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- Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:56 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Archive of Maryland's MAQT website as of 1999
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8111
Re: Archive of Maryland's MAQT website as of 1999
I hope that guy got his ticket stubs.
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
- Replies: 224
- Views: 30322
Re: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
okay well them I'm submitting Kid Charlemagne as Steely Dan's entry. or maybe Deacon Blues. Who knows. Almost all of their songs are gold, Fred!
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
- Replies: 224
- Views: 30322
Re: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
You're typing words but these eyes ain't readin' son!
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
- Replies: 224
- Views: 30322
Re: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
I haven't paid attention to anything here for a while, but the fact that there's a 1970s music something and it isn't heavily dominated by Steely Dan makes me think no one participating knows anything about anything.
- Mon Dec 26, 2016 8:52 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 457213
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Brian Buzzfeed Hamilton Slack Stack will be reading a packet themed around episodes at 8:45 eastern tonight.
- Fri Dec 23, 2016 7:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6150
Re: Best Albums of 2016
Well, I wasn't paying enough attention to this forum to catch the thread in time, so I'll just chip in a couple recommendations:
Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow
American Football - American Football (2016)
Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow
American Football - American Football (2016)
- Sun Dec 04, 2016 11:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DATE CHANGE: Terrapin Mirror at OSU: 12/4/16
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10981
Re: DATE CHANGE: Terrapin Mirror at OSU: 12/4/16
Chris Ray done did it
- Fri Jun 03, 2016 1:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: warning: limitless indalecio discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15179
Re: warning: limitless indalecio discussion
I only had four words to make a joke.
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: warning: limitless indalecio discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15179
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Greatest Announcing Calls Bracket
- Replies: 93
- Views: 8177
Re: Greatest Announcing Calls Bracket
This should be 64 instances of Hawk Harrelson being a huge dumb baby.
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:20 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: A plug for my school at Columbia, aimed at CC/older readers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 815
Re: A plug for my school at Columbia, aimed at CC/older read
It's really cool to see that you've sorted stuff out, man.
- Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals - University of Michigan, 04.16-17.2016
- Replies: 104
- Views: 60992
Re: ACF Nationals - University of Michigan, 04.16-17.2016
As someone who had the misfortune to glance at a packet while keeping score last year, can we perchance have the opportunity to look at a different font that has been printed on paper? Because man, that font was hideous and the Jerry who picked it out should be ashamed of Jerryself. edit: ps i love ...
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8420
Re: Best Albums of 2015
The Pitchfork auditions thread is somewhere else.The Stately Rhododendron wrote:Why do you have to throw that shade Rob "Snarkson"Auks Ran Ova wrote:That's awfully charitable towards the rest of the sentences.Sam wrote:I'm not sure what this sentence means, as is.
- Tue Dec 15, 2015 12:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2015: Rex Ryan's Revenge
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21565
Re: IRC Festivus 2015: Rex Ryan's Revenge
I'm already on board with thisVissi d'arte wrote:I will do my best to write a packet of 10-20 questions on things that pissed me off in video games. There may or may not (read: will) be bonus points available for identifying which questions describe things that made me break a controller.
- Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Podcast Recommendations
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3923
Re: Podcast Recommendations
If you enjoy comedy podcasts, Comedy Bang! Bang! is hilarious and well worth a listen, especially episodes featuring (the late) Harris Wittels and Paul F. Tompkins. Speaking of Tompkins, he hosts the Dead Authors Podcast, which revolves around interviews featuring famous authors who are played by c...
- Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On Dressing Well for Staffing High School Tournaments
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12874
Re: On Dressing Well for Staffing High School Tournaments
I think it's important not to have pizza stains on what should be one's freshly-washed, decent-smelling clothing, but beyond that, a person's demeanor and the way they interact with players/coaches/etc is vastly more important.
- Mon Nov 16, 2015 6:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: My Entry Into Competitive Scrabble & Lessons for QB
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1408
Re: My Entry Into Competitive Scrabble & Lessons for QB
If that kid wanted to be a champion he'd have baby-birded it instead of palming like a rookie.Stefan HSQBRankovich wrote:barfBob Ducca wrote:Swallow a bunch of blank tiles beforehand and regurgitate them into your hand over the course of a game.
