[1123] in Humor
HUMOR FOLLOWUP: The MIT Hack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Fri Oct 6 13:16:57 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 13:11:49 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
I've received both "yes, it's true" and "no, it's not" from a variety of
sources, but apparently it isn't true (too bad).
-Drew
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 11:23:05 EDT
From: "Mark A. Herschberg" <hershey@MIT.EDU>
Somone just posted this story to my fraternity alumni mailing list. One of
our, shall we say "more knowledgable" alumni in this area, repsonded:
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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> Anyone in the Boston area hear anything of this? I suspect it is
> just a Hack Legend, rather than fact.
This is, alas, just a Hack Legend. It is told yearly at the
Spelunker's Tours to incoming frosh. Brian Leibowitz, the author of
the MIT Hack Book "The Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery and Pranks",
has tried to track this down, but has never found any Thesis that
corresponds with this story. Sorry.
Anyone interesting in a course 9 Thesis? I'm sure we can try to
prove this theory. :-)
-derek
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