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hi fred

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leftsaidfred wrote:
Dolemite wrote:Dude...
Yeah, but it's not like I asked for pictures.

It was implied!

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leftsaidfred wrote: I can't seem to find anything on TO pooping on the floor with Google searches; if anyone could provide a working link, I'd be thrilled.

Dude...

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Personally, I'm vehemently against high school teams competing in college tournaments, regardless of their skill levels. From the standpoint of the college team, I don't see what it would have to gain by defeating or losing to a high school team. It's a no-win situation. What's the difference betwe...

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"Take that, Chris Simms!"

~ Spoken by T.O. through a mouth full of delicious opiates.

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Who cares if a team has four men, or four women, or four whites, four asians, or four blacks, as long as that's the best team your school can produce? The issue is this (I think): if there's something about quizbowl that "scares away" members of certain demographic groups, then many schoo...

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3) Diversity: do you have any specific strategy, a best practice, or a general team philosophy that welcomes girls/women and others from non-Caucasian or non-Asian demographic backgrounds? What works best in this case? Why should this be an issue at all? Why not just concentrate our efforts into ma...

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We used to do about 18 var tournaments a year. 9/11 changed what our school board will let us do. Just curious about this statement.... What is the reasoning behind this? I can't personally speak for Mr. Barry but I remember that during the months after 9/11 there were quite a few school boards (ma...

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I like how this article tries to reinforce the notion that qb players are nerdy, cloistered douches filled with random academic knowledge but absolutely no awareness of the outside world. I have to say that there's not much the newspaper can do if he really can't name two Britney Spears songs or De...

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"I am quite aware of how much I aggravate other teams," he said Thursday, two days after graduating from Byram Hills High School in Westchester. "The only thing is I don't know how to not aggravate them. When I walk in the room, the karma changes." Wow, not arrogant at all. Seri...

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Still, as impressive as he is, Nate doesn't know everything. Asked to name two Britney Spears songs he could only come up with one. ("Toxic. They played it at the prom.") Asked to name the shortstop for the Yankees he drew a blank. ("I have no idea.") When asked his cellphone nu...

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E.T. Chuck wrote:Probably one thing would make it more pallatable to be on TV:

Swimsuits

what

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Would it be impossible to also find perfectly reasonable questions among the archives? The point is that perfectly reasonable questions are the only kind that should ever be found. There are some academics who would argue that a film clue is just as significant as a literary one. I suppose they are...

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AndyBrindlee Mountain wrote:My discussion about bigtrain's question probably came from Nats, but my own neg I put did not.

My bad. Feel free to edit and repost it.

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The NAQT National Championship set is being used at a mirror in the near future so please avoid discussing those questions in this or any other thread.

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metsfan001 wrote: What's the general consensus on when a team should begin going to competitions?

Provided funding isn't a problem you should be going as early and often as possible.

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Don't do this.

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As far as I'm concerned conspiracy theorists can think what they like. It's just a little insulting for people who don't know me, and weren't at the tournament to question my performance, challenge my integrity, generally insult me, post non-publicly available information about me, etc. Alright, ye...

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zwtipp wrote:
Dolemite wrote:Your email shows up under all of your posts, I wouldn't have mentioned it had it not been publically viewable.
I believe it is only publicly viewable to mods since I cannot see it.

It appears that you're right. I was unaware of my special email address viewing abilities.

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Your email shows up under all of your posts, I wouldn't have mentioned it had it not been publically viewable.

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"dafirenze" could be someone from UCLA or elsewhere in SoCal that just helped out. But the fact that this person is 100% new is somewhat suspicious. A couple minutes of mediocre internet detective work show that it's almost definitely this kid. His email address listed is pauharold@(edite...

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I'm pretty sure this was from USC's tournament held on the 3rd.

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Maybe since this kid was seeing more than 3/4 of the bonus questions he just ran into more questions that he didn't know. Maybe he didn't feel the need to take things so seriously since he was crushing the opposition. Maybe he didn't think about the questions and just passed on them in an attempt t...

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if this kid is from ohio, what is to say if he had not heard all of the tossups before at a different NAQT tourney using the same set? And his bonus conversion could be explained by the fact that not all the bonuses are read at NAQT tournaments. Thus he got the ones he knew and blanked on the rest....

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If I remember correctly, he performed much more consistently in the playoff rounds, converting a much higher portion of his bonus questions. Dear USC people, I would be interested in seeing the his playoff stats if possible? I also understand that players in Ohio have a vastly different format from...

