http://rangelife.typepad.com/rangeli...ia_not_vi.html

nothing really to do with reffing.. but a basketball crowd prank on a player that is too funny not to share.

Kind of like the "Crying Game" but only with IM's.........

I LOVE basketball pranks.

My friends and I worked for a wonderful Priest when we were in college thru Youth Core. He ran all the CYO athletics in our city. One of our jobs was to drop off the Box Scores of the CYO Games in the local newspaper's Night Drop-Off.

One night when listening to INAGADAVIDA real loud, we invented "The CYO Winter Park League." This is with a foot of snow on the ground. We began submitting Box Scores of fictional games with the best players in the City. Routinely, my friends and I would have triple-doubles. The Newspaper obeiently began publishing the Box Scores. They always wrote a little Header like, "Crow Last Second Tap Wins in CYO Winter Park League."

One day Father McCarrick said to me,

"Crow...knock off that bull$%*% with the Winter Park League."

About a month later, one of the local guys who we use to include as a "losing opponent" came up to me and said,

"Hey John.....when did we play those Winter Park League Games....last summer?"

(Swear to God.)

Both very funny posts, but I'm too depressed right now to enjoy them.

It suddenly hit me that I'm old enough to know what the heck INAGADAVIDA is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/images/3...ss_old_man.jpg

Things might have been different if any of us had girlfriends.......

My High School had a 200 seat Study Hall. My Senior Year all the Sophomore Cheer Leaders and Majorettes were in it. We called them up one night from my basement and my buddy said that he was the Editor of the HS Newspaper. He made an appointment for them all to leave Study Hall and go see Miss Twohundredyearoldbattle Ax, the teacher that oversaw the School Paper. The interview pretext was an article entitled, "What Did you Learn During Your First Year Cheering?"

The girls all got up at 10:15 and left Study Hall. Miss Twohundredyearoldbattle Ax gave then Detentions for being out of Study Hall w/o permission. And, interupping her butt break in the Teacher's Lounge. They all came back at 10:20 crying their eyes out. I was tying not to laugh so hard that one of my eyeballs popped out.

(I'm defintely going to Hell.)

:D

Any old person that knows Iron Butterfly is alright in my book.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if you know Iron Butterfly then you, by definition, are an old person.

Umm...no I'm not. I read about them in my history book.

It's true...it's true.

I must really be old because I happen to know that INAGADAVIDA was the result of a slur when attempting to say the real lyric - "In the garden of Eden." The story is that a reporter misunderstood the answer when he asked a drunken band member what the name of their next single was going to be. When the band saw the story, they liked it so much that they rewrote the lyric.

Also, it's really spelled Inna Gadda Da Vidda. Another strange song story - Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4. The song was written in a matter of minutes at the end of a long, long recording session. One of the band members asked "What time is it." The response was "25 or 6 to 4." But then, Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?

We should re-name this thread:

Geezers Arise! (Warning: Off-topic)

Great idea.

We'll see if we can get Viagra as a sponsor.

Well, duh. Isn't InnaGaddaDaVidda their theme song? Isn't Iron Butterfly their spokesband?

You seem to know a lot about it.

When I was in my early 20's, I worked in a bank office. For some reason, the office staff was talking about rock bands and somebody mentioned InnaGaddawhatever. I said, "Oh, right. That's Iron Butterfly."

A high school girl, who worked in the office during the afternoons, laughed and said, "Tsk. It's Iron Maiden, silly!"

I swear that's a true story. I felt old at 25 years old.

Does anybody really care? ;)