# Doperball VI **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873 "2007-02-05T02:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/201 "2007-02-07T21:48:17Z")
Team 1(Jovial Quetzals): A B C G H I M N O S T U Y Team 2(Team Lazy Explosion): D E F J K L P Q R V W X Z Score is Queztals 6, Lazy Explosion 5 [QUOTE=Sternvogel] Not knowing how I committed an illegal activity, I intercept **Pygmy Rugger** ’s pass and pack the ball into a passing lawyer’s briefcase, from which it is removed by… [/QUOTE] I’ll take it back, since it appears my pass didn’t go through; either way, it’s been through two Quetzals, and will shortly be in the capable hands of… ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/202 "2007-02-07T22:00:50Z")
A TLE passer-by who seeks only to thwart with thwarting thwartiness your world domination scheme. Anyway-I got the ball from Captain Carrot and am booting it your general direction, if you’re a TLE peep. Otherwise, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/203 "2007-02-07T22:04:31Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] A TLE passer-by who seeks only to thwart with thwarting thwartiness your world domination scheme. Anyway-I got the ball from Captain Carrot and am booting it your general direction, if you’re a TLE peep. Otherwise, not so much. [/QUOTE] Well, I’m still going to catch it. Attaching the ball to a balloon, I carefully let go and watch it slowly drift out of my sight _sniff_… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/204 "2007-02-07T22:11:05Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Well, I’m still going to catch it. Attaching the ball to a balloon, I carefully let go and watch it slowly drift out of my sight _sniff_… [/QUOTE] when suddenly the balloon bursts and the icky ball falls on my foot. I jump back in surprise and the ball… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/205 "2007-02-07T22:11:52Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Well, I’m still going to catch it. Attaching the ball to a balloon, I carefully let go and watch it slowly drift out of my sight _sniff_… [/QUOTE] It lands in the parking lot of the Purdue veterinary library, where I grab it and place it on the back of a passing llama. The South American beast rumbles onto the street… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/206 "2007-02-07T22:14:11Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] when suddenly the balloon bursts and the icky ball falls on my foot. I jump back in surprise and the ball… [/QUOTE] … which I apparently never legally held lands at my feet. Hoping that my attempt counts, I place the ball on the back of the llama, which thunders into the GOAL! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/207 "2007-02-07T22:16:42Z")
Psst. I’ve already touched it, so somebody else needs to claim the point. I nominate Sternvogel, since he got my pass erroneously. Never mind, he already has. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/208 "2007-02-07T22:29:41Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Psst. I’ve already touched it, so somebody else needs to claim the point. I nominate Sternvogel, since he got my pass erroneously. Never mind, he already has. [/QUOTE] And he now puts the ball in play by placing it on the saddle of a colicky Appaloosa, which gallops towards… ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/209 "2007-02-07T22:37:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] And he now puts the ball in play by placing it on the saddle of a colicky Appaloosa, which gallops towards… [/QUOTE] Captain Carrot; the horse demands an apple, but all CC can give him is the ball, which the horse holds in his teeth, prancing around, only to be interrupted by… ---
**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:** [February 7, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/210 "2007-02-07T23:14:39Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Captain Carrot; the horse demands an apple, but all CC can give him is the ball, which the horse holds in his teeth, prancing around, only to be interrupted by… [/QUOTE] **GT** , who very gingerly extracts the ball from the horses mouth, then runs to the nearest waterpark so that she can run the ball under several waterfalls to remove the horse spit and zombie goo. Once she makes it past the waterfalls, she loses the ball while making a sharp left turn and… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/211 "2007-02-07T23:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=gardentraveler] **GT** , who very gingerly extracts the ball from the horses mouth, then runs to the nearest waterpark so that she can run the ball under several waterfalls to remove the horse spit and zombie goo. Once she makes it past the waterfalls, she loses the ball while making a sharp left turn and… [/QUOTE] the icky ball rolls over my shoes yet again! Oh well, at least this time it’s sorta clean. Kicks ball toward the little net thingy at the end of the field, where it goes in and people get all excited. 😕 Is that what they mean by a score? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/212 "2007-02-07T23:36:00Z")
That makes it 7-6, Jovial Quetzals in the lead, since there were four people in that string. I’ll fire up the trusty old cannon, but it again misfires and sends the ball backwards, towards… ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/213 "2007-02-08T00:09:23Z")
Damn! Leave for a few hours and all hell breaks loose. And the score is currently 8 - 6 Quetzals lead. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/214 "2007-02-08T00:14:34Z")
[QUOTE=Strinka] Damn! Leave for a few hours and all hell breaks loose. And the score is currently 8 - 6 Quetzals lead. [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure that it’s 7-6; I switched the scores at the top of this page: at that point, the Lazy Explosions were in the lead, but that’s not what I wrote. Then again, given that you’re not playing, and thus can keep score more easily, I guess I’ll take your word for it. (And no, this has nothing to do with Strinka’s scoring being more favorable to me.) ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/215 "2007-02-08T00:19:53Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] I’m pretty sure that it’s 7-6; I switched the scores at the top of this page: at that point, the Lazy Explosions were in the lead, but that’s not what I wrote. Then again, given that you’re not playing, and thus can keep score more easily, I guess I’ll take your word for it. (And no, this has nothing to do with Strinka’s scoring being more favorable to me.) [/QUOTE] But the Quetzals made three points in two goals. Sternvogel made the other goal. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/216 "2007-02-08T00:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=Strinka] But the Quetzals made three points in two goals. Sternvogel made the other goal. [/QUOTE] I guess I miscounted. Some Quetzal want to take the pass, here? I can’t do this all by myself! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/217 "2007-02-08T01:06:27Z")
Trudging onto the field, making trudging noises, we take the ball from Captain Carrot and trudge over him, ignoring his protestations, goal-ly we go. Hie-Ho, Hie-Ho, off to the goal we go… ---
**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:** [February 8, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/218 "2007-02-08T01:06:41Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] I guess I miscounted. Some Quetzal want to take the pass, here? I can’t do this all by myself! 😃 [/QUOTE] I guess I’ve watched **Captain Carrot** suffer long enough, so I’ll quickly swoop through, pick up the ball, take a flying leap over a nearby river and… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/219 "2007-02-08T01:07:12Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] I guess I miscounted. Some Quetzal want to take the pass, here? I can’t do this all by myself! 😃 [/QUOTE] **anyrose** takes the ball from **Cpt Carrot** and asks him where the rest of our team went? ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/220 "2007-02-08T01:08:40Z")
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