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The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt

illuminatedwax writes "Every spring, University of Chicago students attempt to cast off their bookish tendencies and hold the world's largest scavenger hunt. Now, the event has been filmed by the student film group, Fire Escape, as a documentary, and is being sold on DVD and VHS from Periphrastic Films. The film follows the various teams and their effort to procure the off-the-wall 300+ items. For those who haven't heard of the University of Chicago Scav Hunt, its biggest claim to fame is from the 1999 hunt, when students built a working breeder reactor. Items during the 2002 Scav Hunt featured in the film include "Passports stamped by all three axes of evil", building "terrorist base camps" on the University quads, and students competing in a game show-style contest, featuring a DDR contest, and trivia like "Digits of Pi" and "Taylor Series." The Scav Hunt lists can be found here, and the 2002 list here."

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  1. ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS ARE RACIST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and sexist too!

  2. In michigan, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    scavenger hunts are conducted in Michael's ass!!

  3. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You hoser! I AM the man from Nantucket!!!


    -cw

    1. Re:First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Your first post is weak and flabby, mon. In fact, it's more like third post.

  4. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    enormous cocks gobble Michael!!

  5. sweet sassy molassy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's quittin' time. hope all you open sores subhumans and terrorists are deported before monday.

  6. it's official by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the slashdot editors and mods all smoke massive amounts of cock and crack.. AT THE SAME TIME!!! and they prefer to do it IN SOVIET RUSSIA like the gumbo-munching grabastical pieces of amphibian shit that they are.

  7. slashdot scavenger hunt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    items include:

    A turd from The Turd Report
    little boys
    Bottle of jagermister
    little boys
    hairs from RMS beard
    little boys
    Junis Commodore 64
    little boys
    copy of Das Kapital signed by RMS
    little boys
    a kick in the balls from Trollaxor

  8. Urgent Plea from the United Nations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Recently, the UN has suffered the loss of some of its relief facilities in the Palestinian territories, due to understandable Israeli reprisals.

    Because of this there is a major shortage of food supplies for Palestinians. The UN is therefore, requesting assistance from the people of the world.

    Please help the Palestinians by donating pork products to the UN relief program.

    Palestinians love pork!

  9. Re:Axis of Evil Passport Stamps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hahahahahaha! You are so funny!

  10. The item described is not a breeding reactor. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Indeed, that's not giving birth, that's taking a dump!

  11. WARNING - NASTY FECAL JAPAN LINK!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do not click.

  12. Scott Lockwood: Portrait of an Oathbreaker. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thoughout history, many names have been used to describe those who are on the wrong moral path in life: coward, criminal, fiend, monster, vagrant, lunatic. It's without question that William Scott Lockwood III is all of these things, but these are things that can be forgiven. William Scott Lockwood III's sins run deeper.

    In many cultures, the greatest moral offense a man can commit isn't murder, robbery, rape, arson, or even blasphemy. In these cultures, there's a word for someone who is even lower than the murderers and rapists, because he has demonstrated with clear finality his lack of moral character. This one word, never used carelessly, reserved only for the lowest of the low is oathbreaker.

    Many societies value personal honor, honesty, and integrity above anything else. People can make mistaks, and still maintain their honor if they take accountability for their actions. But the oathbreaker is the lowest of the low, never to be forgiven, and never to be trusted. This is because he has voluntarily sacrified the only thing that every man brings with him into the world, and the only thing that every man (hopefully) takes with him into the grave: his honor.

    When a man's honor is gone, he has nothing.

    Ladies and gentlemen, William Scott Lockwood III has nothing. If our society were still built on the concept that a man's word is sacred and that honoring others with the truth is a noble goal, William Scott Lockwood III would be dead right now.

    A man's word is his bond, and when he breaks his word, he's no longer a man at all. He's worse than a coward, worse than a liar, and worse than a thief, but he's all these things and more. He's an oathbreaker.

    In the past, oathbreakers become nonpersons. They stand below even murderers and thieves. Even beggars would not give or recieve comfort from an oathbreaker. Quite often, they were simply killed outright. Sometimes, they were merely cut off from honest society, trusted by no one, alienated until the day they died. After their death, their families were shunned and distrusted forever, because a man holds in his hand no only his own honor, but the honor of his family as well.

    The Lockwood family has no honor left. The Lockwood family has no place in honest society, among civilized humans, because they have no honor, and they are not a part of civilization.

    Killing an oathbreaker was considered to be an act of mercy, sending a tortured soul on to final judgement instead of forcing him to live an empty, hollow life.

