Let's Stay Safe Out There, People
by TwistNHook on Sep 9, 2008 11:01 AM PDT
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PrintBe careful now. You don't want to get hurt. Your health is your most important thing. Your health and Cal football. Don't make us choose! Live feed thread 1 was getting a bit bulky. The Live Feed is here. Continue the comments here.
The extraction continues. A complex staircase is being built:
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It's a jewish pod
Only needs to hold One … methinks I’ll probably burn more for that one …
It's now obvious to me...
The staircase they’re building is actually the cornerstone of the SHPAC. They’re going to build it around the redwood so future generations of Cal atheletes can continue to enjoy these hippies’ presence on our campus.
I HAVE THE ANSWER!!!!!!!
1) finish staircase
2) blow up the bubble (see Wayne Coyne below)
3) put hippies inside
4) drop to ground
5) kick into ocean
by totallyawesome on Sep 9, 2008 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They’re coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I’ll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they’re
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
BearStage, I deleted your post for sensitive reasons.
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No, it wasnt that. You just had put some information in there about me that I didnt particularly want posted. I didnt realize when I posted tha tphoto it would provide that. And I deleted my photo. I continue to value your readership, BearStage and hope you know it wasnt malicious or anything like that.
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You ’POSED to be up cooking breakfast for somebody….
It’s like a ’larm clock…WOO WOO
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 9, 2008 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Breaking News!
Steve Jobs offers free iPods for life for the person who gets down the last hippie.
In unrelated news, minor 3.0 earthquake in Berkeley due to horde of students rushing towards Memorial stadium
There was a 'past unfortunate accident'
they day they were conceived
-4500 someone gets called a bad name.
by BearsNecessity on Sep 9, 2008 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
I just checked briefly and it is showing the trees now (for me) and those would be some SICK screenshots. Too bad I dont know how to grab them!
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Print screen button
Then paste onto Paint.
by BearsNecessity on Sep 9, 2008 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
I dont think I hav ea Print Screen?
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Num what now? Look, I have CTRL and Tab and thats all I need!
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num lock!
up near the 6 keys with insert, delete, page up, and page down :P
print screen, control V to paste into an editor
In Soviet Russa, num locks you!
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I think scroll lock is what you’re looking for.
I kissed Dumpster Muffin and I liked it. The taste of her hippie chapped lips.
Because people from Alabama are smarter than people from California?
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Oh, then you are dumber than I originally thought.
JUST KIDDING!
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Question
If this platform was so easy to construct…why didn’t they use this twenty months ago to remove them then?
Because they couldn't
have done it without chopping all those branches which is permanent alteration
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 9, 2008 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Is it the Jolly Roger?
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Dammit, they figured out the Flag strategy. Now THEY own the tree, at least according to Eddie Izzard
I think they want to play Capture the Flag.
The trick is stealth people!
by CaliforniaBone on Sep 9, 2008 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Do you have a flag?
No flag no country! You can’t have one! Those are the rules that….. I’ve just made up.
hadn't thought of that
all this media attention, which is clearly what the protesters want, is doing untold damage to nature. Nicely ironic.
Goldblooded says the staircase platform is almost there!
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The scaffolding is going up nicely :)
I wanna see them raise up this huge curtain around the scaffolding, then presto chango a la copperfield, drop the curtains, hippies gone!
It’d have been fun if they just began construction anyway and just left them there to rot, like Peter Jackson did with Sauruman.
Actually Peter Jackson had Saruman stabbed by Grima
and then Saruman fell onto a “waterwheel” or whatever it’s called. Then Grima was shot by Legolas’ arrow.
In the book these two survive and go on to “scour” the shire prior to the return of the hobbits.
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
They were the true anti-environmentalists.
by CaliforniaBone on Sep 9, 2008 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
The movie totally should have had the scouring of the shire instead of that 19-minute long goodbye crap…
Yea, I counted 5 endings
1. Destruction of the ring
2. Reunification at Gondor
3. Aragorn’s enthronement
4. Departing at the Havens
5. Sam coming home
I guess Jackson didn’t like the scouring of the shire part so he changed the whole stroy completely. Can you believe that?
