Given how we could all use a good laugh ... (BTW - if you don't like this, be happy that I didn't post "Making The Team" - a soon-to-be hit TV series about a smooth Florida businessman's desire to create a media sensation of a quizbowl team from scratch at the University of Miami). You may remember a post to qb called the "Ballad of Bovinia State", where a plucky team almost beats an experienced opponent. Since I've been on the "plucky team" side more times than I can count, and since the experiences recounted have happened maybe once or twice in all my years of playing, I've decided to create my own ballad, to the tune of "Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel)", by Billy Joel. I've found that this is slightly more true to life. Goodnight, Bo State Goodnight, Bo State Time to lose the game And save those powers for another day I have no clue what your answering You have no clue what the questions say We promised you never win this And you should always know Poor little Bo No matter where you are Chicago will always crush you Goodnight, Bo State No, it's not time to leave And still so many routs left to play Remember all the negs you gave to me Correct was Bach, you said "Beck's Odelay" And with that stupid answer, The scorekeeper went to sleep. A moment dark You had no chance at all to clark And they got five hundred - eep. Goodnight, Bo State Now it's time to dream And dream how great a win could be Someday you all will cry And remember by and by Then in your soul You'll be humiliated endlessly Someday we'll all be gone But your losses will go and on The jokes never die how you, but Never I Will be
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