HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 1992 08:04:11 EST
From: Kind of a stupid game isn't it? <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Where's the hidden message?

In article <92323.153410IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, Kind of a stupid game isn't
it? <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> says:
>
>  Upon reading the last few postings, I find it hard to believe
>that nobody discovered the secret message in one of my previous
>articles ... "Wouldn't you just rather be beaten about the head
>with a broadsword?". Furthermore, I have been added to the list
>of shenanigan perpetrators without any acknowledgement by other
>readers as to one of these shenanigans even being pulled. Well,
>this in mind, I give you another chance.
>
>            Orono Mysticism
>            ----- ---------
>You searched for so long, and I bet it was tough.
>But evidently you didn't quite long enough.
>I'm out of ideas for this post's passage.
>Now is your chance, find the damnned message!
>
>In the name of shenanigans, live to be noticed!
>-+* Captain Ugh *+- IO10781@maine.maine.edu
>* * * End of FiIe * * *
>
>
>
>
>
>No! No! You have found my secret hideout. I am vanquished!   AAAUUuggh ..


Now who's the maroon who posted this waste of space? Why the heck
would anybody bother to do something as outrageously stupid as make
a secre- ... oh ... wait a second.

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| Are humans nothing but the Earth's |  Captain Ugh may be reached at   |
| mid life crisis? You be the judge. |     IO10781@Maine.maine.edu      |
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: tlund@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas Lund)
Subject: Holiday Greetings
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:39:32 GMT

	I heard an interview with a guy on the radio (What do you know w/
Michael Feldman) who sends christmas and birthday cards to major world leaders
every year.  He's just an ordinary US person (Wisconsin, I think).  Still, he
sends those cards every year just because he can.  He actually gets lots of
replies.  Many, he say's from the CIA, but lots from the leaders themselves.
	I just thought that was a good one.
 /\//\
  //
\//\/
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: dennisp@kpc.com (Dennis Preston)
Subject: Re: CLOSED MINDED? READ THIS.(YOU IDIOT)
Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer Inc, Santa Clara, CA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:31:18 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.222407.2740@bvc.edu> wilsonandrew@bvc.edu writes:
>	I THOUGHT THAT PERHAPS I HAD PROVEN MY POINT. OBVIOUSLY, I DID NOT. 
>I WRITE IN ALL CAPS FOR A REASON, AND IT IS NOT JUST TO BE OBNOXIOUS. 
>

            <Lots of YELLING deleted>

Have you ever considered that all caps is annoying to read? Welcome to
my killfile. Do you fart in crowded, confined places?
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: CLOSED MINDED? READ THIS.(YOU IDIOT)
From: emiddlec@mora.gac.edu (Eric Middlecamp)
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:00:07 -0600

In article <1992Nov16.222407.2740@bvc.edu>  writes:
>	I THOUGHT THAT PERHAPS I HAD PROVEN MY POINT. OBVIOUSLY, I DID NOT. 
>I WRITE IN ALL CAPS FOR A REASON, AND IT IS NOT JUST TO BE OBNOXIOUS. 
>THERE IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN OUR SOCIETY, AND I WILL TRY TO ADDRESS IT 
>HERE. THIS PROBLEM IS CALLED CLOSED-MINDEDNESS. EVERYONE NOWADAYS SEEMS TO 
>HAVE THEIR OWN LITTLE IDEALIZED VERSION OF THE WORLD IN THEIR LITTLE HEADS, 
>AND THEY GET REALL UPSET WHEN THE REAL WORLD AND THEIR LITTLE IMAGINARY 
>...
>THE ANSWER TO YOUR PLIGHT IS SIMPLE, HOWEVER. YOU FOLKS MUST LEARN 
>TOLERATION. NO AMOUNT OF VENGEANCE, LITIGATION OR LEGISLATION CAN EVER CURE 
>THE ILLS OF SOCIETY. THE ONLY CURE I CAN SEE IS IF PEOPLE LEARN TO ACCEPT 
>THE QUIRKS OF OTHER PEOPLES' WAYS.  AND THIS CAN NEVER HAPPEN ON A 
>WORLDWIDE SCALE. WE ARE LIVING IN PURGATORY, IF YOU WILL. IT IS PART OF THE 
>...

