Humbugardy: Same School for 400
2005-08-27 11:04
This is Humbugardy. I’m your host, Alex Scorebard.
Though Eckstein and Ellis
Don’t hit many taters,
They shared this team’s infield…
Don’t hit many taters,
They shared this team’s infield…
| Bravery | Haiku Trades | Same School | “Tools” of Ignorance | Literary Baseball | Ballpark Franks |
| 100 | Derek Smart | Jen | Baby Maddux | Humma Kavula | metfaninalaska |
| Baby Maddux | 200 | 200 | Cliff Corcoran | Next… | MattPat11 |
| Dan Lucero | 300 | Joe | For The Turnstiles | Ryan Wilkins | 300 |
| 400 | Jacob L | T J | Bob Timmerman | Bob Timmerman | 400 |
| 500 | 500 | Philip Michaels | Shaun P | 500 | 500 |
Note: Using the web to search is cheating…you gotta know (or guess) off the top of your head.
1. Who are the Florida Gators?
2. Nice job, Bob - you've got the 400 point questions down!
3. The meter doesn't fit right with Florida in the answer, does it? I'll try "Who are the Gators?"
4. Actually, I think "The Florida Gators" has the right number of syllables. "Who are the Gators" only has 5, which doesn't work unless you read "infield" really fast.
5. But this is Humbugardy, which means the "Who Are" is necessary.
6. I'm on pins and needles. Or is it tenterhooks?
7. Man, if I lose it on syllables, I'm going to protest to the International Humbugardy Commission in The Hague!
8. Yeah, I realized the Who Are thing after I posted. there's not a really good way to fit Florida Gators and Who Are into the line . . .
They're Florida Gators fits, but still, not in the form of a question.
Who are the Gators fits better than Who are the Florida Gators, but we'll see what Scorebard thinks of it I suppose.
9. Just in case none of the above are acceptable -
Who are U F's Gators?
10. I'm gonna go with "With the Florida Gators."
11. OK, nobody's figured out a perfect answer, but I'm gonna give this one to T J. Bob is losing this one, not because of the number of syllables, but because of the number of stressed syllables.
Lemme explain:
The meter for the first three lines of this poem are wSwwSw (w=weakly stressed syllable, S=strong).
Ordinarily, you'd want a question with the exact same meter. Nobody has provided one, like "So, who are the Gators?" or "What team are the Gators?"
But there exist poetic forms (such as the limerick) which have optional weak stresses at the beginning of their lines. "Who are the Gators?" while having only five syllables, has the correct sequence and number of weak and stressed syllables, omitting an optional weak syllable at the beginning of the line.
"Who are the Florida Gators?" has three stressed syllables, and that just doesn't work.
12. This is the greatest injustice since the 1972 Men's Olympic Basketball Final!
I refuse to accept my silver medal!
13. Sorry, Bob. I never win anything, though, so I'm taking this one. It's cheap, but it counts.
Literary Baseball for 200, Alex.
14. I could have done what TJ did, just a couple hours in advance - and then have gotten this one!
D'oh.
Congrats, TJ - I'll never concede that easily again.
15. In the immortal words of Jimmy V (and I'm a Tar Heel fan), "Don't give up. Don't ever give up."