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(Some Guy)   Man confesses to high school prank he pulled in 1957, gives school a check for $500 to make amends for "dastardly deed" of dumping two years' worth of pop cans into school swimming pool in 1957 (pic)   (paloaltodailynews.com) divider line 112
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2007-10-03 09:54:15 AM
That headline is clearly from the Department of Redundancy Department.
 
2007-10-03 09:58:26 AM
He must be up to step 9
 
2007-10-03 10:01:53 AM
robsul82: That headline is clearly from the Department of Redundancy Department.

So what year did this happen again?
 
2007-10-03 10:03:47 AM
Father Jack Hacket: He must be up to step 9

Exactly what I was thinking.
 
2007-10-03 10:08:23 AM
Um, what's a pop can.
 
2007-10-03 10:11:33 AM
gopher321: robsul82: That headline is clearly from the Department of Redundancy Department.

So what year did this happen again?


The same year LBJ won the White House, 1964, by God.
 
2007-10-03 10:12:24 AM
soledsoled: Um, what's a pop can.

I think he means soda can, but some folks just don't understand proper nomenclature.
 
2007-10-03 10:12:36 AM
So, exactly how many cans is in "two years"?
 
2007-10-03 10:21:22 AM
img401.imageshack.us
 
2007-10-03 10:55:12 AM
it's pop. not soda.
 
2007-10-03 12:02:03 PM
submitter: (pic)

submitter, when you add (pic) to the end of a headline such as this I don't want to see a pic of some old guy. I want to see thousands of cans floating in a pool.

/soda
 
2007-10-03 12:13:20 PM
Bloody amateurs. A team of us at high school rigged the sprinklers in the common grassy area, where everyone ate their lunch, to go off at random times between classes and lunch hours, for random lengths of time. Anyone who ate or walked in that area was playing Russian roulette with the sprinklers. We soaked hundreds of unsuspecting people. It took the authorities two weeks to find the gizmo we made, and we didn't get caught. Happy days.
 
2007-10-03 01:18:35 PM
cheshirecatsmileyface: it's pop. not soda.

troll :P
 
2007-10-03 01:18:48 PM
Were there soda cans in '57?
 
2007-10-03 01:19:32 PM
cheshirecatsmileyface: it's pop. not soda.

Actually it's coke, not pop or soda. But that's probably a debate for another time.
 
2007-10-03 01:20:09 PM
bounty: cheshirecatsmileyface: it's pop. not soda.

troll :P


Let's call the whole thing off...

/got nuthin'
 
2007-10-03 01:21:04 PM
And that's why I made amends for a stupid prank I did fifty years ago.

My name is Earl.
 
2007-10-03 01:22:12 PM
Hey I think this prank happened in 1957
 
2007-10-03 01:23:48 PM
That qualifies as "dastardly?" Please.
 
2007-10-03 01:24:29 PM
my prank was pretty dastardly involving the master key for the school and the cafeteria director's office. but i ain't tellin.
 
2007-10-03 01:24:43 PM
*sigh* And just think, if this was pulled off today he'd be charged with felony vandalism to government property and making terroristic threats (just for the helluvit)
 
2007-10-03 01:24:43 PM
wanted pic of pool and soda cans
/not worth it
 
2007-10-03 01:25:52 PM
ElPresidente: the gizmo we made

instrkshnsplzkthxbai
 
2007-10-03 01:26:32 PM
"liquid weld" the football teams lockers on homecoming day!
 
2007-10-03 01:26:41 PM
soledsoled: Um, what's a pop can.

Its a phrase used by people who describe things by sound not substance.

Shostie: Actually it's coke, not pop or soda. But that's probably a debate for another time.

So do you sit on a Davenport watching the Zenith while drinking the Mountain Dew you call Coke that you keep in the Frigidaire?
Or do you prefer listening to your Victrola while sipping the Dr. Pepper you call Coke?

blicero: Were there soda cans in '57?

Yes. You had to open them with a "church key".
 
2007-10-03 01:27:24 PM
FTFA: "The trick in doing a prank is not going around bragging about it," said Monsalve, who is still keeping his pledge to not reveal the identity of his co-conspirators.

