Archive through September 15, 2000
The ClubHouse: Big Brother 2000: Big Brother Angels:
Charlie's BB TP Angels Mission: SUCCESS!:
Archive through September 15, 2000
Faerygdds | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:35 pm  If all you put was the website... and BB DOES let them keep it, then I don't see why they wouldn't keep the site on it... Then again........ We ARE talking about BB here LOL |
Zelda | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:38 pm  Well, now that we have 'the lay of the land', we can time the next adventure better. Where's Jombie? ... I want her 2 cents on this. She was the great organizer!!! |
Kiari | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:38 pm  now josh and Jamie are outside but i dont think either will find reason to go to the garden. I wish they did |
Homer | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:39 pm  Ladies, ya done good!!! |
Glen506ny | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:39 pm  Sigh. I just spent the last couple of hours figuring out the physics involved with slingshotting TP rolls from the condos to the BB yard. I'm clearly too late for this information to be useful. But I'll give the information here anyway, just in case the HG's don't find the roll in the garden, or it gets snatched by a guard, and someone wants to try slingshotting TP rolls from the condo to the BB yard: Assuming you are firing the slingshot from ground level, you can shoot the farthest if you make the TP roll take off at a 45 degree angle above horizontal. I think controlling the angle at which the TP roll takes off is likely to be one of your most difficult problems, so I reccommend rigging it up such that the TP roll slides along some kind of rod stuck down the middle of the TP roll as it is taking off, to help control this angle. The rod ought to be perhaps a yard long. Assuming a take-off angle of 45 degrees, and with certain simplifying assumptions, the amount of force with which you will need to pull the slingshot back is approximately given by the equation: f = 0.22 sqrt(d m g k) where: f is the force you need to pull the slingshot back with, in pounds. d is the horizontal distance you need the TP roll to travel, in meters. If the spacing between parking lot rows is the same at my local mall as on the CBS studio lot map posted by "Miss Megaphone", the distance between the point marked "Condos" and the point marked "Big Brother Compound" on that map is about 55 meters. m is the mass of the TP roll, about 0.15 kilograms. g is the acceleration due to gravity, about 9.8 meters per second per second. k is the "spring constant" of the slingshot, in newtons per meter. The spring constant for an uncut bicycle innertube loop is about 180 N/m. Thus, assuming you rig up a slingshot with an uncut bicycle innertube loop, and with the other estimates and assumptions given above, you will need to pull the slingshot back with about 27 pounds of force, which is doable. 27 pounds of force amounts to stretching an innertube by about 26 inches. |
Karri | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:40 pm  *applauding* Great job! I can only imagine what fun that must have been. It seems the Hgs were sequestered about the time you said you did it, so I expect BB knows. I'm sure they removed it because they are so clueless. If I was a producer I would have left it once I checked it out and verified there was nothing harmful (drugs, weapons, candy (GEO) in there. And would be ready for some great footage of flying TP projectiles and the discovery of the true buried treasure in the garden. But..we, the smart ones, aren't the producers Thanks for the great entertainment tonight! |
Jombie | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:40 pm  OK, here goes...not since Mia Hamm and her soccer team have there ever been girls so cool, cohesive and commited!!! Just like Charlie's Angels, BB's TP Angels each had their own specialty...Ras has a cannon arm, Zelda is a monkey, and I guess I was the brains behind the deal, and I doubled as a decoy!!! The other two were assigned lookout and getaway driver!!! |
Voyeur | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:41 pm  What's really disappointing is that if BB confiscated the TP, the HG will never know you tried. I wish they just knew that you tried. |
Ryn | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:42 pm  Guys.... I hate to suggest it - but you might only want to let as FEW people know ahead of time and we can post a warning like five minutes ahead of time rather that 4 or 5 hours. I do not know if CBS or BB monitors this site, but I would not be surprised. And TP would be a funny thing even after friday - they would know we were thinking of them ;) |
Kiari | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:42 pm  By the way........what are they using now? |
Zachsmom | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:43 pm  Glen506ny.. and that took you only a couple of hours?? Gosh.. that would have taken me a lifetime..heehee.. |
Murphy | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:44 pm  What a caper...now you'll all go down in BB fan history - along w/ Ms Megaphone. As George would say: Good Job!! Maybe BB has this wretched music on all evening as a buffer. Hope they find it & hope it was the brand they wanted... |
Voyeur | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:46 pm  Is the TP in some kind of plastic wrap? If it is still out there, and sits till morning, it'll get wet with dew. |
Zelda | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:47 pm  Ryn ... Yes! I say we do it again but this time we won't announce anything until after! |
Jombie | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:48 pm  We rocked like Metallica, the 5 of us...it was a blast!!! I can't believe the evil BB went outside and took away the TP, leaving their bottoms soiled and itchy!! That is cruel and unusual punishment !!!!! I mean, c'mon it was free - if they were smart, they would put it back while they were asleep, let them find it, edit the footage and watch the ratings...(remember, I WAS the brains behind the gig, you could learn a thing from me BB...) I was gonna put a note in "I love your butts", but since it was TP, I decided not to... It was a terrific and memorable experience, and I encourage all BBFC members to try and meet other members who live close to them!!! I made a couple of very cool friends!!! |
Zelda | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:49 pm  Voyeur ... we put them in their own separate plastic grocery bag ... better to sling it over that incredibly tall wall/fence! |
Zelda | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:52 pm  I second that Jombie ... and what a treat to but faces to names and actually meet people who don't think you are crazy or don't care if you are over BB. I can't tell you what a great group we have here. |
Homer | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:55 pm  Glen506ny, wow! Good job! For someone physics-challenged like myself that's an awesome task. Ouch! I think I just had a brain cramp. |
Jombie | Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 11:59 pm  Zelda and Rasputin: I just want to say Thank You for the EXCELLENT ADVENTURE !!!! What a great time...I'm talking about the incredible teamwork that actually pulled this off !!! The HG's are gonna be mad to discover that the TP actually made it in and was taken away, and they WILL find out...They didn't take the candy away from George - he got to eat some, they should have just left the TP there, and let them discover it on their own... The fact that the HG's were sequestered PROVES that we made it in!!! WAY TO GO GIRLS!!! |
Dulci | Friday, September 15, 2000 - 12:00 am  WTG Angels! I wonder if you could get Curtis' fraternity to help? |
Fanwatcher | Friday, September 15, 2000 - 12:02 am  I don't care if the hg's get the tp or not you ladies gave us the most entertaining night we've had in a long time. Looks like the fans are the real stars of the BB show. Thanks so much. |
Katie | Friday, September 15, 2000 - 12:03 am  Maybe you could take a cell phone with one of you and have someone on the feeds clueing you in when would be a good time and have them post the warning just as you went in. |
Murphy | Friday, September 15, 2000 - 12:06 am  Ladies - Now that you are famous - will you be available for interviews? Maybe CBS will develop a new chick cop drama around you or, gosh, even better than that, I'm sure Letterman will see this & ask you to come on his show.....!!!!! Sorry...I had a Jamie-Famie Attack.... all better now! |
Zelda | Friday, September 15, 2000 - 12:07 am  Jombie and Rasputin ...THANK You! It was great! We know how to do it now so ... |
Zelda | Friday, September 15, 2000 - 12:10 am  Murphy LOL!!! Katie ... we did have someone on the cell on the live feeds but we weren't sure if we were going to get close ... so when we did, we just took the chance but now we know so it might work next time! |
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