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by Leo Wolpert
Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:27 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Watkins-gate news media link collection - 19 Total
Replies: 112
Views: 183387

Re: Watkins-gate news media link collection - 19 Total

I'm sure you're right that Derrick Thomas is an easier answer for most people, though. To further the thread derail, I brought up this exact point in IRC and was met with (paraphrasing here): "I know about the World Bowl but wouldn't have gotten Derrick Thomas after the giveaway." I guess...
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Jan 03, 2012 5:23 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Definitive Greatest Players List: Revisited
Replies: 14
Views: 20001

Re: Definitive Greatest Players List: Revisited

For some reason (which is anyone's easy guess), I remembered Zeke telling me about this list. So I looked and all I gotta say is Lafer is way underrated.
by Leo Wolpert
Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:38 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: The Bob Loblaw Law Bowl
Replies: 32
Views: 13459

Re: The Bob Loblaw Law Bowl

If I end up playing VCUO trash, I'd be tempted to play this as well.
by Leo Wolpert
Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:19 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: A Very Special Event Following ACF Nationals
Replies: 3
Views: 1624

Re: A Very Special Event Following ACF Nationals

Birdofredum Sawin wrote: All checks should be made out to Leo Wolpert.
And it better not bounce or you're a dead motherfucker.
by Leo Wolpert
Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT Mirror at Wake Forest
Replies: 56
Views: 39504

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT Mirror at Wake Forest

If the other folks on the UVA team don't mind, I may end up playing with them. I guess that would make it a masters team if it happens, even though i do actually attend UVA Law.
by Leo Wolpert
Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT Mirror at Wake Forest
Replies: 56
Views: 39504

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT Mirror at Wake Forest

Matt Weiner wrote:
Leo Wolpert wrote:If the Mets make the playoffs, I won't be going to EFT.
See you at EFT.
You fail the LSAT.

That said, I am much more likely to attend EFT now, I guess.
by Leo Wolpert
Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT Mirror at Wake Forest
Replies: 56
Views: 39504

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT Mirror at Wake Forest

If the Mets make the playoffs, I won't be going to EFT.
by Leo Wolpert
Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:03 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT Mirror at Wake Forest
Replies: 56
Views: 39504

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT Mirror at Wake Forest

Well, everyone who's playing the master's division could simply play solo. I also heard that there's a good chance Leo Wolpert will be playing in the masters bracket, which means that, say, Phil and I could each play solo, Brian and Eric could play together, and we could have four "teams"...
by Leo Wolpert
Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:44 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 08-09 College Quizbowl Prediction Thread
Replies: 53
Views: 14188

Re: 08-09 College Quizbowl Prediction Thread

Mr. Rakehell wrote:Say it ain't so!
YOUR DRUG IS A HEART BREAKER!
by Leo Wolpert
Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:45 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ITT Your Favorite (Or Funniest) Movie Death
Replies: 21
Views: 3480

Re: ITT Your Favorite (Or Funniest) Movie Death

WHAT IS IMPORTANT, IS GRAVITY!

(nsfw language i think someone says the f-word!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMkXY6MN96E
by Leo Wolpert
Tue May 27, 2008 12:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player movement, retirement, etc.
Replies: 16
Views: 5410

Re: Player movement, retirement, etc.

I too am going to UVA Law in the fall. I don't know how much quizbowl I'll play (if any).
by Leo Wolpert
Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MLK 2008
Replies: 34
Views: 11556

ray sun great player or GREATEST PLAYA

amirite?!?!???!!?!?!?!?!?!?
by Leo Wolpert
Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:56 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Every Rose Has Its Thorns
Replies: 5
Views: 1858

Ouch, megaburn.

