[washingtonismoney]

I'd make you guys honorary half-black, quarter-Russian quarter-Tatar racial status, but I'm not so sure what value that could possibly provide. No ethnic cuisine, in-jokes, holidays, etc., so...

(What I'm saying is, it wouldn't be like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV7m6IIN_tI&noredirect=1)

[washingtonismoney]

I'd make you guys honorary half-black, quarter-Russian quarter-Tatar racial status, but I'm not so sure what value that could possibly provide. No ethnic cuisine, in-jokes, holidays, etc., so...

(What I'm saying is, it wouldn't be like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV7m6IIN_tI&noredirect=1)

[pefloresjr]

[quote author=Publius link=topic=8489.msg69521#msg69521 date=1380500866]

As far as I'm concerned, you and Yvonne are honorary Asians.

That's hilarious. I was about to post almost the exact same thing. We'll teach you guys the secret handshake at the NCG Cardboard meetup.
[/quote]

Honorary Asian?  I don't need to be no honorary Asian.  I'm Mexican.  We're everywhere.  We've always been everywhere and will always be everywhere.  ;)

In actuality, I've been told I look pretty pan-ethnic.  I've been assumed to be Chinese by many people in China, the Turks thought I was Pakistani, and most Europeans assume I'm Spanish.  Almost nobody thinks I'm American, especially those friendly folks at US Immigration. 

Cheers,
Pete F.

[pefloresjr]

[quote author=Publius link=topic=8489.msg69521#msg69521 date=1380500866]

As far as I'm concerned, you and Yvonne are honorary Asians.

That's hilarious. I was about to post almost the exact same thing. We'll teach you guys the secret handshake at the NCG Cardboard meetup.
[/quote]

Honorary Asian?  I don't need to be no honorary Asian.  I'm Mexican.  We're everywhere.  We've always been everywhere and will always be everywhere.  ;)

In actuality, I've been told I look pretty pan-ethnic.  I've been assumed to be Chinese by many people in China, the Turks thought I was Pakistani, and most Europeans assume I'm Spanish.  Almost nobody thinks I'm American, especially those friendly folks at US Immigration. 

Cheers,
Pete F.

[Mick]

Okay - I'm an Asian guy and was on the Wrestling team to boot.

My has this thread gotten off topic.

I was in Donner freshman year and we were told we had set the highest cost for damages to a dorm either for that year or ever. We kept breaking the light covers with frisbees, soccer balls, volleyballs, tennis balls, etc.

As a frosh, I lived in the gigantic dorm on the SCU campus.  During the first week of school, kids pulled the fire alarm twice, costing the university a bundle when the fire dept had to come out and check and make sure everything was all right and not just some idiot 18 year old drunk and away from home the first time.  After the second pull, we were lectured to by the various RA's that the next time the alarm got pulled, the kid's family would have to bear the cost, something like a semester's tuition. 

Enter our favorite game "Destruction Frisbee."  In the early 1980s, video entertainment was quite limited, and we discovered that various Frisbees would bounce remarkably well off of the floors, ceilings and walls of the narrow frosh dorm corridors.  You had to exercise a degree of restraint while the RA was in the vicinity, but once he was gone, the air would fill with Frisbees as we essentially played dodgeball with the Frisbees, hurled at full strength from a distance of about  sixty feet...usually, there were3-6 Frisbees  in the air at any given moment.  One fateful night, I threw a Frisbee that bounced of the floor, ceiling and a wall, narrowly missing a student, but hitting the fire alarm (from about 135 feet, we later measured).  Alarm goes off, everyone runs outside.  I didn't realize that it was my little Frisbee, until the RA mentioned that it happened at the opposite end of my floor.  Oops...

[Mick]

Okay - I'm an Asian guy and was on the Wrestling team to boot.

My has this thread gotten off topic.

I was in Donner freshman year and we were told we had set the highest cost for damages to a dorm either for that year or ever. We kept breaking the light covers with frisbees, soccer balls, volleyballs, tennis balls, etc.

As a frosh, I lived in the gigantic dorm on the SCU campus.  During the first week of school, kids pulled the fire alarm twice, costing the university a bundle when the fire dept had to come out and check and make sure everything was all right and not just some idiot 18 year old drunk and away from home the first time.  After the second pull, we were lectured to by the various RA's that the next time the alarm got pulled, the kid's family would have to bear the cost, something like a semester's tuition. 

Enter our favorite game "Destruction Frisbee."  In the early 1980s, video entertainment was quite limited, and we discovered that various Frisbees would bounce remarkably well off of the floors, ceilings and walls of the narrow frosh dorm corridors.  You had to exercise a degree of restraint while the RA was in the vicinity, but once he was gone, the air would fill with Frisbees as we essentially played dodgeball with the Frisbees, hurled at full strength from a distance of about  sixty feet...usually, there were3-6 Frisbees  in the air at any given moment.  One fateful night, I threw a Frisbee that bounced of the floor, ceiling and a wall, narrowly missing a student, but hitting the fire alarm (from about 135 feet, we later measured).  Alarm goes off, everyone runs outside.  I didn't realize that it was my little Frisbee, until the RA mentioned that it happened at the opposite end of my floor.  Oops...

