My favorite moment in sports fandom though came from the Duke University student body.

Their unrelentingly obnoxious razzing of opposing players reached an unprecedented low when they threw pieces of stereo equipment onto the basketball floor against an opposing team whose star player had been caught stealing stereo equipment.

Roundly castigated in the press and the Dean for their rudeness they showed up at the next games with signs that said "Please miss!" when opponents took their free throws. And when they disagreed with a ref's call, they'd chant in unison "We big to differ! We beg to differ!" That must've sounded awesome with 60,000 fans.

I think my favorite sports fandom moment (not that I was alive but still) is Caltech hacking the Rose Bowl flip cards in 1961.

McCaffrey made the apostraphe a plot point, though. A child's name was a derivation of the parents' names, almost always two syllables. If one became a dragonrider, the first vowel was dropped for an apostraphe, as an honorific significator. Pronunciation wasn't too difficult with only two syllables. I thought it was a nifty idea, even though the reader meets most characters as riders and never learns their full given names.

My favorite sports fandom moment is the Stanford Band "Play."

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How do you pronounce "Kvothe"?

Happily, he explains this long before it becomes an issue - since initially we meet him going under a less daunting nom de guerre.

It's pronounced almost exactly like Quoth.

Then since presumably the language does not use a western alphabet, it ought to be be spelled "Quoth". Which is not a big deal to stop me from enjoying it, cause it sound very much like my cup to tea.

Well, I think the key word there is almost.

I'm mentally pronouncing it...well, Kvothe is the phonetic rendering of how I'm mentally pronouncing it, actually. Quoth, with a Kv sound instead of a Kw sound at the start.

Qvoth the raven, "nethermore"

Putting the Po into Porn. Brava.

YA fans , or just good book fans -- run to the nearest bookstore/library and go find Shift by Jenifer Bradbury. So good. Chris is just starting college, when an FBI agent turns up asking questions about his friend Win. Chris and Win went on a bike ride across country after graduation, but at the end of journey Win disappears. The story is told with alternating chapters current time vs. the summer trip. Really good. really well done. and my DH the book snob , stole it from me and said I had to read it.

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