cheung '06].<br />
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* Cover the room's floor with dixie cups filled to the brim with water. Leave just enough space for the door to open, but nothing else. The victim will have to remove the cups one by one.<br />
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* Wrap every single item in saran wrap. Or wrapping paper. Just like Christmas morning.<br />
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* To be continued....</div>137.165.219.254https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Tray_carvings&diff=2478Tray carvings2005-10-17T00:56:59Z<p>137.165.219.254: /* Wilbur... */</p>
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<div>Carvings generally fall into <s>three</s> <s>four</s> a bunch of categories: Wilbur trays, "Tray of" trays, tray puns, Cult of Tom trays, trays with pictures, and...other trays.<br />
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Let's make a comprehensive list of dining hall tray scratchings. Include locations, if known/remembered.<br />
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==Wilbur...==<br />
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Does anyone know Wilbur's story? [http://wso.williams.edu/adventure/index Create it!]<br />
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An unlikely but intriguing possible source for the great resentment towards Wilbur may be the late 19th century serialized novel "Wilbur of Williams", [note: title may need correcting] which can be found in the Williams Archives. It is, naturally, a romance. Jealousy, perhaps?<br />
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* Wilbur Sucks I - LXII (beyond?)<br />
* Wilbur cooks with spices (Greylock?)<br />
* Wilbur was framed (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur plays ice hockey (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur takes econ<br />
* Wilbur invaded Poland (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur donates blood (Mission)<br />
* Welcome to Wilbur Country (including serifs and Surgeon General's Warning; Mission)<br />
* Wilbur works the corner (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur failed the MCATs<br />
* Wilbur tips poorly (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur has halitosis (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur felches (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur eats veal (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur watches figure skating (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur worships false idols (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur brakes for moose (Mission)<br />
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== Cult of Tom ==<br />
* Cult of Tom<br />
* Cult of <s>Tom</s> Tom<br />
* Cult of <s>Tom</s> <s>Tom</s> Tom<br />
* Cult of Thomas Edison (?) (Driscoll)<br />
:''and so on . . .''<br />
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The Cult of Tom story orginated in 2000 when Tom Fleming ('00) and Jeff Grant ('00) were talking to each other and realized that people would wear pretty much any free T-shirt. Thus, Tom decided he could start his own cult merely by printing up shirts that said "Cult of Tom" and distributing them. The only rule for the Cult of Tom was that you must wear the T-shirt. <br />
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Then, Tom asked everybody with the shirt to wear it and come to his thesis defense to ask questions (perhaps silly questions or pre-arranged really intelligent ones). It was afterwards that "Cult of Tom" began being scratched onto Driscoll trays.<br />
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This is where the story diverges. Some say that Tom Stackpole ('01) got jealous and scratched out the orignal Tom and put his own name in. Others say that a friend of Tom's started the corrections, and thereby created a new Cult of Tom (Stackpole). At any rate, the original Cult of Tom supporters were angry, and scratched out the new Tom and replaced it with the old Tom. As a result, the system of odd-even number of Toms was created. An odd number of Toms meant Tom Fleming, and even numbers were Tom Stackpole. <br />
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Source: members of class of 2000, 2001 -- many of whom still have original Cult of Tom shirts.<br />
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==Tray of...==<br />
* Tray of the Thnikkaman (including drawing; Mission)<br />
* The tray of repeatedly hitting yourself over the head with a shovel (Mission)<br />
* Tray of Spiritual Horniness (Driscoll)<br />
* Tray of Snow Bocce 2004 (Mission)<br />
* Tray of Feral Pigs (Mission)<br />
* Tray of the Luv Potion (Driscoll)<br />
* Tray of Williams (Wesleyan)<br />
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==Tray Puns==<br />
* Basic Trayning/I want to be a Driscoll Tray (Mission, was in Baxter)<br />
* Death Before Detrayal (Driscoll and Mission)<br />
* Tray Bien<br />
* Judgment Tray<br />
* Penetraytion (Mission)<br />
* Defenestraytion<br />
* Libertray, Egalitray, Fraternitray (Mission; also says Wilbur Sucks LI)<br />
* Take the A-Tray<br />
* Trayin' Alive (Mission)<br />
* Elizabeth Traylor (Driscoll)<br />
* Traymate of the Year (Driscoll)<br />
* Tray of Unfulfilled Desires (Driscoll)<br />
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==Mysterious Drawings==<br />
*A proof that temperatures exist below absolute zero using orbital diagrams (Driscoll)<br />
*An illustration of a normal gaussian distribution (Driscoll)<br />
*Some nonsense with a guy in a boat and an angel thing (Driscoll) <br />
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==Other==<br />
* Tray 3:16 (Mission)<br />
*e^(pi)(i) + 1 = 0 (Driscoll)<br />
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==Ideas for Carvings==<br />
So awful.<br />
* Infiltraytion (I think this one exists)<br />
* Tray the course<br />
* Extray credit for puns<br />
* Wilbur: Zuckerman's Traymous Pig (sucks)<br />
* Et tu, Brutray? Then fall, salad.<br />
* Tray the Earth Stood Still<br />
* Auto-Traycheotomy<br />
* Tray that funky music, white boy<br />
* Jonathan Traylor Thomas<br />
* LNT: Leave No Trays<br />
* My baby takes the morning trayn<br />
* Early Gothic Traycery (with sketches)</div>137.165.219.254