Yay!!! ::Jumps up and down and waves pom-poms::
Lower-case brigade is up 1-0.
gardentraveler scoops up the ball and pitches it to…
gardentraveler scoops up the ball and pitches it to…
danceswithcats who pauses and tips his cap to the thousands of cheering fans in the Cecil Adams SuperDuperDome before scooping the ball up in a cesta and hurling it downfield towards…
twickster, who scoooooooooooooores again!
But alas, I have to Go Do Some Stuff, so I hope another Luck comes along soon.
Lucks are up now, 2-0. Just for a change of scenery, I decide to go for a hike in the Alps, taking the Doperball along in my giant hiking backpack. We pause for a few minutes halfway up a trail, and I kick the ball into play,…
where Feydeau happens along, munching some Swiss Chocolate. Grabbing the ball (which is now a bit sticky…) he lobs it up the mountain…
…where twicks intercepts it. She’s flown over to Switzerland for the sole purpose of reporting that she found the cup hooks (but only after buying another pack of them, natch), but while she’s here, she’ll bop a few goats with the ball. One irate nanny comes after her, but she runs around behind …
EarthStone777. The nanny goat makes the mistake of trying a headbutt and learns the hard way that although EarthStone is an ummovable object, nanny goats are not unstoppable forces.
However Switzerland is the land of snow and avalanches and the tremendous CRASH has caused a ridge of snow to cascade down the mountain. EarthStone777 scoops up Twickster under an arm and removes her to safety, leaving the doperball to be buried under uncounted feet of snow and ice…
I should like to add that the nanny goat was also removed to safety* under EarthStone’s other arm and thus the reason the doperball was left behind…
- No goats were harmed while making that post
Wearing her special Doperball excavation suit and with her custom-constructed Doperball excavation equipment (which looks suspiciously like a shovel), gardentraveler begins to dig. Two weeks go by and FINALLY, she strikes gold. Yes…the Doperball has turned to gold! She carefully picks it up, stashes it in an armored 4-wheel drive vehicle and…
Sternvogel, who is at the wheel (as in “steering”, not “one of the quartet implied by the term ‘four-wheel drive’”), heads down the Matterhorn. As a blinding snow storm suddenly obscures his vision, he pulls to a stop just outside a conveniently-located youth hostel. Wondering if he’s too old to get a bed for the night, but desperate for lodging, he enters the building and discovers…
that the entire cast of Gilligan’s Island has been living there in a zone where people don’t age. While Sternvogel is enjoying how hot Ginger and MaryAnne still look, danceswithcats sticks the extremely friggin’ heavy doperball (remember that it’s now made of gold so it’s weightier than a Bob Newhart comedy sketch) on a dogsled before mushing off across the snow in search of another Lowie who can find the goal…
… and, sure enough, here comes twicks, who has enjoyed a very pleasant sojourn in a ski chalet with EarthStone777 and the goat, but who’s ready to play again. She reaches for the solid-gold ball – now guarded by the Solid Gold Dancers – and tries to pick it up. Hmph. Sucker’s heavy. Luckily, she brought her '20s-Style Antigravity Device with her, so …
Sternvogel could more easily pick up the ball and present it to Mary Ann. She takes the solid-but-surprisingly-light gold object back to Kansas, where it is placed in a wheat field and discovered by…
Two farmer, a childless couple. They take the ball, and promise to raise it as their child, till one day…
a farmer who wonders what in the &%$#* his brand new plow has smacked into. Foolishly, he contacts the Gummint who declares that possession of a gold doperball is illegal, and they summarily sieze the ball, his crops, farmhouse, livestock, and attractive daughters, locking them all up in a vault at Fort Knox.
danceswithcats has taken a job there as a janitor, and after befriending one of the cows, learns the secret codeword “MOO” to the cyber-locked vault, and having hidden the doperball on his person via a disguise such that he now looks like a pregnant janitor with a mustache, he swabs his way to the gates and passes the ball to…
Sorry, dances, gotta take the ball from Scott Plaid and make it a teeny weeny little spandex suit.
danceswithcats comes into town as a traveling preacher, and convinces the couple that they should let the ball join his ministry. After years of instruction, the ball receives it’s degree, and shall be known hereafter as Doperball, D. D. Unfortunately, the dark side tempts Rev. Doperball where he is carried off by…
Sternvogel, who has returned to the field after discovering that Indiana has apparently become a Pacific-touching state, as the Fox announcement said the season premiere of The Simpsons was coming up “except on the West Coast”. As Malcolm in the Middle plays on his TV, he passes to…
which looks nice enough to kick into the hands of…
gotta lay off the literature-it takes too long to compose convoluted plotlines 
Well, I now take the ball from danceswithcats, and pass (hoping that I’m not nipped at the tape by a lowercase message) to…