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re: Harvey Updyke update.... and tree update
Posted on 5/17/11 at 10:46 pm to jjbodean1970
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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Posted on 5/17/11 at 11:03 pm to Evolved Simian
quote:lsu fan, and what's the misquote, all I did was copy and paste...
ETA -Your "quote" contains a deliberate misquote. Uncool, even for an AU fan....
Posted on 5/17/11 at 11:09 pm to Evolved Simian
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No problem. This is from a 2007 article in the AU alumni magazine about why the trees were dying.
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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.
you forgot the following part of the story:
"No one can really say whether the '89 Iron Bowl actually represented the permanent move from rolling the intersection to rolling the trees, but it does make a good story."
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