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This game is full of inside jokes. Most of them funny to maybe like 5 people
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in the entire world. Anyway this is a brief reference in case you were
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really confused about things.
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Since this was High School / College there were all kinds of interpersonal
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relationships, dating, crushes, fights, etc, involving this cast of
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characters. I'm mostly leaving that stuff out but believe me it was there.
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Mirror Lake
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Might look mysteriously like Yosemite.
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Had a friend who was a Tolkien nut.
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U of M / College Park
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Where I went to college
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Talbot Hall
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Dorm where I spent Junior year. It was in the basement.
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A suite with 3 rooms and a common room.
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Liz+Will would come and everyone would sit around having
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fascinating conversations but I really should have been doing
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my engineering homework but usually I didn't, much to my
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detriment. Liz is related to an early Microprose employee and
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thus was a big Civ2 player. She'd spend many a weekend methodically
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taking over the world.
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That spool there was used as a coffee table, I think it was
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liberated from a construction site at some point.
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Pete there is mildly famous these days. He's playing
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the super Nintendo, probably Super Metroid.
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Pete was the initial instigator of all of this. As he was not
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an engineer he had time to play video games and we'd waste time
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watching instead of doing work. He played FF7 and we'd do
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other things when he was level grinding but we'd run in
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to see the cutscenes when he'd yell "Plot!"
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Kenjesu was Pete's roommate. That's a stuffed tiger
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by his feet, not an actual cat.
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Mathemagician is a famous college professor now.
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Darth Tater is spouting some poetry we wrote in a misguided
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"write poetry about your dorm" contest the RA tried doing.
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We had lots of awesome poetry (I have some posted online here:
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http://www.deater.net/weave/poetry/talbot_poems.html )
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but none of ours won. Though Mathemagicians "Talbot Hall the Beautiful"
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got honorable mention.
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South Campus Dining Hall
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We used to meet up for meals here, a short walk away.
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Target your Points was the crazy way the meal plan worked.
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You got so many "points" (money) towards meals, but they expired
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throughout the semester to end up avoiding the problem where
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people with extra points at the end of the year would buy out all
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the food in the cafeteria. It did mean if you were hungry you could
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actually run low on money at the end (and you could hope to be
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friends with someone with extra). Very different from the all-you
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can-eat-but-no-carryout found at other schools.
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Oscar was my roommate.
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Nicole was Pete's fiance. I'm being silly here as though her
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family is from Australia, she herself is from New Jersey.
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Cindy often ate with us. Most of the Talbot people roomed together
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at (Denton Hall?) and I was a late addition to the group so
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it wasn't always clear why people knew each other. Her dad
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was possibly a high-up in some US Gov't agency and we possibly
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illicitly borrowed his very rare copy of the Last Starfighter
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at some point, luckily we didn't damage it.
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Elaine is a good friend and fellow Electrical Engineer.
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It was entirely her fault I ended up in Talbot Hall with this group.
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Cafeteria Lady was there every day. You really did get a free
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cupcake coupon on your birthday.
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Killer Crabs
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We played a lot of Tetris Attack for the SNES (the only video game
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I actually could hold my own on versus the rest).
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There is one music track we swore should have the lyrics
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"Killer Crabs, they want to meet you, they want to eat you"
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And then we started noticing that pretty much *any* music could
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have its lyrics switched to be about killer crabs.
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Mermaid in the Fountain
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There wasn't one as far as I know. Though people did put bubbles
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in occasionally. Also the band all jumped in every summer.
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Waterfall
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Anachronistic. This is more of a finger-lakes / Cornell
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waterfall.
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Metro Station
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DC Metro station
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The "closing entire line for smtarttrip" thing is an anachronism,
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that happened more in the 2017 time frame
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Bel Air
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Not the one in California. The over-developed and annoying
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county seat of the county where I grew up.
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I went to high school there, but I actually lived
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in the stereotypically more unsavory "route 40 corridor"
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Minigolf
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Not sure why that's there, the nearest one would have been
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in Churchville. I lost my original high school class ring
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there somehow. Never found it, but my friends bought me
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a replacement (how nice of them).
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CMW High School
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Another high school in Bel Air. Their Academic quiz team always
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mysteriously wore black trenchcoats (technically it turns out
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they were German surplus coats?) The mystery of this was
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never really resolved, even when coincidentally two of the
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team members ended up being roommates in college.
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JC
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Where I went to high school. It's apparently gotten a lot
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better since when I went there. Back then there still were
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no lights on the football field and the roof of the gym
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still leaked during basketball games.
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There was a dress code. At the time for the girls it was
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transitioning from ugly brown (herringbone in the winter) skirts,
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and yellow/brown sweater to some sort of horrible green for the
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people a few years younger than us. It's not the Apple II palette
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making things ugly, it's actually fairly accurate.
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Math Office
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Where the academic team practiced.
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We had a decent team the years I was there, though apparently
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their modern team is way better.
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Mree there was a Tolkien nut
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and would write Elf runes on the chalkboard.
