Thought you all might enjoy this.

https://www.facebook.com/montgomeryken/posts/10152920620592835?pnref=story

GO BEARS!

xultaif;842404728 said:

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Thought you all might enjoy this.

http://iamfiatlux.com/2014/11/18/still-no-bonfire-when-cal-tricked-stanford-into-cancelling-its-own-bonfire/

GO BEARS!

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Love it. Love the Apple printer ink jet font in President Kennedy's letter.

"Canceled" was NOT misspelled!

I know, right? You can spell it both ways. Which is why my 1990 word processor didn't catch it!

That was a long (technology) time ago!

Ha. That's awesome. Somehow missed that one. Well done xultaif.

Sebastabear;842404743 said:

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Ha. That's awesome. Somehow missed that one. Well done xultaif.

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It was a TEAM effort! ;-)

what were all the pranks that we've done to them? i remember the phoenix five prank thread from i think last year

No area codes, and "car" phones, technology back in the day. In the 90s, I didn't know anyone who regularly used a cell phone in college until '99... A prank like this today would get discovered in minutes.

I also like the old Apple/Mac style font.

I just looked it up, so "cancelled" with two l's is a British thing?

Creeping Incrementalism;842404749 said:

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No area codes, and "car" phones, technology back in the day. In the 90s, I didn't know anyone who regularly used a cell phone in college until '99... A prank like this today would get discovered in minutes.

I also like the old Apple/Mac style font.

I just looked it up, so "cancelled" with two l's is a British thing?

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I honestly still don't know how to do canceled / cancelled as they both work ;-) And I head global corp comm for a tech company, based in India, so using sort of kind of in a way British English ;-)

xultaif;842404728 said:

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Thought you all might enjoy this.

https://www.facebook.com/montgomeryken/posts/10152920620592835?pnref=story

GO BEARS!

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Fantastic! I can't believe I hadn't heard about this until now.

MolecularBear007;842404769 said:

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Fantastic! I can't believe I hadn't heard about this until now.

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You know, shockingly for me, we did a really poor job memorializing this. You gotta remember, this was pre-internet so harder to spread the word. Of course it would have also been harder to do ;-)

I love it. This stuff is classic and legendary


Way to go !!!!

Mighty cool. Thanks much for sharing. I was traveling abroad after I graduated in '89, so I missed this....

The whole Bay Area was the 415 area code? I don't think so as San Jose, Santa Clara et al were 408, I'm pretty sure. Also, for the rankings, it would nice to link to the global rankings where we have the edge on Stanford.

Thanks again.

Cal89;842404788 said:

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Mighty cool. Thanks much for sharing. I was traveling abroad after I graduated in '89, so I missed this....

The whole Bay Area was the 415 area code? I don't think so as San Jose, Santa Clara et al were 408, I'm pretty sure. Also, for the rankings, it would nice to link to the global rankings where we have the edge on Stanford.

Thanks again.

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Yeah, you know you're right about San Jose but back then I didn't really think of them as Bay Area ;-) Oh, and the "car" denotations were just to show people who had cars... no one had a car phone back then. I'm not even sure everyone had call waiting! ;-) You just got the busy signal.

Thanks. This was a lot of fun to put together. I happened to find an old box with all this stuff in it and It was a great walk down amnesia lane!

Should be in the HOF of Big Game pranks. Ranks right up there with the fake Daily Cal of 1975, which I still remember reading the morning it came out.

So what was the inside joke in the letter?

p.s. awesome prank, thanks for sharing, I swear I remember the newscasts showing no bonfire but didnt know the Cal angle.

So effing Awesome!!!!!

NVBear78;842404875 said:

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So what was the inside joke in the letter?

p.s. awesome prank, thanks for sharing, I swear I remember the newscasts showing no bonfire but didnt know the Cal angle.

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I believe there's a strategically placed "$". Xultaif, do I win the prize?

Way to go! I can't remember if I knew about this at the time... I must've.

I remember staying up late at night, drinking, brainstorming pranks to pull on Stanfurd. We spent hours figuring out how to set off the bonfire a day early... motorcycles, torces, etc. Never happened.

The one idea we ended up having (and attempted to execute semi-spontaneously) landed me in jail as a memorable beginning to Big Game Week my senior year. LOL, years later, when applying for a teaching credential, I had to come up with the full explanation, which involved going back to Stanfurd to get copies of the original police report. Bottom line, the state of California deemed me fit to teach, so I have spent the last decade and a half or so inculcating the youth of the state of California to "breed a race of giants, to roam throughout the land, just to swell the mighty chorus of 'The Cardinals Be Damned!'" (Regrets? Sure. I regret that I got caught, especially by those lame sonsobitches.)

