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Morning Cup of Links: College Pranks
by Miss Cellania - July 17, 2009 - 3:56 AM
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Newly restored footage of the Apollo moon landing. They are not lost or unreleased videos, just easier to see and hear than when they were first broadcast.
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How to start a fire, Rube Goldberg style. This is so intricate, you have to wonder how many times it went wrong before it went right.
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Meet Phineas Gage. This newly discovered picture may be the only existing photograph of the man who survived being impaled through the brain with an iron pole. (via Neurophilosophy)
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7 Ridiculously involved College Pranks. Silly, juvenile stuff that you wish you’d thought of first.
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10 things you probably didn’t know about Mt. Rushmore. I just wonder who got the assignment to go measure their noses.
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5 Spies with Bigger Balls Than James Bond. True stories that Ian Fleming couldn’t use because no one would believe them. (via Gorilla Mask)
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War-opoly: How History’s Most Popular Board Game Helped Defend The Free World. Read and be glad that a monopoly game is classified as a “useful object”.

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Comments (3)

  1. Best college prank, the Southern Methodist University marching band spelled out SMU during halftime at their rival TCU home stadium. While in formation, the band members dropped rye grass seed. Weeks later, TCU officials were shocked to find winter rye grass growing on their field spelling out SMU.

    posted by Tex on 7-17-2009 at 1:10 pm

  2. Going to guess the original footage found in Australia was not, in fact, original footage of the moon landing. But this is pretty neat.

    posted by Kate on 7-17-2009 at 2:17 pm

  3. The Rube Goldberg thing is pure crap. On the first (and only) run through I saw at least three restarts. If you have the stomach to watch it a couple of more times you ca probably pick u0p a couple more bring the total up to five or six.

    Also, what’s with the pyrotecnics? Himself didn’t use them.

    posted by Ken on 7-17-2009 at 5:19 pm

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