OK, stupid question time...

[slappy4428]

The correct answer: "FM."

Nice...

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Don't feel bad...a student asked me today who Jesse Owens was.

Please shoot me now.

 

[trifectarich]

15 or 20 years ago I'm in the press tent at the U.S. Open (golf) and it is raining like hell, not just a downpour, but tropical storm/typhoon stuff. Everyone in the tent fully expects this thing to be ripped to shreds any second, and one look at the sky would indicate this thing isn't easing up anytime soon. A photographer comes up to a media relations person next to me and asks him, "What time is play going to resume?" I'd hoped the answer was going to be, "We're going to restart play in 15 minutes and you should be out there snapping away to make sure you get a good picture when someone gets hit by lightning."

 

[Seahawk]

At the University I used to work for, had a woman in the publications office ask me what time our basketball team was playing, so she could assign a photographer.

I told her 8 p.m.

She asked if the game would be held rain or shine.

 

[Birdscribe]

Got you all beat folks.

At the Bob Hope Classic last month, I actually had a caddie of one of the amateur players come up to me and ask me -- with a straight face, mind you -- the following question:

"What time does the 8:36 group go off?"

Next to that, FH, your inquiry qualifies you as Stephen Hawking.

Actually, that isn't as far fetched as it may sound. If there was a weather-related delay and play suspended, EVERY group could have it's tee time pushed back by a certain amount. So, the 8:36 group might tee off at, say, 10:15.

Mark, it was 8:15 on a cool, clear desert morning in La Quinta and there wasn't a hint of any delays all week. About the only delay would have been if the times got backed up and that wasn't by more than a group.

This was here's-your-sign material.