<p>I thought of this question out of nowhere the other day but didn't want to get flamed by posting it. Then I saw that u of c girls' cuteness thread or whatever and decided it was okay.</p>
<p>what is/are the best prank(s) you or your friends have pulled off at u of c?</p>
<p>ooh, I'm so anxious to hear what people have to say! As far as I know, my senior class has thought of nothing at all so far.</p>
<p>ooo, i completely forgot about this sorta thing. School's that are at all associated with any sort of quirkiness are supposed to pull good pranks, with MIT being at the top of the heap (the Yale-Harvard football games, the Caltech cannon, etc. etc.) Chicago students must have some pranks they are able to organize and pull in their spare time...</p>
<p>This doesn't qualify as a prank, but hopefully chicago students do interesting quirky stuff like what my cousin did at Brown, where he helped build a giant tetris game on the side of the tall library on campus with techhouse...</p>
<p>If I told you, then I'd have to kill you.</p>
<p>Basically all "pranks" are a part of Scav Hunt. If you count those, they are numerous and often illegal.</p>
<p>This is all hypothetical of course. It doesn't have to be bad, it could just be painting your friend's room pink while he's on vacation.</p>
<p>:( Caltech's pranks are much better than MIT's. Come on, stealing a cannon... Harvey Mudd did that 40 years ago.</p>
<p>In any case, I definitely think pranks are more fun when they're done against competing institutions, which is why I find most of MIT's pranks a bore. At most institutions, security guards are told to stand off in the midst of a prank, so most of what would be considered 'illegal' would actually be quite possible, as long as, of course, it's within reason. So I say we need a group of UChicagoers to go up to Harvard or Princeton and pull something big. Something light, humorous, slightly illegal, and something that will gain publicity and perhaps make the opposite institution a bit embarrassed. (Pre-frosh weekend next year, anyone?)</p>
<p>For the sake of campus terminology...</p>
<p>Chicago pre-frosh = O Week</p>
<p>let's steal their pig then send them a bunch of bacon... then give the pig back a few days later</p>
<p>Simpsons anyone? I added the bacon part myself :]</p>
<p>"So I say we need a group of UChicagoers to go up to Harvard or Princeton and pull something big."</p>
<p>burn their yachts</p>
<p>"burn their yachts"</p>
<p>Seconded.</p>
<p>steal the princeton lacrosse gear...and burn the kayaks/canoes at harvard crew</p>
<p>One of the prospie-entertainers I had when I visited mentioned his desire to go to Northwestern's rock, paint it maroon and decorate with a phoenix, and then Teflon the whole thing so, at the very least, they'd have a lot of peeling to do before they could repaint it.</p>
<p>OMG, that is a great idea lol, and it would probably be easier than burning canoes or sports gear. Anyone up for a 3 a.m trip to Northwestern?</p>
<p>I am! even though I'm not a uc student</p>
<p>Beef: </p>
<p>They're not kayaks. They're also not canoes. Boats would have been reasonably accurate. The things that rowers row in are called shells. </p>
<p>They're very delicate, expensive pieces of equipment. One shell is worth upwards of 30,000 dollars, middle aged. A really nice brand new one could run you as much as 40,000. Burning all the Harvard shells would be a very, very dumb idea. You'd be paying damages for the rest of your life. </p>
<p>Plus, burning nice boats is criminal in crudeness. It's not quirky or inventive.</p>
<p>a scav item last year involved painting a phoenix on the rock. it was completed, of course. things like bringing a live elephant to campus and building a self-contained nuclear breeder are the pranks pulled here. </p>
<p>also, chicago has really cool, old buildings with cool, old things inside, the basements/roofs of which are off limits and should not be entered after closing...</p>
<p>How bout the Caltech students who went to the MIT pre-frosh wkend and handed to T shirts saying MIT: Not everyone can go to caltech! I say we visit Harvturd and hand out shirts with Harvard: The University of Chicago of the East!</p>
<p>ELorax: It was a joke. I hope.</p>
<p>davnasca: Good idea, but it lacks originality, and I doubt we could pull it off, considering the fact that Caltech's prank got a lot of attention. And if we didn't pull it off... it would be kind of an embarrassment.</p>
<p>yeah but painting a rock is nothing that original either. Id say lets do something original and intelligent to NW, something that leaves them scratching their heads... I mean cant be that hard... jking kindof</p>
<p>All this and Im not a student ):</p>