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To: Verginius Rufus

Yes. And everyone who participates should receive a trophy!

;-)


28 posted on 02/26/2018 12:19:27 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS; Verginius Rufus

I’ll take a participation trophy! (my math skills were so bad I would grasp at any straw as I fell off of that knowledge cliff!)

Not too proud to accept that!

When I was nine year old, I played basketball in a league in Yokosuka Naval Base, and at the awards ceremony at the end of the year with hundreds of kids there, I got a trophy all of my own...

It was the “Tries Hardest” trophy! (it actually said that)

Now, I was happy to get it at the time, but with the passage of time, I came to realize it was probably the trophy they gave to the most hopeless and uncoordinated kid in the entire league (since I spend most of my time on the floor scrabbling around for loose balls instead of dribbling, passing, or shooting!)

Fortunately, it took enough years to figure it out that I can view it with somewhat proud amusement, instead of viewing from a depressed kid viewpoint as the booby prize for the most inept player in the league!


33 posted on 02/26/2018 2:21:01 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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