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70-Year-Old Prank Revealed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the inspiring-a-new-generation-of-pranking dept.

Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle a story about a prank that the Clampers (E Clampus Vitus, man!) pulled on UC Berkeley was featured. In short the Clampers faked a brass plaque that intimated that Sir Francis Drake landed in Marin 462 years ago. The Clampers are an organization known for, well, drinking and horsing around, but this kind of prank, one that spans 70 years (or more than 400, depending on your point of view) is epic and inspiring.

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  1. Just like Nessie by blamanj · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reminiscent of the 1934 Nessie photograph. Even though it's been documented as a hoax, the true believers live on.

    And of course, crop circles are practically a religion to some.