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Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - rudruff - 05-04-2015

She probably went for him because he was aloof instead of fawning all over her as the rest of us would have done.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - stupac2 - 05-04-2015

(05-04-2015, 09:00 AM)garvin link Wrote:They weren't that good at it, so the Frisbee was constantly banging off walls and doors.

Actually that's the appeal of indoor frisbee. Having the disc go careening around the hallway adds a good bit of unpredictability and fun to it!

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - pefloresjr - 05-04-2015

(05-04-2015, 09:16 AM)stupac2 link Wrote:[quote author=garvin link=topic=12082.msg117638#msg117638 date=1430755214]They weren't that good at it, so the Frisbee was constantly banging off walls and doors.

Actually that's the appeal of indoor frisbee. Having the disc go careening around the hallway adds a good bit of unpredictability and fun to it!
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It beats the hallway bowling some of my dorm-mates engaged in toward the end of finals one year before the bowling alley in Tressider closed.  I know finals weren't over because I was trying to sleep before taking my last two finals the next day.  I yelled some obscenities at them so they moved to the other end of the hall but I could still hear the loud banging and crashing sounds.  I can't recall what they were using for pins, but they ended up having to pay for the damage to several doors. 
Cheers,
Pete F.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - CowboyIndian - 05-04-2015

We had a track guy from Oregon who used to throw his javelin down the 2nd floor hall of Soto. It would stick, with resounding authority, in the door of the sponsor's room. Neal Heller, where are you?

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - terry - 05-04-2015

Then there's hallway archery . . . . Back in the day, some kids in Donner broke out a bow and some arrows late one night. They nailed a target (actually a cheeseburger) on a bulletin board at the end of the hall, then went down toward the other end of the hall and started shooting at it. At exactly the wrong moment, an unsuspecting soul walked out of a dorm room into the hallway and took an arrow to the arm. I suspect that may have been the only arrow wound they saw in the student health center that year . . . .

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - CornFed - 05-04-2015

(05-04-2015, 10:49 AM)pefloresjr link Wrote:[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=12082.msg117642#msg117642 date=1430756182]
[quote author=garvin link=topic=12082.msg117638#msg117638 date=1430755214]They weren't that good at it, so the Frisbee was constantly banging off walls and doors.

Actually that's the appeal of indoor frisbee. Having the disc go careening around the hallway adds a good bit of unpredictability and fun to it!
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It beats the hallway bowling some of my dorm-mates engaged in toward the end of finals one year before the bowling alley in Tressider closed.  I know finals weren't over because I was trying to sleep before taking my last two finals the next day.  I yelled some obscenities at them so they moved to the other end of the hall but I could still hear the loud banging and crashing sounds.  I can't recall what they were using for pins, but they ended up having to pay for the damage to several doors. 
Cheers,
Pete F.
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(05-04-2015, 12:15 PM)terry link Wrote:Then there's hallway archery . . . . Back in the day, some kids in Donner broke out a bow and some arrows late one night. They nailed a target (actually a cheeseburger) on a bulletin board at the end of the hall, then went down toward the other end of the hall and started shooting at it. At exactly the wrong moment, an unsuspecting soul walked out of a dorm room into the hallway and took an arrow to the arm. I suspect that may have been the only arrow wound they saw in the student health center that year . . . .

Maybe not.  Was it far enough in the past that Stanford was still the Indians? 

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Leftcoast - 05-04-2015

In my frosh dorm hallway frisbee involved two guys slinging a frisbee as hard as they could with the winner being whomever got it past the other player.  Fun, until a fellow student walking out of one of the rooms got tagged in the shoulder.

As momma used to say, "It's all fun and games until ...."  (You know the rest.)

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - stupac2 - 05-04-2015

(05-04-2015, 02:49 PM)leftcoast link Wrote:In my frosh dorm hallway frisbee involved two guys slinging a frisbee as hard as they could with the winner being whomever got it past the other player.  Fun, until a fellow student walking out of one of the rooms got tagged in the shoulder.

As momma used to say, "It's all fun and games until ...."  (You know the rest.)

My Junior year one of my roommates and I played a game we called "murderball" where we each stood at one end of the hallway and tried to throw this ridiculous, brobdingnagian, squishy ball past each other. It was a lot of fun and really hard to get hurt since the ball was so squishy and harmless... until we hit a light fixture and the thing fell out and splintered into a million pieces. Which was sort of fine, since we were nowhere near it when it fell, except that my roommate picked up the largest piece and then accidentally dropped it and big, heavy shards flew into our feet. I'd never actually had blood spurt out of a wound before...

Anyway, I eventually figured out that the thing only fell because half the screws holding it in were missing. The housing people were pretty mad at us until I mention that this was an obvious safety issue that they ignored for god knows how long, then they seemed content to let it die.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - teejers1 - 05-04-2015

Donner, late at night, a few guys would play tennis in the halls.  And that consisted of each of them having a can of balls (3 balls) and a tennis racket, and they were hitting the balls as hard as they could down the hallway, trying to nail the other guy.  They actually were allowed to be inside their room for cover, but would have to come out to shoot.  One guy, Scott Davis (#2 on the tennis team, IIRC), just crushed his buddy with one shot to the noggin.

