Monday, November 06, 2006

Did You Know?

How about it, Lady Bulldog fans....!!

Did you know........

………these "Laws" of Volleyball Observance”?

.......The Law of Hard Hitting:
The harder you spike the ball against a weaker team, the more likely the ball is to bounce off of a defenders head and come back over the net to your side for a kill.

.......The Law of Ugly Digging:
The uglier pose you can make as you dig, the better the dig will be.

.......The Law of Coaching the Serve:
No matter how many times you cover your "vital rules of serving" (i.e. Never miss your serve after a timeout OR Never miss your serve on the last point of the game, etc), your team will go onto the court and break every one of them in a single match.

.......The Law of Parent's Complaining about the "Coaching of the Serve":
As the team breaks every one of the "vital rules of serving", the parents (unaware of the outlining & review of the rules) will be sitting in the stands exclaiming "Why don't they tell them not to miss their serve after a timeout?".

.......The Law of Calling the Play:
When the coach says from the bench "Don't let the setter tip the 2nd ball", the setter will immediately tip, and the ball will immediately hit the floor. No one will move toward it.

.......The Law of the Warm-up (from a teenage players perspective):
The louder the music in warm-up, the better you will play.

.......The Law of the Warm-up Part Deaux:
If you can't understand the words to the warm-up music, the better the team will play (p.s. If you can't understand, then you probably don't want to..)

…….A policeman promised a waitress half the winnings from his lottery ticket; all the numbers came up, and he kept his word by sharing the jackpot with her? Robert Cunningham, a thirty-year police detective and veteran was making a sort-of-joke on Friday evening, March 30, 1984 when he offered his favorite waitress Phyllis Penzo, at Sal's Pizzeria in Yonkers, NY an unusual tip: a half-interest in a lottery ticket. When the detective walked into Sal's Pizzeria after work the next evening with the winning ticket triumphantly clutched in his hand (it was worth six million dollars): Cunningham gave Penzo $3 Million, or the equivalent of a tip of $142,857.50 a year for 20 years!


…….the Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman, who was the first full time coach for Rice University, here in Houston?

…….the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden is the world's largest rose garden with over 38,000 bushes with 500 varieties on 22 acres?

.......these LAWS OF THE NATURAL UNIVERSE?

.......Law of the Bath:
When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

.......Law of Coffee:
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

.......Law of Rugs/Carpets:
The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and higher cost of the carpet/rug.

.......Oliver's Law:
A closed mouth gathers no feet.

.......Atascocita (17-8), who won their match over Laporte in five games (29-31, 30-28, 28-26, 15-25, 15-12) really wasn't expected to make the playoffs during the preseason, much less advance to the area playoffs? "Not many people expected this," Atascocita coach Shawn Shackelford said. "But we focused on playing our game, and it was an intense match, and we got through it." Atascocita advanced to face Dulles on Friday. Dulles is one of the top teams in the state and is ranked No. 2 in the Greater Houston area. "Sometimes, ignorance is bliss," Shackelford said. "We didn't have a program last year, and although we know that Dulles is a great program, we aren't intimidated to go in and play them."