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by ZhangC1459
Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:21 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion
Replies: 55
Views: 103915

Re: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion

Nick has anger problems. I personally didn't pick up on anything of the sort, though I do agree that when the major teams believe the system sucks that something's wrong. If you guys won, congrats and good luck. If not, well, you can sit here and blame the system (albeit not unfairly, since it does ...
by ZhangC1459
Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rebounding bonuses
Replies: 22
Views: 3103

Re: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion

I remember you guys (specifically Ammar) raged at me at WUHSAC 11 for answering the last question correctly, getting a rebounding bonus that could've given Eureka the third-place win if they had gotten the bonus. So yes, it's a valid tactic. And bonuses do decide the game, I believe at Missouri S&am...
by ZhangC1459
Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:57 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: things that suck...
Replies: 623
Views: 442384

Re: things that suck...

Korean pop music. I'm forced to listen to it at work EVERY.SINGLE.DAY! :cry: Somebody needs to tell these people that disco died 30 years ago. :o Oh god, kpop. The only good thing I can say about Kpop is that Lee Hyori is hot. This makes getting an Asian girlfriend that much harder because she'll i...
by ZhangC1459
Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:56 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

WillHack wrote:Chinese. You can't go wrong with Chinese food.
True story
by ZhangC1459
Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:55 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion
Replies: 55
Views: 103915

Re: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion

Well, going back to the TS Eliot question, my exact words after hearing that question ( I have no idea about any Harvard PhD or dissertation defense, so I won't comment on that, that's for smarter people) were "So, basically, that question was "mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer mer The Waste...
by ZhangC1459
Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:37 am
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Results
Replies: 41
Views: 19475

Re: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Results

We lost as well. By 10 to Park Hill South. Well, as least we never have to play on these god awful questions ever again. And we can pray that maybe, just maybe Zeus will smite the QG headquarters with all his arsenal of thunderbolts. You guys are going to HSNCT nationals, right? That trumps the MSH...
by ZhangC1459
Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:35 am
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion
Replies: 55
Views: 103915

Re: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion

Yeah, there were plenty of horrendous questions, quite often ones where you want to anticipate the obvious "giveaway" () and buzz, but your good quizbowl instinct tells you that you don't/can't know for sure what the tossup is asking. And then you kick yourself for not buzzing (Vague, I k...
by ZhangC1459
Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:50 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion
Replies: 55
Views: 103915

Re: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion

Actually, to my surprise, there was one question during QG that was considered "Pyramidal"... though we only played three games so I can't speak for the rest of the sets. But all things considered, I'm almost happy not to go to state, I'd much rather use the time to prep for nationals whic...
by ZhangC1459
Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:46 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion
Replies: 55
Views: 103915

Re: 2010 MSHSAA Districts Discussion

Is this a place to complain about errors in the questions again? XD One of the calculation ones was horribly horribly off...
by ZhangC1459
Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:25 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

So I should have said no, but I did it anyway. I went to KFC and tried that awful Double Down sandwich they advertised on TV. I know it was a heart attack in a cardboard sleeve, but I couldn't resist my curiosity, OK? :oops: Two breaded chicken filets, two pieces of bacon, two pieces of cheese and ...
by ZhangC1459
Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:25 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

This somehow seems like whiplash after reading recent posts in this thread, but I just noticed that my high school's team (well, last year's now-graduated varsity, at any rate) is on the MSHSAA front page again. The picture appears to be from our game against Pilot Grove. I probably would never hav...
by ZhangC1459
Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Seeding at MSHSAA Districts?
Replies: 15
Views: 2629

Re: Seeding at MSHSAA Districts?

Is it just us and north in our district again? I know we're going there for districts... on, I believe, this saturday?
by ZhangC1459
Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:02 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2011 Missouri NAQT Qualifier
Replies: 2
Views: 935

Re: 2011 Missouri NAQT Qualifier

HA! I WON'T BE THERE... as a participant, anyways.
by ZhangC1459
Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:15 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

dividebyzero wrote:People that don't suck: Cosmin Dumitru
You will be missed
True story...
by ZhangC1459
Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:15 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

I think I'll go for homemade Pakistani/Indian food instead. Forget spaghetti and meatballs, we have meatball curry (and might I mention that it's ridiculously good?) I want to try it. lol Hey, just come up with some excuse to come over again some time. You know my parents will be more than willing ...
by ZhangC1459
Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:09 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

