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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
Juulie - thanks for reminding me of my very own Davism. Last year, I was working a boys spring league at a facility that doesn't allow anyone to bring in basketballs from the outside. All teams must use the ones provided by the facility. At halftime of a 6th grade game, one team grabbed all the basketballs to warm up. A player from the other team came up to me and said "Isn't there some kind of 'ball quota'?"
I replied "Yeah, two per player - girls league's different."
He thought for a moment, then he "got it". He grinned and told the other players on his team. For the rest of the game, I was the "cool ref". I guess I know just how to tap into 6th grade humor.
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Wow, you've stepped it up a grade or two!!! Congrats!
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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
BTW - in my summer league game I did last month with Dave, he asked me if I had any new "Padgett-isms" for him! WOW! I felt as if Albert Einstein had just asked me to correct his math homework. 
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You might find it interesting that Einstein didn't always do well in school...
He dropped out of school at one point. He often made simple math errors in spite of understaning much deeper subjects of math and phycics. Later, he failed an entrance exam to a college in Zurich, apparently not on the math or physics parts....The point being that even great minds have some failures in their past and were not alway experts.
[Edited by Camron Rust on Jul 16th, 2003 at 12:10 PM]