MIT Prank Takes Caltech Cannon Cross-Country

Colleges & Universities California Institute of Technology
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<p>I like pebbles’ thread title better, but for the sake of informativeness…</p>

<p>Almost exactly a year after Caltech visited MIT with gifts of apparel and entertainment, our east coast friends have reciprocated by reappropriating some of our weaponry.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.mitcannon.com/[/url]”>http://www.mitcannon.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://web.mit.edu/jotong/Public/Photos/MIT/Caltech%20Cannon%20Hack/[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/jotong/Public/Photos/MIT/Caltech%20Cannon%20Hack/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Hilarious… how are you (or actually, we) gonna pay back?</p>

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<p>The Stata center would look pretty ugly on our campus… :-P</p>

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<p>Too funny. How did they manage it? </p>

<p>D is at MIT for preview this weekend. She’ll be at Caltech for prefrosh in a couple of weeks. For the right price…:)</p>

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<p>With a truck, right from under seecurity’s nose:</p>

<p>“Ohhh, a work order! Gee, well, you can just go ahead and take this nice cannon, here, boys.”</p>

<p>:-P</p>

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<p>Oh, my. I am still laughing. </p>

<p>Good luck in getting it back! I imagine that it won’t be too easy. Will photos do? </p>

<p>However, there’s that silver lining. Caltech and the cannon will be center stage at preview weekend.</p>

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<p>Here’s another good site about this: <a href=“http://www.caltechvsmit.com/[/url]”>http://www.caltechvsmit.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>With the addition of the Brass Rat, I believe it can now be considered an MIT cannon. ;)</p>

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<p>Wow. I can’t stop laughing. That’s freakin’ brilliant. Definitely worth the ten points. How are we going to get it back? And now we <em>really</em> have to retaliate. ;)</p>

<p>-Oren</p>

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<p>Caltech is gonna get it back, right? Its not a MIT cannon!!!</p>

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<p>of course we’re going to get it back. do you really thing we’d just let MIT walk all over us? ;)</p>

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<p>lol, the admissions office even sent out an e-mail about this</p>

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<p>Yea. They emailed Harvey Mudd too. We were all asked if we knew anything about the steal, seeing as we did it first twenty years ago.</p>

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<p>I wonder whether the MIT hackers asked Harvey Mudd fellows about their experience in stealing the cannon? :)</p>

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<p>Are you all sure that Caltech admissions e-mailed you? The reply address is not a Caltech address. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the e-mails are part of the prank. </p>

<p>BTW, have you noticed the moving company’s name? MIT appears to have lost its wit.</p>

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<p>So I don’t receive more private notes about the wit remark, I’ll help everyone out at once. Insert “wit” between the two names of the moving company to obtain another word for cannon.</p>

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That’s part of the beautiful symmetry of the stunt. MIT was involved in the original, after the fact. They wisely decided to wait until Caltech’s guard was down. ;)</p>

<p>From an eyewitness account: <a href=“http://people.bu.edu/fmri/somers/cannon.html[/url]”>http://people.bu.edu/fmri/somers/cannon.html&lt;/a&gt;

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<p>EllenF, if you turn the “&” into “et”, you have “Howe-et-ser”. Additionally, since everyone had been asking the MIT hacking community how they would answer last year’s CPW pranking, one could read the name as “How-we-answer” (How-we-and-ser). A couple possibilities there…</p>

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<p>Mootmom - you could do it that way, but I like my explanation better, especially since the “&” sign is missing in the logo.</p>

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<p><a href="mailto:reply-46943@campaign.admissionslab.com">reply-46943@campaign.admissionslab.com</a></p>

<p>can Ben verify if this is a legit email? although… how would MIT have our emails?</p>