--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, barhubbard <no_reply_at_y...> wrote: > This message has been sent from me to officially announce a veritable > knowledge bachannal, a gory, glorious test of academic wills to be > held at the University of Michigan on Saturday, March 22, 2003. Personally, when I think of "bachannal", about the last thing that comes to mind is a bunch of white dudes getting together in the basement of some massive academic building on the campus of the University of Michigan. I mean, obviously the usage was ironic, but even still. > > Come play at "The Auspicious Incident!" > > Here's the deal: open eligibility/ no question requirement (all of > them will be written by yours truly, Paul Litvak, and Matt Lafer)/ I hope there's not an answer requirement. I'm just a poor, struggling, ulcer-ridden, migraine-ridden artist-writer-songwriter- composer-sportscaster-ironist-journalist-provcateur-manque trying to live vicarously through my own (distant and increasingly irrelevant) quiz bowl past just because I was up all last night recording three extended tracks for my new thrash-free-improv-acoustic band, The Dueling Retards (one of which was a profoundly obscene and blasphemic cover of Chicago's "Dialogues Part's I and II", with myself and my bandmate doing Part II (We can make it happen...we can save the children) in our best Dr. Strangelove/Peter Sellers' cover of "She Loves You" voices. In fact, I've forgotten just about everything I ever learned in 9th grade Honors English class about run-on sentences it didn't matter anyway. > a > guarantee of 12 rounds/ and if you travel more than 600 miles you > play for $20. So, say, if one travels from Lansing to Ann Arbor via, say, Indianapolis, does that mean one's team gets the $50 dollar discount? Money's tight these days, especially after (somebody) blew 500 G's on Worldcom's bellyflop (but that's what (somebody) gets for taking investment tips from Smith Barney the Purple Financial Advising Dinosaur.) > Otherwise the fee will be $70 with a $10 discount for a > usable buzzer system. > > Be advised that this will be a pre-ACF Nationals tourney and as such > the questions will approximate said tournament in difficulty (think > past Chicago Opens for a rough idea of what to expect). My parents had some pretty rough ideas. When I was growing up in Florida, about 8 or 9 years old at the time, I had a dream of growing up to be a citrus farmer, owning an orchard, growing oranges, producing orange juice, and freezing and packaging it for shipping across the country. I told my folks that this was what I wanted to do when I grow up. The next summer, they sent me to a concentration camp. I tell ya, I got no respect even back then. > > If there is enough clamor I will even whip up a batch of salsa for > the competitors. Whilst the players band together, join hands, and sing the official theme song of quiz bowlers worldwide, Devo's "We're Through Bein' Cool".
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