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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1531
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 8:59 am: |     |
Which, IMHO, we could all use right about now....
Yesterday, a few of us were in the office pantry getting coffee. We were discussing the ridiculous rule that allows a microwave, but bans a toaster oven because of 'fire hazard' (but toasters are allowed in the cafeteria - go figure).
Anyway, the subject turned to everyone's thoughts of hiding contraband appliances in the college dorms. One remembered hiding the hot plate. Another remembered hiding the toaster oven. One waxed poetic about running back into the room during fire drills to hide the microwave so it wouldn't be confiscated during room check.
One of us looked at "Microwave" and said, "there weren't microwaves when I was in the dorms". Someone else replied that she wasn't going to point that out, but she'd had the same thought. It was the first time I realized that you could date yourself by the type of contraband you had in college.
Why is it that, the older I get, the more ways I'm reminded about it?  |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1453
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 9:02 am: | |
"The type of contraband you had in college ..."
That phrase covers more than just appliances, hmm? |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1532
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 9:39 am: | |
Now, that's another thread....  |
kmk
Citizen
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 203
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 10:10 am: | |
I would cook everything from scrambled eggs to boiled hot dogs in a thing called a "Hot Pot". It was meant to simply boil and pour water for tea and it was one item allowed.......
No microwaves in my day either. (But I loved the unlimited chocolate milk in the cafeteria!) |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 1606
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 10:15 am: | |
I considered that bong I sculpted out of clay in high school (it was of Gandolf) as an essential appliance.
However, for some reason, I can't remember if I had it at college or not.
Hmmmm. |
bobk
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 2758
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 10:39 am: | |
Well, when I was a freshman we tried to brew beer in the dorm. Everything was going fine until we bottled it while still fermenting and the caps began to pop off in the footlockers we were storing it in.  |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1512
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 11:01 am: | |
My son's dorm had the same rule banning traditional cooking devices in the rooms.
Some innovative students began using irons (the things you use to remove creases from cloth) to cook their food. To the best of my knowledge these irons were never banned by the administration. |
ml1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 763
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 11:04 am: | |
ah,
the old freshly ironed grilled cheese sandwich! |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1534
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 11:09 am: | |
Mem-
I don't remember a specific ban on bongs, since mine was manual and not electric!
Although, boys were banned in our dorms after 9pm & they were manual, too. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 492
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 11:22 am: | |
One time my then-boyfriend/current husband was joining me for a romantic weekend in good ol' SUNY Albany. I went to a florist and got some beautiful orchids, then went to a liquor store and got some champagne (eww!) (the flowers made the old guy think I was more than 18 I guess?) and proceeded to smuggle some fresh vegis from the cafeteria salad bar. Proceeded to cook the Lipton Noodles-n-sauce Fettuccini alfredo in the hot pot and added the vegis to make it Fettuccini Alfredo Primavera.
Must've been pretty good 'cause I know I scored that night! |
barleyrooty
Citizen
Username: Barleyrooty
Post Number: 553
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 11:32 am: | |
I had a countertop stove (with two hotplates) on top that I got away with for years. I even cooked a 5 course meal on it for 6 one day (incl. Oyster soup and Coq-au-vin.) Come to think of it, that was probably my crowning culinary feat. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 495
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 2:01 pm: | |
Heh, by "old guy" I meant the guy at the liquor store, NOT my beloved! |
emmie
Citizen
Username: Emmie
Post Number: 114
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 5:52 pm: | |
We used to stash scotch and bourbon in our empty perfume bottles. |
botulismo
Citizen
Username: Botulismo
Post Number: 70
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 6:55 pm: | |
My roomate and I built a 1' high elevated platform in the rear of our dorm room. All of the comforts of college living - two easy chairs a fridge and a hot pot. This was the year that the drinking age in NYS when from 19 to 21. One week believe the dreaded change date, we bought what we had believed was a semester's worth of beer and stashed it in under our platform (trap door). It lasted two weeks. Sort of like when I thought college was supposed to take four years... |
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