Science Bowl 2004

Memories of the best event of the year. Even if there was not a competition here, it would still have owned hardcore.

Our placing was "top 16." Based on the double-elimination bracket, we finished in a tie for seventh.

Awesome Quotes

You didn't expect me to have fun and not take notes, did you? These are in no order, and the numbers have no purpose except as a referencing device.

  1. Ronjon: Hey guys, guess where Mr. Orff's fat, corpulent penis constantly resides?
    Gene: My butt.

  2. Gene: How do you not get bored after 86 hours? How does your brain not, like, die? Oh wait, it did.
    (The Korean guy)

  3. A speaker during a presentation tells of how much better chemists are than physicists.
    Dutter: Chemists are the ones who can't do physics. They flunked.
    Me: Think Gene will become a chemist?
    Dutter: Yeah.

  4. Ronjon: Wait, did mammals exist during the Mesozoic Era?
    Me & Gene simultaneously: Yeah, dinosaurs.
    Me: Shit.

  5. Ronjon: Heat is warm air.

  6. Question: The mass of an atom of mercury is about...
    Ronjon: 45.26 grams.
    [50 minutes later]
    Ronjon: Oh, I know what I was thinking of. Chlorine, which is 35.45!

  7. Gene: Dragos is not as gay as I am, so...

  8. Question: Who is considered the father of Taxonomy?
    Gene: Binomial nomenclature.

  9. Question: The immune system normally...
    Ronjon: The what? Indian system?

  10. Ronjon: Amphibians have scales.
    [12 hours later]
    Me to Dutter: Hey listen to some of the brilliant things that were said last night. Uhh, "amphibians have scales."
    Ronjon: Who said that?

  11. Gene: Hey guys, I'm going to go penis.
    [3 seconds]
    Gene: Ejaculate.

  12. Question: What is the primary function of the platelets in human blood?
    Gene: To be connective tissue...

  13. Ronjon has given Gene a new nickname: Salty Dick.
    Gene: Well, Salt Dick would just be this huge thing of salt.
    Ronjon: Yeah, and it might be iodized so you don't get goiters.

  14. Gene: Mermaids are real?

  15. Ronjon: Higher bunks are higher.

  16. Gene recites the Mohs scale: feldspar, uhh, quartz, shit, corundum...
    All: Topaz.
    Me: Shit would be like -2.
    [10 seconds]
    Ronjon: NO!!! SHIT'S NOT A MINERAL!!

  17. Ronjon to Gene: Stop it! I'm going to punch you!
    Dutter: I'm going to punch you too!

  18. Me: That was the worst Ronjon joke ever!
    Dutter: That must have been really bad.

  19. After showing her the Wilcox shock animation:
    Dutter: I think I'm going to get out the Tesla coil on him.

  20. Dutter to Ronjon: YOU got a bad conduct grade?!?

  21. Dutter: Get those [other teams' nametags] so we can throw darts at them.

  22. Ronjon: Uhh, I just farted.
    Gene slaps Ronjon's back.
    Ronjon: Auuughhhh! It's not coming out!
    [After being made fun of]
    Ronjon: No! It's because when he slapped me, the air that came out said "Auuughhhh!" and I said "still."

  23. Ronjon: Eat dick.
    Gene: Puck.
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