Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: harvard bridge and smoot Message-ID: <1044@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 14:55:04 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.1044 Posted: Thu Aug 8 14:55:04 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 21:34:32 EDT References: <393@npois.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 > > As it happens, I knew Smoot's brother, Martin Smoot. He was a smallish > very skinny young man, who was a little closer to the norm than the > father in "back to the Future" back in the 1955. It is very easy to > imagine how a rowdy bunch of guys would decide to roll him end over > end to measure Harvard Bridge. Back in my sophmore year or so, a bunch of transplanted Bostonites we'd acquired convinced us to try the same thing with a bridge in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh. We raided the bridge in the middle of the night with a can of paint, several milk jugs of beer and a rather easygoing guy named Frank (you guessed it) Smoot. We had the bridge about 3/4 measured when the Pittsburgh police arrived, who took a dim view of the smoot marks we'd painted on the sidewalk. -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "You've got a lot of nerve, to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning." - Dylan