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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. 67 more years.... by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    and 3dRealms will announce that Duke Nukem was also a hoax.

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  2. News to me... by Mulletproof · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The Clampers are an organization known for, well, drinking and horsing around..."

    And what fraternitiy worth their salt isn't???

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  3. Re:Is it all a hoax? by pete-classic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there any limit to the recursion on this?

    Yes. My attention span.

    And . . . we just exceeded it.

    -Peter

    PS: Did anyone else take the "riddle inside an enigma" or whatever to be an allusion to the film "JFK"?

    -P

  4. Reminds me of another prank... by 10Ghz · · Score: 5, Funny

    In 1628, the flagship of the Swedish navy, Wasa, sank within minutes of starting her maiden-voyage (the ship was top heavy due to extra gun-deck they added in the middle of the construction).

    The ship was resurfaced in 1961 (it was discovered in 1956) . It took several days to accomplish. As it happens, there were some finnish techics-students (teekkarit) visiting Stockholm then. Teekkarit are famous for pulling pranks, and they though that this would be the perfect possibility for the ultimate prank. They went and bought a miniature copy of a statue of Paavo Nurmi (a famous finnish runner), sneaked past the guards, went in to the ship (that was still in the bottom of the sea) and placed the statue in the captains quarters. I bet the people who studied the sip after it was resurfaced were quite puzzled when they found that statue ;). The guys who pulled that off never revealed how they did it.

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