Everything-everyone-said-above-that's-getting-kinda-long Speaking of which, Tautology Club does not suck. Tautology Club is also a tautology club. You read my mind. I was about to post a link to that, because that's the page I was about to link everyone to. I was expecting a link to that after my p...
by ZhangC1459
Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:35 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

dividebyzero wrote:dictionary.com word of the day: neologism
never have I had so much doubt about the definition of the word I was looking up :wink:

Also, the SarcMark. It's almost as good as alt codes
(but unfortunately my browser isn't rendering it right now...)
Is Neologism a neologism? That would be tautology.
by ZhangC1459
Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:32 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

dividebyzero wrote:I think I'll go for homemade Pakistani/Indian food instead. Forget spaghetti and meatballs, we have meatball curry (and might I mention that it's ridiculously good?)
I want to try it. lol
by ZhangC1459
Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:27 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: things that suck...
Replies: 623
Views: 442384

Re: things that suck...

U. Lou Sthagaim wrote:The people on a balcony in the building across the way who won't shut up. Seriously, it's 1 AM!!!!
This is what crossbows are for.
by ZhangC1459
Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:26 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

Eh, whatever. I'm never gonna remember to tell you in person, plus a grand total of three people here know him, and he's out by now (and wouldn't really care if I told you) Schlosser (Who of course thought it was a good thing, since he would get much more work done :lol: ) HAHA. He would. Also, you...
by ZhangC1459
Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:13 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

dividebyzero wrote:Gatorball. Arguably one of the best [team] games you can play with your friends (Which means I spent a couple hours doing that today instead of something, I don't know, productive? :D )
Psh, at least you got exercise
by ZhangC1459
Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:52 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: things that suck...
Replies: 623
Views: 442384

Re: things that suck...

Speaking of head colds... Allergies suck massive.. well, yeah. I can't sleep at night for not being able to breathe... and my sense of smell has gone. Also, my eyes are red and puffy and I generally look even worse than normal.
by ZhangC1459
Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:43 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

I just found out that there are Kwakwaka'wakw totem poles depicting (and so, worshipped) Thunderbirds. Of course I found this out by following links from a page that mentioned how Zapdos is probably based on the Thunderbird. Very tempted to jump to conclusions here :lol: I declare this post epic. K...
by ZhangC1459
Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:41 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

dividebyzero wrote:I had a Fanta Banana slurpee today. Then my friend got suspended for skipping class. 0.0
I think I'll lay low for a while...

LOLWUT.

Which friend?
by ZhangC1459
Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:41 am
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Clarence Cannon Conference 2010
Replies: 33
Views: 4720

Re: Clarence Cannon Conference 2010

dividebyzero wrote:We should lock the QG people in a room to test it. One at a time. I'm sure there's enough of them to get a good set of data points...
:mrgreen:
And if not, we write them off as an acceptable loss and give the bid to NAQT.
by ZhangC1459
Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:36 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

PHSouth wrote:I've ate 20 peeps today.
Lucky.
by ZhangC1459
Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:35 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Clarence Cannon Conference 2010
Replies: 33
Views: 4720

Re: Clarence Cannon Conference 2010

Yeah. my fav was the "how would you die in a room" question. I STILL don't know the answer to that :shock: You do know the answer to that... just not the other 13204689760 possible answers it could be. I mean, the answer they had was, I believe, carbon dioxide poisoning. BUT, you could di...
by ZhangC1459
Sun Apr 04, 2010 8:18 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: things that suck...
Replies: 623
Views: 442384

Re: things that suck...

Keith Moon wrote:not on my page. Failure :lol:

You use IE and/or display less. Which is a fail and a massive amount of suck by itself
by ZhangC1459
Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:54 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

PenforPrez wrote:Washington, D.C. definitely does not suck. Except for the traffic. This city is so cool. I always love coming here. 8)
true story/. On a stick.
by ZhangC1459
Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:54 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: things that suck...
Replies: 623
Views: 442384

Re: things that suck...

Keith Moon wrote:I just realized, this page only has 1 cz post...More indication of the approaching apocalypse :shock: (which sucks, so my post is relevant!)
I count two in the bottom third alone, Rumple.
by ZhangC1459
Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:59 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

Keith Moon wrote:I put it into google and thats what it gave me lol
>_> back to the topic of food...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm chipotle.
by ZhangC1459
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:04 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

Machina wrote:Chicago!! Just got back from vacation there. Totally awesome.
Chicago is the most awesome place ever.

Plus, you're going back there in May. With the rest of us noobs from Missouri. HSNCT will be so fun, what with... well, stuff that our team plans to do :)

don't worry, nothing bad.
by ZhangC1459
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:03 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

Keith Moon wrote:well, its in the Democratic Republic of the Congo....

