futurebird ,
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Have you ever gotten a crush on someone just by reading about something they did?

adobsonartworks posts: Have any of you heard of the Harvard MIT Pigeon Prank? An MIT student dressed in a black-and- white striped shirt went to the Harvard football stadium every day of one summer, blowing a whistle while scattering breadcrumbs or birdseed to coax neighborhood pigeons down onto the field. At Harvard’s opening game of the season, upon the referee’s first whistle, it’s said hundreds of pigeons descended onto the field, causing a half-hour delay.
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    falcennial ,
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    @futurebird 🤣🤣🤌

    MrBerard ,
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    @futurebird

    MIT student pranks played on Harvard are the original 'hacks', etymologically, and everyone is erasing this important part of lexical history.

    Dulciesdays ,
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    @futurebird 😂

    platypus ,
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    @futurebird my mother was an MIT student and — I don’t recall all the stories she told me well enough to recount confidently, but pranking Harvard was definitely a thing in the 60s-70s too 😂😂😂😂

    raganwald ,
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    @futurebird

    A very good read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwork:_A_History_of_Hacks_and_Pranks_at_MIT

    MichaelErard ,
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    @futurebird we know this is not an MIT prank because it lacks the hallmark of MIT pranks: an engineering component.

    Remittancegirl ,
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    @futurebird Wow. This is magnificent.

    KosmosJdr ,

    @futurebird Sorry, this one is a myth, as explained in this paper. But it's still a good story!
    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-harvard-stadium-pigeon-prank-that-pavlov-would-be-proud-of

    segleng85 ,
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    @futurebird https://go.paid4link.com/ATvnL2oA

    http_error_418 ,
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    @futurebird how about the students who disassembled a car... and resembled it around a spike on the roof of the college?

    jwcph ,
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    @futurebird 😂😂😂 excelsior!!

    Skepticat ,
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    @enoch
    This you? 😉😁

    @futurebird

    DebR ,
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    @futurebird Love it!

    weekend_editor ,
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    @futurebird

    Seems apocryphal, from all that I can find out (MIT alum here).

    Also, Harvard stadium security is more present nowadays.

    However, a small aerial drone dragging a black & white striped cloth, playing a whistle, shooting breadcrumbs at the same time each day... that should be do-able.

    I mean, yeah, they have security. But do they have air defenses?

    tom ,
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    @futurebird
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Harvard%E2%80%93Yale_prank this one's also excellent

    PhoenixSerenity ,
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    @futurebird So many times, I've lost count.

    isotopp ,
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    @futurebird

    "apocryphal", that is, probably not happened, but should have happened.

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-harvard-stadium-pigeon-prank-that-pavlov-would-be-proud-of

    mediopocillo ,
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    @futurebird
    It would not end well for the birds. They would be exterminated.

    Zabuzzman ,
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    @futurebird My hero!

    peteriskrisjanis ,
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    @futurebird he must be also DMing in free time 😅

    driftercarbon ,
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    @futurebird Oh this is next level. That's brilliant, if true.

    NatureMC ,
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    @futurebird Even if it is a nice urban myth, there's a real guy regularly biking with a swarm of crows: @wurzelmann Here's a photo: https://mastodon.online/@wurzelmann@mastodon.wurzelmann.at/112715727907420011

    epicdemiologist ,
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    @futurebird If you're a fan of this sort of thing, I recommend the book "If at All Possible, Involve a Cow" or the MIT hacks page: http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/

    PizzaDemon ,
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    @futurebird https://a.co/d/05JXRUCr

    bazylevnik0 ,
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    @futurebird the pigeon master degree

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