# Your favorite college story; real or fictional. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-college-story-real-or-fictional/332376 "2005-11-23T03:25:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-college-story-real-or-fictional/332376/21 "2005-11-23T20:25:57Z")
The best college story EVAH is somewhere here on these very boards, and involves the phrase “is that a leg.” My search-fu is weak, and I cannot find it. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-college-story-real-or-fictional/332376/22 "2005-11-23T20:34:13Z")
Found it! Post #41 of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=24960) infamous thread. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-college-story-real-or-fictional/332376/23 "2005-11-23T20:35:07Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > All 100% true: :dubious: > [@](#): > > 1. In a Physiology class at Penn State (circa 1984) with 200+ students, our militant ex-Army Nurse professor yells “pencils down” at the end of the final exam. One guy keeps working as students funnel down the lecture hall and drop their blue-books on the podium. The prof becomes furious at said student, commanding him to stop, and bring her his paper. He looks up and says “lighten up lady, I’m almost done.” Many of us remain in the room to witness what is sure to be either an excellent coup or a bloodbath. She begins walking up the aisle, yelling all the way, at the same time he gets up and moves across the row and down the other aisle. He reaches the podium as she reaches his seat, and he puts his blue-book in the pile, and mixes up the pile. he then says to her “Lady, you have no idea who I am” and then runs up the aisle and out of the room. Tremendous balls on that one! This is a well known urban legend (not saying that it didn’t happen at your school. just that it apparently happened everywhere). See [here](http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/doyouknow.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-college-story-real-or-fictional/332376/24 "2005-11-23T21:26:36Z")
> [@lightingtool](#): > > A true story from when I was at the University of Vermont: > > One of the fraternities decided they would have the biggest Christmas tree ever. So, one cold night in December, they got drunk, hopped in a couple trucks, drove over to the local convent (yes, convent. Where nuns live) and cut down an approximately 25’ tree from the front yard to (somehow) put in their house. After cutting it down, they used their trucks to drag it the 1/4 mile back to the house. Amazingly enough, the theft wasn’t discovered until the following morning. One of the nuns went outside and noticed the tree was gone. She also noticed the thieves had left a trail through the snow of pine needles and branches leading out to the street, down the street, into the driveway of the fraternity, and then into the backyard. The tree never even made it into the house. Police were called, folks got arrested, I’m pretty sure the fraternity lost its charter, and the convent got a new tree. An extremely similar story happened at my fraternity at Penn when I was there, except the tree was from the front of the ROTC building, it didn’t involve the police, and my dear knuckleheaded brothers did get the tree into the house (not abandoning it after they ran into campus security). The next day, as I was leaving the house, I ran into the director of fraternity/sorority affairs coming up the walk, who greeted me with these unforgettable words: > [@](#): > > We have reason to believe you have an unauthorized tree in the house. Indeed we did have that unauthorized tree, and we got kicked off campus for a semester and had to pay the cost of a replacement. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-college-story-real-or-fictional/332376.md?page=1)