Erm... what?
by ZhangC1459
Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:16 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

I found out today that hamburger helper mixed with rice isn't that bad.

Also, on an unrelated note, my posts are full of animated GIFs
by ZhangC1459
Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:28 am
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Marshall Tournament, 2010
Replies: 11
Views: 1598

Re: Marshall Tournament, 2010

We had lightning rounds during 8th grade Gifted's annual ac challenge thing for the gifted kids... except everyone got the same questions and the teams had to work together to get the highest score they could
by ZhangC1459
Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:57 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU
Replies: 44
Views: 31297

Re: 2010 Pre-Nationals Tournament (5/22/2010) @ MU

Singles tourney? As in one-man teams for real?

Lol, I doubt I could do that... It'd be fun to try though
by ZhangC1459
Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:12 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 20, 2010
Replies: 43
Views: 25375

Re: 2010 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 20, 2010

How well were the questions written? They were pretty good. A few were QG-esque bonuses but I suspect that this was more due to a rush job (according to Charles, they asked him a week before the tournament to write 30-something questions for this packet and he refused) than anything else. That's a ...
by ZhangC1459
Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:59 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 20, 2010
Replies: 43
Views: 25375

Re: 2010 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 20, 2010

How well were the questions written? They were pretty good. A few were QG-esque bonuses but I suspect that this was more due to a rush job (according to Charles, they asked him a week before the tournament to write 30-something questions for this packet and he refused) than anything else. Central d...
by ZhangC1459
Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:52 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: Clarence Cannon Conference 2010
Replies: 33
Views: 4720

Re: Clarence Cannon Conference 2010

Well, the problem is even when QG tries to write longer questions, they still tend to fail miserably a lot of the time. A particular incident comes to mind (can't say specifically what, since QG tends to repeat questions from tournament to tournament entire sections of packets word for word in the ...
by ZhangC1459
Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:29 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: lalalalala
Replies: 1030
Views: 543920

Re: lalalalala

I just felt more pride in blowing up someone else's internet spaceship with my own internet spaceship than I did in getting into a college.
by ZhangC1459
Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:28 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

Well, nuts. the only few I know of were either bought by someone else and changed into something else (The one I knew is now a Chipotle, so not too bad of a change) or are still closed.
by ZhangC1459
Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:04 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

On another note... HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL!!! Thank you! :D I think I'm officially too old for this board now. :P It'll only be a couple of years before I'll have to retire to my rocking chair and tell the younguns about "how it used to be." "You see sonny, when I was your age, we didn't...
by ZhangC1459
Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:02 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

Machina wrote:Getting my school ring. :D

Pshh, jewelry. Never saw the point.

I don't want memories of my time at High school, those don't start till the first reunion ten years down the road.
by ZhangC1459
Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Spring 2010 chat room games availability
Replies: 85
Views: 13968

Re: Spring 2010 chat room games availability

I will probably not be reading any more this week because of the Qualifier this Saturday so hopefully somebody will be available to read when people are interested in playing. I would read if I had any packets that weren't from last year/aren't available online, but all I've got is (for some reason...
by ZhangC1459
Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:29 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

Keith Moon wrote:it wasnt just one of them either, I believe there were multiple ones that got shut down
Pretty sure that was Wendy's.
by ZhangC1459
Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:49 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

Keith Moon wrote:Dairy Queen? the ones near us got shut down for uncleanliness....
Yeah, I tried going there during ac lab once and was like wow, it got closed for health code violations.. fail... Then I went to Steak'n'Shake
by ZhangC1459
Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:22 pm
Forum: Tournament Announcements and Discussion
Topic: 2010 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 20, 2010
Replies: 43
Views: 25375

Re: 2010 NAQT Missouri Qualifier - March 20, 2010

Really bad news for NKC. I'll be in Chicago that weekend. I can't make it. This sucks man. Now the only State tournament I get to be a part of is the MSHSAA one, and Lord knows that doesn't even count, and QG might not even let us make it there. Have fun beating each other up Eastern Half of the St...
by ZhangC1459
Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:05 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Things that don't suck
Replies: 620
Views: 693621

Re: Things that don't suck

Diary Queen. XD
by ZhangC1459
Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:53 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Random posts about food
Replies: 177
Views: 119508

Re: Random posts about food

Touche, loser of the game. Touche.

EDIT: i'm not even going to edit it away. Let's leave it there for posterity. Gotta set an example for Rumple