# Doperball V--Man, I'm bored **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743 "2005-09-02T15:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 39
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/761 "2005-09-09T21:36:44Z")
My old phone number (which is still my parents’ number) begins with “777”, which I pronounce as you do. Just wanted to make sure. With that cleared up, I attempt to start a comeback from an 8-3 deficit by passing to… ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/762 "2005-09-09T22:14:06Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > My old phone number (which is still my parents’ number) begins with “777”, which I pronounce as you do. Just wanted to make sure. With that cleared up, I attempt to start a comeback from an 8-3 deficit by passing to… **gardentraveler** , who hopes that there is another Odd out there to help us salvage this. She does a pirouette with the Doperball held high and… ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/763 "2005-09-09T22:16:04Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > **gardentraveler** , who hopes that there is another Odd out there to help us salvage this. She does a pirouette with the Doperball held high and… Is blocked by me as my last act of the day. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/764 "2005-09-09T22:17:52Z")
**TEAM CONFIGURATION REMINDER** It’s Odds vs. Evens based on the number of syllables in your screen name. If you’re just joining in, please say which team you’re on… And our current score is: **Evens: 8 Odds: 3** GT ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/765 "2005-09-09T22:19:11Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Is blocked by me as my last act of the day. But with impressing athleticism, **GT** grabs the ball right back and… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/766 "2005-09-09T22:21:38Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > But with impressing athleticism, **GT** grabs the ball right back and… passes to **Sternvogel** , who’s looking for an opportunity to put a point on the board by passing to… ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/767 "2005-09-09T23:39:21Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > passes to **Sternvogel** , who’s looking for an opportunity to put a point on the board by passing to… **Feydeau**? Nope, no point here. Sorry. Although, I do pass the ball to… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/768 "2005-09-09T23:49:10Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > **Feydeau**? Nope, no point here. Sorry. > > Although, I do pass the ball to… **Sternvogel** , who’s disheartened to see that his hour-plus wait was not rewarded. Hoping the action picks up, I take the ball to a local watering hole and place it behind the counter. I tell the bartender to serve the sphere to the next Odd who comes into the joint. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/769 "2005-09-10T00:07:42Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > **Sternvogel** , who’s disheartened to see that his hour-plus wait was not rewarded. Hoping the action picks up, I take the ball to a local watering hole and place it behind the counter. I tell the bartender to serve the sphere to the next Odd who comes into the joint. But you know those bartenders. A guy walks into a bar. Hey, it’s **Feydeau**! What’s that under his arm? Is it… could it be…? Yes, it’s a large chunk of asphalt! “I’ll have a beer. And one for the road” he says, pointing at the asphalt. Rimshot! A guy walks into a bar… ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/770 "2005-09-10T00:09:41Z")
Just for clarity, I did take the ball from behind the bar and pass it to… ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/771 "2005-09-10T00:25:40Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > Just for clarity, I did take the ball from behind the bar and pass it to… **danceswithcats** who has returned from the jukebox, disappointed that Bette Midler’s _Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from Company B_ is nowhere to be found and has instead selected Melanie’s _I’ve Got a Brand New Pair of Rollerskates_ before ordering a Sam Adams ale. Song over, ale finished, he belches loudly, steps out onto the sidewalk and kicks the ball down main street to… ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/772 "2005-09-10T00:31:35Z")
**danceswithcats** kicks the ball to **gardentraveler** , who doesn’t really know what she will do with an asphalt ball, especially one that’s been in a bar. Having thwarted the progress of the Evens’ play? (inning? drive?..yes, I believe it’s a drive, an asphalt drive, in fact), she draws up a nice chalk mural on the asphalt Doperball and drive she placed it on (think camouflage). Satisfied with the disguise, she admires her work, while… ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/773 "2005-09-10T00:43:50Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > **danceswithcats** kicks the ball to **gardentraveler** , who doesn’t really know what she will do with an asphalt ball, especially one that’s been in a bar. Having thwarted the progress of the Evens’ play? (inning? drive?..yes, I believe it’s a drive, an asphalt drive, in fact), she draws up a nice chalk mural on the asphalt Doperball and drive she placed it on (think camouflage). Satisfied with the disguise, she admires her work, while… **Feydeau** loudly walks by and grabs his asphalt – er, ball – or, umm. Thing. Yes, that’s it. Looking up and down the deserted street, he spies a movie theater. Hoping to catch the latest release, he leaves the DoperAsphaltBallThingy in the lobby, where… ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/774 "2005-09-10T00:52:21Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > **Feydeau** loudly walks by and grabs his asphalt – er, ball – or, umm. Thing. Yes, that’s it. > > Looking up and down the deserted street, he spies a movie theater. Hoping to catch the latest release, he leaves the DoperAsphaltBallThingy in the lobby, where… **dare\_devil007\_** strolls by and picks it up. She doesn’t hear other people yelling at her to throw it to them because she’s listening to her MP3 player. She puts it back on the floor and walks again. Just then… ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/775 "2005-09-10T00:53:32Z")
**Snakescatlady** strolls by, sees the Doperball lying unattended in the street, and picks it up. About that time… ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/776 "2005-09-10T00:55:50Z")
**gardentraveler** picks the ball up from **snakescatlady** , hoping that she is quick enough to throw it to… ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/777 "2005-09-10T01:00:07Z")
**dare\_devil007\_** - how do you say your screen name? Does it end in oh-oh-seven or zero-zero-seven (making you an odd) or double-oh-seven (making you an even…)? Or some other possibility I’ve overlooked. (Important for later scoring purposes…) GT - who is thinking (“Please be odd, please be odd, please be odd.”) ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/778 "2005-09-10T01:14:31Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > **gardentraveler** picks the ball up from **snakescatlady** , hoping that she is quick enough to throw it to… me, of course as I’m standing outside the movie theater reading the marquee and trying to decide between _Chipmunks of Fortune_ with Charles Bronson as Alvin, and _Standard Poodles of the Serengeti_. Deciding that an asphalt ball shouldn’t be head-butted, I’ll give it a nudge towards… ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/779 "2005-09-10T01:17:16Z")
**dare-dev-il-dub-ble-oh-sev-un** would be my pronunciation because it’s way to long to also say un-der-score twice. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743/780 "2005-09-10T01:26:33Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > **dare-dev-il-dub-ble-oh-sev-un** would be my pronunciation because it’s way to long to also say un-der-score twice. 😉 You, sir, are far too helpful. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-v-man-im-bored/319743.md?page=40)