Funny moments

• From: Yo_mikez
• Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 09:55:16 -0800
• Message-ID: <000S4L9O4.00041CIH8.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

3 funny moments:

1. (Dave Dorman of UMN
claims this is his favorite cbowl-related story
ever...)

The Chicago team was eating Ethiopian food in
Minneapolis in 1995 when several people note the restaurant
has fish on the menu. Now, as all you CE-specialists
will know, this was just after Eritrea had split off
from Ethiopia. So we started to (probably too loudly)
wonder why it was that an Ethiopian restaurant could
have fish on the menu, since they didn't even have a
coastline anymore, and "wouldn't that be Eritrean food?"
etc.

Anyways, after about 10 minutes of this, the maitre d'
comes over and tells us "I'm sorry, but you know what,
we've just run out of food." Now, there were people
eating all around the rest of the restaurant, and it
seemed a bit strange to us that they would run out of
all the kinds of food at once, but nevertheless, they
continued to insist (perpetuating, I suppose, a certain
Ethiopian stereotype) they couldn't serve us because they
had run out of all food. So Chicago ended up eating
Blimpies that night.

2. A certain former Chicago
player, after reading an STD bonus in practice, saying
"That's right, for 30 points on the boner."

3. Me,
in front of several hundred people at the 97 ICT,
answering "hyperthyroidism" when the correct answer was
"Tickle Me Elmo." Jeez.

The Chicago team has lots
of these stories; am hoping to get them up on the
website sometime soon.

-MZ