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Monday, September 25, 2006

Around the Horn

Around the Horn is a sports show I like to watch. The host, Tony Reali, moderates discussions of various topics and awards points for good arguments. The awarding of points is done at the discretion of the host. In addition, he can punish them by muting contestants for 10 seconds, which also subtracts a point from their score. He can also subtract points for poor arguments or when contestants try to change the subject. Panelists are frequently rewarded by Reali with points for quoting pop culture movies, as long as they are on topic.

So, here's what we are going to do. Paula will be our host. She is the most straight-forward person I know. I will post the questions, she will moderate and award points. We will follow the same rules as the show, but instead of muting, your next comment will be deleted.

First word: What was the most memorable moment in one of our shows?

5 comments:

CookieTea said...

Mine is when I turned in the wrong direction at a Gulf Coast competition. No one noticed, but I saw it on the video tape.

Denise said...

Jr year - 2nd football game I believe - only 4 rifles at the time, me in the middle (50 yard line) - threw a triple and dropped it - I was mortified!!!!!

Pretty awful

CookieTea said...

Buy or Sell (for or against):

Which one is better upper brass or lower?

Denise said...

Definitely Upper Brass - it's what's gives you goosebumps and shivers up your spine - I can listen to old tapes of the band playing Children of Sanchez and still get those shivers.

Lower Brass is great too, just not in the same way.

Not sure if I answered it correctly, but at least I'm answering

Eric said...

Most memorable show moment....St. Pete 1979 as a Bass Drummer.

Week before the competition we had the idea of getting on our knees and rolling over our bass drums and standing on our heads during the drum solo. Practiced all week but in the final practice we screwed it up so bad Bill Castillo pulled it from the show.

Just before the show, Dave Madden came into the bass drummers room "had a chat" with us and told us to do it without telling anyone but we damn well better do it right!

Pulled it off in the show flawlessly. The judges comments from the tapes were awesome!!!

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