You're welcome.
- Mon Nov 16, 2015 5:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: My Entry Into Competitive Scrabble & Lessons for QB
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1408
Re: My Entry Into Competitive Scrabble & Lessons for QB
Swallow a bunch of blank tiles beforehand and regurgitate them into your hand over the course of a game.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I hate the word "rundle"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2095
Re: I hate the word "rundle"
What really matters is who can bench more
- Wed May 20, 2015 11:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Click Here to Become Sad
- Replies: 59
- Views: 34202
Re: your official Canadian cavalry regiment discussion threa
Why don't you go ruin someone's funding about it.kayli wrote: Boy you really missed the point.
- Thu May 14, 2015 2:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2016 (July 24, 2016)
- Replies: 131
- Views: 72943
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2016
People are free to band together for this tournament whenever, of course, but I probably won't start getting field updates together for several months. Let's say we'll start accepting registrations when the clock rolls over to 2016. Feel free to continue posting in this thread to form teams and wha...
- Thu May 14, 2015 10:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2016 (July 24, 2016)
- Replies: 131
- Views: 72943
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2016
This team is going to do things.Cheynem wrote:Team:
Me/Tejas Raje/Pat Freeburn/Brian McNamara
- Wed May 13, 2015 8:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan Summer Practices!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4875
Re: Michigan Summer Practices!
Are these practices open to the point where random idiots like me can stumble in and offer to read and hang out?
- Mon May 04, 2015 11:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
- Replies: 86
- Views: 40313
Re: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
Aside from potential PR or funding benefits, the polls are cool things that we do as a community that bring us together on these forums. Yeah, they're speculative and they often lead to spirited discussion about different philosophies of ranking skill, but in my book, that's the whole point! In my ...
- Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tricon: The Next Generation
- Replies: 50
- Views: 30744
Re: Tricon: The Next Generation
Cody's clown packet all day. Seriously.Black Miao wrote:I'd gladly play more of Cody Voight's glorious questions
- Thu Jan 01, 2015 3:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
- Replies: 99
- Views: 55998
Re: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
Edit: Won't be at HSNCT, so frowny face.
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2014: Quentin Tarantino Edition
- Replies: 74
- Views: 37712
Re: IRC Festivus 2014: Quentin Tarantino Edition
I may have missed this, but what time does Festivus usually start? Festivus is about as unofficial a thing as there can be, as it's really in the spirit of just hanging out and enjoying a mutual hobby, but I imagine people will be chatting about nonsense and getting ready to start if not quite read...
- Fri Dec 12, 2014 7:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2015: 4/18-19 at the University of Michigan
- Replies: 54
- Views: 46145
Re: ACF Nationals 2015: 4/18-19 at the University of Michiga
To tag along with Joelle because I also don't know specifically where to inquire, I am offering my UNBELIEVABLE services as either moderator or scorekeeper.
Skills include: knowing what words are and how numbers work.
Skills include: knowing what words are and how numbers work.
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:34 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Tournaments/Being Competitive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14831
Re: Tournaments/Being Competitive
If it's even slightly uncomfortable then you have done something wrong.Sun Devil Student wrote:
My impression has been that if it's even slightly uncomfortable, that is enough to drive away the vast majority of women unless they have some other reason to stay.
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67913
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
OK, Sorry about that. I did feel a little guilty when I posted that. I also feel that the Harvard QB folks have been beaten on enough. My Son told me this AM that he really wants to come back next year. The thing for him was how great the question set was. No problem! You should see some of the peo...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:56 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 457213
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
I have written a packet about things that I can't put in ACRONYM, Minnesota's high school pop culture event. I'm going to attempt to read it in the IRC in about an hour (8pm Central), pending interest. I just read this thing for the first time and it's definitely in the top tier of novelty packets ...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67913
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
Can we expect to see stats today. I'd really want to see how State College stacked up against Bethlehem minus the round where they were read questions W/O Bethlehem there. See all the above posts for why that situation happened. The TD and various staffers in charge of stats have probably and right...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl at Harvard (10/18/2014)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8366
Re: Penn Bowl at Harvard (10/18/2014)
I just want to say that the above post is probably the nicest way anyone has expressed grievances with an aspect of a tournament and that's something people should aim for.
- Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Staying Alert
- Replies: 46
- Views: 29790
Re: Staying Alert
Be interested in quizbowl and don't have some sort of endocrine disorder that prevents you from exerting effort when you want to.
- Sun Sep 28, 2014 10:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4554
Re: Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems
The framing of things as rude and arrogant is problematic.
- Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4554
Re: PATHOGEN at Purdue, December 6
However, since I never quite had the clout as a player to win the right to speak incredibly freely on these boards, I'm sure most high-up mods will just slap a ban on me as a hope of silencing, especially as many of said mods were behind the original slandering. It's my hope that they don't, but at...
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Defending quizbowl
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5506
Re: Defending quizbowl
How do I defend the merits of quiz bowl against attacks? Today a student approached me during our school's club day and asked what quiz bowl was. I explained to him the basic structure and format of quiz bowl and showed him a quiz bowl packet. After I had done that he remarked that he "didn't ...
- Fri Aug 08, 2014 4:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Supergroup rankings
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2090
Re: Supergroup rankings
There are some very weird definitions of supergroups here. Any band that comes together featuring people who happened to be in other bands before does not automatically constitute a supergroup, does it? Not to mention one-off collaborations between two people (the Postal Service as a supergroup make...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Secret Island of Dr. Auroni
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13281
Re: The Secret Island of Dr. Auroni
I need a teammate for this. I have semi-decent knowledge of everything from 16-bit and before, I'm okay at the generation after, and only really bad on modern stuff, with random deep pockets sparsely scattered everywhere. The main draw is that I'm awesome to be around. hay pat freeburn beard bros a...
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Secret Island of Dr. Auroni
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13281
Re: The Secret Island of Dr. Auroni
I need a teammate for this. I have semi-decent knowledge of everything from 16-bit and before, I'm okay at the generation after, and only really bad on modern stuff, with random deep pockets sparsely scattered everywhere. The main draw is that I'm awesome to be around.
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open mirror at Michigan (August 9)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17638
Re: VCU Open mirror at Michigan (August 9)
I should be there for Sunday (and Saturday night idiocy) and would play any trashy stuff and help staff the other things.
- Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:22 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 457213
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Don't know if I'd call it my favorite packet ever, but I thoroughly enjoyed a lot of the hunter trash whatever that we're all talking about. It was cool.
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 4:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51658
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
Can we be sure Kurtis and co. aren't just caked with makeup for this whole thing?Ukonvasara wrote:I'm sure that "Rouge Squadron", despite their striking cheekbones and affinity for bats, would prefer to be "Rogue Squadron".
- Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
- Replies: 99
- Views: 55998
Re: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
I'd like to be involved in this in some way. Hopefully it'll be played at something I attend or playtested or whatever. What matters is that Squaresoft's Tom Saywer game gets the respect it is due.
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2014: WORD LIFE
- Replies: 58
- Views: 16982
Re: Player Poll 2014: WORD LIFE
I think we should have Yaphe and Bollinger stand at opposite sides of a room and run head first towards each other and see if they fuse into some kind of superbeing.
- Fri Apr 25, 2014 4:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
- Replies: 155
- Views: 91871
Re: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
Barbecue at my house, guys.
- Fri Apr 25, 2014 3:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is there a space between "quiz" and "bowl"?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 14957
Re: Is there a space between "quiz" and "bowl"?
As long as it isn't Aerith.
- Fri Apr 25, 2014 3:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
- Replies: 155
- Views: 91871
Re: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
Fourth - I am not mad - if I were in your shoes I probably would have had the same thoughts - though I probably wouldn't have acted on them given my lack of knowledge of the person and my fear of confrontation. Sixth - Many of you want an apology, so I'm going to give you one here and now. I'm sorr...
- Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
- Replies: 155
- Views: 91871
Re: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
The poetry of this is just fucking beautiful.Ndg wrote:True story: he powered the tossup on Andy Watkins.
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Slapdash Bayou a Drank at KABO
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7352
Re: Slapdash Bayou a Drank at KABO
Sara Garnett and I will be coming to this as free agents, thought we don't necessarily have to be on the same team.