CS Lounge Folk: Help me remember this story? April Fools 1998...
This isn't an April Fool's post, but rather a plea to help me remember one.
Basically, I retold the story about Mark Stehlik and playing the Imperial March on IBC bottles today... except I realized later, I had a lot of details to it and I'm not actually positive that ALL of them are part of this same story, even though they all certainly happened... so can someone (I'm especially looking at![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dvarin and buoren here) help me remember which of these are true?
As I remember it, the definitely true part is that Carl and Kevin and I had a huge surplus of IBC bottles, and Carl filled and tuned them to effectively two scales of music, and hid them in the lounge, then set them up on the ping-pong table at the right time. We also had two 2-liters for "bass" notes. Kevin "arranged" the Imperial March, effectively, for "three people to play by blowing across the tops of IBC bottles".
And we definitely somehow arranged for Mark to come into the lounge on his way through Wean so we could perform it (as a surprise, of course), though now that I'm thinking, I'm not sure exactly when or how. It might have been mid-afternoon?
I seem to recall he was wearing a kilt at the time because he'd been voted to do that by the "put a dollar in the bottle for the professor you want to see wearing a kilt on April Fool's Day" vote... but I also remember him doing that when we showed Braveheart as the SCS movie. So were those the same day, or am I forgetting? I know The Last Starfighter was the SCS movie in Spring 1999, so Braveheart MIGHT have actually been 1998...
Anyway, for those of you who were there -- what do you remember?
And isn't it nuts that it was ELEVEN YEARS AGO? Jeeeez. I still maintain that in many ways, Spring 1998 was probably the best time of my entire life.
Basically, I retold the story about Mark Stehlik and playing the Imperial March on IBC bottles today... except I realized later, I had a lot of details to it and I'm not actually positive that ALL of them are part of this same story, even though they all certainly happened... so can someone (I'm especially looking at
dvarin and buoren here) help me remember which of these are true?As I remember it, the definitely true part is that Carl and Kevin and I had a huge surplus of IBC bottles, and Carl filled and tuned them to effectively two scales of music, and hid them in the lounge, then set them up on the ping-pong table at the right time. We also had two 2-liters for "bass" notes. Kevin "arranged" the Imperial March, effectively, for "three people to play by blowing across the tops of IBC bottles".
And we definitely somehow arranged for Mark to come into the lounge on his way through Wean so we could perform it (as a surprise, of course), though now that I'm thinking, I'm not sure exactly when or how. It might have been mid-afternoon?
I seem to recall he was wearing a kilt at the time because he'd been voted to do that by the "put a dollar in the bottle for the professor you want to see wearing a kilt on April Fool's Day" vote... but I also remember him doing that when we showed Braveheart as the SCS movie. So were those the same day, or am I forgetting? I know The Last Starfighter was the SCS movie in Spring 1999, so Braveheart MIGHT have actually been 1998...
Anyway, for those of you who were there -- what do you remember?
And isn't it nuts that it was ELEVEN YEARS AGO? Jeeeez. I still maintain that in many ways, Spring 1998 was probably the best time of my entire life.
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I dunno, Kevin was more of the crazy MIDI file guy at that time. I thought Carl just arranged and tuned the bottles...
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