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Unread 26-04-2003, 02:53
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My run of odd luck came at Chicago this year. We had left for the compitition Monday morning to avoid driving through the middle of the night. We got there about 5:00 p.m. Since we had nothing to do, we hung out at a beach near the art center of Northwestern University. We found a tennis ball there and threw it around between two groups of us guys (the girls had a premonition about what would happen later). One throw went high and I jumped up to try and catch it. The ball went straight past my glasses and hit me in the eye. The next day, our practices went great and nothing went wrong. The next morning, rolling out of bed, I hit my head on the nightstand. We won every match that day. I was not injured any further during the day. That saturday we lost every match. A lesson: I have to accidentally hit my head with something every competition day for good luck.
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"Hey Mark, while you're out scouting, tell the other teams our robot has a Flux Capacitor"
"No. Even if we did, we lack both the plutonium power supply and the motors necessary to reach the 88 mph requirement for time travel. Besides, the Infinite Improbablility Drive is way cooler than the Flux Capacitor."
(commence 20 min argument)
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