That's right. Om, Sweet Om. That was a good one. The day we invented those
names had to be my most unproductive day at work.
I guess for the next one, we could include a tight Chicago box, but call it
the "Lotus Position."
Katie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vernon Head [mailto:vhead@fuelrtm.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 1:13 PM
> To: 'ba-autox@autox.team.net'
> Subject: Re: Naming Corners
>
>
> 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.
> >
> >
>
>
|