Re: Funniest Moments

Durham_Devil · Fri, 03 Dec 1999 08:10:37 -0800

All this is well and good, but what she fails to
mention is what happened just five minutes earlier. As TJ
A is heading around the corner this-a-way, Kristin
and Jessie are headed around the same corner
that-a-way -- gabbing, being friends, and just generally
enjoying the moment. As easily the most deliberately
quick-paced member of my team, I was the first to see it. I
think it required about five minutes for any color to
return to my face. If you need to know why, just THINK
about it.

However, the funniest moments in play
tend to be commentary, and tend to have happened after
trash questions. Such moments include:

* After
Jefferson A did their usual 5/30 on a rock band bonus, Ben
Letzler commented: "Man, we need to get out more
often."

* Getting a match stopped because of moderator
laughter at NAQT Sectionals because I got all three parts
of a USA Saturday Morning Cartoon bonus without
conferring with teammates.

* Dwight Kidder sticking
"Flash Beagle"... and getting its theme song stuck in
his head.

* Immediately after the half in the
same game, Dwight nailed "Traci Lords" off the
Tommyknockers clue, then said, "But that was the 50th movie she
was in with the word "Knockers" in the
title."

* ANY long car ride with Shawn Pickrell.

*
During a mythological monsters bonus against Cornell B,
having one of the parts being answered with the name of
a notorious non-me Duke player -- by them! (You
really have to know David Shifren to appreciate
this.)

* At a high school national championship junior
year, playing an informal challenge on a John
Edwards-written Simpsons packet. Score wasn't kept. During
intros, we were to buzz in with our best Homeresque
"D'OH!".

And one from David:

* While playing some big
rival at a high school tournament, his team had
clinched victory with four questions to go. Since there
was no penalty for interrupt, on the last four
questions each one took turns ringing in really early and
answering "A bong". Fortunately, this never WAS the answer
to any question.

I'm sure I'll think of more
highlights.

Andy
(who now wonders what's up with Duke players and
losing lunches at tournaments)