Daily Bull 2009-10-14
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Daily Bull 2009-10-14
AILY D BUL L The Daily Bull is probably not suitable for those under age 18 and should not be taken seriously... like suing Starbucks! What would you think if I walked up to you and said, “Hello, I are Liz, I is a major on math and me do minors in law and society and my grades is real gooder.” You’d probably first back away slowly as I advanced, concerned that an especially difficult assignment had left 45% of my brain in a steaming heap not unlike scrambled eggs. You might then stop to ponder why I was speaking so oddly - mistaking myself for a plural (yay, schizophrenia?), misusing prepositions, tacking on extraneous suffixes, and neglecting adverbs. If you don’t have a clue what I just said, let me translate: you thought I sounded like a dumbass. Obviously, Michigan Tech has taken measures to ensure that some standard of English proficiency is achieved among its students; classes such as Revisions and Perspectives ...see Grammar on back A French scientist working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has been charged with destroying the €3 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The unnamed scientist was caught on CCTV dropping a wrench into the works minutes before the entire operation came to a screeching, fiery halt. “Son of a…” gasped project leader Lyn Evans as she arrived at the smoldering wreckage of the supercollider. “Now we’ll never know whether the Higgs boson really exists. Nearly 15 years of work… all for this. My dreams! I’m ruined!” The 32-year-old man of Algerian decent was detained while fleeing the country, toolbag in hand. He was identified by a missing 25mm spanner from his assortment, matching the wrench left at the scene. INTERPOL agent William McCune reports. “Yup, he’s definitely the one. I’ve been tracking handyman crooks for the past several years, but this is the worst one yet. Would you believe the spanner survived just dandy? All those particles and quasi-dimensional wormholes didn’t even phase it. Craftsman makes some fiiiine shit.” French authorities have interrogated the man, attempting to glean some information from him on any links to other militants in the area. “Clearly a terrorist act as damaging and horrific as this could not be staged by one man. He must have some accomplices who aided him along the way,” ponders McCune at INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon. “I wouldn’t doubt he’s in line with the hardware store clerk who messed up my living room paint. I asked for Gratifying Green, not Enlightening Lime!” CERN is at a loss of how to make up the €3 billion loss, the largest scientific loss since Chernobyl exploded after someone let loose a raccoon in the control room. Without having completed a single experiment, the particle accelerator also is the biggest failure to hit the organization in years. Evans, extremely frustrated at the destruction of her ‘baby,’ is at a loss for words. “Finding that Higgs boson was going to win me the Nobel Prize… that right there is worth nearly a million euros. I could’ve ...see Explode on Failure on back “Night night, knight,” said one knight to the other knight the other night. Straight from you-know-where! Bad Places to Hide Your Porn Your niece’s bedroom On your shirt Grandma’s email inbox Stapled to homework On your desk /root Your mantle Your roommate’s drawers In the Daily Bull On a key ring In a message in a bottle In a box with a fox Church pew (in the hymnal) Babies’ diapers The Oven Monogrammed on your jacket Billboard Tattooed on your forehead Cafeteria Tray Attached to your resume Under the mattress Kids’ books Research paper Dissertation Behind the Wallpaper Photoshop project watermark 4chan Cereal box Lode inserts Etched into your glasses Painted on your nails Shared Documents Public Bathrooms Travel Brochure FTP Server Hall Murals Table Tents Your girlfriend’s tramp stamp Locket In your roommate’s porn stash Subliminal messages Tattooed on your junk Knitted into a scarf Digital picture frame JUMBOTRON Coloring books Window Stickies Picnic