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U of Chicago Scavenger Hunt List - 2004
nightsweat writes "The list of items and tasks for the 2004 version of the infamous University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt (or scavhunt for short) is up as a PDF. As a veteran of the first hunt in 1985, I'm glad to see the youngsters carrying on the madness. Some of the highlight items - the URLs of the blogs of the judges, five pages of Queer Eye for Doctor Doom, A McDonald's Sad Meal, Mrs Potatohead giving Mr. Potato head, Eudaemonia (300 points!), and a permanent tattoo that says 'Sorry about the syphilis, can we still be cousins?'"
A PDF viewer for Windows that doesn't suck up more resources Doom III. Good luck on that!
If Mrs Potato wants to give me head.
cheers
"A demonstration of the edible electric pickle."
I have attached a pickle to an electric cord to make it (the pickle) glow. But I'm not sure if it was edible in that state. First of all, it was emitting burnt-pickle smoke. Second of all, the eater probably would have been electrocuted.
Then again, that's a small price to pay for science.
Maybe the first item on the list should have been "Another Web Server"
My Tatoo is on slashdot...
I mean, dang, I'd hate to be the sorry bastard with that tatoo....
1) SCO's Case
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Yeah, but you guys surrender as soon as it looks like the hunt is getting difficult.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Note that it didn't say Mr. Potatohead.
Geez, the Scavenger hunt is getting more expensive every year. And now the contestants have to add to their expenses a return bus ticket from Illinois to Alabama?
I have that tatoo already, and for five dolars, you can use me in your game.
Comeon. They're married. Really, what are the odds of this hunt taking place on Mr. Potatohead's birthday?
-Peter
10. Mayor Daley the First
9. An effective WinXP security patch CD
8. 11,000 Bush vote ballots brought home early in 2001 by Bill "Lex Luthor" Daley and hidden in a landfill.
7. My car keys!
6. (still missing)
5. The Beagle
4. 8,700 ballots from 1960 election marked as votes for Nixon.
3. WMD's
2. Meigs Field
1. Jimmy Hoffa
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
There is probably a college student dumb enough to get the tattoo.
They better post a picture.
My first thought was that it had something to do with the mania involved with the (now old) exchange:
:-)
You-da-man! No You-da-man!, etc..
Eu-dae-man-ia
Guess not.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
No one can pump their own gas in New Jersey.
Thats what we call it in India.
One of the items on the list from a hunt I participated back home was a cadet from the ROTC equivalent in full uniform with left half of his mustache shaved... and a hair thats atleast 3 feet long...
i was begging long haired women on campus to donate me a hair... and I finally turned up in full uniform including heavy boots with the left half of my mustache shaved. The organizers then tell me that i was looking quite revolting and i should have shaved my right half too.. they never mentioned anything about the right half in the wish list.
Really, it means "Well-demoned". It can be lucky, happy, prosperous, or a couple of other things.
In other words it means "I run FreeBSD".
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
All I saw of the site before it was Slashdotted was the index page with all the butterflys.
But I have to ask all of you...were they really butterflies?? I think not! They were all Death Head Moths from Silence of the Lambs
"...I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye..."
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I win :)
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Here's an example from the Greek: (Plato's Gorgias) Sôkratês: ou gar tout' ên eudaimonia, hôs eoike, kakou apallagê, alla tên archên mêde ktêsis. "Yes, for what we regarded as happiness, it seems, was not this relief from evil, but its non-acquisition at any time." So it seems then, that even Socrates knows that it's better to have never installed Windows at all then to have it and switch.
...to put that Willie Nelson doll from Super Bowl XXXVIII you've been hiding away up on eBay...
Fucking Internet. Fucking, fucking Internet. Can't even spread a good urban legend any more. Every time you try, the subject of the damn rumor pops up and starts spouting all kinds of unnecessary facts!
I hate the fucking Internet. It's taken all the fun out of a well-crafted lie.
I write in my journal
Dan Quayle, that disguise is fooling no-one.
My other sig is a starship
During the U of C scavenger hunt in the spring of 1991, one of the items that I was responsible for finding was one of the (many) decorative banners that covered a construction area outside the Ohio State Building in Columbus.
My girlfriend and I were spotted by police during the heist, which resulted in a short and successful chase through some of the parking lots and streets of downtown Columbus. Well, sort of successful. I clipped the bumper of a box truck during the getaway and staved in the door of the car I was driving.
But since I was going to be scavenger hunting in Ohio for the next 48 hours, I didn't want to keep worrying about being pulled over for evading arrest by some cop who thought I might be a terrorist or something. So I went to the nearest police station and turned myself in.
The desk sargeant there listened to my story (completely nonplussed I might add), and asked, "Is this some sort of sorority thing?" What a deflating question for a 19 year-old guy.
Nonetheless, after a $50 fine (which I am pretty sure went into his beer fund, but I wasn't going to argue because I had just talked my way out of a much more serious problem) he let me keep the banner. And because I told the police that other people would be coming to steal more stuff from the state house, I don't believe that anyone else got one of those banners.
Now who says the U of C isn't a fun place?
That would be a great hard to find item.
Haws are a kind of fruit, I think. I remember eating haws on a stick in Beijing. Haw flakes should be easy to make, if you can find the haws.
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