You would do better for your cause to encourage people and not provoke them.
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: wyvern@iastate.edu (Nuno Bettencourt)
Subject: Re: grocery store intercom
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:03:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.061804.3631@news.nd.edu> jkies@amandil.next.nd.edu (jason kies) writes:
>In article <1992Nov15.042747.21304@reed.edu> kanderso@reed.edu (Karl  
>Anderson) writes:
>> Today I was returning some bottles at the local grocery store when I
>> noticed that there was a phone just out of sight of the bottle counter
>> with a pretty red button on it...> Disclaimer:  never yell fire in a  
>crowded theater.
>
>	Hmnmm. . . . I go kicked out of a K-mart once during my wild and  
>crazy teenage years for announcing blue light specials.

	The best thing to announce at K-mart is "caroline red", preferrably
twice or so. ;) This is the K-mart employee's code for a fire.

wyvern@iastate.edu

ps. If they start announcing that they have electrical problems and need the
    store evacuated, you know that you've succeeded :)
pps. Press "5" on the old type of phones, or the page button on the newer ones


Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: ftit@dorking.engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman)
Subject: Quiet, please.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:22:07 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: ftit@dorking.engin.umich.edu


In article <1992Nov15.183610.2724@bvc.edu>, wilsonandrew@bvc.edu writes:
|WILL NO ONE LEAVE ME ALONE?
|WHAAAAAAAA!
|I AM SICK AND TIRED OF BEING PERSECUTED FOR MY OBVIOUSLY MAILICIOUS 
|TENDENCY TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS. 

[?]

|BUT IN ALL SERIOUSNESS: TAKE OFF! MY TOMFOOLERY HAS GOTTEN ME IN TROUBLE 
|YET ONCE AGAIN. IN CASE YOU DOLTS WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION: THIS IS 
|"SHENANIGANS". SO I CAN BE AS OBNOXIOUS AS I WANT. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
|AND OBNOXIOUSNESS IS THE POINT OF THIS NEWSGROUP, IS IT NOT? 

I think it has more to do with doing something clever and running off to
tell your net.buddies about it.  Writing in all-caps, though good for an
Apple ][+, is not terribly clever.  Neither is hanging upside-down in a
lecture hall with a stupid expression on one's face.  And "DOLTS" is not
such a good name to call your net.buddies either, for that matter.

That said, I guess it's only fair to admit to not having been much
better when I first got my account (you *are* a freshman, aren't you?
because anyone else really should know better.)  There is hope after
all.

Just a mild flame.

|
|ANDY, CORNFIELD COWBOY

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|    (Sergej Roytman)     |  ferroconcrete wainscoting of Internet"   |
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Say no to four-line .sigs.
From: pearl@spectacle.sw.stratus.com (Dan Pearl)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Payback
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:15:45 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: spectacle.sw.stratus.com

In article <1992Nov20.160139.9376@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> evahramian@mta.ca writes:
>In article <19NOV199215054255@cc.utah.edu>, ????? writes:
>>    Okay, last night an in-state rival just painted our big letter on the hill 
>>a different hue and we need to get them back for their childish and immature 
>>act.  I need some Ideas that are quick and dirty so that we might get them back 
>>for their childish pranks.
>>
>
>Instead of stealing the campus mascot, steal the campus slut!

Seems illegal to me.  

How about providing several additional mascots (humans dressed in the
mascot suits) of the opposing team.  They begin acting like regular
mascots until, say, during the halftime show, then they start misbehaving.
-- 
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Dan Pearl  **  Stratus Computer, Inc.  **  pearl@spectacle.sw.stratus.com
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: Re: Update: Shenanigans on alt.shenanigan
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 05:30:00 GMT

paulus@owlnet.rice.edu (Paul Nathan Crocker) writes:

>Since I'm here...     When I'm driving on a rural road and pick up a tail-
>gater, the best way to get rid of the pests is to subtley sta  weaving
>around a little bit in the lane.  Not too much (don't want to cause an
>accident) but just enough to make the tailgater absolutely sure that you
>are just a little drunk.  You'd be surprised how quickly these menaces to the
>road back off when they believe they are near an even bigger menace.

>disclaimer: I do not suggest that you try this, particularly when in view of
>police officials who might also be convinced by the performance.

>Paul

Needless to say, I don't suggest it either, but...
 
