Comments on: The Great Rose Bowl Prank of 1961 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Thu, 16 May 2024 00:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 By: jarvisloop https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-74768 Thu, 16 May 2024 00:49:12 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-74768 Jeff: Thanks for the link – it was hilarious!

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By: Jeff https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-39987 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:27:58 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-39987 Great article. I checked and there is footage of the Harvard Sucks version of this prank also. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4kai4FL0MQ

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By: Robert Halfpenny https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-39454 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:36:29 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-39454

Prince said: “Why did they make 2232 copies and then change them, why not change one, then copy it 2232 times?

all in all, a brilliant prank.”

I think the reason is that each “card flipper” has different instructions which is what makes each picture different.

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By: Locifer https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-24079 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:54:45 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-24079 [quote]Jeffrey93 said: “This is nothing. I heard this one guy stole a rival school’s mascot one night, it was a pig. He split some malt liquor with it. The pig became quite ill. It also didn’t seem to like having it’s tail played with non-stop. The mascot thief found this incredibly hilarious. “Curly, straight. Curly, straight.” He would say.

The Dean of the school heard the pig fall over because of the malt liquor, and the jig was up.

The pig was airlifted out to a local animal hospital.

Greatest prank ever.”[/quote]

Watched the Simpsons to many times? :)

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By: Jeffrey93 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-13392 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:27:55 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-13392 This is nothing. I heard this one guy stole a rival school’s mascot one night, it was a pig. He split some malt liquor with it. The pig became quite ill. It also didn’t seem to like having it’s tail played with non-stop. The mascot thief found this incredibly hilarious. “Curly, straight. Curly, straight.” He would say.

The Dean of the school heard the pig fall over because of the malt liquor, and the jig was up.

The pig was airlifted out to a local animal hospital.

Greatest prank ever.

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By: eatmydust57 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-10708 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:12:18 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-10708 thats stuped! why not 69 copies.not 2232

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By: Nytmare https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-6518 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:05:37 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-6518 You could try reading the article, blueracoon, instead of just looking at the picture.

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By: blueracoon https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-6275 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:36:30 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-6275 i wonder how they got so many little tiles to fit together just to say CALTECH

what kind of idiot would go thru the trouble just for that

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By: rezophonic https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-6018 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:11:28 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-6018 sligocki said: “It would appear that rather than having 14 flash cards per fan (and thus simple instructions), the Huskeys had the same set of colored cards at each seat with instructions on which color to show at each of the 15 frames. Thus the instructions for each seat would be different.”

If every instruction sheet had to be different, how did they pull it off by stealing only the one sheet? It still stands to reason that they could have made the changes and then copied the instructions. Nevertheless, an excellent execution of a good scheme.

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By: dr H https://www.damninteresting.com/the-great-rose-bowl-prank-of-1961/#comment-5820 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:29:14 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132#comment-5820 There’s a story about an MIT student who spent an entire summer going to the Harvard football field every day wearing a black and white striped shirt, walking up and down the field for ten or fifteen minutes throwing birdseed all over the field, blowing a whistle and then walking off the field.

At the end of the summer, it came time for the first Harvard home football team, the referee walked onto the field and blew the whistle, and the game had to be delayed for a half hour to wait for the birds to get off of the field.

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