I like sports; I played pretty much all of them when I was a kid and still have a box somewhere full of those gold-plated plastic trophies they hand out at the end of the season. Like most American males, my dad and I used to watch games on TV, even a little on Sundays (strictly forbidden in our house) under the guise of "I just wanna see the score real quick."
Yet somewhere along the line, televised sports and I parted ways. It wasn't a bitter break-up or anything, we just didn't have much time or interest in one another. Sure we think of each other now and then, particularly when pretty much every picture of me from ages 9-13 has me sporting a Dodgers hat, but generally I'm clueless to what's going with my old pal Sports.
This week at work, Kurt asked me during a slow stint, "So whaddya say there, Daniel: should we tune into the game on the computer?"
"Um...sure!" (Hmmm, what game? Let's see, it's cold outside so...is it football season? Basketball? NASCAR? Yes, a NASCAR game, that's definitely it.)
"Can you believe so-and-so passed on the big Stein?"
"Did he? Man!" (Okay, I'm pretty sure he's referring to George Steinberg which I know, thanks to Seinfeld, owns the Yankees. So we must be getting ready to watch baseball. Right.)
"Looks like the Sox are one up on the Indians."
"I hope they take it again!" (Woo-hoo, thanks to "Fever Pitch" I know that the Red Sox used to be cursed but they finally won the World Series a few years ago! Hollywood, you've saved me again.)
However, I may be inclined to watch a game next week thanks to this:
And he was true to his word:
Something momentous also happened on Conan this week:
And air it they did.
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Ok, if you can work in "fly-by-night jub jub" into a conversaion in Dr. Burrows' class this week (or another class if you don't have him anymore)...without referencing Conan...I will donate $5 to the charity of your choice.
Are you up to the challenge?
Darn; if I had seen this earlier I could have incorporated a "fly-by-night jub jub in my talk in church today and you could've then made a generous donation to the Perpetual Education Fund.
However, I can still easily work it in class this week and you can keep your $5 if you do the same while you're teaching. Just say, "I'm really unimpressed with this week's turned-in homework, or dare I call it jub jub?" That'll learn 'em.
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