A friend of mine had a car (a rather old Volvo station wagon) that worked
perfectly for this.  If you turn the wheel sharply back and forth, over
and over, but not hard enough to actually turn the car, the car would
wobble back and forth as if it was about to fall apart...  (Which it
probably was.)  I have found that this works in some other cars, but not
as well. 

In my old car, I had a switch rigged to the reverse lights.  Whenever
someone tailgated me, I'd flip them on.  That usually caused them to slam
immediately on the brakes...

-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: espensk@stud.cs.uit.no (Espen Skoglund)
Subject: RE: LOWER CASE MUST DIE! ALRIGHT!
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:52:30 GMT

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC. I MEAN, JUST LOOK AT YOUR REPLIES:
A "RE:" WITH A LOWERCASE "E". HMPF!

 ESPEN SKOGLUND
 (TO PROTECT THE UPPERCASIANS, I WILL NOT INCLUDE MY SIG. ;)



































































ha!
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: kaydin@jarthur.claremont.edu (puck)
Subject: Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Organization: Forest of Satyrs, City of Vampires, the wilds.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:49:38 GMT


   A while back, I had in my possesion a 1984 white Mitsubishi Colt,
a small Japanese vehicle with reasonable maneuvering power.  At the
time, my girlfriend had in her possesion a slightly larger grey dodge
of a more obscure make and model, which I forget.

   SO:
    A few months before getting a new car, I took the Colt out, and
had it painted.  First, two-shades greyish-green, light-battleship
grey (top and bottom), and then---a large red "meatball" (Japanese
Rising Sun) on either side.  Along with this, I mounted for a hood
ornament a target sight, and stenciled several shadows of automobiles
along the sides, just by the door...

   MEANWHILE:
    My girlfriend was taking her dodge, and making appropriate 
American markings on the side...

   It all came to a head on the freeways.  We'd put on pilot caps
and goggles, and our nice leather flight jackets...Imagine the faces
of the other motorists, as a nice, wheeled, Japanese Zero comes racing
down the fast lane, followed closely by an American persuer...I would
dodge into another lane, slow down, and let her pass, then pick up
on her tail...when we borrowed a CB radio, we would call ahead threats
and let truckers ahead wonder about it, then zoom past.

   One cop laughed so hard, he threw away the ticket.

   One time, after zooming around a clump of cars for a while, we
zoomed ahead at high speed.  She kept going, and I pulled to the side
of the road, putting on a backpack and tying a *large* sheet to my
back.

   The last thing the puzzled motorists saw was a downed Japanese
Zero on the side of the road, and a poor pilot trailing a parachute
trudging dejectedly to the call box.

.kerim.


-- 
 ``Much of what is greatest in human     |kaydin@jarthur.claremont.edu
 achievement involves some element of    |kaydin@hmcvax.bitnet
 intoxication.''                         |!uunet!muddcs!jarthur!kaydin
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From: cg071@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (P. J. Geraghty)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Pranks for dorms (to B. Das)
Date: 23 Nov 1992 13:41:02 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Another great dorm room pranks requires some old technology: a
record jacket.  Take an old LP jacket and fill it with shaving
cream.  Tuck the edge under the offending party's door so that
the open end of the jacket is just barely beyond the inner edge
of the door.  Then jump on the jacket.  (You have to really fill
the thing to make it work well.)  To ensure that it doesn't         
explode all over you, you might want to duct-tape the edges or
something.  This is most effective if the door opens into a wide
area (unlike in my room, where the door opens into a narrow foyer.
)

Remember that this will probably reduce the jacket's effectivenedd
(that's "effectiveness;" sorry) as a record protector.
  
Enjoy.
-- 
P.J. Geraghty                "Maybe you should try Hare Krishna."
5020 Battery Lane          --Kermit the Frog, to the "lost" agent
Bethesda, MD 20814              GW Internet: JX655C@GWUVM.GWU.EDU
(301) 409-0648    Cleveland Freenet: CG071@CCLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Sunday, 22 Nov 1992 15:29:33 EST
From: Kind of a stupid game isn't it? <IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: How about these?

