# Doperball VII -- The Game Rooming **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 11, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910 "2008-04-11T16:16:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/81 "2008-04-11T21:02:46Z")
**Enfant Terrible** picks up \*\*Darth Sensitive’s \*\* fumble and hurls the ball to… ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/82 "2008-04-11T21:04:54Z")
[QUOTE=Enfant Terrible] **Enfant Terrible** picks up \*\*Darth Sensitive’s \*\* fumble and hurls the ball to… [/QUOTE] NAF who is not going to let team no name score. He passes it back to… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/83 "2008-04-11T21:06:10Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] NAF who is not going to let team no name score. He passes it back to… [/QUOTE] Enfant Terrible who picks up NAF’s illegally touched ball and punts it through the goal for a score, and waits for a ruling, holding both arms up to lobby for the call! ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/84 "2008-04-11T21:08:19Z")
Wait, why is my touch illegal. Did I miss something? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/85 "2008-04-11T21:10:03Z")
[QUOTE=Enfant Terrible] Enfant Terrible who picks up NAF’s illegally touched ball and punts it through the goal for a score, and waits for a ruling, holding both arms up to lobby for the call! [/QUOTE] No, **NAF** is correct – his touch was fine. So was yours, but it just began a possession – your side is still scoreless. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/86 "2008-04-11T21:10:07Z")
**Darth Sensitive** smirks at **Enfant Terrible** ’s antics distracting the opposition, then recovers the ball, before surreptitiously handing it off to… ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/87 "2008-04-11T21:11:19Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Sensitive] **Darth Sensitive** smirks at **Enfant Terrible** ’s antics distracting the opposition, then recovers the ball, before surreptitiously handing it off to… [/QUOTE] NAF who refuses to let these shenanagins slow him down. He passes it back to… ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/88 "2008-04-11T21:11:59Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] NAF who refuses to let these shenanagins slow him down. He passes it back to… [/QUOTE] Darth, who lobs it in the general direction of… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/89 "2008-04-11T21:12:54Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] No, **NAF** is correct – his touch was fine. So was yours, but it just began a possession – your side is still scoreless. [/QUOTE] What?!? You must be blinder than Stevie Wonder at midnight at the bottom of the Marianas Trench buried in Oprah’s minge! How you got off the little league fields is a mystery that would confound Sherlock Holmes backed up by Batman! Why you pointy-nosed git… _is carried to the penalty box foaming at the mouth_ \ I thought he had to name who he got the pass from? \ …bloody stealing sheep from Hal, it’d be an improvement in your social life and family tree! ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/90 "2008-04-11T21:14:18Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Sensitive] Darth, who lobs it in the general direction of… [/QUOTE] NAF who grabs it back while Enfant is foaming. He passes it back to… ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/91 "2008-04-11T21:14:44Z")
He quoted you - which works - and it can’t be you-me-you for a goal, we need three different people. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/92 "2008-04-11T21:15:02Z")
Ooh! The ball! Enfant Terrible heads Darth Sensitive’s throw to… ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/93 "2008-04-11T21:18:32Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] NAF who grabs it back while Enfant is foaming. He passes it back to… [/QUOTE] Taber, who notes that Darth didn’t grab or pass the ball in his post. Taber passes it to ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/94 "2008-04-11T21:19:18Z")
Darth takes Taber’s pass, then banks it off the stands to… ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/95 "2008-04-11T21:19:23Z")
[QUOTE=Enfant Terrible] Ooh! The ball! Enfant Terrible heads Darth Sensitive’s throw to… [/QUOTE] And the Oredigger is back in the action with another marvelous interception and is able to toss the ball before getting drilled by the oposition ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/96 "2008-04-11T21:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=Oredigger77] And the Oredigger is back in the action with another marvelous interception and is able to toss the ball before getting drilled by the oposition [/QUOTE] Hooah! Take it and like it! Enfant Terrible carries the ball forward then falls on his face, and the ball rolls to… ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/97 "2008-04-11T21:20:36Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Sensitive] Darth takes Taber’s pass, then banks it off the stands to… [/QUOTE] Oredigger makes a secong try at the interception and hopefully gets it this time again a marvelous pass . . . ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/98 "2008-04-11T21:20:58Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Sensitive] Darth takes Taber’s pass, then banks it off the stands to… [/QUOTE] Taber trips, accidently headbutting the ball into the waiting hands of. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/99 "2008-04-11T21:21:59Z")
[QUOTE=Oredigger77] Oredigger makes a secong try at the interception and hopefully gets it this time again a marvelous pass . . . [/QUOTE] I trip again, and pass it on while vowing to preview (yeah right) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910/100 "2008-04-11T21:23:17Z")
[QUOTE=Taber] I trip again, and pass it on while vowing to preview (yeah right) [/QUOTE] Picked off by the sure-handed, slew-footed wonder, Enfant Terrible, who exhaustedly blows the ball dandelion-pollen style to… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doperball-vii-the-game-rooming/444910.md?page=6)