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- From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
- Subject: High-School shenanigan: The Book Drop.
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:44:02 GMT
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- At our high school (and at most others) there was a "book drop" - a slot
- in the wall of the Library where books could be turned in. One day, we
- decided on a shenanigan, and it became the longest-running shenanigan we
- ever pulled off.
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- Each day or two, we would drop SOMETHING into the book drop. I don't
- remember what they all were, but they included a plastic banana, a prop
- cigar, several odd things folded out of paper, dishes from the lunchroom,
- and so on...
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- Each item had a note attached that simply said, "this is number 13." or
- whatever number it was, in sequence. We ended up doing about 20 of them.
-
- Unfortunately, we never accomplished the "finale" of this shenanigan. We
- were planning to put something quite bizarre into the book drop. We had
- considered breaking into the office, in order to put something there that
- wouldn't fit through the slot, but the best idea we came up with was to
- buy a large inflatable object (such as those ride-on sharks sold as
- swimming accessories), push it through the slot deflated, and then pump it
- up through the slot...
-
- Concerns about graduation and short attention spans cut it short,
- unfortunately. And getting arrested didn't help either, but that's
- another story.
-
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- ~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
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