the wisconsin badgers basketball team won their game against coastal carolina the other night, and on their way to the post-game presser, they stumbled across the stenographer who transcribes their quotes.
well. i don't guess they like LITERALLY STUMBLED. but still, there she was with her funny little stenography machine. they were (literally) fascinated, stopped to talk to her, learned about her job and that funny little machine.
they finally headed on up to the presser, and right off the bat, the first player to give an answer threw out cattywampus, onomatopoeia, antidisestablishmentarianism, and then he moved on to soliloquy, quandry, zypher, and xylophone.
obviously those words were forced into an interview about basketball. he was purposefully trying to challenge the stenographer, see, which is about the nerdiest thing ever.
she got all the words correct, and that's impressive.
but what's even more impressive is this kid, this basketball playing kid, getting instantly fascinated with a machine and a job that he didn't know existed. how do quotes get from verbal to print? he probably never gave it a second thought. or, for that matter, a first thought.
but what's even MORE impressive is this kid, this basketball playing kid, pulling random challenging vocab out of his hat, and doing it on purpose to add some random fun to the day of a working married mom of two, with what has the potential to be truly a boring as hell job.
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