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842 sfs98ud99 Offline Send Email Dec 2, 1999
3:41 am
As of 10:43 EST, Yahoo! chat isn't recognizing who's in the chat room....
843 sfs98ud99 Offline Send Email Dec 2, 1999
6:59 pm
I'm going to regret this, but ... <br><br>What has been the funniest qb-related moment that you've ever experienced? It can be a very wrong answer, a funny...
844 RickTerpstra Offline Send Email Dec 2, 1999
7:24 pm
One that springs immediately to mind took place at the 1999 NAQT ICT. After a match GW's team was sifting through the packet we had just played on to figure...
845 jsbennett70 Offline Send Email Dec 2, 1999
8:16 pm
The funniest qb moment I've had so far would also be something from NAQT ICT. We were playing the University of Minnesota when a bonus part came up about ...
846 cdbarker Offline Send Email Dec 2, 1999
8:34 pm
Gotta go back the the 1997 NAQT Big 10 CCT Finals, Michigan vs. Chicago. Chicago negs on a toss-up, then the moderator pauses in the middle of the question to...
847 sfs98ud99 Offline Send Email Dec 2, 1999
9:35 pm
Two points:<br><br>1. This is takeoff on "What Would Brian Boitano Do", from the South Park movie.<br><br>2. The following is meant in jest. As far as I know, ...
848 etchuck Offline Send Email Dec 2, 1999
9:54 pm
Oh come on folks...<br><br>One word... "Crack!" at Penn Bowl last year by Matt Bruce, after "Set oven to 375 F..."<br><br>Enough said....
849 ZAMM_Phaedrus Offline Send Email Dec 2, 1999
10:20 pm
There has been one time in quizbowl where I have had to completely stop a match. That was when a certain over-used word came up once to often at a certain ...
850 KEHamlin Offline Send Email Dec 2, 1999
11:14 pm
Just random ones off the top of my head . . . <br><br>* Moderating at Yaphe Bowl over the summer, when I finally cracked up after reading several questions in...
851 OneEyed_Squirrel
OneEyed_Squi... Offline Send Email
Dec 2, 1999
11:49 pm
During the Missouri-Rolla team's drive to Wichita State's winter tournament in February of 1996, I told my teammates that some friends of mine in the dorm had ...
852 archimedean Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
1:55 am
Accidental Goat Sodomy? They're huge in the Netherlands, I hear.<br><br>I'm not sure if this counts as a funny moment, but in 1997 at Emory Junior Bird, I was ...
853 archimedean Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
2:00 am
Oops! Wrong year... make that 1993 Emory Junior Bird. And, to add insult to injury, I was off on the math question by a factor of ten.<br><br>Paul...
854 tjyoung25 Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
2:43 am
Also up there was my lousy buzz at '97 NAQT NCTs in Philly. I was on a 5 or 6 tossup run (usually that's when most of my worst negs are, as any teammate of...
855 RickTerpstra Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
5:12 am
"when finally... a math bonus! I hurled mid-answer and then excused myself from the room and passed out on a couch."<br><br>As an English graduate student the...
856 RickTerpstra Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
5:15 am
"As an English graduate student the above it my typical response to math-oriented questions, too." <br><br>As an English grad student, writing center tutor, ...
857 Bagelfairy Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
5:37 am
Okay,<br><br>One of my first games in HS was against Sidwell Friends, and the team had this thing where they like worshipped some Alex T. Jeopardy book and one...
858 shellyac_1 Online Now Send Email Dec 3, 1999
5:42 am
Two of the funniest thing I've seen happened at at Tournament written and ran by Khon Lien. I was playing on a team with Dave Hamilton, Jason Dettelbach, and...
859 PixiStixGirl Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
6:28 am
I think the funniest thing I ever saw was after the semi-finals game of It's Academic my sophomore year. It was Paint Branch, Walter Johnson, and some team I...
860 menlow_park Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
8:25 am
Alright, I've got a pretty good one from playing at a high school tournament last year. I think it was Hopkins but it doesn't really matter.<br><br>We were...
861 KEHamlin Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
8:39 am
Mark wrote, "Can anyone else say they've had their name given as an incorrect answer?"<br><br>I heard something that when asked to identify Denison ...
862 ZAMM_Phaedrus Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
8:43 am
"Can anyone else say they've had their name given as an incorrect answer?"<br><br>Well, at the CWRU High School Celebrity Shoot, a completely written format,...
863 Matt979 Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
11:38 am
Rick Terpstra wrote:<br>&gt; The exchange went something like this:<br>&gt; Me: Edmund got the "Charter Oak". I got &gt; "Foglietta".<br>&gt; Jon: Tim got ...
864 Durham_Devil Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
4:10 pm
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 ...
865 ratatosk22 Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
4:50 pm
The "funniest moments" thread had me thinking about the worst faux pas I made as a moderator. At one of the Maryland High School tournaments, on a "Midsummer...
866 shawn_pickrell Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
4:54 pm
This was on the bottom of the front page of Thursday's Broadside. So I dunno, does anyone keep an archive of this sort of thing?<br><br>My only concern was ...
867 samer_ismail Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
6:53 pm
I can think of two instances where I've had to "take a moment" while moderating:<br><br>(1) The only time I ever had to actually hand over reading to someone...
868 mbphilp Offline Send Email Dec 3, 1999
10:46 pm
I think the funniest moment in recent Dartmouth history came at the CBI regional championship game last year. Dartmouth was playing Williams, and Ben Sternberg...
869 Bagelfairy Offline Send Email Dec 4, 1999
5:24 am
Okay,<br><br>I remember that day very clearly (I was Kristin's other half in that duo) for the tournament and I remember being soooo mad at Andy and his "new...
870 Matt979 Offline Send Email Dec 4, 1999
4:21 pm
In the round before the story below, Sternberg beat BU to Lawrence Taylor off of the word "crack." This is the same Sternberg who submitted a pack to Terrier...
871 Matt979 Offline Send Email Dec 4, 1999
4:26 pm
With three rounds' scoresheets in plus half of round four, undefeated teams are Princeton, Yale and Cornell in one division (the one with three rounds' sheets...
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