Johnny Monsarrat Pranks: The Mountain Dew Storage Center and Containment Facility -- Johnny Monsarrat Pranks

Summer 1996. I don't drink the stuff myself, but the programmers at Turbine seem to thrive on 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew. They affectionately refer to it as 'The Dew'. All-night hacking sessions go so much better with caffeine! (When we were choosing a company name, Jeremy joked that we should be "Sleepless Geeks Incorporated", but unfortunately SGI was already taken.)

We were saving the bottles for recycling, and eventually accumulated quite a few. But then the programmers got an idea. Let's build a raft! Moutain Dew bottles float. We'd build a huge raft and float across the Charles River. Maybe we'd get put into a Mountain Dew commercial or something. They called the expanding pile "The Storage Facility and Containment Center", as a joke referring to nuclear waste centers. Mountain Dew really packs a punch!

This fuzzy picture is the only one I have This stack is 9 feet tall and two bottles deep.

We accumulated so many bottles we really couldn't store them. I think there were several hundred. Once we used them to fill up somebody's cubicle as a birthday prank. Eventually, the containment center was doomed. Some of the bottles hadn't been washed well, and attracted flies. After a valiant attempt to use Dan O's truck as a storage facility, he dumped 'em. The raft was never built... at least, not yet!