Top "7" Biggest Events of 2005

[mmcgeach at csail.mit.edu (Michael McGeachie)]

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

Ring in the New Year (*ring*) of GSB with, omygosh, GSB?!  It's your choice!
GSB is back after a couple week's hiatus, and we're all new for 2005!  We
promise 100% more dancers, prizes, live bands, and google merchandise.  In a
gesture of good faith, we'd like to announce a contest for the Best
Explanation of the December 17th GSB Message.  Please email your submissions
to Mike, Mike, or Tracy by next Friday.  Prizes to be determined later.  But
we bet you can guess what they are.

I've been informed by the Committee for Standards in New Years
Retrospectives that any public epistolary of this nature is required to have
a "best of 2004" list.  Avoiding such plebian folderol, we attempt to bring
you the Best CSAIL moments of 2005, based largely on the events of 2004 and
the unassailable folk-knowledge that history repeats itself.


Top 7 Biggest Events of 2005 -

27. MIT and CalTech's Election Commission suggests using voting machines
implementing Casinos' popular "House Odds" system, skewing all vote tallies
in favor of the incumbent.

3. CSAIL luminary Larry Rudolph will launch political career based on
mistaken identity as Ms. Britney Spears' manager.  Rudolph becomes governor
of California by 2007.

8. The Invasion of the Media Lab in "preemptive" action by a "Coalition of
the Willing Departments."  Sure CSAIL will contributed 90% of the troops,
but who could discount the heroic contributions made by the surfers of Woods
Hole Dept of Oceanographic Engineering and the Department of Polish Studies?


1.562. Union of LCS and AI Lab deemed unconstitutional under new "Defense of
Marriage" amendments.  The complicated divorce may take years to finalize.

alf. Rod Brooks calls Tucker Carlson a "dick" on CNN's Crossfire.



And there you have it!  You can practically sleep through 2005 now 'cause it
won't have no surprises.  And if you don't like that, then just come to this
week's ...


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