My favorite Berkeley story

[East Coast Mustang]

I went out there for a football game while this was going on, to say it was surreal would be an understatement. I remarked to a few of the bystanders below that the tree would not be put to waste, as it would likely live on as sheets of paper after its stint at a paper mill. They were not amused.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/L ... 269915.php

[Pony ^]

Unreal

[NavyCrimson]

Love it , east coast !!!!

[Pweesey]

Don't forget Naked Guy.

[Pony ^]

Don't forget Occupy Cal

[ponyte]

I did something similar in the Muir forest (Redwood trees). After the park ranger commented on the amount of housing one tree could produce, I made a very loud comment about how elitist it was for a few people to deny cheap housing to the homeless by preventing clear cutting of the Muir forest. If we just clear cut this tiny redwood forest, it would create enough housing to complete shelter all the homeless in San Francisco. Needless to say I didn't get much support for the idea.

[PonyTime]

Don't forget Naked Guy.

RIP Naked Guy:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/How-Berkeley-s-Naked-Guy-met-a-tragic-end-3232119.php#photo-2374816

Can't believe that the Mom was awarded $1 mil in settlement for his death.

[lwjr]

Don't forget this brilliant move in 2008 by the mental giants known as the Berkley city council. The clowns, I mean city council, passed a measure urging the United States Marine recruiting office to close and leave town.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/07/berkeley.protests/

[NavyCrimson]

LOL!! Ponyte!!! I love this thread!!! Can relate to everything that's said here since living here.

[SoCal_Pony]

I know a very successful Chinese internist born and raised in Orange County.

Parents are traditional Chinese, but son was/is very 'Americanized'.

Although parents pushed him to learn Chinese, son said he only learned to speak Mandarin fluently after spending 4 years at Berkeley.

[PonyTime]

My Favorite Cal alums:









That is all.

[mrydel]

My bank was financing a McDonalds to be built in Georgetown, Tx. It was a pretty big deal at the time for a population of 2,500. The president of our bank heard his wife making plans with other community do gooders to occupy the trees that were on the lot of the proposed eatery. The president called the construction crew and they immediately went to the site and took down every tree. A group of ladies showed up the next morning with chains they were going to use to chain themselves to the trees, saw a vacant, cleared lot, and went home.

[sadderbudweiser]

After I quit swimming together with friends we established Mustang Frisbee, a campus Ultimate Frisbee team and eventual winner of the first Texas State championships. When we graduated a large number of us (mostly ex SMU athletes from various sports) merged with another team from North Dallas and became The Sky Pilots of Texas. The Sky Pilots played in five national and four world championships. One of our biggest rivals was the Berkeley Flying Circus.

When we played them there was no doubt at all as to which team was which. We were fairly clean cut and our unis consisted of Texas flag shorts and Red/White vertical striped polo shirts (the kind servers at Fridays wore).

The Flying Circus had no uniforms and looked more like a roving band of gypsies: tie-dyed shorts, face paint, bandanas, mis-matched socks, mardi gras beads, fros, ponytails, and way better weed.

They were amazingly good athletes and gave us all we could handle every time we played them. Good times.

[ojaipony]

My bank was financing a McDonalds to be built in Georgetown, Tx. It was a pretty big deal at the time for a population of 2,500. The president of our bank heard his wife making plans with other community do gooders to occupy the trees that were on the lot of the proposed eatery. The president called the construction crew and they immediately went to the site and took down every tree. A group of ladies showed up the next morning with chains they were going to use to chain themselves to the trees, saw a vacant, cleared lot, and went home.

This is why I love Texas. Wouldn't fly here.

[ojaipony]

After I quit swimming together with friends we established Mustang Frisbee, a campus Ultimate Frisbee team and eventual winner of the first Texas State championships. When we graduated a large number of us (mostly ex SMU athletes from various sports) merged with another team from North Dallas and became The Sky Pilots of Texas. The Sky Pilots played in five national and four world championships. One of our biggest rivals was the Berkeley Flying Circus.

When we played them there was no doubt at all as to which team was which. We were fairly clean cut and our unis consisted of Texas flag shorts and Red/White vertical striped polo shirts (the kind servers at Fridays wore).

The Flying Circus had no uniforms and looked more like a roving band of gypsies: tie-dyed shorts, face paint, bandanas, mis-matched socks, mardi gras beads, fros, ponytails, and way better weed.

They were amazingly good athletes and gave us all we could handle every time we played them. Good times.

I don't even know where to start . . .