Anyway, that's like the opposite of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCU2ecKuGU

(for some reason you can't say "masturbate," "venereal," or "dildo" in the clean versions of songs...who knew?)
by Leo Wolpert
Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: More Racism from NAQT
Replies: 59
Views: 11716

DR. WOLPERT IN DA HEEZY!!! I've since lost the shirt seen in that picture, thanks to a sleep-deprived tequila bender that resulted in my waking up a half mile away from my Barcelona hotel. I would say that being a drunken gambling degenerate is my way of coping with losing badly on Jeopardy, but I'...
by Leo Wolpert
Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:13 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: TTGT 11 Discussion
Replies: 87
Views: 28697

Re: TTGT 11 Discussion

Though I do want to say that I seriously loved the Harry Potter packets. Unfortunately, it also wasn't hard enough for the "experts" (you know..the Pottermaniacs..like myself). I mean at least on the west coast..all the Pottermaniacs corralled into the rooms with the Potter packets...with...
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: COTKU discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 5869

ROAR Jonathan Magin angry at your misplaced best friendship forever that has not been placed in he who is BFF to all. The sky over Maryland and Magin's hall of plenty the South Campus Commons looms red as if Bruce Arthur were drawn and quartered by Fra Filippo Lippi and Lippi ascended to the heaven...
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: RESULTS: Titanomachy at Maryland - Sunday 10/28/07 - UMCP
Replies: 19
Views: 8790

Looks like I'm not going to play because I am just getting out of the hospital today after coming down with typhoid fever (not a joke). I didn't think people still got that in first world countries. I've been spending some time out of the first world recently, so that probably explains it. Aruba, s...
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: RESULTS: Titanomachy at Maryland - Sunday 10/28/07 - UMCP
Replies: 19
Views: 8790

Looks like I'm not going to play because I am just getting out of the hospital today after coming down with typhoid fever (not a joke).
by Leo Wolpert
Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Opportunity for Quizbowl champs
Replies: 18
Views: 8215

I'm in Vegas now. How might I go about scheduling an interview if I make the drive to SoCal?

Edit: Are my chances of getting on the show diminished by the fact that you've already had a poker "pro" on the show?
by Leo Wolpert
Mon May 28, 2007 4:49 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ZERG RUSH!!!!
Replies: 46
Views: 20222

KAWAII

^______^
by Leo Wolpert
Mon May 28, 2007 2:52 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ZERG RUSH!!!!
Replies: 46
Views: 20222

HAY GUYS WELCOME TO LIKE 5 YEARS AGO WHEN STARCRAFT WAS STILL POPULAR AND THIS WOULD BE FUNNY
by Leo Wolpert
Sat May 19, 2007 9:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Zombie Steve Irwin Rising From the Grave and et cetera
Replies: 19
Views: 8497

Dolemite wrote:Michigan is shaped like a mitten.
And Alaska is a hippopotamus that just took a massive right hook to the dome.
by Leo Wolpert
Wed May 16, 2007 5:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NICKELODEON GAMESHOWS ARE THE FUCKING SHIT
Replies: 68
Views: 29380

All the tossups in this thread blow, and are either impossible until the last 2 words or contain giveaways in the first line. Discuss.

Edit: Actually, the first one isn't that bad.
by Leo Wolpert
Sun May 13, 2007 7:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Spider-Man 3
Replies: 87
Views: 37972

Dolemite wrote:
Leo Wolpert wrote:Hella
Jesus Christ, dude.
Jesus Christ indeed.
by Leo Wolpert
Sun May 13, 2007 5:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Spider-Man 3
Replies: 87
Views: 37972

Oh, also, this movie was lame. Hella lame. Luckily, a certain magic substance from British Columbia turned the moments where I ordinarily would have groaned (Spidey leaping in front of the flag, Tobey Maguire's attempt at showing emotion using 'facial expressions', the part where Aunt Whats-her-name...
by Leo Wolpert
Sun May 13, 2007 5:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Spider-Man 3
Replies: 87
Views: 37972

Spider-man 3 was a pretty good critique of egoism in society.





































































































































