2010-2011 Wizards Public Address Announcer Tryouts
What: The Wizards are looking for a new voice to announce their home games for the upcoming 2010-2011 season. We’re looking for a booming and authentic voice to help bring our games to life. Basketball announcing experience is a plus, but not mandatory.
When: Monday September 13 from 6pm-9pm
Where: Verizon Center
I've got a booming and authentic voice (many would say annoying as well). I figure if I put this in (virtual) print, I can't back out. So yeah, I'm gonna do this on Monday night the 13th. Wish me luck. No matter what happens at least the wrap-up post will be entertaining.
*So, I googled P.A. announcer to get an image for the post, and it appears Mark is running the google image algorithm, because I ended up with this:
Do it!
ReplyDeleteJohnny Walker Red, neat. Doowit. Doowit.
ReplyDeleteGuy I most look forward to announcing?
ReplyDeleteYi Jianlian.
The Teej and Yi Show.
TeeJay and YiJay.
ReplyDeleteis that ric flair?
ReplyDeletewashboard baby! WHOOOOOO!!!!
ReplyDeleteZeeMan and the YeeMan?
ReplyDeletewho is that guy?
ReplyDeletei am in a painful workshop designed to inspire me.
help me.
i am so bored my brain is eating itself
ReplyDeleteI'd recommend crafty quips. Like
ReplyDeleteThat's WallBall!
You got stung...by Nick Young!
teej, i'll have our guy bronbron put in a good word for you.
ReplyDeleteA young lad in my office is a recent W&M grad and is still in touch with current students. Apparently in an on-going effort to curb drinking games/binge drinking, all (remaining) fraternities were told this week that they must immediately remove any beer pong tables from their house, and if they fail to do so the beer pong tables will be confiscated. I don't see how this is enforceable (who's to say what any given table is used for?) but I'm really impressed with the Admin stepping up their game in the on-going effort to eliminate all forms of fun.
ReplyDeleteDave, is your workshop entiled "Don't Stand So Close to Me?"
ReplyDeleteha ha.
ReplyDeletei predict pong ping will make a come back . . . they can't outlaw ping pong tables. or tables in general-- can they?
The College of William and Mary. Established in 1693. Table-less since 2010.
ReplyDeleteSounds like W&M is now run by law firm recruiters.
ReplyDeleteWhat they don't realize is that more students get uncontrollably hammered by drinking liquor drinks in some dorm room than any other method.
ReplyDeleteI think the only frats that are left are the ones that we don't like.
ReplyDeleteThe real tragedy is that W&M style 2-cup beer pong is an endangered species. It's a far superior game than the more popular style and I don't know if it's played anywhere else. This could be the end.
The guy in my office is a Sigma Chi. I'm not sure what other frats are still around, but he told me that SAE got the boot last year, I believe.
ReplyDeleteAre you talking to the dude with no arms?
ReplyDeleteI talked to an '04 guy a few weeks ago. He was a Theta Delt and said they got booted. I think he said it was Pika, SAE, and Moke and maybe that other one that I can't remember Unit D maybe...they were OK sometimes.
ReplyDeleteWow. I always figured SAE was bulletproof. They didn't haze, they'd take anyone so they could fill their house, they played inoffensive dance music, they enforced the guest list and back door policies (gs)...
ReplyDeleteHere's a list of W&M's frats along with a good indicator of their frattiness.
ReplyDeletehttp://tinyurl.com/27b9lnd
The two cup beer-pong style demands a far greater array of skills than the triangle-style. It's easy to "get lucky" on the triangle-style and hit a few shots because the target area is so much larger for the first half. Also, when your team is not shooting, there's nothing to do but stand around. The W&M style keeps players engaged throughout the match.
ReplyDeleteAnd Teej, that guy was a Phi Tau.
I have run into the Phi Tau with no arms twice since graduation...once at a bar, and once because apparently we use the same financial planner/accountant.
ReplyDeleteSAE had a drunk pledge fall down their back steps and go to the emergency room and that was the death knell...or so I'm told.
There's also a new frat, "Beta" that you can basically just sign up for. Kind of like the Pika business model.
ReplyDeleteSAE has 7 brothers?
ReplyDeleteIntentional downsizing so they could increase the size of their pictures on the composite.
ReplyDeleteBeta hazing "This IS a drinking club!"
ReplyDeleteI'm proud of Delta Chi for sticking it out all these years. Those douchebags proved all the naysayers wrong...except for the naysayers who said "Those guys suck"--those particular naysayers were spot on.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is Delta Chi? I remember Delta Phi.
ReplyDeleteWho's the poor SAE brother who doesn't have a partner for Anal Mondays?
