Archive for February, 2007

Digg - Best College prank ever played - Live musical in a lecture.

Over at Digg, they wondered if this musical prank had ever been done before.

Not quite as classy, but my dad told of his uni days where one of the academics complained about a student eating a banana in his lecture. Next lecture he gave, a group of students turned up as a small brass band playing (you guessed it): Yes, We Have No Bananas.

That was at the University of Melbourne about 60 years ago.

Mineral water

We are suffering a prolonged drought in much of eastern Australia and Brisbane is subject to long-term water restrictions. Our state premier recently announced that Queensland would start mixing treated waste water into the supply. There was going to be a plebiscite but he wisely decided to not ask for public opinion on what easily becomes an unnecessarily emotional issue.

The radio news announcer told us that by the end of next year, Brisbane residents would be drinking recycled sewerage! (Of course she meant recycled sewage.)

Perhaps the extra r’s could be put back into secretary or February.