Katie:
You forgot the "Mindbender" turn (Boondoggle 1). It was lots of fun having the
announcers mentioning the turns by name: "Pete Mottaz catches a cone going
through Mindbender".
I still have the course map from last year. Here are the names we never dared
mention:
Gates of Enlightenment
Oneness Slalom
Transcendental Hesitation
Detachment
Realization Right
Consciousness Corner
Zen
Om, Sweet Om
-Vernon
On Monday, June 5, 2000, Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com> wrote:
>Actually, at the first Boondoggle, we Vernon and I named all the turns.
>Actually, we did that at every Boondoggle. The first one had turns like
>"Reitmeir's Revenge," and "McKenna's Mayhem," and the "Sias Sifter," and
>stuff like that. Then we moved on to, last year, anyway, finding that
>inner-peace, and we named them after Zen Buddhist concepts. I know we spent
>like an hour on the phone thinking of names. I think the sweeper itself was
>just plainly called, "Zen." Other names: Affirmation. Clarity. Nirvana. So,
>the announcer would have to say, "There he goes, he's reached Clarity, now
>he's headed for Nirvana." We soon realized no one would ever really go along
>with it, though, the party poopers. Then, this year, and then we totally
>forgot, we were going to dedicate the course to Microsoft. I can only
>remember one turn name: the Zip Drive. Vernon sent me this whole e-mail with
>all these turn names, and they were hilarious, and then we both totally
>forgot what they were.
>
>Oh well.
>
>Katie K.
>
>Happiness is the best cosmetic.
>
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