Behind the Scenes: The now INFAMOUS Livingston Geneva Fax Prank
By now many of you may have heard the tale of the Poli Comm Professor tracked around the world. For those of you who have not, let me fill you in on this NOW APPARENTLY LEGENDARY Prank.
It began with at 2am email late Sunday night (well technically early Monday morning) on May 2nd. Our professor for intro to political communication, Professor Steven Livingston, sent out this email to us.
“I have decided that it makes more sense and is more convenient to ask you to address the following questions outside the formal classroom setting. In other words, let’s make it a take-home exam.”
Perpetually suspicious of Poli Comm prankster Kyle Stoneman, one of our fellow enterprising students, Jordon M., decided to do a little investigating to make sure that everything was on the level with this “take home final.”
Stoneman, the PRANKSTER who turned out to be innocent. This is a pic from Kato’s party during his magic show.
And he found THIS.
Jordon's detective work turned up THIS.
The properties of the word document showed that it had been typed on a computer whose company was registered as the mysterious sounding “Hotel Mon Repos.”
A quick google search of the “Hotel Mon Repos” uncovered this website. This is the “Hotel Mon Repos” a very nice hotel in GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.
The Hotel Mon-Repos' website in Geneva, Switzerland.
Now of course no self-respecting political communication student could let this realization go unfounded without causing mischief. So how did we decide to capitalize on it?
Well after a group meeting, 2 international phone calls to confirm Professor Livingston’s presence in Geneva we decided to send him a little note. A trip to the Kinkos at 2020 K. St. and $6.35 to send an international fax and…viola! Our prank was complete.
The fax and the link to view the full .pdf is below.
The now INFAMOUS Livingston fax. Click to view the full size .PDF file.
Of course the best part was playing a prank on a professor on another continent, who didn’t know that we knew he was in Switzerland and sure as hell hadn’t told us what hotel he was staying at (or that he was in room #37). And then he woke up to a sweet fax from us…
Good times. Good work Deanna, Jordon, Ryan, Kato, Kyle, Ed, and the rest of the crew.
By now many of you may have heard the tale of the Poli Comm Professor tracked around the world. For those of you who have not, let me fill you in on this NOW APPARENTLY LEGENDARY Prank.
It began with at 2am email late Sunday night (well technically early Monday morning) on May 2nd. Our professor for intro to political communication, Professor Steven Livingston, sent out this email to us.
“I have decided that it makes more sense and is more convenient to ask you to address the following questions outside the formal classroom setting. In other words, let’s make it a take-home exam.”
Perpetually suspicious of Poli Comm prankster Kyle Stoneman, one of our fellow enterprising students, Jordon M., decided to do a little investigating to make sure that everything was on the level with this “take home final.”
Stoneman, the PRANKSTER who turned out to be innocent. This is a pic from Kato’s party during his magic show.
And he found THIS.
Jordon's detective work turned up THIS.
The properties of the word document showed that it had been typed on a computer whose company was registered as the mysterious sounding “Hotel Mon Repos.”
A quick google search of the “Hotel Mon Repos” uncovered this website. This is the “Hotel Mon Repos” a very nice hotel in GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.
The Hotel Mon-Repos' website in Geneva, Switzerland.
Now of course no self-respecting political communication student could let this realization go unfounded without causing mischief. So how did we decide to capitalize on it?
Well after a group meeting, 2 international phone calls to confirm Professor Livingston’s presence in Geneva we decided to send him a little note. A trip to the Kinkos at 2020 K. St. and $6.35 to send an international fax and…viola! Our prank was complete.
The fax and the link to view the full .pdf is below.
The now INFAMOUS Livingston fax. Click to view the full size .PDF file.
Of course the best part was playing a prank on a professor on another continent, who didn’t know that we knew he was in Switzerland and sure as hell hadn’t told us what hotel he was staying at (or that he was in room #37). And then he woke up to a sweet fax from us…
Good times. Good work Deanna, Jordon, Ryan, Kato, Kyle, Ed, and the rest of the crew.
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