Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data”
Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)
Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.
If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.
Have you ever completed anything on your “bucket list”?
Well, I was stationed in Alameda CA back in the 80’s and spent a lot of time doing touristy stuff in San Francisco. 20 or so years later, I went back to see how it had changed. Short answer: not enough to be unrecognizable.
Also, the street performer I took a picture of in the 80s while he was juggling torches while standing on a slack rope, was STILL working Pier 39, juggling torches while standing on a slack rope.
About 10 years ago I went scuba diving for the first time. Haven’t done it since.
I have no bucket list as I plan to live forever.
“the street performer I took a picture of in the 80s while he was juggling torches while standing on a slack rope, was STILL working…”
Great!
If only you could have sent him that picture, it probably would’ve meant something to him.
But then again, his family or friends have probably showered him with photos of him performing.
So, disregard my first thought: it was a knee-jerk reaction, which would be fatal in his profession.
Oh, yes:
lived and worked in London
have seen Itzhak Perlman, Emanuel Ax, Yo-yo Ma, Andres Segovia, Julian Bream, Jacqueline Dupre, and Pinchas Zuckerman perform in person
have known two Nobel prize winners
have achieved the level of wealth to which I aspired (which will go to my nephews and one niece when I die)
have attended two World Series games and two All-Star games (one of each at Candlestick Park and one of each at Oakland Coliseum)
I just added a new bucket list….kidnap IJ and hold for huge ransom. lolololol
I’ve just added one, too – become Iowa Jim’s adopted niece.
Sounds like you need a body guard IJ…might I suggest the zzyzx body guard and protection service? For a small minimum fee of course.
My nephews do frequently invite me to go out hunting with them, whether it’s hunting season or not.
I have seen a triple play live.
I have seen a double play (two outs) on a walk.
I have seen four strike-outs in the bottom half of an inning.
I have seen a no-hitter.
But I have never seen a perfect game.
I slept thru the perfect game by Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners against the Tampa Bay Rays at Safeco Field in Seattle on August 15, 2012.
How do you get 4 strikeouts in half an inning?
IDK I was sleeping.
It is known as an uncaught third strike. When this happens, a strikeout is recorded for both the pitcher and the batter, but no out is recorded. Because of this, a pitcher may occasionally be able to record more than three strikeouts in one half-inning. Sounds simple enough.
Technically you can record an unlimited number of strikeouts in a half inning, although I doubt your manager will keep you in that long.
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— novice
Does kidnapping Iowa Jim get me anything?
Yup…20 to 40 in Leavenworth.
To explain further: You know when the catcher fails to catch the third strike, the batter can run to third. He is usually tagged out or the catcher throws the ball to the first baseman, but not always.
That’s true when there are two out and a runner on first base or when first base is open.
On an uncaught third strike with (1) no runner on first base, or (2) with a runner on first base and two outs, the batter immediately becomes a runner. The strike is called, but the umpire does not call the batter out. The umpire may also signal that there is “no catch” of the pitch. The batter may then attempt to reach first base and must be tagged or forced out. With two outs and the bases loaded, the catcher who fails to catch the third strike may, upon picking up the ball, step on home plate for a force-out or make a throw to any other base in an effort to force out a runner.
The purpose of the “no runner on first base or two outs” qualification is to prevent the catcher from deliberately dropping a third strike pitch and then initiating an unfair double or triple play with possible force plays at second base, third base, or home plate, in addition to putting the batter out at first base. The logic of the situation is similar to that which led to the infield fly rule.[2]
Regardless of the outcome of an uncaught third strike, the pitcher is statistically credited with a strikeout. Because of the uncaught third strike rule, it is possible for a pitcher to register more than three strikeouts in an inning.
Alameda?
Wasn’t that in Star Trek IV?
“For it’s one, two, three stikes you’re out
At the old
Arcane”
Even more appropriately:
“For it’s one, two, three stikes but no out
At the old
Arcane”