    Just had a few ideas.
    How about making neat patterns in the ceiling or hallway by turning
over some of the ceiling tiles (supposing they're different on the
other side)? Maybe you could do something like a different number in
each room of a building or arrows in the hallways leading to one room
large enough to spell "FIX ME" in the ceiling of or some such like that.
    Another idea I just got (more of a prank actually) is to enter all
the stalls in a bathroom, lock all the doors, and leave. Better yet,
get a bunch of shoes and stick them in the stalls to make it look like
they're all in use. I know I know. It's cruel. Well, so is everything
else my friends. :)

.------------------------------------.----------------------------------,
| Are humans nothing but the Earth's |  Captain Ugh may be reached at   |
| mid life crisis? You be the judge. |     IO10781@Maine.maine.edu      |
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: swoodworth@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Phone shenanigans
Reply-To: swoodworth@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:57:54 GMT

 
>3. With conference calling, call one person and put that line on hold 
>while you dial another number. After you're finished dialing, put both 
>parties on the line and don't say anything. It's hilarious to listen to 
>two people who didn't call each other say "Hello?" "Who's this?" "You 
>called me..." "No, you called me..." 

I tried this prank one night with a few friends, and it worked great!
One of the 3-way connections we made was with a Chinese food restaurant,
and some poor old lady (randomly chosen from phone book).  It worked perfect,
because both parties answered their phones at the exact same time, so they
thought it was a legitimate phone call.  This Chinese woman was uttering
in a thick accent "Silvery Moons, make your order please."  The old lady
kept saying "who do you want to talk to, I can't understand what you are
saying."  I was on the floor laughing by this time.
	Another 3-way connection that we tried with the conferance calling
was we randomly chose two phone numbers from the phone book, and just 
hoped that there would be someone home at both places.  At one house 
this kid answered (about 14 years old), and at the other house, a
man answered.  The conversation went like this:

Kid - "Hello"
Man - "Can I help you?"
Kid - "no I think you called me sir."
Man - "WHAT DO YOU WANT!"
kid - "nothing"
man - "This is a prank isn't it?"
kid - "yeah right, whatever"
man - "You have some god damn nerve pranking me boy!!"
kid - "you're fucked up!"  (hangs up)
man - "little runt!!" (slams the phone down)

We were laughing so hard listening to an argument break out over something
something we organized.  Oh well, it was worth it.  See ya...
From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Greeting Card Shenanigan
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:24:33 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

Two shenanigans I pulled that have to do with greeting cards:

1. Recently, my mother celebrated her 50th birthday.  I knew I was
going to be studying in Russia at the time.  The orientation to our
foreign-study program was in Helsinki, so while I was in Helsinki, I
decided I'd buy my mom a birthday card.  In FINNISH.  (Naturally,
neither my mom nor I knows any Finnish!)  So I found a card that had a
giant '50' on the front and looked like a birthday card (as opposed to
an anniversary card).  I even got a Finnish phrasebook and signed
'Happy birthday' to her in Finnish!  Aren't those big numbers a nice
way to be told that you're 50?

2. A few years ago my sister and I found that a local greeting-card
shop had Fathers' Day cards in a bunch of foreign languages, so we
bought my dad a card -- in Polish. (No, nobody in the family knows
Polish either....  We signed the card 'Happy Kielbasa Day!"

--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
"I should have realized it would be bad vodka when all the label said
was 'Russian Vodka'."
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: kanderso@reed.edu (Karl Anderson)
Subject: Re: Update: Shenanigans on alt.shenanigan
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:27:53 GMT

Now, these fine shenaniganers deserve recognition, but I do believe
that ANDY, CORNFIELD COWBOY should be listed as a member of thier
ranks.

Why, by pressing a single key on his keyboard, he has touched off a
veritable tsunami of opprobrium!

Disclaimer:  I have no connection with this gentleman save for the
reading of this newsgroup.
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Caps Posting (aka Get a Life)
From: eclipse@netlink.cts.com (David Gallo)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:03:37 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

I agree that people are a little close-minded when it comes to this 
subject, and it was a good shenanigan... but it stops being a shenanigan 
when it is done repeatedly, so let's try to move on to bigger and better 
things. After all, there are larger groups to piss off than people 
against posting in all-caps....

