Flash Mob at Purdue
Sep. 28th, 2007 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quasigeostrophyOn Tuesday, a flash mob came up and worshiped the engineering fountain for exactly one minute (link to video shared by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elmegil):
When I was at Purdue the first time, as a freshman out of high school, that fountain looked a lot more like the one at Grant Park in Chicago, with a nice concrete bench rim around it and smooth edges. Just as my first year of college was wrapping up, they started rebuilding it into (almost) what it looks like now. The powers that be named it "Aspiration". To me, it should be "Agitation", as it looks like a washing machine agitator. After years of people running through it, particularly after imbibing too many liquid recreational chemicals, they installed the steel tube in the center. It doesn't help.
elmegil):When I was at Purdue the first time, as a freshman out of high school, that fountain looked a lot more like the one at Grant Park in Chicago, with a nice concrete bench rim around it and smooth edges. Just as my first year of college was wrapping up, they started rebuilding it into (almost) what it looks like now. The powers that be named it "Aspiration". To me, it should be "Agitation", as it looks like a washing machine agitator. After years of people running through it, particularly after imbibing too many liquid recreational chemicals, they installed the steel tube in the center. It doesn't help.
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Date: 2007-09-28 01:26 pm (UTC)Oh, and I agree with you. Totally an Agitator, not an Aspirator.
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Date: 2007-09-28 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-28 05:26 pm (UTC)