Word: theys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"We can have a party when it's over, hey." They step off the bridge to cross the street.
The Legend of the Bridge: Many years ago, in the 1960s, a Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity party turned into an argument over developing new systems of measurement. So they kidnapped one of their pledges--Mr. Smoot--and tied him to two-by-fours. They took him to the Harvard Bridge...
They seat six students, bound and gagged, in the middle of the plaza. There is an executioner wearing a black veil. He totes a padded wiffle-ball bat. The MC speaks into a homemade PA to the motley gathering of workers, bums and passers-by.
"Zero," the man replies. He is wrong, and they beat the hostages. And the game continues until everybody gets bored and leaves.
But two of the spectators weren't bored. They were arguing over the hostages.