SLUNATE Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Was the troublemaking floor you were referring to 5-G? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 No I lived on 16G and it was a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 not too long ago. Either times have changed or A-Bomb is a female. Now 14G, that was a bas a$$ floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeSmetBilliken Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Whether a floor is a male or female floor changes from year to year. Btw, that was my 600th post. Yay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrivener Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 ...the Led Zeppelin murals in Room 1407 notwithstanding. But then, that was LOOONNGG time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnekess Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 I agree as I remember, 15 and 16 were girls only floors. But thats been a few years back now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NashvilleBilliken Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Ah, 16G....had some fun on that floor. It was definetly a girls floor when i was a freshman in '98. The good ole days.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonwich Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Been a long time, been a long time Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely time. (God has an acute sense of irony if you're driving a Cadillac these days, Scriv.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrivener Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Is that how those lyrics go? All these years, I thought they were singing about a shrimp fork: "Get a long tine Get a long tine..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLUNATE Posted October 2, 2003 Author Share Posted October 2, 2003 my first day on campus I was walking down West Pine and I saw a latter and two chairs fly out of a five G window and land on the roof of the gries cafe. I know they also used to play a lot of deathball and slip and slide on that floor, in addition to having a poker table and a dice game in the bathroom. THAT floor rang up some fines (96-2000) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 I was wrong I did live on 14G. I remember I picked it because there were 2 female floors above and one below. I liked the odds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 3C was the crazy floor my freshman year 96-97. Then I moved to 14G and we racked up some fines. Throwing a baseball in the hallway we probably cracked the fire extinguisher case 4 different times. Not to mention the elevator, bulletin board, etc. etc. I am proud that we lead the campus in floor fines it was worth it at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 for my first two years (95-97) and actually started the 97-98 school year there when an apartment opened up in the Marquetti towers. I guess that means we were floor mates for like two weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 .... which probably explains a lot. You young'uns with "the good ol' days" that stretch ALL THE WAY back to 1998 .... p'shaw! My time on 16G was 1975-77 .... there were 16 rooms on the floor with 01 and 16 (at the time) reserved as singles. Room 02 was storage with its wall serving as the wall where you exited the elevator. With that lineup, we had a max capacity of 30 guys. In additon, we had three other single rooms .. meaning we had 25 guys total on the floor. If you count the two Iranians and one transfer student we had on the floor, of those 25 guys, 21 of us were "newbies" .... freshmen! One was Scriv's cousin. The next year, we kept his cousin and added his little brother. I heard that they changed that to a girl's floor once they moved the last remnants of that class out as well. We weren't 16G ... we were referred to as "the psycho ward" because you put all the loonies up and away from the decent folks. Some key accomplishments: "Guy" was a hockey goalie from LA trying out for the Hockey Bills. We played hockey on the floor complete with full body checks, slapshots and goalies. A tennis ball was our puck. Aahhh ... a tennis ball at 90 miles an hour slamming into my crotch! What fun! Did you know that if the side windows on the Gries builidng are all open, a trash can filled with water has a low probablity of being dropped through them all on one try? This was determined after many attempts at trying. A gallon milk container has a higher probability ... statistically speaking. Only 3-4 and 8G were girls floors then. 9G didn't like us much ... so we went down early one morning and removed all their bathroom stall dividers. Nothing like taking a crap and staring at the guy sitting next to you. One Spring Fever (which is a book all of its own), our resident lunatic, the Bear (he knows who he is) got off the elevator drunk. And upset at losing the keg chug. He staggered into the wall across from the elevators and the wall moved. Struck by a novel idea, he proceeded to remove the wall ... physically... all by himself. We all had to pay for that one. In comparative anatomy, the gang brought home some chicken eggs they were working on. They hatched .... we had pets. Some genius took a magic marker to one ... his name became "Blue." Bear later hung off the top of the Gries towers during Spring Fever with his pants around his ankles. Brave. Stupid yes .... but brave. Couldn't get me to do that one! Bear would also exit a room through the window .... say leave at 1604 and come back in through 1614. Its amazing we never created the Gries Human Splat Mark on the roof of the cafeteria. Once there was the en masse mooning of the Gries cafeteria. I won't say where the idea was "hatched" but when you hang around with "chicks" .... Complete with trenchcoats and pillow case cutout masks, they formed a single line, turned and "dropped" coat. One of our floormates, underestimated the distance between his dupa and the glass, and instead of "pressed ham" he put his *ss completely though the window. His cuts were later blamed for revealing his identity. Kind of like "Porky's." But the worst was a variation of the "outside window walking" mentioned before .... if you were "entertaining" a young lady in your room, you had to close the blinds. You wouldn't think that was needed 16 stories above the ground and the view at night was pretty nice facing north as I did .... but the problem was all your neighbors were hanging out the adjoining rooms "observing." I can attest that there can be some advantages to "live" porn. While this walk down memory lane has been great, I am willing to bet someone has some older "good ol'days" that can top mine. Floor parties. Puking up the red George's Cherry Chiller that 14G used to concoct around President's Day. Stealing heat lamps from the other floors' showers to put in your rooms during the winter. Golf ball wedge shots out the window into the Quad. The Pevely sign going off each night at 11:34. Toilet paper bombs out the south side inot the parking lot .... especially on her car if she dissed or dumped you. Not a bad list ... considering there was much killing of brain cells going on at the time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobo Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 After reading these posts I just couldn't resist. For you youngsters - I lived on 5-G my senior year (63-64)which was its first year of operation. If memory serves me correctly didn't 5-G connect with the 4th floor of Clemens? Women.... We were allowed to have women visit on Sunday afternoons fortnightly for two hours. We had to clean up, dress up and keep doors and window curtains open at all times. After several months we voted to suspend visitation due to too much effort for minimal or no reward. You had more privacy in the back seat of a car than in your dorm room. And yes... 5-G was crazy back then also as was the whole dorm. There were many out-of-control food fights in the cafeteria. However, I'm not sure just how accurately I could recall most of the antics. With maturity, one's perception tends to distort and stories are embellished. Thanks for awakening my memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLUNATE Posted October 2, 2003 Author Share Posted October 2, 2003 Can I apologize for typing latter instead of ladder? It's hard to waste time at work under the radar and edit at the same time! Two other pranks worth mentioning from good old Gries.... I know of some fellows who did a little property damage by getting a trash bag(s) filled with water up to 16, calling the desk....asking the attendant if they 'heard that' when the desk dork asked 'heard what?' they miscreants said 'THAT' and pushed the water balloon out the window, creating a crater in the roof of the Gries Cafe...they were caught. I also remember being on 7 after a switch and seeing the radio tower on the Continental Building on fire....no SLU students took credit...but it was an impressive display! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 You lived down the hall and I bought the loft you guys didn't need anymore when you moved to Marchetti. It was a good loft and it cost me about $30 or so. Thanks for hooking my roomate and I up with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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