Originally Posted by RichMSN (Post 719295)

Yes, I agree, although I bet there's already movies out depicting what I'm thinking at this moment. :D

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett (Post 719188)

That's kind of like letting her play with belt loops on her shorts.

A few years ago, I had a 7th grade boy come up to me just before a game and ask if he had to remove his nipple rings (yes, plural). At first I thought he was joking, but he wasn't. I told him yes. He told his coach he had to go to the locker room for a few minutes. My partner, who heard the conversation, asked me how I would like to be that kid's dad. I said, "Uh, no."

Originally Posted by RobbyinTN (Post 719276)

Was she blonde?

Robby (married to a blonde and father to a blonde)

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. (Post 719305)

Mark: I am not technologically advanced like you and Billy, so the best I can do is to post the website URL of a picture the 1946 University of Houston Men's Basketball Team. Please note the belted shorts. MTD, Sr.

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett (Post 719312)

So if they were all getting doctorate degrees, their jerseys would say "DUH"? :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by BktBallRef (Post 719277)

That's best left alone. :D

Originally Posted by RichMSN (Post 718932)

Last night, I was working a GV game. I was the R, 2-person.

As I was watching the visiting team warm up, I noticed white things in the earlobes of one of the players. Taking a closer look, this girl appeared to have holes in her earlobes almost 1/2" in diameter. She had white plugs in place to fill the holes that, I guess, normally have some metal jewelry.

Since we have to stand out there watching 5'8" girls not dunk for 20 full minutes (:rolleyes:), I contemplated this for a while, then held the captains meeting, where I got a closer look at the plugs, since the girl was one of the captains.

After my 15-second captains meeting, I pulled my partner aside and asked his opinion. Since he was wearing a patent leather belt, I wasn't really interested in any kind of sartorial opinion, rather I was a bit dumbfounded as to whether or not these plugs would be considered jewelry.

Not thinking like a 17-year-old girl, I decided they probably are jewelry and when my partner told me he'd be happy to talk to the girl while I was at the table, I took him up on the offer.

I came to find out later that these were rubber plugs designed to fill the holes in the girl's earlobes during physical activity. My partner said, "I think it would be more dangerous for her to play without them." Good enough for me. Of course, I learned that those things aren't fastened in the ears cause I saw the girl picking one up off the court later in the evening.

I must be turning into a geezer, cause that huge hole in her earlobe couldn't have been any less attractive, IMO.

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. (Post 719174)

.... If the player was not born with it, it is jewelry.....
MTD, Sr.

Originally Posted by fullor30 (Post 719370)

And I was just starting to feel bad about my earlier perception regarding how Wisconsin refs dress appears, I'm spot on.:D

Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 719303)

There may even be a thread or two on this site in which it's discussed.

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. (Post 719296)

Yes. Why? I have let every player in every game I have ever officiated play with a hole, that was oval in shape, that measured approximatley 3in wide and 1.5in high. :D

MTD, Sr.