Distinguished Alumni Open 50-Year Old Time Capsule, Find Porn, Dirty Underwear & Old Condom
They expected to find a prim and proper package from the nifty 1950s, but what they got was a faceful of pornography, dirty underwear and an old condom.
The older, tamer items — snapshots of men with crew cuts, reel-to-reel recordings of School of Communications alumni cracking wise — still lay in the steel box, as they had since the capsule was sealed into the wall of the then-new Communications Building in 1957.
But they had company. Erotic, irreverent company.
Sometime in the early 1980s, the pranksters — unknown as yet — laid a pornographic centerfold atop the pile, and added other odd and obscene mementos to the mix. That was the image that greeted researchers, when they opened the capsule in preparation for a dinner Thursday evening with alumni who packed the original.
Before displaying the capsule’s contents to the crowd gathered at the University Alumni Club, Department of Communication Chairman Jerry Baldasty had to break the strange news.
“The good news is that all the things that were in there are still there,” Baldasty said. “The interesting news is that some other things were added.”
Including, Baldasty said, “one of Hugh Hefner’s publications.”
As alumnus Mike Peringer pulled items from the box, he drew giggles and a few gasps from the crowd of aging Huskies. With more than a little haste, he held up an antique condom pulled from a leather wallet, prompting one attendee to point out that the artifact was not part of the original batch.
Removed as part of a 50th anniversary of the university’s communications program, the capsule is being replaced by another created by a student-faculty team.
The new capsule will be filled with digital media focusing on “communication from a global perspective,” said Coma Te, a 20-year-old senior who was one of six students who created the new capsule.
Carrying images of graffiti and video titled “Slang Flashcards,” the new capsule was meant to have a sharper edge than its predecessor. But after Wednesday’s discovery, it seems unlikely to be quite as shocking.
The contents of both capsules — well, most of the contents — are set to be publicly shown Saturday during a celebration at the UW.
JOKESTARTERS:
- Ironically, if the antique condom had been used properly, this reporter might not have ever come into existence.
- To commemorate the unusual find, all the alumni did beer shots off each other’s flabby and scar-filled tissue, then they all piled into a VW Bug where they performed prostate and colon exams on each other.
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EDITOR’S NOTE:
- If you were one of the wacky pranksters who added to this time capsule, or you know who did it, please contact Jokestarter so we can do a follow-up (and don’t worry – you can remain anonymous). We just love excellent pranks…
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