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General Category => Hockey => Topic started by: Big Ben 03 on January 28, 2003, 05:00:34 PM

Title: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Big Ben 03 on January 28, 2003, 05:00:34 PM
Look who'll be attending RPI this fall. . .

http://66.111.43.11/reports/2003/WORLD/0194/4332193.html
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Josh '99 on January 28, 2003, 05:08:28 PM
Big Ben '03 wrote:
QuoteLook who'll be attending RPI this fall. . .

http://66.111.43.11/reports/2003/WORLD/0194/4332193.html
::twitch::

Wow, that was just about the LAST people I expected to see when I clicked that link.

Edit:  Oh.  Heh.

Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Big Ben 03 on January 28, 2003, 05:16:41 PM
Just in case somebody misses it... that's (THANKFULLY) not real.
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Ben Doyle 03 on January 28, 2003, 05:18:10 PM
They both scored 1600 on their SAT's. . .????
:-P  ::nut::  ::help:: :-D

Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Give My Regards on January 28, 2003, 05:23:58 PM
Drat.  I'm sure we could have gotten some good cheers/taunts out of that one, maybe reminiscient of Brooke Shields/Princeton or Jodie Foster/Yale eons ago...

Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: ugarte on January 28, 2003, 05:37:31 PM
Who is responsible for the joke?  (In other words, other than its very subject matter, what are the indicia that it is fake?)

Edit: Answered my own question.  Click on the "reputable source" link in the article.

Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Big Ben 03 on January 28, 2003, 05:40:40 PM
www.spo0fed.com has a cnn fake news generator and somebody was very clever in the way they wrote the article. if you check the 'reliable source' link in the article, it takes you to some random blog, ostensibly of the person responsible. i got a good laugh out of it, i was hoping other people would, too.
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Erica on January 28, 2003, 05:58:52 PM
That was really weird because when I first saw the plural word "fans" for some reason the first thought in my head was that it was the Olsen twins. Why I thought that I have absolutely no idea. That is very disturbing. I have been having a lot of prescient thoughts lately. I hope I have good dreams about the hockey team.
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: wes oakford on January 28, 2003, 08:14:08 PM
what the fuck is going on here
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Josh '99 on January 28, 2003, 11:48:27 PM
Big Ben '03 wrote:
Quotei got a good laugh out of it, i was hoping other people would, too.
I certainly did, once I checked the "reputable source".  :-))

Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: HpyGlmore2-05 on January 29, 2003, 01:04:45 AM
Oh man.. that would be so hot if they went there.  I would defenitely go to the RPI away game....
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: HpyGlmore2-05 on January 29, 2003, 09:48:36 AM
http://132.236.56.9/pages/dtk4/reports/2003/WORLD/0194/3838213.html

EVEN BETTER!!!!!!!!  THEY ARE COMING HERE!
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Give My Regards on January 29, 2003, 10:36:00 AM
Well, this one's gotta be legit.  Their name is spelled right in the headline. ::rolleyes::

Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: rhovorka on January 29, 2003, 01:19:50 PM
Yeah, and you know what?  There's a pop-up bomb hidden in these.  Closing the window causes pop-up after pop-up to hit your desktop.  Unless, of course, you're using a mac.  :-))
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: jtwcornell91 on January 29, 2003, 04:15:58 PM
Rich Hovorka '96 wrote:
QuoteYeah, and you know what?  There's a pop-up bomb hidden in these.  Closing the window causes pop-up after pop-up to hit your desktop.  Unless, of course, you're using a mac.  :-))
or mozilla, with "allow scripts to open unrequested windows" un-checked.

Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: wes oak on January 29, 2003, 04:27:53 PM
word is that its not a fake
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: atb9 on January 29, 2003, 04:29:36 PM
Word is that Photoshop is a lot of fun.

Damn, this crap is spreading fast through listserves.

Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Adam \'01 on January 29, 2003, 04:35:11 PM
I've already gotten 3 e-mails today from Cornell alums (who don't read E-Lynah) about this hoax.
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: gwm3 on January 29, 2003, 04:36:00 PM
Could it be because you sent them the link, Adam?  ;-)
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Adam \'01 on January 29, 2003, 04:55:05 PM
All I did was send out important names.  :-P
Title: Re: OT: New ECAC Hockey Fans?
Post by: Will on January 30, 2003, 01:25:08 PM
Neither of the above links worked for me.  Can somebody please explain to me what the big joke is all about? :-D