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This reminds me of my third most favourite MIT hack: In 1998, Bill Clinton gave MIT's commencement address. The MIT administration discovered that a rather em
by sanj 18y ago
This reminds me of my third most favourite MIT hack:
In 1998, Bill Clinton gave MIT's commencement address.
The MIT administration discovered that a rather embarrassing hack was planned. To forestall it, a few days before commencement, a sternly worded message was emailed around:
Any students who appear at the commencement exercises wearing a black beret, a blue dress, kneepads, or any combination thereof will be denied entrance.
Needless to say, the hack itself was never intended to be performed.
- boredguy8 18y agoThis sentence no verb.
- boredguy8 18y agoFunny how a comment goes down when the context changes. Calm down with the hate.
- helveticaman 18y agoWhat did you mean?
- boredguy8 18y agoThe post initially contained a sentence or two with no verbs, which made the post rather hard to understand. My comment was a gentle request for clarification and a nod to Hofstadter / self reference. While the post contained the error, it got upvoted to about 4. After the error was fixed, my comment was as low as -4 (because at that point it made no sense). Hence the "chill with the hate" comment.
- mleonhard 18y agoWho were they trying to get excluded from the commencement?
- zenspider 18y agoMonica Lewinsky