One Day in May…

Well, not Brett Favre, obviously.***

I got a good laugh out of this. Okay, back story: on January 22, Ashin posted the following on his blog:

“Good weather in the winter is like a little bag of chocolate,
in an instant it’s enjoyed and gone.

It’s been so long since I’ve come here to hang out!
I’ve discovered an interesting new function (Sina Engineers, thanks for your hard work…)
Enough, let’s just get right to trying out this function.

Having seen our travels in the US up to this point,
I believe everyone has discovered that Mayday’s athletic capability is only so-so, our footwork skill mediocre,
but every one of us can talk big.

The soul of an American football team is the quarterback.
Becoming the quarterback of the team is the honor of a lifetime.

But within Mayday, who would make the best quarterback?

Now it’s time to pose the question to the masses.
Please vote, everybody,
who? Who is the best quarterback.

Also, everyone please leave a message to tell me,
in Mayday’s American football adventure,
who… said something really classic (I’ve made a lot of notes on this)

Tomorrow I’ll reveal more of the crazy stories from that trip!”

So that was the January 22 entry. In the poll that followed, he only offered his name and Stone’s in their original forms; instead of Guanyou, he wrote “Old Liu” (Liu being Guanyou’s surname, of course), he also changed the second character on both Monster’s and Masa’s names. Ashin won the poll, but there were votes for others as well. Then, on January 26 (which I, admittedly, just read yesterday) he writes this:

“The so-called ‘who is the quarterback vote’ has already reached a conclusion.
Ashin won by 65% with 9700 votes.

Although many people left messages offering their congratulations,
I am very dissatisfied with these results!

It’s as though you came to MY house for dinner
but you kept praising someone else’s child.

It turns out that 35% of the voters were just that tactless.
It’s just awful.

So I decided to try the vote all over again.”

This time, Ashin’s voting board gave you five options: Ashin, Ashin, Ashin, Ashin or Ashin. The fifth Ashin is winning, but I’ll admit I voted for the second.

*** The Minnesota Vikings just lost yet another NFC Championship game on Sunday, by a field goal in overtime, though it really should not have come to that. Quarterback Brett Favre threw a game-ending interception that took the Vikings out of field goal range in regulation, but that was after an impressively stupid 12-men on the field penalty that sent them backwards, and multiple fumbles from Adrian Peterson – I love you, Adrian, but would you PLEASE learn to hold on to the damn ball – and even the normally reliable Percy Harvin. It was a heartbreaker, I tell you. But really, not a good reason for you all not to swear over your undying loyalty to the Vikings. If nothing else, cheering for my team will teach you patience and forbearance, which in the end will make you a better person. Really.

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