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Hey watch it!
You’re the one that knows how to post photos and cool things on the computer thingy!
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Come on hippies ... 'You have failed'
’Don’t let yourself be destroyed as Obi Wan did’
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They’re coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they’re
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
That seems like a super scary job to me.
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I was just thinking the same thing
I get scared when I get on my roof to put up Xmas lights.
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
They’re called ‘riggers’, and it’s dangerous as hell. These guys are all harnessed in and that’s top quality scaffolding their using, but you, scary as hell, and not for those who are afraid of heights.
I'm sure they're getting time and a half for extra duty
What are these guys for real? Construction workers? Police? Arborists? Professional people removers? FBI?
No, all the FBI is here on this blog
after AndBears used a wildly popular word beginning with a J and meaning holy war.
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
You are correct
I’m sorry I called you a Fundamentalist supported by US/CIA tax dollars!
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Hippies are extortionists
This is so incredibly ridiculous. Now these jerks want Six million dollars from the University? When the state if facing a 15 billion dollar deficit! And here’s the kicker, they get to choose who gets the money! Are you kidding me! What world do these people live in?
I don’t know, a few hairy furballs living in trees with primitive weapons against an army of white-clad professionals?
Lets hope it doesnt turn out the same way that it did a long long long time ago…
by CaliforniaBone on Sep 9, 2008 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
6mil
occupies a LOT of trees for a LONG time. The saving grace is that the protesters can’t seem to agree about anything amongst themselves.
Platform at top of stairs complete, arborists removing more junk, finishing up the stairs.
Thats what I have.
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I love organized labor. Its so refreshingly methodical.
by CaliforniaBone on Sep 9, 2008 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
As opposed to hippie unorganized labor . . .
it stinks so bad!
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
This shot could use better lighting.
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My feed just died, but when it came back, the camera angle made it look like they had cut off the top of the tree, and were lowering it down to the ground. I thought, hey, a compromise. They didn’t have to leave the tree, and the tree was cut down. Not the best (best=hippies falling out of the tree as it tumbles to the ground), but not terrible.
Then the camera zoomed out and I saw that the scaffolding had just grown a lot, and the hippie-removers were just closer to the top than before.
It’s like a slow, steady advancing army…inching their way to the stupid hippies who will eventually have no choice but to succumb.
Muah ha ha. I wish there was sound.
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 11:46 AM PDT reply actions
all your references are making me listen to this catchy song. Mmm what a great anthem for today.
by CaliforniaBone on Sep 9, 2008 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
http://search.playlist.com/tracks/closing%20time
for everyone else
by CaliforniaBone on Sep 9, 2008 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
How ironic would it be if the Hippies protested coming down on the platforms
and decided to jump instead?
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
That would be awesome…I actually thought they were going to do that the other day when they were standing out on the limbs with arms outstretched. Looked like prepping for a dive to me.
Do hippies believe in near-suicide?
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
That would be a good thing, I suppose… Though the last thing we need is these freaks thinking they have a martyr. These damn idiots…
yeah
I’m sure the hippie ground support crew wants nothing more than one of these guys to take a plunge.
the feed keeps cutting out
and I’m really nervous that it’s going to come back and I will have missed the whole thing.
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 11:48 AM PDT reply actions
You mean you didn't see the take down from the Special Forces guys in the helicopters?
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Why oh why is there no sound???
ABC, get it together!
Also, it looks like the oompa loompas are going to do a stunt of some sort. I wish their harnesses were bungee cords and they would perform for us. when the hippes come down.
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 11:52 AM PDT reply actions
Ha! They look like Doozers...
…I hope the hippies don’t eat all the tasty, tasty radish sticks and collapse the scaffolding!
