Category Archives: Completely Different

Well, actually, Yale outpranked Harvard with a carefully orchestrated prank at the 2004 edition of The Game in which members of the nonexistent “Harvard Pep Squad” got Harvard fans to hold up cards spelling out an anti-Harvard dig (see below). Mementos of the prank are on sale to defray expenses.

The Yale Daily News has full coverage, including some lines that are either false or a sign that things have really changed since I was a Yale undergraduate:

A “genuine difference” between her high school friends who go to Harvard and those who go to Yale, [a Yale student] said, is that people are just happier at Yale.

Boy, that was not true when I was at Yale: Yale students had to take more courses and do more writing and generally work much harder. The modal student probably learned more, but also suffered more. Plus in those days, New Haven was less salubrious than it is now.

Note: The original version of this prank is The Great Rose Bowl Hoax, which is listed at number one of the Top 10 College Pranks of All Time. Myself, though, I'm partial to MIT Hacks.

While I was in the UK last month, my friend Adrian challenged me to come up with a Canadian joke. I failed. He apparently collects them for some unfathomable reason, perhaps because they are rare. If any readers have some to contribute, I'm sure he'd be grateful.

Meanwhile, here's a sample from Adrian's collection:

Q: How do you get 20 teenage Canadian boys to get out of a swimming pool?

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Kozo v. Vending Machine. The film that leaves you hungry for more. (spotted via lawprof Ann Bartow)

PS. I suppose that not many readers of this blog remember the electoral slogon I go Pogo? It was mostly before my time too, but I remember enjoing reading about it when I was a kid in the late '60s or early '70s.

Joke circulating via e-mail:

Q: What's the difference between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War?

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WolfpacksforTruth.org: The Real Story on George Bush's “Wolves” Commercial (spotted in the wild via Talking Points Memo).

YesBushCan.com is an energetic little site. It has issued a call for Bloggers Unite to Prove False Docs:

You exposed RatherGate by proving the CBS documents were fake — nice work! But now the liberals have found a bunch more documents so our work is not done. Let's get to work proving that these are fake, too!

Their list of documents includes:

Dick Cheney's DUI
George W. Bush's DUI
George W. Bush's Second DUI
Memo to Ken Lay
Second Memo to Ken Lay
Osama Warning Document Part 1
Osama Warning Document Part 2

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Of course, this Truth Squadding stuff is not a project for the faint of heart!