DumbJacques wrote:Though it's difficult to understand why, Matt Morrison wrote:
Also, making nebulous speculations about lineups and attendance is what quizbowl is all about
No. What? Just. . . no.
Matt Morrison wrote:
I believe RM's TD even said he encourages such statements about the Rumble on the Pike...
What? I was reffering to
1) "Nebulous speculations about your team's attendance
2) At a single tournament (not the remainder of your entire season)
I'm going to assume your coach might have been referring to that part, say, where you anounced what lineups your team would be sending for like the next 2 months. It's nice to know all executive lineup decisions for Governor's school are made by Matt Morrison. Through posts on the quizbowl forum. Months before said events take place. I'm sure your coach/teammates appreciated that.
Actually, I have a slight modification of the Richard Montgomery lineup to announce. We will now be playing with an A team of myself, Andrew Yaphe, Albert Einstein, and Jesus.
Note: You can be assured of my authority and honesty, as I am posting on the internets! Matt Morrison would also probably have vouched for me, but I'm going to go ahead and declare how much I hate Brian Boitano and Vanilla Ice and love Chuck Norris. Remember Matt, he *still* doesn't actually live in a round house.
ALLL Right!!! Thought you had a plane to catch, Quagmire. Or a girls' slumber party to peep across the street, but I guess you left the binoculars at TJ, so I'll buy you a new pair at Chicago in the airport or someplace...
Anyway, I'm sorry. I was thinking anyway in light of my coach's comments that I need not post as much about future teams from now on, but I *really* needed another player who every now and then plays in the same tournaments as us to tell me that, so I heartily thank you. But regarding the team estimations I did make, I was just basing my speculations on what people had said about whether they could make tournaments or not, and in no way did I indicate that these teams were definite, so instead I should've made stuff up and pretended it was absolute, without any regard to known school events/conflicts/senior obligations such as NHS like I've mentioned before. My apologies for being honest.
On that note I've heard there's a good team from Texas (Houston area specifically, 5th Ward I think) consisting of a William Dennis, Brad Jordan, Richard Shaw, and J(ay) Prince. Their motto is "We Can't Be Stopped" and the first three I mentioned are also known as "Da Good, Da Bad, and Da Ugly," and they used to play with a "Big" Mike Banks, though he's graduated now. Anyway my point is they might show up at RM and Chicago and they'd have an excellent shot against the team you mentioned, or anyone else. Jay Prince has said he might be gone because of a beef he has to settle with Jayceon (or "Chuck") Taylor from Black Wall Street, Compton, but that's just speculation. Oh there is a rumor that this team only wins by holding up the moderator with an M-11, but those who say this are pretty bogus (Chuck Norris and Jesus lost to Willie D and Brad Jordan in a doubles tournament and they were just jealous so they made this up as trash talk - they also made up the rumor that Vanilla Ice jacks beats after losing to him and Arcenio Hall in the semifinals, after which they proceeded to lose the third place game to an Eric Barrier and Rakim Allah - this loss prompted Jesus to force the poor sales of "Don't Sweat the Technique," leading to the breakup of the two and more recently a costly lawsuit, so now you can see why I haven't been too fond of Mr. Norris and Mr. Christ when their names are brought up in quizbowl lately. Although on a positive note Chuck Norris did singlehandedly build Wilmington Charter School, Dover International Speedway, and pretty much everything else in Delaware as a community service project in third grade, so we have him to thank for that.)
What we should really be asking ourselfs right now, however, is "what would Brian Boitano do, if he was here right now?" A wise man once said in an ancient poem:
"And what would Brian Boitano do,
He'd call all the kids in town,
And tell them to unite for true
That's what Brian Boitano'd do. "
because, after all, as the epic poem goes on:
"When Brian Boitano travelled through time
To the year 3010,
He fought the evil robot kings
and saved the human race again
And when Brian Boitano built the pyramids,
He beat up Kublai Kahn...."
...and probably invented the internetz (though not the rumors on them) as well! so my point is, as I implied in the first passage I quoted, Brian Boitano would keep the beef on wax like it's supposed to be, because, as Brad Jordan himself once said "real gangsta
*** ****** don't start fights." in other words, childishness aside, let's not declare any flame war here; instead, I propose a truce because I believe that the world is big enough for Chuck Norris AND the Geto Boys (ahh crap now I gave it away...) so what do you say?
Btw did you ever get to find out who won between RM B and TJ B?
I believe RM's TD even said he encourages such statements about the Rumble on the Pike...
