Yup, you scored. grumble grumble grumble
And twicks comes thundering onto the playing field, still atop the elephant, and gives the ball a mighty thwack with her special long-handled polo mallet! C’mon, Hairy A’s! Where are you?
Team 1 (Hairy A’s): A B C F G H I M N O T U Y
Team 2 (They Who Have Not Been Named): D E J K L P Q R S V W X Z
Snakescatlady catches the ball with her midsection and sits down abruptly on the field, while the ball bounces away into the grasp of…
Snakescatlady, I’ll take that pass and toss the ball to…
me, who spins his arm like it is a rotor , and pitches the ball towards the goal!
When do games end, again?
Since we’re up by a 9-5 count and the object is to score eleven goals, we need only two more points. I’ll put the ball in play by dropping it into the garbage bin outside my apartment, where it is found by…
…Feydeau, in a surprise attack on the garbage.
Licking the good parts of the ball (okay, eww.), he passes it quickly to…
Marque Elf, who will suffer almost any indignity for his beloved Hairy A’s. He looks for Twickster in the throng and throws it as far as he can, garbage spiralling off the flying ball and…
Sternvogel, who originally read the line as “looks for twickster in the thong”, picks off the pass. He hurriedly flips to…
…Enterprise, who is still on the lookout for any kind of thong and is consequently hit by the ball on the head, from where it bounces to…
The Goal!
Okay, we’re up 10-5, so this is GAME POINT! I bring in a big bowl of pasta salad, and kick the ball away. It is taken by…
…Feydeau, who passes it onto…
…Enterprise, fiendishly cleverly camouflaged as a Hairy A. Tossing off the hairy cloth, Enterprise gentlemanly hands the ball off to…
Marque Elf, who thanks him politely, and tries to make the cry of the Hairy Apteryx, and realizes he has no idea what one sounded like…and
…Feydeau, who isn’t gonna be fooled that easily again, mind you.
Running around trying to get the popcorn out of his hair, he passes it to…
…Feydeau grabs it from behind :dubious: and rushes downfield where…
(dagnabit simulposts)
Feydeau loses possession to Sternvogel, whose perfect baseball pass downcourt is caught on the bounce by…
Feydeau who is just quick enough to grab it and pass to…
Sternvogel, who wonders why he and Feydeau seem locked in a one-on-one. I flip the ball into a crowd of picnickers, where…