UPDATE: If anyone is confused about what’s going on, please read this post for an explanation of the game. I do try to link to it every year when the tournament comes around, but maybe I forgot this year. If you’re looking for players’ smack talk, well, it’s pretty much in every one of these current game posts. Here’s an example. Readers post comments as characters from the movies they selected. (This year’s theme for the game is Best American Movies. Different years have different themes.) Also, there’s a whole category in the side bar called “The Best Thing Ever Blog Game” dedicated to this insanity. Hope that helps!
Also don’t miss sarahk’s (The Princess Bride, or as I prefer, The Royal Slattern) harsh but characteristically adorable smack down of Mr. Holland’s Opus Shmopus in the comments here. There is great insane commentary going on in all these comment threads. Good job, pippa!! I’m constantly laughing!!
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Another Sad Boo-Bye.
Today, in quarterfinal action ……
Shank Jogger
US Open Women’s Player: Yanina Wickmayer BEL
replicanted — uhm, what, Trace??? — over …
The Brunch Cabal
US Open Women’s Player: Kateryna Bondarenko UKR
Later, in the locker room, everyone was civilized in victory and defeat and Shank Jogger offered The Brunch Cabal use of his dandruff shampoo. Which she graciously — and wisely — accepted.
Your game mistress is pleased — gobsmacked — but pleased by this uncharacteristic post-match courtesy.
Further results …..
Ilsa’s Big Hat
US Open Women’s Player: Caroline Wozniacki DEN
gin-jointed ….
Stupid People Die
US Open Women’s Player: Melanie Oudin USA
Which is sad. My money was on the fish.
Still, them’s good eatin’.
Boo-bye, Jaws.
Reposted from the previous comments, since we beat Tracey to the punch on the Boo Bye Speeches…
Dear Shank,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole tennis match for whatever it was we did wrong, but we think you’re crazy to make us write a Boo Bye speech telling you who we think we are. You see as us as you want to see us…in the simplest terms with the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is an athlete, a replicant and a loser. Does that answer your question?
Sincerely Yours…
I accept your sincerity graciously and humbly but I want my shampoo back…
Okay, I admit it…I feel like Alice down the rabbit hole. I have read and re-read several of the posts, and I still have no clue what is going on! Where did this game originate with you and how did you come up with movies and tennis together? And where are all the smack comments? I was trying desperately to find them and couldn’t…help? I feel so inadequate!
Not exactly a boo-bye, but a live update from the Open – women’s doubles, on in our break room at work.
Sunset Boulevard and her older sister, Gone With the Wind, against two ladies named Makarova and Kleybanova… Sunset’s serving, down 5-6 and 15-40.
Next four points:
Ace.
Ace.
Ace.
Second serve returned, drop shot winner.
That’s what you get when you mess with the slatterns, Cupcake.
Ummmm, and where did “Boo-bye” come from? Do I need to go back and read the blogs from the last 5 years to get it?
/That’s what you get when you mess with the slatterns, Cupcake./
Hahahaha. Indeed.
I’m sick of the slattern sisters. They can suck it.
Uhm, the game mistress says in complete and utter neutrality.
Breakfast Club — /But what we found out is that each one of us is an athlete, a replicant and a loser. Does that answer your question?/
Hahahahahaha.
And, yeah, give Shank his shampoo back.
Hahahahaha, Shank.
Ann — You probably should go check out the side bar category dedicated to the game.
“Boo-bye” is just something MB and I like to say — a kind of contemptuous goodbye.
And as the game sort of morphed over the last few years, I decided losing players should give a Sad Boo-Bye speech as their character/movie/selection.
Last year, we did The Best Thing Ever: England during Wimbledon and the theme was best characters in English Literature.
So different years, different themes. It’s insane, I know, but I never claimed to be sane. People have to meld tennis with movies or book characters or whatever. But it makes for some really funny analogies and matchups.
And everyone makes fun of everyone else. That’s in the rule book. 😉
That’s a brilliant Boo-Bye Speech, btw, Breakfast Club. John Hughes would be pleased.
*insert picture of Maggie walking across the football field, one fist thrust skyward in triumph*
Thanks Nightfly! I LOVE the visual!
Oh no! The link to my smackdown seems to be broken! I’d hate for people to miss it.
Ahem. That was me, not Fezzick. He bogarted (or Rick’d) my computer a second ago.