No, wait, it was a movie about a dude who dresses like a spider and beats people up. My mistake.
by Leo Wolpert
Fri May 04, 2007 4:17 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: TRASHionals Stats Online
Replies: 12
Views: 6738

FWIW, it was I, not Evan Nagler, playing under the name Fukme Tutears.
by Leo Wolpert
Tue May 01, 2007 12:12 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Stuff that is not related to Ghetto Warz or Moon Pie
Replies: 63
Views: 31052

It is my sad duty to announce that Eric Kwartler died on June 25, 2006, after being thrown under the bus by Jerry Vinokurov. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you send pyramidal tossups to the remaining editors of ACF Fall. Requiescat in pace, Eric. Eric Kwartler's Girlfriend Proxy just ...
by Leo Wolpert
Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Individual Rankings
Replies: 48
Views: 23188

There's pretty much no way I'm better than at least 3 or 4 players ranked below me. Seriously, I blow.
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:16 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
Replies: 111
Views: 49398

Having played a TRASH regionals, I won't say I didn't know what to expect when I played TRASHionals. I won't get into all the things that irked me, most of which stem from the distribution not going my way (i really shouldn't, anyway). If I really felt like it, I would have plenty to whine about. We...
by Leo Wolpert
Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT ICT 2007 discussion
Replies: 127
Views: 58998

allythin wrote:Way to scissor each other...
SCISSOR ME TIMBERS!
by Leo Wolpert
Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:36 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Jeopardy is dead to me
Replies: 8
Views: 3981

It's been dead to me for a while, for obvious reasons. The only time I've watched an episode was to gamble on it. And I still didn't enjoy it.
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT ICT 2007 discussion
Replies: 127
Views: 58998

I guess I can almost let the last one slide because someone could conceivably refer to someone from that group a "scriblerist" (I don't know, any 18th century English Lit people care to weigh in? google returns a mere 4 hits for "scriblerist"). But the point remains, if you, the...
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT ICT 2007 discussion
Replies: 127
Views: 58998

Overall, I thought this was a pretty decent set by NAQT standards. Yeah, there's obviously too much trash/gk/ce and all that for my tastes. Also, there were some questions that could have been written better; pretty much every tournament has some questions that aren't up to standard. That said, it's...
by Leo Wolpert
Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:10 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Movement/Retirement Thread
Replies: 33
Views: 17348

Seeing as I'm quite the grad school dropout, I'm going to become (or, more accurately, continue to be) a degenerate gambler until I matriculate in some law school. I would like to say I'll spend my first year without the burden of school writing 10 tournaments and studying qb material in order to av...
by Leo Wolpert
Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ITT Offer me a trade for my rich, chocolate delicious Ovalti
Replies: 8
Views: 3601

OH SHIT LEO'S HAD ONE TOO MANY WINE COOLERS LOOK OUT LADIES EDIT: AND BOWLS OF RANCH DRESSING EDIT: I MEAN LOOK OUT IF YOU ARE A BOWL OF RANCH DRESSING NOT THAT HE'S HAD TOO MANY BOWLS OF RANCH DRESSING BECAUSE I DON'T THINK LEO EATS BOWLS OF RANCH DRESSING. I'm convinced the ranch dressing inciden...
by Leo Wolpert
Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ITT Offer me a trade for my rich, chocolate delicious Ovalti
Replies: 8
Views: 3601

Fred this thread is pretty bad It's not about anything else... GO TO YOUR ROOM, AND LOCK THE DOOR CAUSE WHEN YOU TRY IT ONCE YOU'LL WANNA TRY IT SOME MORE (TRY IT SOME MORE!) SIZE DOESN'T MATTER AND THAT'S A FACT IT MIGHT BE SMALL BUT IT'S A BIG IMPACT (OOOH!) BUST A NUT! BUST A NUT! GRAB A BAG OF ...
by Leo Wolpert
Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: LEO WOLPERT APPRECIATION STATION
Replies: 1
Views: 2030

Leo Wolpert is tha shit.

