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Monday, January 30, 2006

The biggest honor of my career

A co-worker listening to Lawrence University's Great Midwest Trivia Contest e-mailed me last night:

At Trivia, after the teams have answered the question for points, they jam the phones with fake team names. So far I've heard team names "Steve Hyden Appreciation Society," "Steve Hyden took me for $8," and something else unprintable about what you would do for a quarter.

I'm totally stumped on this one. Does anybody know what unprintable thing I would do for a quarter? Please use printable language.

5 Comments:

Steve Kabelowsky said...: Something involving your soul and bouncing the quarter into a glass?; 10:24 AM
Thomas Rozwadowski said...: Are you sure this appreciation society isn't for Cleveland Browns tight end Steve Heiden? He had a pretty good game against the Packers.; 10:44 AM
Anonymous said...: the question is, what WOULDN'T you do for a quarter?

Har har.

Yuk yuk.

l.; 10:46 AM
Anonymous said...: So were these jam teams or the real thing?

Either way, that's an honor I could only dream of.

I still play the mp3's of them talking about our band when I'm feeling depressed.

I think one could buy a bootleg of the the lafftastic CD with 25 cents.

m; 2:37 PM
Anonymous said...: I can remember when you were glad to get a quarter as a reward for going poop in the big bowl.; 10:02 PM

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: Name: Steve Hyden; Location: Appleton, Wisconsin

My name is Steve and I'm a newspaper reporter and writer living in northeast Wisconsin, which is just below the armpit created by the bulk of the state and the peninsula. I don't live in the actual armpit, which is Green Bay, which is a place where fat people sit on their porches and watch traffic go by when the Packers aren't in season. I live in Appleton, a place where slightly less fat people do slightly more interesting things, like watch NASCAR, which is traffic with better camera work. I like living here 79 percent of the time. I fancy myself a deep thinker, an iconoclast, a man who can enjoy both high and low culture. Think Chuck Klosterman with a dose of Jack Nicholson from "Five Easy Pieces." However, I suspect I am not nearly as cool as I think I am. I may in fact be a dork. For example, look at how I described myself a few sentences earlier. What can I say? I'm the guy who started listening to the Clash when he was 13 not because he was reacting against the repressive Republican regime he had lived under most of his life, but because John Cusack wore a Clash T-shirt in "Say Anything..."

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