Thursday, November 17, 2011

Sign # 47.b that the World is going to hell in a handbasket


Yes, that's not nerdy.
UCLA has a Quidditch Team.
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Yes, as in Harry Potter flying broomstick Quidditch Team.  I, as these youngsters say, shit you not..
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Apparently it is a highly rated Quidditch Team.  At the National Finals (!) we made it out of bracket play and then beat Southern Cal (USC - booo!) and Michigan State before losing to eventual champ Middlebury in the Quarterfinals.
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I say this not proudly, nor embarrassedly.  Simply uncomprehending - which just says I am old.

Brooms.  Those are brooms they are "flying"