ReplyDeleteDoes he wear glasses? Yup
ReplyDeleteWhat does he bench? Less than 100 pounds.
Welcome to Delta Chi.
With an odd number they just go with the Anal Loop.
ReplyDeleteI meant Delta Phi. Delta Chi is the wife swapping fraternity I just joined which meets in the Peruvian chicken place down the street.
ReplyDeleteQuimby.
ReplyDeletePollo Rico?
ReplyDeleteI believe the 7 SAE's were the inspiration for the Human Centipede.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure every year there's some freshman who tries to convince his buddies, "let's ALL rush Delta Phi: it's right by the sororities and we can take it over and make it cool".
ReplyDeleteIt's actually not that bad of a plan in theory. But in practice, who wants to put up with socially inept scrubs for something that might not pan out anyway.
Seriously, how good is El Pollo Rico? The answer: Very to extremely.
ReplyDeletePLANTAINS BITCHES!!!
ReplyDeletePollo Camparo is every bit as good.
ReplyDeleteBull shit, Greg. Take it back.
ReplyDeleteOver at Pollo de la Muerte Freduardo cooks a mean bird.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but the horchata at Pollo de la Muerte tastes like somebody emptied an ashtry into some milk and poured it over ice.
ReplyDeleteThe best part about Pollo Rico is the guy with 6 fingers who chops up the chickens. I always used to watch him chop, eagerly expecting that extra digit to stray too close to the blade.
ReplyDeleteThey omitted the seared pork loin with lime jello. But the mud soup with charcoal-arugula is outrageous.
ReplyDeleteInca Cola is da bomb.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the "jugo de coco", which is nice with either some light rum or the "Easy Jesus".
ReplyDeleteThe zwoman excitedly emailed me that The Situation will be on Dancing With The Stars. Also on the list: Rick Fox and Kurt Warner; Hasselhoff and Michael Bolton; Margaret Cho and Mrs. Brady; Bristol Palin; and a bunch of other people I've never head of.
ReplyDeleteAre these really "stars"?
i love that jerry got all jersey with the "how much can you bench insult."
ReplyDeleteby the way,
i can bench any member of the g:tb staff.
and when did "bench" become a verb?
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, football. Love ya, pal.
ReplyDeleteThe last dozen or so comments saved what was a terrible comment thread.
ReplyDeleteFRAT!
is the utah pitt game not on?
ReplyDeletenever mind. it's on versus.
ReplyDeletei've been out watching some real football. jaguars baby. catch the mediocrity!
hopefully someone here is catching the end of this utes game.
ReplyDeleteThis is outstanding.
ReplyDeleteI despise the super-late icing, but, that was kind of fun.
ReplyDeleteSo icing works...or not
Stay strong, Martha Wood.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about upgrading from my 4-year-old Motorola Razr to a Blackberry so that my personal phone and my work email are all in one place. It has to be a Blackberry because the IT guys at work won't allow us to use anything else for work email. I understand zero about this stuff. Any suggestions for a good BB that will support TMobile service?
ReplyDeleteI asked a guy at work and he said something about "tethering" the phone and I said "You mean like wearing it on your belt? I don't want to do that." and he looked at me with disgust and explained that this allows you to get the interet on your laptop through your Blackberry much faster than through wifi. How does that work?
Smirnoff icing? Gay, Jerry. Gay.
ReplyDeleteSqueaky can probably tell you. A couple of folks in his company do the tethering thing.
ReplyDeleteOf course, with T-Mobile, I think you only get a strong signal if you are climbing their tower.
And speaking of the Martha Wood, here's an informal invitation to Jerry, TR, Mark/mayhugh, Geoff, D-train, Marls, Michael Jack, and everyone other GTBer and FOGTBer whose address I don't have.
ReplyDeleteSept 24-26, 40 Hours of Fun, OBX, Igor turning 40. Let me know if you're coming, and this trip alternate accommodations are needed, Igor's dad is being a bit of a Mike Love about "not ruining the house" or something.
Yeah, tethering is simply attaching a cord from your blackberry to your laptop and using your blackberry's signal as a way to get internet access. Pretty much every blackberry has this capability.
ReplyDeleteI'm now on my 6th blackberry and I'm happiest with my current model, the Tour. I would generally avoid any of their models with a touch screen--they do a shitty job with that technology.
igor - thanks for the invite. i saw that a couple months back on your "fb" or maybe in a mass email. will be continuing w/the month of d-train while golfing in scottsdale with the usual suspects from incester, including buckles. if you'd consider moving it back a wkd, i'd consider partaking. let me know.
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