Each year, a college football rivalry game between Yale University and Harvard University takes place. For the game in 2004, approximately twenty Yale students disguised themselves as the fictitious “Harvard Pep Squad” and handed out signs to Harvard fans. At a coordinated time, the organizers behind the prank instructed the Harvard fans to display the cards in unison, which they claimed spelled out “GO HARVARD” but in fact spelled “WE SUCK”. The result of the prank was that the Harvard fans then displayed a message saying “WE SUCK”, visible to the entire stadium and eventually garnering large coverage in national media.

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Argleton is a fictitious location supposedly located in West Lancashire, England. The settlement at one time appeared on Google Maps and Google Earth, and although it was recently removed, the previous location is still listed in search results. Argleton was first discovered in September of 2008 and developed a large following on the Internet, complete with a fictitious web site that contained history and current events of the village. It has been suggested that the location was created as a copyright trap.

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SkiFree is a computer game created by Chris Pirih, a Microsoft programmer, that was released in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack software bundle. A relatively simple skiing game, it is best remembered for the “Abominable Snowman” that appears after the player has completed the course. The yeti-like creature attempts to chase down and then eat the skier. Pirih had originally created the game for his own personal use, but a manager at Microsoft saw him playing it and requested that Microsoft be able to release the game commercially. In recent years, Pirih has developed an updated version of the game compatible with 32 bit operating systems.

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The Principle of Evil Marksmanship is the theory that the “bad guys” in films will invariably be very poor marksmen, almost always missing when attempting to shoot the main characters, or “good guys”. The term, sometimes called the “Stormtrooper Effect” due to the claim that the Imperial Stormtroopers in Star Wars were superior marksmen but in actuality seemed quite the opposite, was first mentioned by film critic Roger Ebert in 1980. Ebert also mentions another, similar rule: the “One-at-a-time Attack Rule”, in which a group of enemies far outnumbers a protagonist, but will attack individually instead of together.

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