lukeryu

Mental Screamings
2003-12-08 16:14:33 (UTC)

Bob Dylan or Josh Groban???

We had a speech tournament over the weekend. It was in the
land of cheese and beer, so we needed to haul our asses out
of bed really early to get there. We took a 15 passenger
van, and I got some sleep on the trip but not much. The
tournament was well organized and fun. It had an
experimental category called "Interpretation of Song
Lyrics." It is basically cutting and pasting lyrics from
different songs that relate to each other somehow together
to make a speech. A bunch of us went to go watch the
finals of that category and it was funny as hell. In one
of them, which was about guilty pleasure songs, the person
recited the lyrics to The Macarena flawlessly. Another one
did a speech about misheard song lyrics. And another one
did veggietales songs in unique character voices. I'm
formulating ideas for possible speeches in that category I
might do next year, because they only have it at that
tournament, so I cant do it this year. As for my results,
in the tournament, in persuade, I took 4-4-5 (the second
round only had 4 people in it) and in prose I took 4-5-1.
I think the 3rd judge was on crack or something, but I'll
take it if they give it to me.

Everyone remember the SNL skit about Pat? Well, I think I
met a real life Pat. He judged for our team, and evidently
was previously on it, but I often wondered if he wasnt a
girl. It was just a wierd experience.

And so, if anyone remembers (they probably dont), last
tournament I had someone come up to me after it and tell me
I looked like a young Bob Dylan. Well, this was really
funny. I was in my 3rd prose round and like 5 seconds
after I sat down, a girl turns toward me and tells me I
look like Josh Groban. I ask her who he is, and she tells
me he is an opera singer. So I'm like cool, and go through
the round (the one I got a 1 in) and then I leave the room
and start walking back to where the team made our home
base. I'm not that far out of the door when a male judge
that I have never met before comes up to me and tells me
that I look like a young Bob Dylan, which I thought was
funny, having heard it before. So I tell him thank you,
and by this time the girl that told me I looked like Josh
Groban had caught up and so we start talking and then one
of her friends walks up and tells me that I look like Josh
Groban. I dunno, it might have been one of those "you had
to have been there" things, but I thought the irony was
hillarious.

I'm off to steal some Josh Groban songs to see if its a
good thing I look like him.

G'day




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