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		+	* Mario Kart
		+	* Laser Light Show
		+	* Giant Creme Brulee
		+	* [http://donkeykong.mit.edu/w/Hateshell|Hateshell]
		+	* Blowup hot tub
		+	* Dun dun challenge
		+	* Iron Chef: Pickle and Nutmeg
		+	* joeg cake
		+	* Raman Catapult

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Contents 1 Bad Ideas 2008 Will Be Real Soon Now 1.1 Stuff 1.2 Changes / Improvements 2 History 2.1 2003 2.2 2004 2.3 2005 2.4 2006 2.5 2007 2.6 2008

Bad Ideas 2008 Will Be Real Soon Now

Stuff

Chair to be elected at HouseComm on October 3. Start coming up with really bad ideas.

Changes / Improvements

There was much discussion about Bad Ideas at The Great East Campus Retreat during IAP '06. Here's what we came up with:

• Elect a Bad Ideas Chairperson. In addition, have appointed persons take care of food, lumber/materials, and money.
• Come up with a really large, repetitive construction project that can be going on in the courtyard all weekend. One thing that has been observed is that there are many people interested in taking part in Bad Ideas, but don't feel experienced/confident/unlazy enough to do a project of their own. If there were to be a large project always going on, a la rush, involvement in Bad Ideas could be significantly increased.

For Bad Ideas 2007, sean_m was chair. His thoughts:

• Having a Bad Ideas Chair is a Good Thing. It was very useful in that someone was officially responsible for funding applications and lumber ordering and such.
• Getting people involved/out in the courtyard is still an issue. Need to find a way to make the big project(s) happen.
• Safety: Get in touch with safety people *early*. There was little to no contact with them last year -- this could have been bad. Luckily, not much happened, and no one got hurt. It may not be isn't realistic to have safety proposals weeks/months beforehand, but we do need to somehow get safety people involved.

History

"Back in my day..."

2003

• Trebuchet
• High-wire bike
• Air cannon
• Bad ideas ball

2004

• Butter-eating contest
• Naked slip-n-slide
• Velcro wrestling
• Bubble-wrap sumo wrestling
• Lockwood-Hiller valveless pulsejet engine (aka Liquid Propane Ultraphone)
• Halfpipe
• Ass-kicking machine

2005

• Disco dance floor
• Homemade sauna
• Sawzalling turkeys
• Tricycle rally
• Tea party
• Blizzard

2006

• Mobile hot tub
• Sauna v2.0
• Zoz's spinning wheel of death
• Snow maker
• Atlatl competition

2007

• Snow maker
• Ice slide
• Hole in the volleyball pit
• Probably some other stuff I can't remember

2008

• Was awesome
• Pig Roast
• Mario Kart
• Laser Light Show
• Giant Creme Brulee
• [1]
• Blowup hot tub
• Dun dun challenge
• Iron Chef: Pickle and Nutmeg
• joeg cake
• Raman Catapult