outstanding! if they win, it'll be even better than the time King Tom, the royalist party candidate, won the presidency of the university of maryland student council.
Reminds me of the guy who sat next to me in high school physics. He played bass in one of my nerdy loser bands in high school because, although he hung out with the guys in the cool rock bands that actually got hired for dances and scored with the women, he frankly just wasn't all that hot on the bass guitar.
When he got to Purdue he started a band called "Dow Jones and the Industrials." A couple of years later he, as "Dow Jones", ran for the presidency of the student government, and won (http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2003/05/21/a_gizmo_remembers_north.html).
Indeed, I do, and it's awesome. He hasn't technically won yet, but the numbers look good for the runoff, and it's a moral victory just to make a mockery of the process the way he has.
I _wanted_ to pull off something on that scale when I was in Raleigh, with visions of the legend of the Pail & Shovel Party at Wisconsin-Madison floating in my head, but such things required lots of time, effort and loyal minions to do my bidding and do the grunt work, all of which were in short supply back then. So we sat around and killed brain cells ogging people instead.
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Date: 2005-04-10 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-10 08:16 pm (UTC)When he got to Purdue he started a band called "Dow Jones and the Industrials." A couple of years later he, as "Dow Jones", ran for the presidency of the student government, and won (http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2003/05/21/a_gizmo_remembers_north.html).
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Date: 2005-04-11 11:27 am (UTC)I _wanted_ to pull off something on that scale when I was in Raleigh, with visions of the legend of the Pail & Shovel Party at Wisconsin-Madison floating in my head, but such things required lots of time, effort and loyal minions to do my bidding and do the grunt work, all of which were in short supply back then. So we sat around and killed brain cells ogging people instead.
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