Basket ����� ����� ������� ����� ����������������� �� ������ �������� ������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������ By Liz Fujita ~ Daily Bull By Nathan ‘Invincible’ Miller ~ Daily Bull The Steaming Pile ��������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������ Me Talk English Real Gooder Al-Qaeda Terrorist Drops Wrench in the Works, Blows Up LHC ��� Wednesday, October 14, 2009 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. ~ Gore Vidal “I hate to imagine what happened to been living easy. Course, now I’m back the guys playing cards down in the tunto square one. Which is one. Haha! nel,” she added mournfully. “Vaporized Get it! One squared! HAHA! MY LHC! probably.” WHO DID THIS!?” A tape released by Osama bin Laden The suspect, whose identity is pro- claimed responsibility for the attack, tected under French law, was seen citing that “those capitalist dogs and Monday opening a hatch on one of their Higgs bosons can rot in hellfire. the super-cooled magnets, drop- The western world will fall due to ping a wrench in, and then ducking the inherent fallacies in their scientific for cover as everything went haywire practices!” around him. “I’m not really sure what he meant by CERN intern Mengya LI explains the all of that,” says Evans. “I’m pretty sure panic as everyone escaped the un- those wacky Islamic extremists don’t folding disaster around them. have anything better than then scientific method anyway.” “One minute we were doing safety checks prior to crossing the beams, ...Grammar from front and the next emergency lights are flashing and a horn starts going, ‘awooga- try to teach us how to communicate awooga,’ just like in the movies. At better than the average Neanderfirst I thought it was Fermilab playing thal. Nonetheless, the old stereotype another joke on us, but when all the floods campus: engineers can’t write. dials went bananas, I knew it was all What’s more, engineers in charge of over. I high-tailed it out of there just things can’t write, and that, my friends, is sickeningly ironic. before the meltdown.” Daily Bull EDITOR IN CHIEF & BOSS MAN Nathan “Invincible” Miller FACULTY ADVISOR David Olson-ly THE LITTLE COMP EDITOR THAT COULD Liz Fujita IS TORTURING ME Someone with delicious food BUSINESS GUY Ray Martens Nathan “Invincible” Miller, Liz Fujita, Jeremy “Mr. Sunshine” Loucks, Simon Mused, Ray Martens, John Pastore, Brett Jenkins, Matt Villa, Mary Kennedy, Ruben Garcia, Kiri Kennedy, Mike Lennon, Hylinn Taggart, Benjamin Loucks, Tyler Botbyl, Lauren Allen, Jon “Big-O” Mahan, Alec Hamer, Phil Pomber, Stephen Whittaker, Sam Schall and Popeye the Sailor Man. ©2009 by the Daily Bull, a non-profit organization. All rights reserved. Articles may be freely distributed electronically or on late night talk shows provided credit is given, and that this notice is included. The Daily Bull reserves the right to refuse any advertisements or guest articles without reason. All opinionated letters sent to the editor (on paper or to [email protected]) will be treated as material to be published unless expressly stated otherwise by the sender. Original works printed in the Daily Bull remain the property of the creator, however the Daily Bull reserves the right to reprint any submissions in future issues unless specifically asked not to do so by the creator. If you keep reading this small text, you’ll get Spirited Away! The Daily Bull would like to thank the Daily Bull for buying our own damn printer that this publication is printed on. We would also like to thank the Student Activity Fee for helping to pay for our paper and toner costs. Advertising inquiries, questions & comments should be directed to [email protected] I was wandering through the halls of DHH not fifteen minutes ago when I noticed a new posting on my hall bulletin board. The advertisement proclaimed that IRHC is having a raffle for students with exceptional midterm grades. The eye-catching banner asks: HAVE YOU BEEN DOING GOOD IN SCHOOL? Part of my soul died. Really, IRHC? You see, kids, “good” is an adjective. We use them to describe nouns (aka, people, places, things, and