[stupac2]

Enter our favorite game "Destruction Frisbee."  In the early 1980s, video entertainment was quite limited, and we discovered that various Frisbees would bounce remarkably well off of the floors, ceilings and walls of the narrow frosh dorm corridors.  You had to exercise a degree of restraint while the RA was in the vicinity, but once he was gone, the air would fill with Frisbees as we essentially played dodgeball with the Frisbees, hurled at full strength from a distance of about  sixty feet...usually, there were3-6 Frisbees  in the air at any given moment.  One fateful night, I threw a Frisbee that bounced of the floor, ceiling and a wall, narrowly missing a student, but hitting the fire alarm (from about 135 feet, we later measured).  Alarm goes off, everyone runs outside.  I didn't realize that it was my little Frisbee, until the RA mentioned that it happened at the opposite end of my floor.  Oops...

I have a similar story. My junior year I was in Lagunita (the exact one is escaping me at the moment) and my roommates and I would play a game where we threw this large, squishy ball from one end of the hall to the other and tried to get it past the other guy to score goals. One errant throw hit one of the giant glass globe lights and it just came tumbling down. I think housing wanted to bill me for it before I pointed out that 2 of the 4 screws that were supposed to be holding it up weren't in there, and that setup probably wasn't earthquake-safe. Then they shut up.

[stupac2]

Enter our favorite game "Destruction Frisbee."  In the early 1980s, video entertainment was quite limited, and we discovered that various Frisbees would bounce remarkably well off of the floors, ceilings and walls of the narrow frosh dorm corridors.  You had to exercise a degree of restraint while the RA was in the vicinity, but once he was gone, the air would fill with Frisbees as we essentially played dodgeball with the Frisbees, hurled at full strength from a distance of about  sixty feet...usually, there were3-6 Frisbees  in the air at any given moment.  One fateful night, I threw a Frisbee that bounced of the floor, ceiling and a wall, narrowly missing a student, but hitting the fire alarm (from about 135 feet, we later measured).  Alarm goes off, everyone runs outside.  I didn't realize that it was my little Frisbee, until the RA mentioned that it happened at the opposite end of my floor.  Oops...

I have a similar story. My junior year I was in Lagunita (the exact one is escaping me at the moment) and my roommates and I would play a game where we threw this large, squishy ball from one end of the hall to the other and tried to get it past the other guy to score goals. One errant throw hit one of the giant glass globe lights and it just came tumbling down. I think housing wanted to bill me for it before I pointed out that 2 of the 4 screws that were supposed to be holding it up weren't in there, and that setup probably wasn't earthquake-safe. Then they shut up.

[Kathy]

My has this thread gotten off topic.

Surely you've been hanging around here long enough to know that thread drift is a hallmark of The CARDboard!  :)

[Kathy]

My has this thread gotten off topic.

Surely you've been hanging around here long enough to know that thread drift is a hallmark of The CARDboard!  :)

[Griffins78]

As this has veered into a confessional. I'll confess that in an attempt to keep the damage costs down - we went to other dorms and swapped out our broken lighting panels for good ones from other dorms.

We also set-up on the roof to launch water balloons using surgical tubing all the way from Donner to the entrance to UGLY. Students walking into UGLY had no idea where the water balloons were coming from. This was practice before we took our set-up into the stadium against USC. Didn't hit anyone in the USC band - though we tried - which I'm now glad about.

[Griffins78]

As this has veered into a confessional. I'll confess that in an attempt to keep the damage costs down - we went to other dorms and swapped out our broken lighting panels for good ones from other dorms.

We also set-up on the roof to launch water balloons using surgical tubing all the way from Donner to the entrance to UGLY. Students walking into UGLY had no idea where the water balloons were coming from. This was practice before we took our set-up into the stadium against USC. Didn't hit anyone in the USC band - though we tried - which I'm now glad about.

[SUBuddha]

As this has veered into a confessional. I'll confess that in an attempt to keep the damage costs down - we went to other dorms and swapped out our broken lighting panels for good ones from other dorms.

We also set-up on the roof to launch water balloons using surgical tubing all the way from Donner to the entrance to UGLY. Students walking into UGLY had no idea where the water balloons were coming from. This was practice before we took our set-up into the stadium against Under Stanford Control. Didn't hit anyone in the Under Stanford Control band - though we tried - which I'm now glad about.

Sadly, in my confession I did hit a band member. The play 2, my freshman year, I was part of the group shooting oranges from the stands at the Cal band during halftime. Some teammates and I made sling shots from surgical tubing and lacrosse stick heads. We actually knocked the conductor off his step ladder in the visitor end zone. Statue of limitation?  :'(

[SUBuddha]

As this has veered into a confessional. I'll confess that in an attempt to keep the damage costs down - we went to other dorms and swapped out our broken lighting panels for good ones from other dorms.

