I am sure there must be a good explanation for this

[pegkerr]

I took my usual walk across the Stone Arch Bridge for exercise today. About 1/3 of the way across, I came across about a half a dozen young men, probably college age or so. They were gathered around a blue flowered couch. A couch. On the Stone Arch Bridge. I ask you. That in itself was quite an undertaking to get it there, as the Stone Arch Bridge is rather long. Each was dressed in nice slacks and an oxford shirt, and they were wearing identical striped silver and maroon ties.

One man was sitting on the couch holding a large plastic penguin (the penguin was also sporting the same silver-maroon tie). They took a picture of him, and as I walked by, they seemed to be taking turns: each took a turn sitting on the couch, holding the penguin, as a picture was taken.

I suppose if I had stopped to ask they would have given me an explanation, but perhaps it is more fun to speculate. A fraternity thing, maybe. What else would prompt them to do such a thing?

Comments

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a Linux Users Group... or an ad for one.

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

that was my line of thought- either a users group or employee photos for a local tech company. RUSH hasn't even started yet, since most of the local universities don't start until next tues.

We are currently very grateful for the lack of classes.

[phoenixw.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's fabulous! I don't think I would have been able to restrain myself from asking. :-D

[kokopoko.livejournal.com]

Some engineering honor societies have their pledges do things like that too.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

You walk across the SAB for exercise every workday?

Come join me for lunch on the east bank of the river sometime?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Would it be convenient for you to eat at Wilde Roast sometime?

[schnoogle.livejournal.com]

(A college here is the same as a dorm in the US, I think. O-Week stands for Orientation-Week and is held the week before classes start for the year. O-Week is full of festivities and pranks.)

I started university this year. During O-Week, one of the colleges pulled a rather elaborate prank on its residents. Very early one morning, they were woken by chainsaw-weilding students. They were given the time to throw on clothes and shoes, herded downstairs, separated into groups (each of which was given a $10 note, a bag of crisps and a couch), blindfolded, transported to a mystery location and told to get the couch back to the college. I have absolutely no idea how they managed it, but apparently it involved lots of hitch-hiking, fare-evasion and their boyish good looks.

The worst thing my college did was dump out-of-date coleslaw onus (it missed me, luckily) and made us troop around the subrub in formal wear early one morning for a formal dinner... which ended up being held in the dining hall next door.

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

My fraternity (ok, it's the music honorary, Mu Phi Epsilon, which is why it's a frat and I'm a girl) never made me do anything that interesting. Just wear purple.

Hmmm . . . *resolves to make suggestions to new president*

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

What else would prompt them to do such a thing?

Exorbitant amounts of good taste?

(And for some reason I'd suddenly reminded that I stopped by a card shop in Uptown and, among other things, they had life sized "Snowys" (from Tintin).

Just out of curiosity, where if your office from The Loft?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity, where is your office from The Loft?

It's about five blocks away.