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The sport that everyone complains about having to play in school. But for me, the shortest boy in my grade through 6th grade or so, dodgeball was awesome. I was small and fast enough to usually last a respectable amount of time. Plus, I never thought getting hit hurt that much. Having your glasses fall off and/or get bent was lame though.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

LOVED it!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dodgeball was great! Being fast = DEFINITE ADVANTAGE OVER SLOW-ASS CLASSMATES

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

NES SUPER DODGE BALL FROM TECMO!

KILLA!

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I always figured the hate of dodgeball was just a myth from television. I always loved it, though I never got the mechanics of throwing down. Weak arms I suppose.

― Silas Beauford (Silas Beauford), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

any sport that being rail thin was actually to your advantage i was all for.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd play in an adult dodgeball league.

I loved the fights over getting the best balls - you had to find the slightly deflated one to get a good grip and throw to really sting the other kids.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I was horrible at actually hitting people with the dodgeball, but I used to be very fast and could successfully avoid being hit by the ball til near the end of the game. It was fun! But that may be because it was the only sport (aside from field hockey) that I was even halfway decent at.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I wanted to volunteer to be a dodgeball referee during the Dodgeball Championship here in NYC last weekend, weekend before? but BNW had to go to a dogshow and would not accompany.

(one part of this is a lie)

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't throw fast (I was an all-star pitcher in Little League, but I relied on placement and change-ups rather than spped) but I could catch like a mofo.

Around my neighborhood we played Elimination. Anybody heard of it? One person throws the ball up high in the air to start the game. As soon as someone else grabs it, everyone must stop where they are (so you either run for the ball or run far away from it). You can take 3 steps and then throw it at someone, who can contort their body to avoid the ball but cannot move their feet. Just like dodgeball, if they catch it, you're ELIMINATED.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Dodgeball

― ModJ?, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Marcia from the Brady Bunch Movie in every Stiller comedy now?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Dodgeball ... HATED it!

Having small hands meant I could never quite palm the ball with enough of a grip to throw it very hard. I also hated the sting of the rubber against my skin when I was hit. The whole thing just seemed very barbaric to me, and I was fortunate enough to have a gym teacher my senior year of high school who let students sit on the sidelines if they weren't genuinely interested in playing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Testing...

― TheNewJMod (JMod), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah by the end of high school, i just couldn't hang. remember the balls we used? they were soft/squishy, but that squishiness just made it easier to grip the ball and there were guys who would just fling the shit out of them. i think during senior year I hacked instead. how alternative.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

What were those balls used for, really? I only remember them being used for kickball and dodgeball.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

that's it, I think. they're called playground balls, right? oh, and also used for 4-square.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, who tried to get out on purpose?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude Jimmy the Mod's trailer is the funniest thing I've ever seen. WTF.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 6 May 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

dodgy ball (we say) was horrible when the balls were very small and made of a heavy, hard, thick plastic and not inflated. it was like having rocks thrown at you.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 May 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

did you play that if you caught the ball then the thrower had to go out? because that's why i liked most about it.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 6 May 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the only way I was ever good at it -- I was a foot taller than anyone else, so I made a good target, but add the "catch it and take em out" rule and I could just palm the ball and survive.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 May 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."

― WOW (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i loved it ... one of the few sports at which i was REAL DAMN GOOD

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic.

I never bothered dodging balls because it was easy enough to catch them. We called it 'trench' I think, though. If you got hit you went in the trench behind the other team's players and if you caught a ball you got to get out of the trench and continue playing - is this how dodgeball is played?

Ben Stiller is going to be in a dodgeball movie this summer which I will see (go ahead and mock me).

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Trailer linked above; I STRONGLY RECOMMEND everyone check it out!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, we should make an ILX dodgeball team! Wow fitness and we'd all be doing something we liked/used to be good at!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

dodgeball should be the official sport of ILX.

there should be a tournament.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

next time an ILXor brigade comes to boston, we'll do a dodgeball tournament or something

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It ruled for me, because I'm stickboy thin, and the only way people ever hit me was if they were trying to miss.

― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Love it. My favorite was if you got down to just a couple of people on each side, the whole showdown thing: You have the ball, but anyone who's still standing is probably either a good catcher or good dodger, so throwing is a big risk, but it's the only way to win. Oh the tension. I actually liked catching more than throwing (does that make me a bottom?), because there was that sense of standing up to an attack and winning.

I'm pretty sure we stopped playing after 9th grade, though -- concern about the big strong kids being able to actually do lasting damage to the smaller kids. So instead we switched to floor hockey!

― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 6 May 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking back to that one scene in Billy Madison now.

― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys played it in high school!? I think I grew out of it by 4th grade.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I never understood the point of this sport. I was always a bit of a "collector" of "unpopular" kids when I was in elementary school, trying to make them over as projects and boss them around a bit I suppose, and it'd all go fucking cobblers in gym class on rainy days cos I'd go join a team with my friends and then lob huge incredibly hard medicine balls at them. It just seemed like teacher-sanctified violence against dorks and oh how we laughed when we smacked them in the head, I think secretly several of us were uncomfortable with this.

This is a bit like an elementary school Clueless in retrospect, minus Paul Rudd.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 6 May 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Though reading this thread and the championing that dodgeball is getting from the scrawny, short boys I feel a lot less bad.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 6 May 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if any universities offer dodgeball as a PE credit. If I can take bowling or ballroom dancing, I should be able to play dodgeball.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 6 May 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought that you were supposed to KICK medicine balls, not THROW them ... at least when you were a grade school kid!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 6 May 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

dud when your teacher (who was in retrospect something of an asshole) JOINS IN the fucking game and takes advantage of the opportunity to bean his least favorite students in the head. god i hated fourth grade.

it'd probably be way classic if they played it at the olympics!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Marcia from the Brady Bunch Movie in every Stiller comedy now?

Marcia from the Brady Bunch Movie is Mrs. Ben Stiller.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Dodgeball was very special to me, it was like the one schoolyard event in which the tables were completely turned and I could have the "cool" kids looking like motherfucking CHUMPS.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

We called it 'trench' I think, though. If you got hit you went in the trench behind the other team's players and if you caught a ball you got to get out of the trench and continue playing - is this how dodgeball is played?

In the version we played in high school, if you got out you'd form a line off to the side. When someone on your team caught a ball, not only was the person who threw it out, but one player on the catching team was let back in.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought medicine balls were the things made of leather with like weights and shit inside. You were just supposed to toss them back and forth, not at anyone, and you definately wouldn't kick it, because you'd just stub your toe.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

you are correct

― TheNewJMod (JMod), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, he is.

It does not change my story.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys are mental, dodgeball sucked. Except for the part where you got out right away and then hid under the bleachers and read kathy acker novels for the rest of period.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think dodgeball was ever organized enough to have rules at my schools. Mostly it just involved winging the slightly-deflated balls as hard as you could at people you didn't like. No catching rules and no referees to tell you when you were out.

One sadistic PE coach had a boys vs. girls dodgeball game. That was sort of screwed up.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

in summer camp we played a heavily modified version of Four Square. The actual game is just hitting a ball into squares, but they added multiple things like Kings, Corners, Rotten Apples, Contracts....the game barely made any sense anymore.

― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Wallball is more evil than dodgeball - little solid rubber balls thrown really hard at the back of someone's skull.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved wallball. Mostly cuz I was supreme. then again, my 8th grade year, the people I predominately played with were idiotic 6th graders who threw like pansies.

― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

We called it 'Scot'

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about the version that Oops mentions. Yeah, we played that way too; where people on your team could be let back in if you caught a ball. I think this was a device designed to make the game last the whole period or something.

Dodge ball ruled. Gym class was funny because you'd discover that a lot of the burnouts had nearly as much athletic skill as the jocks. They just never cared to join the sports teams. But yeah, I remember being surprised at how hard some of the unlikely suspects could throw the ball. Also, in my class anyway the jocks were pretty cool. They didn't really pick on the smaller kids. They did like to get after each other though. It was actually pretty goddamn funny watching these guys throw the ball at each other as hard as possible.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

you're lucky. the jocks were a bunch of pieces of shit in middle school, and were the minority of the class, so it was like "Rudy" every day one of us stepped up and swatted one of their shots on the basketball court. And you could see the fire in their eyes when they got showed up.

one of the days I was playing bombardment (that game where there are people on two sides flinging balls at each other, and if you throw it at someone and he catches it, you're out, and if he drops it or hits him and hits the ground, he's out)...and I was one of the last two, I had just gotten one of the "jocks" out and his friend was like...

