Newsgroups: alt.college.college-bowl
From: Eric Hillemann <ehill...@carleton.edu>
Date: 1996/01/30
Subject: PB6 Memories
I think the two things that made me laugh the most at PB6 both came from
scrimmaging with the Wisconsin team and others on Saturday. Playing questions before going over to the Edwards' castle, Willie Keller's anecdote about why Neil Armstrong enigmatically said "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky" while on the lunar surface has to be one of the funniest stories I've heard in a while. Then, playing more questions into the wee hours _after_ the Edwards party, Wisconsin's Brandon Jones, a true original, had us in stitches over and over for one thing or another. His plan for a Wisconsin trash-talking tournament; his "yo' mama" jokes; his description of the earlier part of his evening soaking in the tub with the latest issue of GQ; his comment re the tough Terrapin Invitational questions we were playing (not his cup of tea): "College Bowl is _hard_ . . . let's go shopping!" It won't be as funny in print as it was the way Brandon said it, but we were rolling on the floor over the way he indignantly put down the packet he was reading when Clarence Thomas came up, and said, "I _swear_ it's all done with lighting. I'm sorry, but that man is just _not_ black!" (Brandon is African-American.) OK, at the risk of running afoul of the net-censors, here is the Mr. When Apollo Mission Astronaut, Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Over the years many people have questioned him as to what the "Good luck A few months ago, (July 5, 1995 in Tampa Bay FL) while answering When he was a kid, he was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. As he leaned down to pick it up, young Armstrong heard Mrs. Gorsky You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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