NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/shenanig/574

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!skule.ecf!malone
From: [e-mail] (MALONE MATTHEW JAMES)
Subject: Re: Payback
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Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:42:21 GMT
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    I have a good one that doesn't go away for a long time and it is not at
all illegal (except lingering around someone else's campus?).  Go to a
hardware store and buy some high quality grass fertilizer, preferably
high nitrogen (ammonium nitrate prills are 34% nitrogen).  Find an area of
their campus with a lot of open grass, well watered preferably and clearly
visible from a tall frequented student building.  Fertilize anything you
can imagine in patterns on the grass, words, symbols, whatever you think
would be best.  The grass will grow up very green in that those patterns
and will continue to be legible for maybe a year.  The best part is the
words are not visible immediately and fade in over time.  Also there is
no way to errase the words immediately either.  They can either fertilize
all of the grass or dig up the stuff that is there, either way a job for
grounds keepers that would not happen for a few weeks.  It is best to
to this when the weather to wet or the grass will get burned and die.
Do not over fertilize or the grass will die (more of a prank that a
shenanigan) and someone in the administration is more likely to get very
upset.  Use a garden fertilizer spreader, its best.  It is best to go light
on the fertilizer because you can always go over it again if it is not
quite right or it is starting to fade.  The possibilities are endless.
Besides rah-rah school sayings, insults and profanity, giant targets visible
only to jets and hopskotch squares on their practice fields are ideas.

Have fun,
Matt.