All flames should be directed to:
         garbage@who.cares

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From: wae@aero.org (William A. Emanuelsen)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Classroom shenanigan
Date: 13 Nov 1992 15:14:20 GMT
Organization: Society for Reforestation of Clearcut Classrooms
Distribution: alt
NNTP-Posting-Host: aerospace.aero.org
Keywords: can't see the forest for the trees

In article <1992Nov13.043433.26328@hubcap.clemson.edu> lyons@hubcap.clemson.edu (Eric Lyons) writes:
>A friend of ours is a forestry graduate student and teaches an undergraduate
>forestry class at 2:00 on Tuesday/Thursdays.  Anyone have a good idea
>for a shenanigan?  Our only ideas were to send a "gorilla-gram" or
>something like that....

How about moving a bunch of potted trees and plants into the classroom
before the friend shows up?  There are probably lots around campus.
Security will probably not be amused...

-- 
William A. Emanuelsen    I degaussed my girlfriend and I'm
wae@aerospace.aero.org      just not attracted to her anymore.
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: reheerdi@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rob Heerdink)
Subject: even more phone shenanigans
Keywords: phones, answering machines
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 13:37:45 GMT


Hi,

Last year (I think...) I put the following outgoing message on my
answering machine

<music: intro of Mozarts 39th symphony>
<solemn voice> 
On account of the international Mozart-year, this is the answering-device
of Rob and Inge. Please leave your message after the beep
<more of the 39th>
<beep>

People were very confused


Another time I had a Swedish friend make our outgoing message,
which caused a lot of people to hang up very quickly because
they thought they reached a number overseas...


Have a laugh,

   -Rob (damn, we were funny in those days)
From: cg071@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (P. J. Geraghty)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Another High School Shenanigan
Date: 21 Nov 1992 21:15:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In high school, I was the person in charge of the stage crews for
the various shows we did each year.  As such, I had access to all
parts of our theatre space.  One day, when math class just seemed
too oppressive, i was sitting in the audio booth, listening to
some tunes on the new CD player and reading a magazine.  A friend   
of mine came by and mentioned that it was the birthday of a mutual 
friend of ours.  We began scheming about ways to help her celebrate.
Suddenly, I looked up on the wall where there was a speaker for the
school's PA system.  "Say," I mused, "I'll bet we could hook up to
that..."  We connected an amp and a tape deck and played "Today's
your birthday" by the Beatles.  Because we knew the song lasted for
a few minutes, we went outside into the hallway to make sure it was
working.  It was.  All over the school.  I returned to the audio 
booth and, when the song was over, said (in a disguised voise, of 
course) "Happy birthday <name>".  If anyone figured out who did it,  
we never heard about it.  But people talked about it for the rest       
of the day.
-- 
P.J. Geraghty                "Maybe you should try Hare Krishna."
5020 Battery Lane          --Kermit the Frog, to the "lost" agent
Bethesda, MD 20814              GW Internet: JX655C@GWUVM.GWU.EDU
(301) 409-0648    Cleveland Freenet: CG071@CCLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: "Gene Dolgner" <p00144@psilink.com>
Subject: High School antics
Reply-To: gdolgner@chelsea.prime.com
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:19:56 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink (3.2)

In my Senior year in high school (and a long time ago, at that), I was 
one of 12 students in a Physics class.  After showing up to class one 
day, we soon discovered that the instructor was going to be very late, 
so we decided to pull one off on him.  He had a closet behind his desk 
that he would use at least once during the class period, stored books 
and other items.  All the students, except me, piled into the closet, 
where ever they could get in, including on shelves.  About halfway 
through the class the instructor shows up and to his surprize, I'm the 
only one there!  I told him that the rest had gotten bored and left.  He 
said I could just sit there and study while he got some work done, 
sitting in his chair just inches from the "crew".  They managed to stay 
quiet and I managed to keep him out of the closet till 5 minutes before 
class ended.  The look on his face was precious when he opened up the 
door to the closet!

Not to be outdone however, the instructor pulled one off on the class.  
He waited several weeks/months until the incident had been forgotten.  
He had us come into the room one at a time for a one-on-one Physics 
experiment, entailing some sort of "simon says" antics, which moved 
faster and faster as the experiment proceeded, ending in sitting on a 
chair.  As each student finished the "experiment", they stayed in the 
room.  Before the final sit-down, the student behind the victim placed a 
wet sponge on the seat, per the instructor's instructions.  The rest is 
history and all involved had a good laugh.

Gene
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