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re: Harvey Updyke update.... and tree update
Posted on 5/17/11 at 10:13 pm to Evolved Simian
Posted on 5/17/11 at 10:13 pm to Evolved Simian
quote:i dont spend time on TD 24/7 like some (sorry chicken) and seemed to have missed it somehow...
You lacked the capacity to read it the first several times it was posted
quote:i've searched and cant find it. i'm intrigued by this claim and would like to see for myself.
If it will help your search, my original recollection was mistaken. It is not on the auburn.edu site. It was in the Auburn Alumni magazine in 2007.
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Posted on 5/17/11 at 10:46 pm to jjbodean1970
No problem. This is from a 2007 article in the AU alumni magazine about why the trees were dying.
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It talks about how occasional rolling of the corner and sometimes even the trees, is remembered as far back as 1950 or so, and how any tp in the trees was prohibited for a long time because students set the tp on the corner on fire. Rolling the trees wasn't significantly involved until after the Iron Bowl moved to AU.
Actually, I was at AU's only big home win in 1991, and there were only a small handful of people tp'ing the trees, even at that point.
ETA - Your "quote" contains a deliberate misquote. Uncool, even for an AU fan....
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It could have been a change in the traffic lights, a deliberate move to improve safety, or just a natural migration. Whatever the reason, the year 1989 might have marked the fan's move from rolling the intersection traffic lights after away games to rolling the oaks after every victory.
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It talks about how occasional rolling of the corner and sometimes even the trees, is remembered as far back as 1950 or so, and how any tp in the trees was prohibited for a long time because students set the tp on the corner on fire. Rolling the trees wasn't significantly involved until after the Iron Bowl moved to AU.
Actually, I was at AU's only big home win in 1991, and there were only a small handful of people tp'ing the trees, even at that point.
ETA - Your "quote" contains a deliberate misquote. Uncool, even for an AU fan....
This post was edited on 5/17/11 at 10:58 pm
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