Goldblooded tells me they are cutting more of the lower branches to make room for the top of the tower. They are being pelted with something apparently from the hippies. I fear to know what it is exactly. But I can guess.
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How much shit and piss do these guys have stored up? You would think their supply would have been exhausted by now.
Remember those buckets of pee?
I feel really bad for the oompa loompas. They should all get an award. Or free tickets to football games or something.
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Is anyone at the ex-grove?
I really want to know what the cops in the cherry picker are saying…
“sigh. you should really come down. sigh. we’ve told you before. sigh. this is getting old.”
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 11:57 AM PDT reply actions
Ex-grove
I propose we stop referring to this area as the "Oak Grove" and start referring to it as the "Construction Site."
by Montezuma's Revenge on Sep 9, 2008 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Goldblooded tells me they just busted out the chainsaws!
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I'd like to thank the... um... Academy?
who gives out Emmys?
I dunno, but I will thank them when I get one for this stellar coverage :-D
If I wasn't at work...
I would be at the ex-grove live-blogging this.
Is there anyone out there in blogland with a laptop, a wireless internet card, and tons of spare time?
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 12:07 PM PDT reply actions
In Latin America
these guys would’ve been shot down a long time ago . . . with American bought bullets.
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
I can only think of that one internet video where a bear is shot with a tranq dart and falls right out of the tree.
by CaliforniaBone on Sep 9, 2008 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Ha ha ha ha
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Heh, interview with upcoming opponent: 5 comments
Threads dedicated to hippie removal: 500+ commens.
I always assumed the Maryland slot on the schedule was a scrimmage between
the two school’s basketball teams.
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
It looks windy up there…I keep thinking it’s the tree swaying because it’s coming down, but alas. Tis only the wind.
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 12:09 PM PDT reply actions
Do the hippies realize that they' can't keep climbing forever?
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
It must be pretty fun to be the whitecoats
totally invading them through the floorboards!
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed when I had said
that loosing you would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed and then you left, but now you know I’m utterly mad… And..
seems to me like what they should do is grab the top of the tree with those big cranes, saw it off right under where the platform is, and then lower top onto the ground. Now THAT would be a creative use of cranes.
that’s what i thought they were doing when i first tuned in! but alas, tis not the case.
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I really hope UC can recover some of the wasted $$
from these fucking hippies. What a waste of tax dollars. Garnish their wages for life . . . . wait, they’ll never get jobs.
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
HONESTLY
Why are they still fighting this? Are they so delusional that they still don’t realize they’ve lost?
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 12:19 PM PDT reply actions
Dear Hippies,
Just because you keep climbing does not mean branches will continue to appear.
Not-Sincerely,
RemorsefulBruinBabe
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 12:21 PM PDT reply actions
Pull a mario and just hop flying koopas all day
by CaliforniaBone on Sep 9, 2008 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't give them any of MY ideas!
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
27 hours after the deadline and they're still up there
Can’t they just hire Nate to throw footballs at them until they fall out? It seems a lot easier than all this crane and scaffolding business.
He would throw too many into the tree branches. They'd be there for days or months.
"It's not my fault your team's so shitty" - every AL Manager to Bob Geren
by oaktownmario on Sep 9, 2008 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm thinking we need...
To reenact this extraction at this year’s Big Game. I know where we can find a Tree.
PS Pre-emptive shut up, Remorsefulbruinsbabe.
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I hate you.
And you didn’t even spell my name right.
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
What part of shut up Remorsefulbruinsbabe was so confusing to you?
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just wondering, why do we keep changing threads?
does it really slow down for people, or does Twist just get off on controlling the threads?
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I wonder...
…is a magical hippie hot air balloon going to swoop down and rescue them from the God Pod?
I think that’s what they’re thinking.
NOBODY IS GOING TO SAVE YOU. STOP CLIMBING.
by RemorsefulBruinBabe on Sep 9, 2008 12:25 PM PDT reply actions