Signed,

Leo Wolpert
by Leo Wolpert
Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Open 2007: Official Jerk Policy 3/10/07
Replies: 26
Views: 14302

I had no idea that swearing, negging, and losing could be considered "antics," but I'm glad I could enhance your tournament experience. Also, congratulations on winning. Kudos to Matt for running a tight ship. Packets were overall pretty decent for easy questions, but there were a few slip...
by Leo Wolpert
Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Identify the bad movie quote OR abuse the previous user
Replies: 78
Views: 34520

I don't recognize the quote, but I suspect you are Chris Ray. Without further ado...

EAT SHIT YOU FUCKING BASTARD.

Now that I've had my fun, here's my quote.

"Pain don't hurt."
by Leo Wolpert
Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:17 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Who wants to write some Jason Mueller slash?
Replies: 10
Views: 4484

I can only imagine the rest of this story will take me to frowntown.
by Leo Wolpert
Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Challenge for Jason Mueller
Replies: 38
Views: 15229

10K QUIZBOWL FIGHT YO!??!!?
by Leo Wolpert
Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:17 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Results: NAQT Mid-Atlantic at George Mason (2/10/07)
Replies: 118
Views: 50628

Matt Morrison wrote:By the way I think we fixed our buzzer system.

If the field is indeed 11 and 11, will it be possible to have the Div II team that has a bye play the Div I team that has a bye, for exhibition purposes (and for shytes and giggles)?
Bad idea. 2002 ICT Valencia incident.
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ICT location?
Replies: 55
Views: 23364

grapesmoker wrote: Vegas would certainly be an interesting location. It's definitely very accessible in terms of price. Getting rooms would be a challenge, but didn't TRASH have a Vegas tournament or something?
Vegas would be an excellent choice, if only because I am a degenerate.
by Leo Wolpert
Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:31 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MLK 2007 Announcement
Replies: 14
Views: 11895

i am going to this tournament. I am not sure whether I will be joined by UVA teammates. If not, well, um, you can all fight over my 3 ppg (seriously my qb knowledge has atrophied thanks to alcohol + gambling). Email me or talk to me on AIM or some shit.
by Leo Wolpert
Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT commentary
Replies: 52
Views: 29681

For people keeping count, at the UCLA site we used the following packets: Jerry 1-3 in rounds 1,4,7; Seth 1-4 in rounds 2,6,9,11; Ryan 1-4 in rounds 3,5,8,10. I enabled Round Report in our statistics so you can see how each packet stacked up (not correcting for byes). At Maryland (if they ever post...
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:57 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2006 Nobel in Literature Predictions?
Replies: 12
Views: 6304

Fuck all that noise, I'm betting on the Stonies:

http://www.bodog.com/sports-betting/celebrity-props.jsp
by Leo Wolpert
Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:22 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Vancouver Estival Trivia Open question packets
Replies: 52
Views: 41768

I'll be frank with you Peter, and when I say frank, I mean, you know, devastating. These are bad. Really bad. "I'd demand my money back" bad. I'll do the second packet's worth of tossups. Before I get to individual questions, I'm going to say one thing about this packet in general so I don...
by Leo Wolpert
Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: archive of TRASHionals cryfest flap?
Replies: 25
Views: 13293

Dear Dan: Shut up. Seriously, shut the fuck up. Your obsessive, asininely late post is the sort of thing that I would really prefer not to respond to, but since it's obvious by where and how you posted it that you're doing so only to try and rally the troops over what should be a dead issue by this...
by Leo Wolpert
Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:26 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Pronunciation
Replies: 67
Views: 33524

I generally accept anything reasonably close when I read. "Munch" as in "crunch and munch" is fine. After all, the player might have read about Edvard Munch, in, say, a book, rather than hearing about him on the TV. I know I mispronounce all sorts of answers because I read about ...