OHHHHHHHH, GONNA GET MY FRIEND OUT, HUH, getting ready to embarass me, running at me full throttle, all 4 feet of him, and let go a zinger of a throw which I caught easily, jeering in his face

OOH BOOYA ASSHOLES I AM THE CHAMP.

(what can I say, a small victory for me)

― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The jocks in my school were by and large harmless; it was the psychopathic racist stoners that you had to look out for. I remember in the wrestling unit having to wrestle one of these guys (he was already approaching 6 feet and outweighed me by approximately 40 pounds of muscle; FUCK THE ROUND ROBIN SYSTEM FUCK IT IN THE EYE) and instantly gaining status amongst the school because I wrestled him to a 1-1 tie.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the beauty of PE is that it allowed most every kid to have a "Rocky Balboa" type moment before sinking back into the realization that they sucked

― uh (eetface), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah Bombardment, that's what the version of dodgeball that we played in high school was called.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Besides the version played on both sides of a tennis or basketball court, wasn't there also a version played in a circle? I remember that from elementary school.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Hijacking this thread to inquire if anyone has seen the movie -- the previews make it seem brilliantly stupid, but that's the norm for Ben Stiller movies of late...

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

sucked

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

though i did laugh a couple of times, sure

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 20 June 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

one of those where everything that's funny was in the trailer?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The movie was surprisingly good. It held together very well, very nice performances from Justin Long, Jason Bateman, Stiller doing his usual very well, Vince Vaughn doing just enough to be charming, not so much to be annoying.

― Skottie, Sunday, 20 June 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd really rather have someone throw shoes at my face for two hours than see this movie.

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

come over to my house

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahaha Dean wins.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i really like unicorns

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002DP8AC.01-ABGHDZ3KEZBCN._SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif

― Skottie, Sunday, 27 June 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

"I read it.... in a book."

also, "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge anything."

The ending was a total letdown though, except for the "I'm not a lesbian" line, they managed to squash the "killed by two tons of irony" joke and they should have had more of the other goofy teams, which were more like throwaways.

Also, "I like pumpkins."

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 17 January 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

"Dilemma, thy name is dodgeball."

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

everything that happens after Rip Torn's exit in the third act is priceless.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 20 March 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

ok i caught the ending of this on tv again the other day and then the dude goes "see, i told you they were lesbians" and i actually say, out loud, totally unconsciously, "oh, snap."

two seconds later, after a bit of intervening dialogue, the dude goes "oh, snap."

i seriously hope that i was subconsciously remembering the end of the movie and not actually going "oh, snap" on my own.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

i played dodgeball (with basketballs) with a seven year-old and a four year-old this weekend, after which the seven year-old exclaimed, "you're really good at this!"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

"The Schadenfreude is about to begin!"

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Right here on ESPN 8 - The Ocho!"

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

This film was far funnier than anything starring Ben Stiller has a right to be.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

i liked how the treasure chest with the prize money at the end has "deus ex machina" engraved on it

― latebloomer is a belly with a guy pierce in it (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

i don't understand ben stiller hate, other than him being in every other movie that comes out

― latebloomer is a belly with a guy pierce in it (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

He symptomatic of the current cultural climate in which OTT mugging and extremely broad character comedy can be described as 'comic genius'. Mainly I just really hate his face.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

he looks like the guy who used to date all my ex-girlfriends

also, he is too $hort

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

'it's a metaphor. but that actually happened.'

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

i liked how the treasure chest with the prize money at the end has "deus ex machina" engraved on it

-- latebloomer is a belly with a guy pierce in it (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:14 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

^^^didn't notice this until now

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 16 August 2008 21:33 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/51S01t8.gif

― 乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:27 (twelve years ago)

Left the tv on (muted) yesterday after the baseball game and a little while later there was Ultimate Trampoline Dodgeball assaulting my eyes.

― WilliamC, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:46 (twelve years ago)

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