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  Plebes Rise To Occasion As Tradition Carries On

  http://education.reviewnews.org/2008/05/17/plebes-rise-to-oc...
  199 days ago in Education News Review · Authority: 3

  So maybe the U.S. Naval Academy’s legendary Herndon Climb isn’t particularly dangerous for an event in which a thousand mostly shirtless, screaming first-year midshipmen crawl over one another in a mad scramble to the top of a 21-foot stone obelisk coated in lard. Read more
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  Obelisk Mounted in Annapolis: 2008 Herndon Climb

  http://www.pinknews.co.uk/aroundtheworld/2008/05/obelisk-mou...
  200 days ago in PinkNews.co.uk · Authority: 30

  With all the same-sex marriage excitement, we almost missed thes Herndon Climb, the annual mounting of the lard-slicked obelisk at Annapolis which was almost canceled this year. More shots and a clip of the action AFTER THE JUMP and at A Cause Des Garcons… you may have missed… Herndon Climb Under Review: Too Greasy…or too Gay? [tr] The Herndon Climb: It’s That Time Again [tr] 2006 Herndon Climb: Greasing Up the Pole [tr] Smells Like Team Spirit [tr] Wetter, Greasier, Fleshier [tr] More AFTER THE JUMP… At the academy, slipping, sliding to top [baltimore sun] Plebes Rise To Occasion As Tradition Carries On [washington post] Herndon Climb time: 2:35:59 [tr] This posting was automatically generated from a feed from Gay News Blog Read more….
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  I'd've bought a ticket.

  http://letscallitnothing.blogspot.com/2008/05/untitled.html
  200 days ago in Let's Call It Nothing · No authority yet

  A thousand shirtless Naval Academy midshipmen climb all over each other to reach the top of a giant, lard-slathered phallus. Military tradition or gay porno? Sometimes it's hard to tell.
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  No More Plebes

  http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/05/16/no-more-plebes/
  200 days ago in Neptunus Lex · Authority: 179

  At least for a month or so. The plebes scaled the monument in 2 hours, 35 minutes and 59 seconds, about twice as long as the better times in recent years. It is an old military aphorism that no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy, and if the Class of 2011 had a strategy, it rapidly fell apart against the monument’s stout defense. Like plebe year - like many things in the service - climbing Herndon is hard, and it takes teamwork. Then suddenly it’s over.
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  Rituals of the Straight

  http://waldolydeckersjournal.blogspot.com/2008/05/rituals-of...
  200 days ago in Waldo Lydecker's Journal. · Authority: 28

  The Naval Academy's annual Herndon Climb, in which first year students strip to their shorts and climb a lard-smeared obelisk.

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