Let's see how many people can be offended by this post (which, I admit, I probably should not be making now after I just saw a screw job -- uh, I mean, basketball game). Maybe what I say won't make that much sense; oh well, take it for the farthing it's worth. If the argument is for fewer cartoon questions in academic tournaments, and not trash, then OK. I really haven't noticed an overprevalence of cartoon questions in any academic format, though I have not played that much this year. In ACF, I have seen a prevalence of old-school rap, and in NAQT, a lot of hockey, but that's about it. Perhaps someone out there likes cartoons a lot. Dom, I personally don't like "geek trash" because I am bad at it, but also it tends to be more obscure in general, answerable by a smaller subset of trash players than other categories. But I guess it has its place. Yet I don't lump cartoons into geek trash, unless you are talking about comic books. Computer games, fantasy novels (Shannara series which my best friend loves for example), and especially any role playing activity that takes 6326 hours to complete is the core of geek trash for me. But for Steve (the original poster): are these questions appearing an average of more than once every packet or two? If that's the case, then there's a general distribution problem which has nothing to do with cartoons per se. Otherwise, you doth offend Lion-O, the Copper Kid, Papa Smurf, Sailor Jupiter, Solomon Grundy (or Anthony Grundy for that matter, who looks a lot like Steve Urkel) and every other great character on the Cartoon Network. Heck, how many times have I heard Food Network bonuses on the Fat Ladies or the Iron Chef, and I don't even get that channel in my county... Well that's about all... -Adam P.S. $525,600 -- one dollar for every minute in the year, and coincidentally the amount of cash ACC referees were paid in order to insure a Duke-UNC final (31-13 free throw advantage for the Dookies? COME ON!)
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