No permanent damage done, but that might have been the last episode of that game - at least the last one I heard of.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Nan3cy - 05-04-2015

Talk about thread drift... This conversation reminds me of a guy who lived in Toyon in the late 60s who was an avid climber and would climb the walls (IIRC, back against one wall, feet against the other, inching up) frequently. Less frequently (actually, once a year) he would celebrate Japanese Navy Day (three guesses what day that was). Weird dude, but a very nice guy.

Destruction Frisbee - Mick - 05-04-2015

(05-04-2015, 02:49 PM)leftcoast link Wrote:In my frosh dorm hallway frisbee involved two guys slinging a frisbee as hard as they could with the winner being whomever got it past the other player.  Fun, until a fellow student walking out of one of the rooms got tagged in the shoulder.

As momma used to say, "It's all fun and games until ...."  (You know the rest.)

We used to call this "Destruction Frisbee," but we'd play it with half a dozen guys at each end of the hall, with about a dozen Frisbees of different shapes.  We figured out that you could bounce a Frisbee off of at least three surfaces before it significantly lost velocity.  We kept track of head shots, bruises and the like.  Great fun until someone bounced a Frisbee off of the fire alarm and caused a very unhappy fire chief to have a very unpleasant conversation with the head of our housing...said unpleasantries filtering down to us.  So much for destruction Frisbee.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - washingtonismoney - 05-04-2015

I forget which dorm this was, but I heard some dorm used to do "jousting," which involved, yes, high-speed bicycling.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Stymie - 05-05-2015

There was a small but avid group of roller derby fans at my fraternity, and after returning from the Cow Palace after a game/match we would re-arrange the sofas in our living room into a circle and play the game sans roller skates.  The consumption of significantly large quantities of alcoholic beverages was involved.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - fullmetal - 05-05-2015

We had nerf dart wars in my frosh dorm hallway (all male floor).  Nothing too brutal.

terry, bows/arrows are treated as firearms by Santa Clara county, iirc.  I always wondered if any Stanford cops would recognize archery gear in a Pelican hard case carried on a bike.  Even the relatively light 20lb (draw weight) bows shooting target tips can be lethal.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - stupac2 - 05-05-2015

(05-05-2015, 11:19 AM)fullmetal link Wrote:We had nerf dart wars in my frosh dorm hallway (all male floor).  Nothing too brutal.

terry, bows/arrows are treated as firearms by Santa Clara county, iirc.  I always wondered if any Stanford cops would recognize archery gear in a Pelican hard case carried on a bike.  Even the relatively light 20lb (draw weight) bows shooting target tips can be lethal.

I was briefly in the archery club and we practiced on the field by the intersection of El Camino and Serra. That's right down the street from the police station so I can't believe they just didn't know about it, it must've been deemed okay.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - fullmetal - 05-05-2015

It's fine at a range.  But in an uncontrolled space, I'm sure the police would have had a cow.  A 35lb bow shooting outdoor arrows...yeah, that can kill someone.

I was a charter member of the archery club, btw.  Good times.

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Leftcoast - 05-05-2015

There was one less pleasant result from dorm hijinx in the early 80's.  If I remember the story correctly it involved a dorm (Toyon?) piling all of the dorm couch pillows and cushions into a stairwell and then wheeling a rope attached chair at high speed toward the stairwell so that a seated person was launched toward the pillows when the rope pulled taut.  We heard about this game in my dorm and were planning something similar - until we found that some unfortunate person was partially paralyzed. 

18 year old males are darn sure they are indestructible until they find they aren't.  As the father of a 16 year old male and a 21 year old male I'm living through that age again right now.  The risk assessment trait must develop sometime in the late 20s because they sure don't have it now.

By the way, I'm sure I got some of the facts wrong so please correct me if you know better.



Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - BostonCard - 05-05-2015

It is well known that the pre-frontal cortex, the part of the brain that deals with "executive function", is the last part of the brain to mature, and doesn't fully develop until at least the mid-20's.

http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/youngadult/brain.html

BC

Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Hulk01 - 05-05-2015

In my final two years at Magnolia (later Ujimbo) we had hall hockey, along with outstanding color commentary.  (One of the blessings of attending Stanford were the genuine wits, perhaps inspired by Hal Mickelsen. 

It was during these games that we realized a key to winning football.  Football commentators in the 70's were obsessed with "momentum"; you really could not keep an announcing gig without mentioning momentum at least three times during a game.  It naturally occurred to us that it was an odd concept, because momentum was so easily lost, then sometimes regained--or not. 

But we decided we'd buy the concept.  From this, we decided that the key to winning a football game was to make the other guys less tenacious.  This led to the concept of "detanicifying" your opponent, and in in turn to understanding the vital role in winning football of "detenacionization." 

All of us were sober that night, by the way.  But there may not have been a more sober college dorm anywhere, outside of Provo, Utah, than Lagunita in the early 70's.  A wild night was when you ordered a second pizza. 



Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - rastaman85 - 05-05-2015

Love ya, Hulk, but it's Ujamaa, not Ujimbo. Don't think Harbaugh ever lived there.

And Lagunita was just as dull in 81-82, except for the kid who ran thru one of the glass doors in a freshman orientation pillow fight. Poor idiot.

Wait...that was me....