I thought I saw the end of Ultimate Frisbee in the Captains' Career Course. My team lost every game until the post-season. Then we got so sick of the game that, remarkably, we started winning. I don't know what the deal was, but apparently, we even suck at deliberately trying to suck.

The instructors at Fort Rucker take this incredibly seriously (I got zero hours worth of instruction on counterinsurgency at AVC3, but by God, I got at least ten hours worth of instruction on the strategy and tactics of Ultimate Frisbee.  I even have a tag on this blog just for ultimate frisbee), so imagine my surprise when our team wound up beating nearly every major and colonel on Fort Rucker in a game of Frisbee.  I think this victory was unprecedented.

Anyway, our companies had a little competition amongst ourselves yesterday morning. Me being me, I decided to make two teams for my company--but what to name them? I could just call them "Team 1" and "Team 2", but that just wouldn't suffice for me.

What to do? Well, the solution is simple. The previous day, I was looking at the rules of UF on Wikipedia, when I noticed that many of the diagrams for the rules and plays of UF use two hypothetical teams. These teams have names.

Folks, this is by far the most awesome idea ever. If you take the "Greedo shooting first" idea that George Lucas had and took the inverse of it, that would be how awesome this idea was.

Look carefully at these pictures. You will notice that the teams are referred to as "Team Ninja" and "Team Pirate". I decided to follow suit. The decision seemed to be popular, except I had one soldier who protested and thought that "Team Cheezburger Cat" was better than "Team Pirate". (I'm not kidding about this either. That cat is so popular around here that we even made a security badge for PVT Cat, Cheezburger.)

You have to click on these pictures to truly revel in their pure awesomeness:



I particularly like the design on the t-shirts and the Pirate defender saying "Force Home, Yarrrrr".

I'm going to El Salvador this weekend and staying in the Presidente Sheraton. Plus some contractors have the Presidente Suite in the Mariott in Tegucigalpa for Friday night. Sweet. Update to follow on Tues evening.

Don't forget to read the funniest page of hate mail ever. The guy who runs the realultimatepower.net site gets by far the best hate mail. I coughed up my afternoon cappuccio it was so funny.

http://www.realultimatepower.net/ninja/hatemail.htm

A sample:

Dear Mr. Hamburger.

I am a single mother. A single mother of three boys! And it's tough enough to keep them from acting up without people like you in the world. You are a disgrace to the whites, if you're white. My second born son has been, as you call it, "flipping out" recently and he started doing so around the same time the boys discovered your site. And surprise surprise, my son seriously harmed his brother AND now his behavior is affecting his schoolwork. Are you going to tutor him, jerk? I'm a single mother! His rambunctious attitude is going to get him put in jail or even juvenile hall. You are encouraging kids to go berserk and disregard rules. I demand that you take down this immediately, before I call the police. Trust me, mr. hamburger, this is one single mother of three boys you do not want to mess with. I will lobby to have your site banned for the rest of your life. I'll see you in court. Write me back and we'll talk some more.

yours,

a single mother of three boys you do not want to mess with