<p>I like pebbles' thread title better, but for the sake of informativeness...</p>
<p>Almost exactly a year after Caltech visited MIT with gifts of apparel and entertainment, our east coast friends have reciprocated by reappropriating some of our weaponry.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mitcannon.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitcannon.com/</a></p>
<p>Hilarious... how are you (or actually, we) gonna pay back?</p>
<p>The Stata center would look pretty ugly on our campus... :-P</p>
<p>Too funny. How did they manage it? </p>
<p>D is at MIT for preview this weekend. She'll be at Caltech for prefrosh in a couple of weeks. For the right price.....:)</p>
<p>With a truck, right from under seecurity's nose:</p>
<p>"Ohhh, a work order! Gee, well, you can just go ahead and take this nice cannon, here, boys."</p>
<p>:-P</p>
<p>Oh, my. I am still laughing. </p>
<p>Good luck in getting it back! I imagine that it won't be too easy. Will photos do? </p>
<p>However, there's that silver lining. Caltech and the cannon will be center stage at preview weekend.</p>
<p>Here's another good site about this: <a href="http://www.caltechvsmit.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.caltechvsmit.com/</a></p>
<p>With the addition of the Brass Rat, I believe it can now be considered an MIT cannon. ;)</p>
<p>Wow. I can't stop laughing. That's freakin' brilliant. Definitely worth the ten points. How are we going to get it back? And now we <em>really</em> have to retaliate. ;)</p>
<p>-Oren</p>
<p>Caltech is gonna get it back, right? Its not a MIT cannon!!!!!</p>
<p>of course we're going to get it back. do you really thing we'd just let MIT walk all over us? ;)</p>
<p>lol, the admissions office even sent out an e-mail about this</p>
<p>Yea. They emailed Harvey Mudd too. We were all asked if we knew anything about the steal, seeing as we did it first twenty years ago.</p>
<p>I wonder whether the MIT hackers asked Harvey Mudd fellows about their experience in stealing the cannon? :)</p>
<p>Are you all sure that Caltech admissions e-mailed you? The reply address is not a Caltech address. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the e-mails are part of the prank. </p>
<p>BTW, have you noticed the moving company's name? MIT appears to have lost its wit.</p>
<p>So I don't receive more private notes about the wit remark, I'll help everyone out at once. Insert "wit" between the two names of the moving company to obtain another word for cannon.</p>
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I wonder whether the MIT hackers asked Harvey Mudd fellows about their experience in stealing the cannon?
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That's part of the beautiful symmetry of the stunt. MIT was involved in the original, after the fact. They wisely decided to wait until Caltech's guard was down. ;)</p>
<p>From an eyewitness account: <a href="http://people.bu.edu/fmri/somers/cannon.html%5B/url%5D">http://people.bu.edu/fmri/somers/cannon.html</a>
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We nearly kept it forever. Caltech had stolen the cannon from a boys prep school. During the late Vietnam era when Caltech acquired it, the prep school was more than happy to shed its military image and to be associated with Caltech. I got the headmaster to verbally agree to lease the cannon to us, provided that we mentioned his school to the press. But news of this leaked and got to Caltech who pressured the headmaster to reneg. </p>
<p>When that failed we contacted MIT, who agreed to pay shipping charges. Estimated at $2850 for shipping a 3 ton antique cross-country. By this time Fleming house appeared to be watching the campus at all times and there were a few Caltech sympathisizers at Mudd. Based on what finally happenned, I don't think this would have worked.
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<p>EllenF, if you turn the "&" into "et", you have "Howe-et-ser". Additionally, since everyone had been asking the MIT hacking community how they would answer last year's CPW pranking, one could read the name as "How-we-answer" (How-we-and-ser). A couple possibilities there...</p>
<p>Mootmom - you could do it that way, but I like my explanation better, especially since the "&" sign is missing in the logo.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:reply-46943@campaign.admissionslab.com">reply-46943@campaign.admissionslab.com</a></p>
<p>can Ben verify if this is a legit email? although... how would MIT have our emails?</p>