Which happens to be me (of course, as a guy, I’m the rock group Queen, not a female monarch). I lob the ball to the Jack square, which is filled by…
Feydeau, who would be more at home in the Queen spot, but oh well.
I bounce it to the slave spot, containing…
GT, hoping that more of our teammates will show up. I’m tired of this four-square stuff, let’s move on to dodgeball. I slam the ball at the opposing team and…
Sternvogel expertly dodges the ball, then heaves it toward the Apteryxs, where it hits the head of…
Feydeau. OUCH!
I grab the ball and toss it thataway…
danceswithcats who looks around to see who biffed him, mutters something unintelligible and likely profane before hurling the ball towards…
where GT remembers that she really liked playing jacks. She bounces the ball and picks up 5 jacks at once and…
so much for that plan. Instead I’ll pull out an official Gilligan™ brand cocoanut and bamboo bat, and snag the ball from Feydeau before sending the ball with a mighty whap on to…
razzin frazzin dial-up. OK, three’s gotta be a charm. I’l take the pass from gardentraveler and kick it to…
gardentraveler, who is more than happy to kick it over to… (are we playing soccer? kickball? kick the can? hey, it could happen!)…
Sternvogel, who has just finished his supper of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Wondering if this mention will land him a lucrative contract similar to the one honeydewgrrl had with Mountain Dew, he boots the ball to…
GT, who is hoping for a contract to promote Oprah’s favorite chicken salad, which she had for dinner at Wild Oats (does that mean I should try for 2 contracts?). Since she needs to accomplish something tonight, she turns the Doperball into a laptop and opens the project plan for this evening’s activities. The next task is to continue the laundry. She marks this task as ‘in progress’ and…
Snakescatlady trades the laptop/doperball for a gently purring cat and runs toward the goal to SCORE!
Ronin takes the handoff from Snakescatlady and heads onward dodging tackles and robots at every turn.
Except GT isn’t on our team. But ronin is, and I complete the scoring drive with a GOAL that puts up up 5-2!
**GT ** is greatly troubled by this development as she was ready to wrest the ball from Snakescatlady when all of a sudden there were two more plays resulting in another score for the wrong team. She contemplates the possibility of taking teams back to the original line-up, but that would leave Ronin alone on one side. She knows she can be brave. And she’s getting awful babbly again, so she figures someone has to pick the ball up and start the next play. She grabs the ball, closes her eyes, taps her ruby slippers and hopes that if she gets home there will be lots more Hairy A’s on the field…
Well, there may be, but I’ve got the ball now. Which Lemur wants it?
Ronin, still pumped off the last score sprints down the field with his magic broom carrying him at near the speed of sound. He swoops down on GT and reaching out like Harry for the Snitch and yet his broom handling skills are no where near Harry’s level. So as he reaches out he knocks the ball from GT’s grasp only to immediately lose control and fall off the broom.
Ronin, realizes he was going so fast he broke the time space continuum and as he thought he was knocking the ball from GT he found that he actually had not knocked a pumpkin off a target instead of the ball from GT. So he leaps up and dives onto a vacant hoverboard and goes zooming down field to get a pass from Sternvogel.
GT is intrigued by the concept of hoverboards and climbs aboad one after finding out that they cost $16.01, an amount she happens to have just fished out of the washer. She is able to maintain her balance AND hold onto the Doperball until…