There's a story about an MIT student who spent an entire summer going to the Harvard football field every day wearing a black and white striped shirt, walking up and down the field for ten or fifteen minutes throwing birdseed all over the field, blowing a whistle and then walking off the field. At the end of the summer, it came time for the first Harvard home football team, the referee walked onto the field and blew the whistle, and the game had to be delayed for a half hour to wait for the birds to get off of the field. The guy wrote his thesis on this, and graduated.

How amusing!

How droll!

I had always wished the birdseed prank to be true, but it seems to be an urban legend :(

http://www.snopes.com/college/pranks/birdseed.asp

But in more realistic prank action:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/12433

[edit] I don't know why I type such long-winded, off-topic things sometimes. Other than the fact that I'm a jackass.

On topic: That's funny but unoriginal. Pavlov's dog, anyone?

tib I had always wished the birdseed prank to be true, but it seems to be an urban legend

You just had to go and ruin it for the poor bastard, didn't you? Nightfire is probably devastated and you know who has to pick up the pieces? Me!

Way to piss on his parade and ruin my day.

:evil:

That's so ancient that I am not even going to go for a creative flame.

Ah you party poopers. Oh well, guess I'll have to compensate several times over with awesome robots and grand theft auto gone wrong.

I can't wait for University. Man, I am going to be the local menace! This is inspiring, _Nightfire_!

This story reminds me of a group of inmates somewhere in the UK who were put to work on fixing up roadsides. Many flowers were planted.

In the spring the beautiful colors appeared. Of course many were surprised since the word BUM was written out with the flowers.

Tsk tsk.

People do naughty things don't they. Or is this also an urban legend?