Most people don't understand this.

/No posting on Youtube either
 
2007-10-03 01:27:29 PM
It's "soda", or "coke".

Pop makes me think of that stupid old joke, What was Moby Dick's dad's name?"
 
2007-10-03 01:27:43 PM
Those kooky teens. What will they do next?

/My dad's senior class put the principal's car on the roof of the school.
 
2007-10-03 01:27:48 PM
Shostie: cheshirecatsmileyface: it's pop. not soda.

Actually it's coke, not pop or soda. But that's probably a debate for another time.


Bullshiat, its called carbonated sugar water. Or fizzy juice if you so prefer.
 
2007-10-03 01:28:02 PM
Since I live in Michigan, I know that pop is used here instead of soda, unless you're drinking cream soda.

My wife uses soda, I use either

but at least we don't call all soft drinks "coke"

/What kind of coke do you want? Mt. Dew? Pepsi?
//Huh? what?
 
2007-10-03 01:28:07 PM
notfarksmart
wanted pic of pool and soda cans
/not worth it


What He/she said.
 
2007-10-03 01:29:12 PM
How about a live Tree in the band room? There was a reason the school installed a security system......
 
2007-10-03 01:30:21 PM
Link (new window)

The Pop vs. Soda vs. Coke, Map of the USA.
 
2007-10-03 01:31:04 PM
Shostie is correct.
Pepehomer made me laugh out loud, in a sorta quiet way though.
 
2007-10-03 01:32:44 PM
bitteroldman: You had to open them with a "church key".
Actually it's "pointy end of the bottle opener", not "church key".
 
2007-10-03 01:33:18 PM
Where I'm from, we call it "fizzy lifting drink".
 
2007-10-03 01:34:43 PM
FLAKENGA: The Pop vs. Soda vs. Coke, Map of the USA.

That map is the best thing I have seen all day. Thank you Sir.
 
2007-10-03 01:36:28 PM
submitter: pop cans

Subby must be from the Midwest.
 
2007-10-03 01:36:42 PM
I thought it was called a tonic.
 
2007-10-03 01:37:02 PM
ajl_mo: bitteroldman: You had to open them with a "church key".
Actually it's "pointy end of the bottle opener", not "church key".


I love it when some kid mouths off about something he has no clue about.
A church key has two ends. One for bottles and one for cans.
Church Key (pops)
Wow. That was hard to look up.
 
2007-10-03 01:37:07 PM
Years != Months

This headline may be bad, but the actual headline is worse.
 
2007-10-03 01:37:21 PM
The day I "make amends" for filling the woodshop teacher's office with 500 cubic feet of sawdust will be the same day that I give birth to a talking giraffe.
 
2007-10-03 01:37:35 PM
The 10 seniors divvied up their responsibilities. One student watched for police officers from an oak tree while two couples pretending to make out guarded both school entrances.


I know which job I'd want.
 
2007-10-03 01:38:22 PM
When I first moved to Texas, people here called is soda water. That did not sound good, so I usually declined when when offered one.
 
2007-10-03 01:38:25 PM
So those wacky teens from American Graffiti are now 68 years old. Goddamn. I remember when they were just 20 something greasers and the 57 Chevy still had that new car smell.
 
2007-10-03 01:39:26 PM
Latent attention-whoreism.
 
2007-10-03 01:40:03 PM
JoeJitsu: The 10 seniors divvied up their responsibilities. One student watched for police officers from an oak tree while two couples pretending to make out guarded both school entrances.


I know which job I'd want.


You have a thing for oak trees?
 
2007-10-03 01:44:24 PM
Teambaylagoon: Father Jack Hacket: He must be up to step 9

Exactly what I was thinking.


This.
 
2007-10-03 01:48:52 PM
Reminds me of the dumb joke: Why do old people read the Bible so much? They're cramming for finals.

/and getting all their repentin' done, too
 
2007-10-03 01:49:13 PM
Where to begin?

Ah yes, first: "Teen comes clean 50 years later"

Um, he's not a teen. He's 68.

Submitter also states "with pic" - which really doesn't count unless it's a pick of the prank or a mug shot.
 
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