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38. I think the term goes back to MIT and, especially, CalTech pranksters

Fri Oct 31, 2014, 01:41 PM

Oct 2014

in the 1960s. A famous "ratfuck" was changing the cards fans held up at the Rose Bowl back in 1961 played by Minnesota and Washington and hackng the scoreboard at the 1984 Rose Bowl:

Caltech has a long history of off-campus pranks, which are sometimes referred to as "RFs". (RF is short for "ratfuck", referring to the shattering of a frozen dead rat in someone's room.)[5] The most notable of these pranks include the 1961 Great Rose Bowl Hoax, where a card stunt was altered to display "Caltech" rather than the name of one of the competing teams.[6][7][8] Caltech students also altered the scoreboard display during the 1984 Rose Bowl to show Caltech beating MIT 38–9,[9][10] and in May 1987 changed the Hollywood Sign to read "CALTECH".[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech%E2%80%93MIT_rivalry

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"Rat fucking" is a political term since at least the Nixon era and has nothing to do with Lee FSogol Oct 2014 #30

I think the term goes back to MIT and, especially, CalTech pranksters hifiguy Oct 2014 #38

Yes, I looked up the slang term 'ratfucking' and according to PatrickforO Oct 2014 #64

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We must punish the American people! IronLionZion Nov 2014 #105

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That link supports the issues raised in my post brentspeak Oct 2014 #15

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And Braley's running ads against all that. justgamma Nov 2014 #119

Retraction please ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #53

They have attacked Democrats for having proposed cuts to SS. Marr Oct 2014 #22

Correct. It's a nonsense OP. I happen to have disagreed with the President publicly on chained CPI stevenleser Oct 2014 #37

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