Word: roasting
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...library “prank files” story. Maybe it won’t be as funny at the New York Public Library as it would have been at Lamont, but I won’t miss my second chance to load my bag with a whole roast chicken and a side of rice pilaf...
...uninitiated, it is difficult to explain exactly what this rich tradition, started in the early 1980s, is all about. Basically, the show consists of a large-scale, two-hour roast of the physics Faculty, masterminded by second-year graduate students. The “puppet show” is actually a multi-media presentation, involving music, slides, video, crude animations and, of course, puppets, to create sketch comedy pieces involving prominent members of the physics Faculty. Before their roast, Faculty members join other graduate students to hobnob over beer and chips, and then file into Jefferson 250 to await their...
This Scandinavian tradition features good food, high spirits and, most importantly, a roast goose. As the story goes, St. Martina kind, beneficent manwas eyed by the archbishop of France for a promotion. St. Martin, not wanting the profile and responsibilities of an administrator, hid himself amidst a gaggle of geese in hopes of avoiding the archbishop. In the end, the geese, alarmed at St. Martins presence among them, honked and ruined his cover. In remembrance of this, it is customary to mark St. Martins Day by eating a roast goose...
FinkFankFunk has achieved a modest level of success as the campus most notoriously alliterative funk band. Just last weekend it headlined at the Middle East, though many of its gigs remain on the house band for the Dunster goat roast level. Nonetheless, the gentlemen of FFF continue their attempts to live the debauched rock star lifestyle, having purchased a house in which they rehearse, listen to music in a coma-like daze and cavort with females culled from the front row of their shows...