    Maybe it's time that we bring back the practice of killing oathbreakers, and ensuring that their bloodline does not propogate. Maybe a lack of honesty is what's wrong with our society. Maybe that's why everything is falling into chaos around us. When you can't trust a man's word, what basis is there for civilization?

    I think upon consideration that you will agree: William Scott Lockwood III is less than a gentlemen, less even than a man, less even than a human, less even than an animal. William Scott Lockwood III is an oathbreaker. :-)

  13. The true enemy: VladeKua5y!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Who is the true enemy of all trollers?

    What is the evil force behind all wrongdoing in the universe?

    It never had a name. Until now. Until we identified it and studied it while making ready to destroy it.

    Its name is VladeKua5y !

    VladeKua5y (pronounced "Vladequacy") is the root of the problem. VladeKua5y is the root of all problems. VladeKua5y is the enemy. VladeKua5y is what must be destroyed.

    Kuro5hin + Vladinator + Adequacy = VladeKua5y !!

    Who is the enemy? VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y !

    What must be destroyed? VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y !

    Who is the enemy of all trollers evarywhere? VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y ! VladeKua5y !

    Here is some information on VladeKua5y . Expect more people like Rusty Foster to be added soon.

    NAME: Burdge, Jonathan E-MAIL: jlb@io.com, jlbatdarc@w-link.net, elby@adequacy.org, darc@w-link.net ALIASES: lb, jlb, Elby

    NAME: Casillas, Luis E-MAIL: casillas@stanford.edu, em@adequacy.org ALIASES: em, Estanislao Martinez, Sylvain Tremblay

    NAME: Corrigan, Barry E-MAIL: barry@bjcorrigan.fsnet.co.uk, bc@adequacy.org ALIASES: bc, ktb (Kiss the Blade), Lover's Arrival, Euroderf, Erbert Paget-Paget, Anya

    NAME: Dickson, Craig E-MAIL: crd@inversenet.com, mendaxveritas@yahoo.com, mendaxveritas@pacbell.net ALIASES: mv, Mendax Veritas

    NAME: Flickinger, Dan E-MAIL: flikx@geekizoid.com, flikee@xmission.com ALIASES: flikx

    NAME: Haberberger, George E-MAIL: ghaberbe@frontiernet.net, George.Haberberger@usa.xerox.com ALIASES: GeorgeHa, Hairy_Potter

    NAME: Huston, Bill E-MAIL: bozoman@vlad.geekizoid.com, ALIASES: bozoman

    NAME: Johnson, Peter E-MAIL: peter.johnson@voicestream.com, shoeboy@adequacy.org ALIASES: Shoeboy, Peter Johnson

    NAME: Lockwood, Scott E-MAIL: wsl3@attbi.com, vlad@geekizoid.com ALIASES: Vladinator, Lonesome Cowboy Burt, Quick Star, Pinkerton Floyd, etc.

    NAME: Linwood, Rob E-MAIL: rcl@cs.csoft.net, rcl211@is9.nyu.edu ALIASES: AuntFloyd, Con Troll

    NAME: Mann, Warren E-MAIL: broken@warmann.com ALIASES: osm, OpenSourceMan

    NAME: McPherson, Craig E-MAIL: craig@laceyonline.com ALIASES: craig, naked&petrified guy

    NAME: Nelson, Brian E-MAIL: elenchos@adequacy.org ALIASES: Elenchos

    NAME: Osborne, Michaell E-MAIL: osborm@yahoo.com, dmg@adequacy.org, michaellosborne@netscapeonline.co.uk ALIASES: dmg, Dumb Marketing Guy, Lord Hugh Toppingham

    NAME: Sassaman, Esther E-MAIL: esther@antioch.edu, perdida@adequacy.org, reva_altamira@yahoo.com ALIASES: Perdida, Reva Altamira, etc.

    NAME: Skinner, James E-MAIL: spiralx@spazmail.com, spiralx@adequacy.org ALIASES: SpiralX, Manifold, Jon Erikson

    NAME: Stanton, Matt E-MAIL: matt@madeforchina.com, serf@adequacy.org ALIASES: Serf

    NAME: Zikowski, Zachary E-MAIL: zikzak@io.com, zikzak@adequacy.org ALIASES: Zikzak, kp

    NAME: ???, Ernie E-MAIL: trollmastah@hotmail.com ALIASES: Trollmastah

    IMPORTANT NOTICE:
    It's coming.
    You are not ready.
    You can't stop it.
    TROLLING BEGINS:
    January 1st, 2003. 11:59PM.
    It's coming.

    SEELE loves yuo!!!