# 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:** 12
**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, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/221 "2007-02-08T01:10:09Z")
DAMN it-I took the ball from anyrose! My ball MINE!! I’ll pass it to you if you’re on my team ---
**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, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/222 "2007-02-08T01:14:43Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] DAMN it-I took the ball from anyrose! My ball MINE!! I’ll pass it to you if you’re on my team [/QUOTE] You’ll pass it to me regardless; with any luck, **anyrose** or **swampy** will be along shortly to relieve me of my burden. ---
**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, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/223 "2007-02-08T01:16:10Z")
**anyrose** reluctantly accepts the ball from **Cpt Carrot** , and looks around for **swampbear** before toddling off to sleep for the night ---
**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, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/224 "2007-02-08T01:17:38Z")
OK…I’m very confused, so how about I take it from **rosie** and make a brave attempt to run across the goal line without tripping… ---
**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, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/225 "2007-02-08T01:35:32Z")
Oh, what a mess. Looks like it went from \*\*Captain Carrot \*\* to **anyrose** to **gardentraveler** who made a goal. That makes it 9 - 6 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/226 "2007-02-08T01:53:40Z")
Two points to a **Quetzal** victory! In honor of the homeland of our mascot, I’ll place a Guatemalan stamp on the ball and put it into play by loading it into the cargo hold of a Central America-bound freighter. The ship is puttering toward the Caribbean coast when it is suddenly… ---
**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, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/227 "2007-02-08T02:10:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Two points to a **Quetzal** victory! In honor of the homeland of our mascot, I’ll place a Guatemalan stamp on the ball and put it into play by loading it into the cargo hold of a Central America-bound freighter. The ship is puttering toward the Caribbean coast when it is suddenly… [/QUOTE] Is intercepted by my naval forces, continuing a brave Quetzal tradition… ---
**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, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/228 "2007-02-08T03:12:19Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Is intercepted by my naval forces, continuing a brave Quetzal tradition… [/QUOTE] Dude-I SO don’t want to hear about your forces, navel, or otherwise. 😉 Regaining what tiny vestige of dignity I might have left after such a scandalous display of navel artillery, I proudly display my own big guns and launch the Doperball 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 8, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/229 "2007-02-08T03:49:52Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] Regaining what tiny vestige of dignity I might have left after such a scandalous display of navel artillery, I proudly display my own big guns and launch the Doperball towards… [/QUOTE] My reinforcement fleet, coming to back up the main navy; they seize the ball and send it flying to… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/230 "2007-02-08T04:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] My reinforcement fleet, coming to back up the main navy; they seize the ball and send it flying to… [/QUOTE] Me, who just finished editing a paper on equine endotoxemia (not that I know anything about the subject, I was mostly just checking spelling and grammar). Before I retire for the evening, I place the ball on a gunboat, which, as it steams goalward, is hailed by passing **Doperballer** … ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/231 "2007-02-08T04:50:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Me, who just finished editing a paper on equine endotoxemia (not that I know anything about the subject, I was mostly just checking spelling and grammar). Before I retire for the evening, I place the ball on a gunboat, which, as it steams goalward, is hailed by passing **Doperballer** … [/QUOTE] … **Rhythmdvl** , who tries to swim for shore. Bogged down by the weight of the ball, he passes it to… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/232 "2007-02-08T04:59:08Z")
[QUOTE=Rhythmdvl] … **Rhythmdvl** , who tries to swim for shore. Bogged down by the weight of the ball, he passes it to… [/QUOTE] A teammate, presumably, but I swoop in for the interception and bury the ball in the sand, whence it is dug up by… ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/233 "2007-02-08T05:26:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] A teammate, presumably, but I swoop in for the interception and bury the ball in the sand, whence it is dug up by… [/QUOTE] **straight man** , who claims it as the archaeological find of the century and puts it in the British Museum, from which it is stolen by… ---
**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, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/234 "2007-02-08T05:58:47Z")
danceswithcats, who deftly arranges some stale Little Debbie snack cakes and with a dab of tartar sauce creates a reasonable facsimile of the now missing doperball, previously placed in the museum by straight man. Stuffing the doperball beneath his tunic and donning a red wig, danceswithcats exits the museum while pretending to be a pregnant lady and delivers on the sidewalk to… ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/235 "2007-02-08T10:20:40Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] danceswithcats, who deftly arranges some stale Little Debbie snack cakes and with a dab of tartar sauce creates a reasonable facsimile of the now missing doperball, previously placed in the museum by straight man. Stuffing the doperball beneath his tunic and donning a red wig, danceswithcats exits the museum while pretending to be a pregnant lady and delivers on the sidewalk to… [/QUOTE] … **Kotick** who comes flying in to the great chears from the crowd in a Sopwith Camel chased by the Manfred von Richthofen in his Albatross D III, snatches up the ball with his new butterfly-net, only to be shot down and explode in festival of flames. “Damn you, Red Baron”, he shouts as he falls to the ground cluthing the ball… ---
**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, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/236 "2007-02-08T11:33:23Z")
[QUOTE=Kotick] … **Kotick** who comes flying in to the great chears from the crowd in a Sopwith Camel chased by the Manfred von Richthofen in his Albatross D III, snatches up the ball with his new butterfly-net, only to be shot down and explode in festival of flames. “Damn you, Red Baron”, he shouts as he falls to the ground cluthing the ball… [/QUOTE] but it rolls away from **Kotick** and over to where **anyrose** has just emerged from hibernation. she picks up the grass covered ball, says “this isn’t coffee” and tosses it over her shoulder and wanders off in search of caffeine as the ball flies over towards ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/237 "2007-02-08T11:49:58Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] but it rolls away from **Kotick** and over to where **anyrose** has just emerged from hibernation. she picks up the grass covered ball, says “this isn’t coffee” and tosses it over her shoulder and wanders off in search of caffeine as the ball flies over towards [/QUOTE] Kotick tosses away his broken butterfly-net, walks over to anyrose and hands her a bulletridden thermos half full with coffe. He then picks up the ball, looks up to the sky, and kicks the ball hard skyward as a final curse… ---
**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, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/238 "2007-02-08T12:28:26Z")
[QUOTE=Kotick] Kotick tosses away his broken butterfly-net, walks over to anyrose and hands her a bulletridden thermos half full with coffee. He then picks up the ball, looks up to the sky, and kicks the ball hard skyward as a final curse… [/QUOTE] but it lands in Captain Carrot’s hands, who promptly unloads it onto… ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/239 "2007-02-08T12:39:25Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] but it lands in Captain Carrot’s hands, who promptly unloads it onto… [/QUOTE] …a sopping wet **Rhythmdvl** , who dries himself off with it, and tosses it over to… ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873/240 "2007-02-08T13:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=Rhythmdvl] …a sopping wet **Rhythmdvl** , who dries himself off with it, and tosses it over to… [/QUOTE] Me. Yep. That’s it. Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vi/390873.md?page=13)