Origin of pulling your whistle out of pocket when you're just about to tip off

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Originally Posted by Rich

Speaking of pi$$ing off table staff...

We were watching a bit of the JV game at a school last week. My partner noticed that the timeout timer was put up on the clock and ticked down for every timeout called. He wanted that shut off and, well, I agree. Teams want to know how much time is left in a quarter, the officials want to know, etc. etc. Watching a timeout tick down is silly.

During his meeting with the timer, he told the timer to shut that function off. This really ground the timer's gears apparently, cause when I went over prior to the game he turned away when I went down the line to introduce myself and shake hands. I immediately turned to my partner and said (pretty loudly), "Now look at what you did."

He did turn off the function, however.

Had a stinkin' parent during the same game I tossed the coach running the clock for 6th grade. Clock was only supposed to stop for TOs and during FTs. The entire game he would stop the clock when he wasn't supposed to and then forget to restart it pretty much every time. Bill, clock, every 30 seconds was really annoying. Anyway, got that game finished and realized he would be doing the next game because his son's team was doing a DH. About 3 min. into the game I had been hollering at him for about a minute and so was my partner to start the clock. he didn't. As we were transitioning, I slapped the table really loudly and hollered at him "clock!!!" The rest of the game ran very smoothly after that.