BRONY THREAD

[astronomical]

I don't know much about ponies, but I've been in Baltimore long enough to know enough about it.

So it started this morning at Ramp Riot when I stopped by the FTC competition to check out what's going on. Oddly enough, I spot someone with the last name of "Octavia" on the registration sheet that's crossed out and replaced with a real name. :0

Then when I came back during lunch break, I spot duct tape on a laptop referring the the show's protagonist, Twilight Sparkle. It was sitting on the table behind the FTC field probably controlling the music, and had a bucket of mints in front of it:



I also noticed red duct tape on the referees that weren't wearing a black/white striped jacket.

'Twinkie Pie' refers to the pink party animal character, Pinkie Pie, possibly eating a twinkie:



And then there's 'Prancing Unicorn', possibly referring to the ostentatious dress perfectionist Rarity:



I have also seen a random sing language "J" hanging on a wall. I think that this may be a Homestuck reference, but I am quite suspicious that it may have something to do with MLP:



I was pretty much the only person who got the "inside joke", and when I approached the referees about the red tape on the back on their shirt they had no clue what it referred to but liked the "names they were given".

It's either that they're secretly bronies, someone running the event is a brony, or some mischievous brony injected some pony into a FIRST event. Who knows?