Anyone (or at least most people) who was around campus on Monday obviously saw all of the pink "walkout against student protests" posters plastered across every message board on both banks of campus. In addition to the event itself being ironic (and therefore funny) in nature, it was sponsered by "The Irony Foundation," and the posters themselves had a good bit of humor lampooning actual demonstrations on campus. There was even a website set up to promote the event which has some other ironic/funny things on it.
The reactions of people around campus were priceless. Most people laughed at it, many even took the posters off the boards to take with them. More recently, some people were getting pissed off at it and ripping the posters down (apparently one person ripped one off, crumpled it up, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it) because they were obviously aimed at the upcoming protest against anything and everything. There were even 2 letters in Network today about it, from people obviously irate because they can't take a joke.
Here's the best part about all this: I am one of the two masterminds of this entire postering and general ruckus. I spent the better part of early Monday morning with 5 freinds putting up over 1,600 posters around campus, covering every message board we could find. It made me so happy to see people looking and laughing at the posters. Who cares if it's a stupid idea? That was the point. People have come up to me not being able to talk because they were lauging so hard. Other people I've talked to are taking the whole thing way too seriously and getting mad at whoever did it, which makes me feel even better because the whole thing was directed at those sort of people. So, come to Coffman at noon Thursday and hang out with me for a little bit before I have to go to class, it'll be a good time.
Also made me happy on Monday: I got 100% on my Physics Test :D
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