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Cal prank on USC basketball player
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Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:40 pmby Tim Whitehead
Has anybody else heard/read about this? Its genius...
When USC guard Gabe Pruitt took his first trip to the free throw line early in the game, the Cal student section hollered in unison: "VIC-TOR-IA, VIC-TOR-IA," and then yelled out a telephone number. Pruitt glanced back at the crowd in horror and bewilderment before clanking his free throws.
It turns out that a couple of mischeivous little bastards from the Cal student section had been IM'ing with Pruitt all week under the identity of "Victoria," a fictional UCLA hottie, and Pruitt was eagerly anticipating a date with this nubile co-ed back in Westwood after the game. In preparation for the date, Pruitt had handed over his digits, which the Cal student section recited back to him in unison.
Re: Cal prank on USC basketball player
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Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:54 pmby Brent Burns
Tim Whitehead wrote:Has anybody else heard/read about this? Its genius...
When USC guard Gabe Pruitt took his first trip to the free throw line early in the game, the Cal student section hollered in unison: "VIC-TOR-IA, VIC-TOR-IA," and then yelled out a telephone number. Pruitt glanced back at the crowd in horror and bewilderment before clanking his free throws.
It turns out that a couple of mischeivous little bastards from the Cal student section had been IM'ing with Pruitt all week under the identity of "Victoria," a fictional UCLA hottie, and Pruitt was eagerly anticipating a date with this nubile co-ed back in Westwood after the game. In preparation for the date, Pruitt had handed over his digits, which the Cal student section recited back to him in unison.
Would he have been using either Facebook or MySpace?
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Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:40 pmby Adam G
Absolutely brilliant, but not as classic as the old Harvard prank to Yale.
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:12 amby UofMLaxGoalie11
uwec_attack wrote:Absolutely brilliant, but not as classic as the old Harvard prank to Yale.
I believe you are talking about this one. And apparently it was a Yale prank to Harvard.
"Before the Harvard-Yale football game a band of daring Yale students donned red shirts labeled 'Harvard Pep Squad' and placed thousands of sheets of red and white construction paper on the Harvard bleachers."
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:32 amby lil lady lax fan
Wasn't Cal Tech the first ones to pull off that prank way back when??
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:25 amby Adam G
http://rangelife.typepad.com/rangelife/2006/03/victoria_not_vi.html
And yes, I was mistaken on the Harvard/Yale gag, but it's still funny.
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:13 amby Campbell
lil lady lax fan wrote:Wasn't Cal Tech the first ones to pull off that prank way back when??
I don't know if they were the first, but certainly a great prank. Link to Cal Tech story:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/rosebowl.html
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:22 amby laxfan25
Didn't CalTech also pull one off where they buried a device at midlfield, and when it went off it filled a weather balloon that had a sign attached?
I seem to remember something like that in the hazy past.
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:37 pmby FLAK
laxfan25 wrote:Didn't CalTech also pull one off where they buried a device at midlfield, and when it went off it filled a weather balloon that had a sign attached?
I seem to remember something like that in the hazy past.
That was MIT at a Harvard/Yale football game
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:39 pmby laxfan25
FLAK wrote:laxfan25 wrote:Didn't CalTech also pull one off where they buried a device at midlfield, and when it went off it filled a weather balloon that had a sign attached?
I seem to remember something like that in the hazy past.
That was MIT at a Harvard/Yale football game
Thanks! Found it...
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are known for their ambitious pranks. At the 1982 Harvard-Yale football game, a hidden weather balloon emblazoned with the letters M.I.T. sprang from an explosion of talcum powder on the field.
CalTech/MIT - they're all the same - geeks!! (but creative!)
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Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:51 amby sohotrightnow
No, it was Cal Tech back in the 60s who did it at the Rose Bowl
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/rosebowl.html
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Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:27 amby PigPen
I can't remember who did it to who, but involved Rice, TCU and/or SMU. It happened about ten years ago. I think it was Rice doing it to TCU. Rice's band goes out on the field for halftime, spells out Rice and plays their tunes. Five months later, the following spring, there is RICE spelled out in Rye Grass on the field's Bermuda grass. Pretty slick.
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Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:42 amby TexOle
SMU did their diamond M on the TCU field that way. It was pretty funny. TCU got them back the next year at SMU when they did it with fertilizer spreaders and had the PA announce what they were doing. Oh that was funny. It was also on SMUs brand new field which made it even better.