Go Bears!

Sebastabear;842404885 said:

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I believe there's a strategically placed "$". Xultaif, do I win the prize?

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read the reason for the cancellation. ;-)

xultaif;842404897 said:

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read the reason for the cancellation.

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Damn. Thought I had that. I guess the "s" only looks like a $. Must be the type face.

NVBear78;842404875 said:

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So what was the inside joke in the letter?

p.s. awesome prank, thanks for sharing, I swear I remember the newscasts showing no bonfire but didnt know the Cal angle.

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Hey read the reasons for the cancellation. That should help you ;-) Glad you liked it!

Big C_Cal;842404891 said:

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Way to go! I can't remember if I knew about this at the time... I must've.

I remember staying up late at night, drinking, brainstorming pranks to pull on Stanfurd. We spent hours figuring out how to set off the bonfire a day early... motorcycles, torces, etc. Never happened.

The one idea we ended up having (and attempted to execute semi-spontaneously) landed me in jail as a memorable beginning to Big Game Week my senior year. LOL, years later, when applying for a teaching credential, I had to come up with the full explanation, which involved going back to Stanfurd to get copies of the original police report. Bottom line, the state of California deemed me fit to teach, so I have spent the last decade and a half or so inculcating the youth of the state of California to "breed a race of giants, to roam throughout the land, just to swell the mighty chorus of 'The Cardinals Be Damned!'" (Regrets? Sure. I regret that I got caught, especially by those lame sonsobitches.)

Go Bears!

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Well done!

Sebastabear;842404898 said:

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Damn. Thought I had that. I guess the "s" only looks like a $. Must be the type face.

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Figure it out?

xultaif;842404905 said:

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Figure it out?

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"B-U-S-T"ed!

Well done all around, and thanks for the trip down memory lane!

genebear;842404908 said:

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"B-U-S-T"ed!

Well done all around, and thanks for the trip down memory lane!

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Could not figure out the inside angle until genebear's post.

Great stuff xultaif. I too was at Cal then and remember hearing of the hoax, though I did not know who carried it out at the time. Wow, one of the guys on the BUST list went to my high school and I played on the soccer team with him.

Go Bears!

Great story! Well done, sir!

One comment: if you are going to include Seaborgium as a periodic element named after Cal, you should also include Lawrencium. Ernest Lawrence, Cal's first Nobel Laureate, virtually created the physics program at Cal and his namesake Lawrence Hall of Science towers over the campus.

BUST
acronym...
B - Burn
....see if you can figure out the remainder.....

I remember going down and posting Ken's letter and being chased off of campus by Stanford Axe Comm members at some point.

AUOso;842404960 said:

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BUST
acronym...
B - Burn
....see if you can figure out the remainder.....

I remember going down and posting Ken's letter and being chased off of campus by Stanford Axe Comm members at some point.

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Tom, I don't think you guys got chased, did you? I vividly remember us all meeting at Senior Hall and being on such a high... and then being at Raleighs that night and seeing the news broadcasts on channel 7 (couldn't find that vid) and the whole place going nuts.

southseasbear;842404951 said:

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Great story! Well done, sir!

One comment: if you are going to include Seaborgium as a periodic element named after Cal, you should also include Lawrencium. Ernest Lawrence, Cal's first Nobel Laureate, virtually created the physics program at Cal and his namesake Lawrence Hall of Science towers over the campus.

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Everyone's a critic! ;-) I'm kidding. I can't quite figure out what the technical # is because i don't want to do anything that would let Stanford claim one.

xultaif;842404735 said:

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I know, right? You can spell it both ways. Which is why my 1990 word processor didn't catch it!

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But you did misspell "judgment".

Other than that... kudos!

JSC 76;842404964 said:

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But you did misspell "judgment".

Other than that... kudos!

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That is hilarious! No one has ever pointed that out. I also typed temporarily instead of temporary.

okaydo;842404734 said:

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"Canceled" was NOT misspelled!

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+1

xultaif;842404728 said:

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Thought you all might enjoy this.

https://www.facebook.com/montgomeryken/posts/10152920620592835?pnref=story

GO BEARS!

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Great job!
If we're all retroactively correcting the grammar...you also left out an "of" in the second to last paragraph. Should have read "one OF our fine young people"...instead of "one our fine young people."

haha! Where was grammar check on your word processor? lol...