These threads do careen off-course, don't they?
Staying with the bowling theme while incorporating the original spirit of this topic, whenever I've bowled a few bad frames, I'll usually say, "Oh, The Pin Pal at home is going to be very disappointed with me".
[quote name=\'uncleplinko\' post=\'233483\' date=\'Jan 3 2010, 03:03 PM\']When I moderated rounds for a regional College Bowl tournament a couple of years ago, I tried to keep a steady pace, but interject humor when the moment called for it. Every team in our Region (Region 7: Midwest, for all you former CB'ers) got it, went with it, chuckled, and enjoyed it. I even won "Best Moderator" that year.[/quote]
Which was very well deserved. During the couple of years I "coached" (that's a crock; the first year I was the so-called coach I didn't know half the darned rules) Ohio University's team, I just knocked it up. But when you succeeded me, you married it. And I couldn't have been prouder.