Monday, October 16, 2006

BurnBall

Dana and Jay are playing a game in the living room.
It involves a mini beach ball that came in some junkmail from Mazda, various racquets, and two friends flailing about the room.

Points are called "burns,"
and acquiring "quadruple burn" (4 consecutive points) wins the set.
You have to call "burn," "double burn," "triple burn," "quadruple burn" for the point to count.
The ball can be bounced off any object in the room, including walls and ceiling, but hitting a painting is puts the ball out of play.
Breaking something is an "anti-burn" which results in automatic loss of the set (or game, depending on what broke).
An out of bounds or otherwise out of play ball is a "non-burn."
A player can use their hand to hit the ball, but not on their first hit of the play.
The ball must be hit up or straight, not down.
There is a no-person's-land in the middle, over which players must hit the ball, like a net but much larger. Balls that stop in that area are non-burn.
Each player only gets one time out per game.
Each whole game has three sets, like tennis.
Also, you can't win on a contested ball.

Here are quotes from the game thus far:
"That's a burnless match!"
"Hey, I was scared of Beth's face."
"Ooooh, that's the best play in Burnball history! You wiped out my triple burn!"
"Wooh, I'm going to have to get some burn pants."
"Yeah, when do we get to start grunting? Unh!"
"This table might become the bane of my Burn existence."
"I broke your burn."
"You know three burns is a turkey. It's part bowling."
"That was like an accidental burn." "It was like a first degree."
"This set is taking too long. We're getting tired." "Or we're getting really good."
"Burn, burn, burn! It's like you're in a lake of fire."
"That was a baby burn. You have to have two baby burns to equal an adult burn." "It was a burn bunt!"
"Burn off your face!"
"You're robbing me of my burns!"
"No, you don't play nasty. That's the number one rule of burnball."
"Style burn!"
"We don't take water breaks! That's why it's called burnball."
"No! You already had your one count contestation!"

The game has its roots (15 minutes before I started writing this post, which is now over an hour ago) in Jay hitting the ball with the racquet to Dana and me; we in turn would hit the ball back with the palms of our open hands.

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