ideas). For instance, I might say, “My dog is fluffy,” “I have a gigantic wart,” or “You have a gigantic fluffy wart that you should get looked at.” On the flip side, “well” is an adverb. You use those to describe how a verb Sunshine’s Searcher - Final Fantasy Bosses A S U P A R O E K A X M H O R N Z D W T X A R B W K G L A T C U H M J T R R E Y T S B C D E A I G W S G T U M P L O E E E G V U L D G A U D I B S O G M I I F A Z I N M T R E I A B S N O E J L E D T A G B M R W N O G A Y I A W L U Y L A I O P X I U J F E A Z E V T E N R E K L M G C W N S H A D C S U C G C G A V O L G I C S O D K A F E I V N E R A K Z D I C P B R O I A Y R M R W U M R A O E A O P L Y E A G O C I A L O E D A B J E O E P P Y T T F M L W K C N L W B E Z N D N I M T A U S D O H C T Q M U O U B A G O N C I R N U H C H P N H D N O S A U H N O D O E C H I D N A O X C T I O F C A D I S C L Y A D L U H C O D R O L P P C A I N Z Y E E T F L T D S M A G I M A S T E R A T I A M A T S G E E L E R X A X M G W E O D S S K E U D O U F N A R Z S G R O P U O Z T A Z N I K E Y W S M Y N E R O S O A H C S G R W I P L A N I F D W A U R W K E T L I B A B O T O R P G G L G C K N L P M N Y A M H N O P A E W A G E M O Z R Y M A I Q E E I R R I L H E L L W Y R M T X G C A W C O M Y L L H T K H L R E L S S O V I K Q L F G N E S O Y B V S B L C Y E M P E R O R M A T E U S R D O N D O O S S V U C Y P V Z H I D O N Y S I S E M E N Y T R G J O H X Y U N A L E S C A W V A Y N E W L G A E S S Y P A U Y R A K V E U G A L P I N W C I X C T T H B I X (see what I did there?) in order to be entered. Doesn’t that seem fishy? I guess if you have all satisfactory midterm grades, it won’t matter who sees, but some people are excessively pri2 EMPEROR MATEUS If 2weGOTUS apply this newfound nugget of vate. Do they face exclusion from the wisdom, a sudden IRHC sounds oh-so-fabulous prizes because they 3 DARKall of CLOUD like bit of a fraud, inviting students don’t feel like bragging? 3 aECHIDNA to3enter a raffle for smart, ever-so-literSCYLLA ate 3 students ZANDE when they can’t properly Sigh. I don’t know. Maybe the fact speak English. Oh, I’m eager to enter of the matter is that I’m just bitter be4 CINDY your raffle, all right. That would be like cause I’m a second year/sophomore/ 4 LUNASAUR joining the military and watching as the junior by credits/various-other-arbi4 MINDY person teaching you how to fire a gun trary-statuses-they-assign-to-me – and 4 PLAGUE I will never have the chance to win shoots a few rounds 4 PROTO BABILinto his foot. free pizza, gift cards, Michigan Tech 4 SANDY Qualified, huh? paraphernalia, trips to attend a tap4 ZEROMUS ing of Oprah, or whatever it is student 5 BIBLOS Anyway, if you feel the need to show organizations give away these days. 5 GILGAMESH your RA your midterm grades – wait, See, we non-freshmen don’t get mid5 GOGO 5 ISHINRYU did not mention? You have to show term grades to enter with. Oh, sorry. I 5 X-DEATH your RA that you have good grades mean, “with which to enter.” 1 CHAOS 1 KARY 1 KRAKEN 2 ASTEROTH 2 EMPEROR MATEUS 2 GOTUS 3 DARK CLOUD 3 ECHIDNA 3 SCYLLA 3 ZANDE 4 CINDY 4 LUNASAUR 4 MINDY 4 PLAGUE 4 PROTO BABIL 4 SANDY 4 ZEROMUS 5 BIBLOS 5 GILGAMESH 5 GOGO 5 SHINRYU 5 X-DEATH 6 ATMA WEAPON 6 CHUPON 6 DOOMGAZE 6 GODDESS 6 HIDON 6 KEFKA 6 MAGIMASTER 6 ULTROS 7 EMERALD WEAPON 7 JENOVA 7 RUBY WEAPON 7 SEPHIROTH 7 ULTIMA WEAPON 8 CATOBLEPAS 8 EDEA 8 ELVORET 8 GRIEVER 8 OILBOYLE 8 OMEGA WEAPON 8 RAIJIN & FUJIN 8 TIAMAT 8 ULTIMACIA 9 ANT LION 9 BLACK WALTZ 9 GARLAND 9 GIZMALDUKE 9 KUJA 9 OZMA 10 CHIMERAGEIST 10 CHOCOBO EATER 10 EVRAE 10 LORD OCHU 10 NEMESIS 10 SEYMOUR 10 SIN 10 YUNALESCA 12 DOCTOR CID 12 HELL WYRM 12 UNDYING 12 VAYNE 12 VOSSLER Brought to you by Jeremy ‘Mr Sunshine’ Loucks Bonus word pair (together) are the recurring characters in the series based on Star Wars, notably bosses in FF8. Final Fantasy Bosses ...Explode on Failure from front is1doing what it is doing. To demonCHAOS strate: his stomach growled loudly. 1 KARY He his sandwich hurriedly. He 1 ate KRAKEN then painfully threw up. 2 ASTEROTH 6 ATMA WEAPON YOU. ME. DAILY BULL. TONIGHT. WALKER 144, 9:15. BRING THE CASH, Y’SEE?