Re: The Great Pumpkin Drop

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From: Stanley H Thompson
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 07:51

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In article <3NOV199213152770@csa2.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
>In article <sadun.720821044@quack.ma.utexas.edu>, sadun@quack.ma.utexas.edu (Lorenzo Sadun) writes...
>>palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer) writes:
>> 
>>There's a similar tradition at MIT, except that the pumpkin isn't cooled
>>prior to dropping (or at least wasn't in 77-81 when I was there).
>>Some people report a flash of light on impact, others just a big mess :-).
>
>At Baker House, we had an (almost) annual tradition of dropping a piano 
>off the roof.  It's an entertaining sight.  I have a piece of a soundboard
>which I now use as a bookend.  
>
>Elsewhere on campus, there was a refrigerator drop on halloween.  I don't
>know of either of these traditions continue.
>
>-Scott 

This year there was a drop off of the Green Building.  It was sponsored either
by Senior House or East Campus.  Anyone who knows the MIT campus knows that
the Green Building is quite an impressive 300 feet.
								-Stan

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Stan Thompson		I'm only an undergraduate- what's your excuse?
rx1@athena.mit.edu

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