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...impromptu pranks coincided with "Phool'sWeek," an initiation period for students compingthe Lampoon...

Author: By Alec Permison, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Lampoon Compers Interrupt Club Event | 12/8/1992 | See Source »

Last week, these coldhearted executioners once again turned to arboreal assassination. In celebration of "Phool's Week"--that time of year when middle-aged Lampy graduates take time off from their jobs as writers for "Babes" and "Rick Dees' Into the Night" to drink grain alcohol and force new recruits to "assume the position"--'Poonsters poisoned the soil in front of the "Castle," an architectural atrocity former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has rightfully dubbed a "public urinal." The defouled dirt was intended to hold the seedlings for Freedom Tree II, an innocent flora-to-be nipped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ISSUES | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Last week, these coldhearted executioners once again turned to arboreal assassination. In celebration of Phool's Week--the time of the year when middle-aged Lampoon graduates take time off from their jobs as writers for "Babes" and "Rick Dees' Into the Night" to drink grain alcohol and force new recruits to "assume the position"--'Poonsters poisoned the soil in front of their "Castle," an architectural atrocity former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has rightfully dubbed a "public urinal." The defouled dirt was inteded to hold the seedlings for Freedom Tree II, an innocent flora-to-be nipped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Do Unto Others... | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

Perry Smith also spent a lot of time writing, but he too found time for non-literary events at the Lampoon Spooner, also a Lampoon alumnus, recalls that during Phool's Week, the organization's initiation period. Smith "dressed a Phool up as Santa Claus and had other Phools attack him in downtown Boston...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: 25th Reunion Group Recalls Harvard Variety | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

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