Campfire Commentary
Get 60 or so honors students and alumni together for a rainy weekend camping in the desert (yes, it does rain in the desert), and you're sure to get a number of funny, amusing, or just plain embarrassing comments. Our intrepid team of quote collectors brings you this selection from the UCI Campuswide Honors Program's annual trek to the (more-or-less) wilderness of... Joshua Tree 2001! (April 7-8, 2001)
Incidentally, if you were there on the trip and you have a good quote that we missed, please send it along with who said it (if known) and more-or-less when (leaving it at Saturday/Sunday morning/afternoon/evening is fine) to webmaster@hyperborea.org.
The Arrival
- Ohh my shit!
- Reena, 11:35
- Ahhh! Like a cool alcohol breeze.
- Sepi, 14:55
- Cow extract?
Yes. Essence of cow. - Kelson & Jason, 17:20
- Vegetarians always make you feel guilty. They walk around angry all the time 'cause they're constipated.
- Roger, 17:21
Late Afternoon Campfire
- Note to self: do not get in that position again.
- Sara, 17:31
- Bring it, Mother Nature!!
- Reena, 17:40
- How stupid can CHP people be?
- Alice, 17:50
- My jacket is strangling me again.
- Katie, 17:55
- Something really interesting and really warm has to happen for me to make it to 8:00.
- Sara, 18:00
- [You need] a designated lap buddy.
- David (to Chris), 18:06
- Erkki looks like a Jawa.
- Ben, 18:09
- I warm laps everywhere.
- Sara, 18:14
- He does! He's always bloody!
- Lauren (about Chris), 18:21
- Reena has 4 on top and 2 on the bottom?!
- Sara, 18:26
- You have uncooperative pants . . . ?
- Katie, 18:31
- (singing) Bleed on Me...!
- Kelson, 18:33
- I'm very versatile — I'm both a smartass and a dumbass.
- Andrew, time unknown.
Into the Evening
- I'd hate to meet Erkki on Judgment Day.
- Cindy, ~19:30
- Welcome to our stumble abode.
- Jason, ~19:50
- "So here we have a sneeze of planets."
"So we're celestial snot!" - Roger & Katie, ~20:00
- I am consuming your shoelace. Like a piece of spaghetti.
- Brian, 20:14
- Or was it Christina Aguilera that did Pepsi and Britney Spears that did Coke?
- Brian, 20:46
- Not exactly a quote, but someone came up with the rock band name "Sanity Pudding," in the spirit of "Fuzzy Lizzard."
Mysterious Voices in the Night
- She's like a little snowman... from hell!
- Cat, can you unzip me?
- Nothing is going down Oliver's pants.
- "I think this is just a pretext for you all to get it down."
"You know what, we don't need a pretext. Cat, come here!"
Sunday: The Trip Home
- Humans are not made to suck indefinitely.
- Katie, 13:50
