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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. Weren't those easter eggs a kind of prank? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting



    Weren't those software easter eggs pranks too ? If you end up keying in some combinations of keystrokes, you might see totally unexpected funny/interesiting stuff on your screen.

    Did you miss out on this post and all the replies?

  2. Re:67 more years.... by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wow! I read about this 70 year-old prank this morning before it was added to /., and I was actually going to post it to my /. journal instead of the usual carefully selected geek porn.

    That is a fascinating prank. What I liked the best is the psychology of what happened. The guys friends were going to tell him what they'd done, but they opted to let the public down rather than let their friend be humiliated.

    I wonder how common this is?

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  3. Is it all a hoax? by Black+Copter+Control · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Did anybody bother to consider that the story about the hoax (and even the reference to the possibility of the hoax being a hoax) is, itself, a hoax?

    Is there any limit to the recursion on this?

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  4. Emperor Norton Connection by dwdyer · · Score: 3, Interesting
    These people also picked up Emperor Norton as an icon, as did the Discordians.

    See here (info on Norton) and here (more Clamper info in the second article as well).

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  5. Speaking of Hoaxes by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This fellow has decided to take Holocaust Revisionism to its logical conclusion. A lot of info on some of the great historical hoaxes.

  6. Re:67 more years.... by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This post implies that it's only been three years. Just for the record, the earliest Usenet Post referencing Duke Nukem Forever was June 7, *1996*. Yes, coming up on SEVEN YEARS. Heh.

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