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The blatant favoritism displayed by the fact that you successfully protested a question's answer sure is revolting!

If that little anecdote was your main reason you suspected favoritism towards Brindlee Mountain I'd love to hear the other reasons you alluded to at the end of your first paragraph.

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brownboy79 wrote:Sorry for the mistake.
But 1988 was their last division championship.

Wrong again. They won the division in 1990 even though the Oilers and Steelers both went 9-7 as well.

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Next auk joke results in a ban.

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Leo Wolpert wrote:
MCDoug wrote:Otherwise, how about you just leave the rest of us at FL and GA out of it since more then half of the FL team doesn't even know who you are.
Oh, I thought it was because once the Florida grad students heard it wasn't a Division II match, they immediately lost interest in playing it.

OH SNAP

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NatusRoma wrote:Since when do "Kickoffs" occur in mid-January?

Since when is "January" denoted by the number 11?

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If it's written down after the match begins and just a blank piece of paper beforehand it should be completely fine.

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Who is this BloodMeridian, why is his email romeroc@gmail.com and why did he post from the same IP address that you did? Basically what I'm trying to say is please tell me you didn't invent an alter-ego just to bash this guy. Edit: Resulting mini-flamewar resulting from this discovery surgically rem...

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Anyone want to bet on whether or not a team will come within 250 points of TJ A tomorrow?

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It's from the SNL "Bill Brasky" sketches. No preserving the brains of modern SNL writers.

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sttdramasinger wrote:isnt it great macarthur didnt go to state *tear* not i so love the fact that st. teresa (my team) went to state and got 3rd and macarthur didnt get past regionals well its a good thing that i have a new bf now cause i was totally embarrassed of my last one.

Take your retarded shit elsewhere.

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I catch it now and then.

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Sklansky's a douchebag, shut up with that shit in my forum.

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If a team intentionally places their best four players on a B team in order to get an easier set of prelim games or some similar reason, it should be met with a "What the hell are you trying to do?" from the TD. As TD you could also ask (demand) that the teams be changed back to normal.

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DaGeneral wrote:dolemite, i hope that your post wasn't a joke. if it was, it was out of line. if it wasn't then nevermind

what

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When I read the topic I was expecting to see a link to this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quizbowl/message/6652

Also, what the hell is wrong with you, Mueller?

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Nolan from Owosso is pretty decent, I've read for him a couple times and seen him play on Quizbusters as well. That being said, there's no way he can be considered to be among the best players in the state. He's not even the best player on Quizbusters this year.

Edit: typos.

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I can't speak for the original poster, but it looks pretty obvious that she wasn't serious about the "blatant sexism" part.

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Quizbowl is played predominantly by males. The average male high school quizbowler wouldn't know a vagina if it slapped him in the face.

As far as a real answer goes... I don't care.

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sometime DCC has to have a year where they do bad that doesn't involve them kicking most of michigan's ass somehow That "somehow" is DCC consistently putting forth more effort to improve than everyone else in Michigan. If you want to eventually beat them, you should...you know...put forth...

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I'm not sure if a 170 point loss can be shrugged off as a fluke so easily. DCC and Petoskey's PPG and bonus conversion at NAQT States indicated that they're legitimate (granted Will did seem to have a meltdown game against tough competition in the playoffs) plus the questions at MSU States pander to...

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I voted for Lahser because I couldn't decide who I thought would win. If I were you I'd worry about Petoskey and DCC as well. When Will is on his game Petoskey can be a threat and DCC has always done quite well on the MSU format/questions. Panasonic is even worse than MSU States. Bids to go to that ...

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Wang_man wrote:ALL OF YOU GOT YOUR TODDS FEENISED!!@!!#@$(

WONED IN TEH FASE!!!*!@$(

Congratulations, you're an idiot.

But yeah, DCC finally won their first real MI tournament and it only took until the middle of March.

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I voted for Lahser just out of sick amusement. Also, if you're going to bother making a poll about Michigan state championships, at least make it NAQT states and not the hideous garbage that is the MSU states tournament. Only teams/coaches who have no idea what the hell is going on around them reall...

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Probably someone who doesn't understand that even CBI questions aren't shitty enough to prevent Michigan from easily destroying everyone in that region. Either that or someone was just trying to be humorous. Edit: There's a slight chance another team could win if Michigan decides not to send any of ...

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NoahMinkCHS wrote:Quiz bowl isn't a valid enough religion? Some might differ on that...

I suggest shooting those people in the face.

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