The Irish will establish their gourd attack to whip Navy this weekend...
irishlizard | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 6:34 pm | #

Tell me that is an actual photo from campus today and not a photoshop creation....excellent.
Domer Guy | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 6:44 pm | #

Step #1) Borrow a small pumpkin from the Dining Hall's annual Autumn Harvest display.
Step #2) Convince your wiriest dorm buddy to climb A.P. Moses.
Step #3) Ply wiry friend with adult beverages.
Step #4) Arrive at Moses at an hour when the only students exiting the west door of the library do not speak English. The Chinese are notorious night owls. And they know how to keep a secret. Plus, they won't be able to identify the wiry guy in any type of NDSP lineup.
Step #5) Laugh your ass off while drunk, wiry guy climbs Moses. Giggle hysterically when his crotch rests against Moses' face.
Step #6) Haul ass back to dorm and talk about what you have just done. Embellish where necessary and drink heavily.

Nothing is new under the sun.
Voice in the Wilderness | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 7:11 pm | #

I've seen worse stuck on Moses finger.
Subway Alumni | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 7:13 pm | #

Very, VERY nicely done ...
John | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 7:15 pm | #

It's legit.
Jay | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 7:17 pm | #

I think I saw that up there back during USC weekend, actually. I'm still not sure if it tops the shopping cart atop the big-brown-and-ugly modern art near Riley on South Quad, though. That was classic.
baIrish | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 7:34 pm | #

Definitely not photoshopped. That happened last year, too... although I want to say it was around Thanksgiving?

I have no idea how anyone could climb the statue--it looks slippery. Especially after a few choice beverages.
chiirish | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 7:42 pm | #

If you get a minute, read Jay's "Rusting Ironsides", and then toss out some game slogans. I'm here on my notebook while the wife doles out candy to neighborhood trick-or-treaters, and I could use a few laughs.

Incidentally, I am now on record as predicting that the Irish find a way to "keep the streak alive at 45".
Voice in the Wilderness | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 8:12 pm | #

maybe, just maybe this is the year we must accept a loss to navy.

the winning streak is an abomination... it is unnatural, weird and really not something to be proud of...
bcuster | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 9:11 pm | #

I've seen a pumpkin, a plastic keg of beer, a blow-up sex doll...this is old news.

No imagination...
yago | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 10:36 pm | #

When I was a kid, somebody bandaged the finger like the man was showing off a boo-boo. That was pretty funny.
Paul | Email | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 11:08 pm | #

Yep, it's real. I saw it on gameday Saturday against SC.
Andy | Email | Homepage | 11.01.07 - 1:41 am | #

ok....so this is really really random....but does anybody else wonder what it would be like if Charlie brought back the wishbone...i mean with the depth at running back, you might as well.

granted we need a better line...but still
irishguy06 | Email | Homepage | 11.01.07 - 3:21 am | #

I'm not certain if this is borderline blasphemy - While not a saint, Moses is a pretty important person for the Christian faith. Maybe if we say he's crushing both Egyptian and European paganism in one fell swoop, the perpetrators can avoid a mortal sin.
Sean Fitzgerald | Email | Homepage | 11.01.07 - 8:23 am | #

Blasphemy is when we put a condom on his finger in '93.

I mean, I heard about this guy...
Catz | Email | Homepage | 11.01.07 - 9:24 am | #

Sean - its not blasphemy if God is laughing too
domer03inbmore | Email | Homepage | 11.01.07 - 10:19 am | #

God has a MUCH better sense of humor than most give credit. Just look at us.
Jim '72 | Email | Homepage | 11.01.07 - 10:55 am | #

My favorite annual tradition is the 2-headed snowman outside of the radiation building. Classic.

I am both proud and embarrased to say that, during my 4 years at ND, I never saw anything on Moses' finger. I guess I didn't frequent the library enough. Or maybe I was too wired up running by Moses during the Keenan Bun Run to take the time to look up?

I would have liked to have seen the blow up doll up there though...
rbingham'97 | Email | Homepage | 11.01.07 - 12:28 pm | #

This stunt has been a regular for years. From '78 through '82 it was an annual event. Still amusing.
sbill | Email | Homepage | 11.02.07 - 9:29 am | #

No photoshop. I saw it two weeks ago at the USC-ND game.
Joey | Email | Homepage | 11.05.07 - 9:01 pm | #