Subject: Classic PackyHumor: Pavlov's Birds
Date: Wed, Aug 15 2001 00:00:05 -0400
Original Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:09:03 -0400
Submitted by the Cup-a-Cocoa himself, Peter F. Caracappa.
There's an unverified story of an MIT student who spent an entire summer
going to the Harvard football field every day wearing a black and white
striped shirt, walking up and down the field for ten or fifteen minutes
throwing birdseed all over the field, blowing a whistle and then walking
off the field.
At the end of the summer, it came time for the first Harvard home
football game, the referee walked onto the field and blew the whistle,
and the game had to be delayed for a half hour to wait for the birds to
get off of the field.
The guy wrote his thesis on this, and graduated.