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Delaware leads by 10 points, one question remaining in the game. Less than 10 words in a history question, Arun buzzes in and answers "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", to kill the remaining clock time. Too bad for Arun and his teammates, this tournament was untimed. Delaware get a neg 5, 3 words later 2 Delaware team members (a history major and a history minor) figure out the answer, and at the end of the question our opponents buzz in with "Henry Clay" and win the game.
Delaware State Police
Gave a former president a ticket on I-95 while on the way to a tournament. I don't care how fast you were going (70 mph), you should not get a ticket on I-95 for anything!
Duggan, Jeffery
Former treasurer of the Academic Competition Club who thought he was a vampire. To prove his point, he wore sunglasses 24 hours a day, in addition to his cap which had "Draq" on it.
Fluff Girl
The scary, self-imposed nickname of a former ACC president.
Furman/Carleton
The authors of a packet at Penn Bowl VIII, one which the halftime score between Delaware A and Dartmouth B was 20 to 15.
Georgetown University
We made their list, so they might as well make ours. Plus Hayden was admitted and allowed to graduate from there, not to mention Bill Clinton . . . what were they thinking???
Hyper-speed and Secret Tunnels
When you go to a tournament with 2 cars, how does one car beat the other to the designated point by 30 minutes or more? Hyper-speed and secret tunnels.
Loonie Ladyslippers and The Buttermilk Five
Two teams in the QB fantasy football league in 1999-2000 who like to trash talk about Delaware, although their combined record verses the two Delaware teams was 0-5. We offered other alternatives as a way to settle our differences (including a steel cage, no disqualification, first blood tag team match) but Loonie and MK (Buttermilk Five team owner) never wanted to take us up on the challenge.
Penn State University
In 1997, the trip into Happy Valley included a loss to a good high school team and a loss by forfeit because we were told the wrong time to report back from lunch. In 1999, day 2 of TRASHionals was the same days as a big AIDS walk. Parking was a pain, we park in the wrong lot, and we get a $15 ticket from PSU Public Safety.
Remy, Jason
Former president of the Academic Competition Club, now at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Jason is guilty of the all-nighters and the negs, as well as giving hitters too many points in the 1999 QB fantasy baseball league.
TGIFriday's
The unofficial restaurant of the ACC since 1998. Among the many events to have taken place during our visits include:
Manassas, Virginia (1998): Jonathan refuses to order the drink he wants, a Sheryl Temple, because it was not masculine sounding enough, so he tries to get a Roy Rogers, which as far as the waitress knew, doesn't exist; Justin flirts with the waitresses.
Bel Air, Maryland (1998): David burst the back tire of his parents' car leaving the parking lot; Justin again flirts with the waitresses
Brandywine Hundred, Delaware (1999): Arun begs EVERYONE at the table to buy him alcohol; David proclaims he will outscore a teammate the next day (to which he of course doesn't); and, surprise, Justin flirts with the waitresses.
Columbia, Maryland (2000): The ditsy waitress flirts and rubs up on David (what a change) and attacks Allison, who is sitting next to him, by spilling water on her and dropping a knife on her; there was also a group of annoying high school kids that needed to be introduced to the bottom of Travis's boots.
TRASH Regionals 1998
The most unpopular tournament of the 1998-1999 season. After edging John Hopkins University in the first game, the rest of the day would go downhill as UD lost its remaining games.
WWF Raw Is War
This show, and not Monday Night Football or Ally McBeal, made having Monday practices impossible, since many of the players were home watching it or would run in & out of practices to find out what was going on. And if you ain't down with that, we've got two words for you . . .