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Rachael YRBK was my AP Bio lab partner. Her correspondence often
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said YRBK on them as she was in the Yearbook homeroom. Though
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in this case this is mostly a reference to my "Tragedy of Steve"
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play I wrote back in the day (you'll note some overlap in
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the characters).
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Steve was the captain of the team, and a very good one.
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Reyerson's Rule is quoted verbatim. It is named after our
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team advisor's husband.
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Video Homeroom
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The school was outfitted with "Channel One" TVs and there was
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a video homeroom that in theory would make a school-wide TV
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show but as far as I know that happened like once a year at best.
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It was in the library and some of my friends were in it.
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Yes, gus is a girl.
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Raistlin and Ford were the Sysops of Utopia BBS where we'd
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all hang out. Ford's handle was misspelled "Ford Perfect" from HGTTG
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and Raistlin's was from some book, he changed his somewhat often.
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The library was indeed run by a scary nun, but I'm exaggerating
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here as the school was full of scary nuns and this particular one
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barely would make the scary top 5.
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Patriot Room
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The school newspaper. Various of my friends spent an inordinate
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amount of time here.
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Homeroom 12E
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Homerooms were alphabetical so I was in the last one with
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the odd assortment of characters you find in the T-Z part
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of the alphabet.
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Trapani was always having crazy parties.
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"Weave" was the common nickname for me (Deater was my BBS handle).
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I also got called worse things like "Vinnie" or "Vinnels" and
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many others. My German teacher knew me primarily as "Axel"
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Warwick was an excellent swimmer, and was often followed by
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hordes of girls asking for him to flex his arm muscles.
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He was also an excellent low-res graphics artist.
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Anachronistic though as he changed schools after 9th grade
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and this homeroom is 12th.
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Mean Lady. A Spanish teacher. Some underclassman called her
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"that mean lady" once, which she was proud of. We somehow
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got away with calling her that during homeroom.
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Homeroom cleanup. Yes, at our school once every few weeks
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it was your job to stay after school and help clean up your
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homeroom (wash the boards, sweep the floors, etc).
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AP Calculus
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A fun class. Senior year we won the arch-dioescean math
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competition as team "I-1"
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It is true, at least 10% of our high school class was named
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some variant of Jennifer. Jenni was a nexus for this, always
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surrounded by at least two other Jens at any given time.
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Padrino would sing "She's an Angel" by TMBG on demand in a
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nice deep voice. He'd also break into "Youth Culture Killed my
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Dog" too if you weren't careful. He and I were supposed to
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run for president in the far-off year of 2016 (first year we'd
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be old enough). Maybe we should have.
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Deutsch Klasse
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German class was also fun, though possibly more fun for
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us than it was for Frau Potter who had to teach us.
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We called her just "Frau" for short, which didn't bother her,
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but it shocked all the German exchange students as being excessively
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rude as it was sort of like calling her "Woman" or "Lady".
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The agents are some weird thing I did where everyone in our
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class was a secret Starfleet Agent, and were assigned letters.
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No, it didn't make any sense at the time either.
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Half the class was actually male, but we mostly sat on the near side
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of the room for some reason. The girls all sat on the pictured
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side by the windows (view from where I sat).
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For all 4 years. I have no idea why we did that.
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There were actually some interesting people in this class, feel
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bad for leaving them out but the game engine only budgets 5 talking
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spots per room.
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Interesting fact, 3 of the 4 students pictured have gone on
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to get PhDs.
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Acting Principal
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One of our favorite teachers. He wore a robo-leg when
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playing Badminton. The "Since we have no electricity we have no
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lights" is an actual quote from a transformer explosion incident.
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Susie the Guinea Pig
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A bit anachronistic as I didn't get Susie until a few years later.
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She was a black American crested pig with a tuft of white hair.
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A good friend through most of grad school. She traveled from NY to
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California and back by car, as well as to Canada at least twice.
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Summons:
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Metrocat was a gnomic cat who made the front page of the
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Washington Post metro section. We ran him for head of the UM
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Student Government twice. He lost both times, and after the
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second they banned write-in candidates.
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We actually did build a Vortex Cannon. There were directions
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on how to build one in the kids section of the Washington Post.
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It required a large cereal box. As a joke I asked random people
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in my EE classes if they had a giant cereal box I could use, and
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to my surprise a few days later one of my classmates brought in
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a giant Honeycombs box. You cut a circle in the proper place,
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and indeed you could shoot air vortices across the room at people.
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Other interesting things that I can't figure out how to fit into the game.
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Freshman Steve / Freshman Jenny -- people with duplicate names
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we'd assign names based on class rank, which would
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then follow them even as their class changed.
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'66 Mustang / Chevette / Topaz -- we drove an odd assortment
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of cars which had their own adventures, but not really
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possible to fit them into the story.
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Language Lab: another place of horror, stuck one "mod"
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(our school had a 16-mod modular schedule) a week
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listening to foreign language tapes. Run by
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one of the scary nuns.
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During the senior variety show skit, which took place
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on the enterprise, my brief part was to report the
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destruction of the language lab before dying
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(I was wearing a red shirt of course).
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