Comments on: Ditch Day https://narbonic.com/comic/ditch-day/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:31:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: John Wells (johnwwells) https://narbonic.com/comic/ditch-day/#comment-14628 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:31:55 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3738#comment-14628 Ames: I remember it. Sadly, we never actually did get to go into space on Ditch Day.

Wow, this brings back memories. Memories of sleep deprivation and dragging a leaky papier-mache gerbil through the steam tunnels and trying to recruit Madblood robot actors at the last minute.

]]> By: Wayne (wayne) https://narbonic.com/comic/ditch-day/#comment-14627 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:31:54 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3738#comment-14627 One of my fav CalTech pranks that I read about involved a shotgun.  Before the senior left, he told the underclassmen to take a look through his door’s transom window, and they saw a double-barreled shotgun pointed at the door and well-rigged.  They left it alone.  After ditch day was over, everyone showed up at the guy’s untouched door to find out how he was going to get inside.  He said “That’s my grandpa’s old shotgun, it hasn’t worked in years” nad he yanks the door open.  There’s a very loud bang and the guy goes flying across the hall, scaring the s* out of everyone.  He then gets up and starts laughing, he’d rigged a couple of loud firecrackers or blanks to the door.

]]> By: John Ames (commodorejohn) https://narbonic.com/comic/ditch-day/#comment-14626 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:31:53 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3738#comment-14626 Hands up, who remembers the old text adventure Ditch Day Drifter?Anyone? Bueller?

]]>