Not to change the subject (I sympathize though, I had food poisoning back in early 2001, not fun), but I had the greatest conversation with my friend Mike just now. He misread something I typed and I just ran with it. See below

C--------F------: the debate was "phone the devil?" what did you argue?
Ursalicious: well, one year, the resolution was "Resolved that: The United States Governement should substancially alter it's relations with the devil"
Ursalicious: and my case was to periodically call the devil - open talks, but not visit
C--------F------: hmmm... that sounds like a very strange debate
Ursalicious: talk about it, it was a very weird year for debate.... some schools took an atheistic point of view and there were many debates won and lost on topicality
C--------F------: is that bad?
Ursalicious: not really, I hated having to argue that hell did infact exist, but that was our plan...
C--------F------: did you direct people to look out their windows
Ursalicious: no, we had to point out that hell was in a different place than earth, that was part of the crux of our plan
C--------F------: how did you prove it?
Ursalicious: lots of crap, I can't remember - our coach found us a lot of evidence
C--------F------: I thought you typed "couch" :-)
Ursalicious: we had to point out all the nice things inlife that made this place NOT hell
C--------F------: evidence of hell?
C--------F------: like Loverboy records?
Ursalicious: like kittens and the civil rights movement
Ursalicious: I wished that I was negative that year, and for two tourney's I got to BE negative
Ursalicious: but they were the last two of the year
Ursalicious: MSOE and something else