St. Trinnitarius

Denerick

Is it true that if you eat your lunch under the tower thing in the front square and afterwards piss on each of the four pillars the knights of St. Trinnitarius will use their buraucratic prowess and lose your file, those making unable to sit your end of year exams? Heard this the other day, not sure if its a true story...

Cantab.

Yawn. Yet another silly urban myth.

"I remember one year on the day of the <snip>, a bunch of guys decided to get some cans and sit at the top of a tree on Front Square. They were there for hours hours, and about 10 minutes before the ball started, the porters kicked them out! They saw them going up at 3 and waited until 10 to kick 'em out! Har, har, har"

^ Any time I hear the above, I want to punch the person. Incidence of this yarn becomes prevalent around April/May.

Cantab.

Cantab. wrote: »

Yawn. Yet another silly urban myth.

"I remember one year on the day of the <snip>, a bunch of guys decided to get some cans and sit at the top of a tree on Front Square. They were there for hours hours, and about 10 minutes before the ball started, the porters kicked them out! They saw them going up at 3 and waited until 10 to kick 'em out! Har, har, har"

^ Any time I hear the above, I want to punch the person. Incidence of this yarn becomes prevalent around April/May.

It wasn't a bunch, it was one. And he was a bit simple because a guy in a tux at the top of a tree tends to stand out. Security saw this, but under instruction of the junior dean at the time (not our present beloved Emma Stokes) they were told to leave him there for a bit as it was figured that he would just try to get in somewhere else. Security weren't over impressed with this but did follow their orders.

The guy had three bottles with him, two with booze and one with, well, you can guess.

Denerick

Denerick wrote: »

Is it true that if you eat your lunch under the tower thing in the front square and afterwards piss on each of the four pillars the knights of St. Trinnitarius will use their buraucratic prowess and lose your file, those making unable to sit your end of year exams? Heard this the other day, not sure if its a true story...

Tbh, thats bull. It sounds like you are mixing up the Knight of the Campanile, the legend that you fail your degree if you pass as an undergrad through the campanile and just ignorance (pissing on a statue or campanile is just ignorant).

Rumours: There exist a secret society of sports people who run college (well they have a website so they can't be that secret and each member who is elected is normally reported in TN http://www.knights.tcdlife.ie/, but we/they/I don't run college0

Rumour: If you walk under the Campanile, you will fail your degree. Well I walked under it and I passed my degree (but I may have had a get out clause that related to the previous rumour. Then again, I may not).

Rumour: Pissing on the campanile gets you kicked out of college. Never done it, doubt it though tbh.

I think you are also introducing a rumour that relates to the Society of St. Michael or something, some catholic secret society within Trinity. That, I know little about.

Cantab.

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It wasn't a bunch, it was one. And he was a bit simple because a guy in a tux at the top of a tree tends to stand out. Security saw this, but under instruction of the junior dean at the time (not our present beloved Emma Stokes) they were told to leave him there for a bit as it was figured that he would just try to get in somewhere else. Security weren't over impressed with this but did follow their orders.

The guy had three bottles with him, two with booze and one with, well, you can guess.

Who was this person and what year was it?

Cantab.

Deleted User wrote: »

Tbh, thats bull. It sounds like you are mixing up the Knight of the Campanile, the legend that you fail your degree if you pass as an undergrad through the campanile and just ignorance (pissing on a statue or campanile is just ignorant).

Rumours: There exist a secret society of sports people who run college (well they have a website so they can't be that secret and each member who is elected is normally reported in TN http://www.knights.tcdlife.ie/, but we/they/I don't run college0

Rumour: If you walk under the Campanile, you will fail your degree. Well I walked under it and I passed my degree (but I may have had a get out clause that related to the previous rumour. Then again, I may not).

Rumour: Pissing on the campanile gets you kicked out of college. Never done it, doubt it though tbh.

I think you are also introducing a rumour that relates to the Society of St. Michael or something, some catholic secret society within Trinity. That, I know little about.

^ Bull crap.

Cantab.

Cantab. wrote: »

Who was this person and what year was it?

I am not telling his name (as I don't know it, but it was pre 2004). I know this as I helped security carry a ladder to a certain tree. It was very funny at the time, but he didn't get the joke. But he was so cold and stiff from being stuck up a tree for 6 hours that he had to be helped off campus. We figured that he would not have been able to get down even if he hadn't been spotted by security.

And it wasn't Front Square.

Cantab.

Cantab. wrote: »

^ Bull crap.

What's bull crap?

Denerick

Good lord, I was taking the mick out of the countless myths that exist about that tower. I made that one up on the spot.

Prof.Badass

I heard that if you have sex under the tower as the bell rings you're guaranteed to get a 1st.

20somethings

I can't believe some people in this thread actually thought the OP seriously heard a rumour like that and then asked if it was true.

Epic Tissue

I can't believe it's not butter

--LOS--

Does anyone remember this? A few years ago during the unnameable ball, a law student from america tried to sneak in wearing a giant panda suit. He tried to climb over one of the walls along Nassau street or possibly into the grounds of the provosts house, and got stuck on the barbs. He ended up being stuck on top of the wall for most of the night in a lot of pain and needed the fire brigade's help to get down. He completely missed the ball and he actually had bought a ticket too.

Mark200

It's true, it happened to me.

20somethings

20somethings wrote: »

I can't believe some people in this thread actually thought the OP seriously heard a rumour like that and then asked if it was true.

Thats quite a tame rumour in comparison to the some of the ones involving the Knights, initiation ceremony and the Campanile. Seems that some former Phil Exec was really, really gullible.

zuchum

Denerick wrote: »

Good lord, I was taking the mick out of the countless myths that exist about that tower. I made that one up on the spot.

satire will not be understood here,sire

EGaffney

Deleted User wrote: »

Thats quite a tame rumour in comparison to the some of the ones involving the Knights, initiation ceremony and the Campanile. Seems that some former Phil Exec was really, really gullible.

Isn't there another thread relevant to that story active at the moment?

EGaffney

EGaffney wrote: »

Isn't there another thread relevant to that story active at the moment?

Thats the one!

Victor

Denerick wrote: »

Is it true that if you eat your lunch under the tower thing in the front square and afterwards piss on each of the four pillars the knights of St. Trinnitarius will use their buraucratic prowess and lose your file, those making unable to sit your end of year exams? Heard this the other day, not sure if its a true story...

The problem here is that you may not eat out of doors.

skregs

i remember one of my friends was so desperate to get in that he started a rock band, became internationally famous, then managed to get in for free by playing at the ball!

and that mans name was vitalic

Karlusss

Way to miss the point everybody.

Re: Trinity + bureaucracy. Anyone ever get the feeling they're in a Kafka novel around here?