We also set-up on the roof to launch water balloons using surgical tubing all the way from Donner to the entrance to UGLY. Students walking into UGLY had no idea where the water balloons were coming from. This was practice before we took our set-up into the stadium against Under Stanford Control. Didn't hit anyone in the Under Stanford Control band - though we tried - which I'm now glad about.

Sadly, in my confession I did hit a band member. The play 2, my freshman year, I was part of the group shooting oranges from the stands at the Cal band during halftime. Some teammates and I made sling shots from surgical tubing and lacrosse stick heads. We actually knocked the conductor off his step ladder in the visitor end zone. Statue of limitation?  :'(

[SUBuddha]

sorry for the spelling errors, my dyslexia gets worse when I am tired :)

[SUBuddha]

sorry for the spelling errors, my dyslexia gets worse when I am tired :)

[CompSci87]

sorry for the spelling errors, my dyslexia gets worse when I am tired :)

Oh, I thought you meant the Kal guy you hit had been standing there like a statue, and he had serious limitations as a conductor. Didn't realize it was a spelling error.  ;)

[CompSci87]

sorry for the spelling errors, my dyslexia gets worse when I am tired :)

Oh, I thought you meant the Kal guy you hit had been standing there like a statue, and he had serious limitations as a conductor. Didn't realize it was a spelling error.  ;)

[Mick]

[quote author=Griffin78 link=topic=8489.msg69652#msg69652 date=1380603495]
As this has veered into a confessional. I'll confess that in an attempt to keep the damage costs down - we went to other dorms and swapped out our broken lighting panels for good ones from other dorms.

We also set-up on the roof to launch water balloons using surgical tubing all the way from Donner to the entrance to UGLY. Students walking into UGLY had no idea where the water balloons were coming from. This was practice before we took our set-up into the stadium against Under Stanford Control. Didn't hit anyone in the Under Stanford Control band - though we tried - which I'm now glad about.

Sadly, in my confession I did hit a band member. The play 2, my freshman year, I was part of the group shooting oranges from the stands at the Low APR U band during halftime. Some teammates and I made sling shots from surgical tubing and lacrosse stick heads. We actually knocked the conductor off his step ladder in the visitor end zone. Statue of limitation?  :'(
[/quote]


Surgical tubing and lacrosse sticks used as launch tools are called Zap Straps.  Not that I would know.  Or would have ever used one.  Especially at the St. Mary's vs. SCU Little Big Game.  I was just testing surface integrity....

[Mick]

[quote author=Griffin78 link=topic=8489.msg69652#msg69652 date=1380603495]
As this has veered into a confessional. I'll confess that in an attempt to keep the damage costs down - we went to other dorms and swapped out our broken lighting panels for good ones from other dorms.

We also set-up on the roof to launch water balloons using surgical tubing all the way from Donner to the entrance to UGLY. Students walking into UGLY had no idea where the water balloons were coming from. This was practice before we took our set-up into the stadium against Under Stanford Control. Didn't hit anyone in the Under Stanford Control band - though we tried - which I'm now glad about.

Sadly, in my confession I did hit a band member. The play 2, my freshman year, I was part of the group shooting oranges from the stands at the Low APR U band during halftime. Some teammates and I made sling shots from surgical tubing and lacrosse stick heads. We actually knocked the conductor off his step ladder in the visitor end zone. Statue of limitation?  :'(
[/quote]


Surgical tubing and lacrosse sticks used as launch tools are called Zap Straps.  Not that I would know.  Or would have ever used one.  Especially at the St. Mary's vs. SCU Little Big Game.  I was just testing surface integrity....

[rudruff]

We put a water balloon through an upstairs Branner window. You get it going fast enough and it just leaves a hole instead of shattering the window.

[rudruff]

We put a water balloon through an upstairs Branner window. You get it going fast enough and it just leaves a hole instead of shattering the window.

[SUBuddha]

Surgical tubing and lacrosse sticks used as launch tools are called Zap Straps.  Not that I would know.  Or would have ever used one.  Especially at the St. Mary's vs. SCU Little Big Game.  I was just testing surface integrity....

Good to know we just called it a funnelator after the store bought version.

[SUBuddha]

Surgical tubing and lacrosse sticks used as launch tools are called Zap Straps.  Not that I would know.  Or would have ever used one.  Especially at the St. Mary's vs. SCU Little Big Game.  I was just testing surface integrity....

Good to know we just called it a funnelator after the store bought version.

[fullmetal]

We put a water balloon through an upstairs Branner window. You get it going fast enough and it just leaves a hole instead of shattering the window.

I remember hearing that Branner residents in the central, upper-most suite would launch water balloons at unsuspecting targets near the Wilbur north central grassy area.

[fullmetal]

We put a water balloon through an upstairs Branner window. You get it going fast enough and it just leaves a hole instead of shattering the window.

I remember hearing that Branner residents in the central, upper-most suite would launch water balloons at unsuspecting targets near the Wilbur north central grassy area.