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…
Is blocked by me as my last act of the day.
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
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Snakescatlady strolls by, sees the Doperball lying unattended in the street, and picks it up. About that time…
gardentraveler picks the ball up from snakescatlady, hoping that she is quick enough to throw it to…
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.”)
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…
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. 