Roycean's Eleven
Scene: a dilapidated concrete shell of a basketball stadium. The basketball court inside is crudely painted with Iowa State iconography. There are numerous misspellings, like "Staite" and "Cyclons." At midcourt, a coach addresses his new player.
I just wanted to thank you again for coming to Iowa State, Royce White.
No problem, Coach Fred Hoiberg.
I know that you got in a lot of hot water for that laptop theft case, but we're pleased to let you take the next step here in Ames, away from the media fishbowl in Minneapolis.
That means a lot to me, Mr. Coach Hoiberg, I certainly have larger plans for my time here in Ames than all that.
Excellent. Well, we'll bring the other players in here for practice. I'm gonna go play Skee-Ball on my iPhone.
(plays Skee-Ball on his iPhone)
Welcome to the team, Royce White!
I echo DeMarcus Phillips' sentiments, welcome to the birthplace of computers as we know it!
That's right, Jamie Vanderbeken. In 1941, the very first fully digital electronic computer was built by two Iowa State scientists, John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry.
You're correct, Diante Garrett. In fact, the prefix cyber- is an amalgamation of the first syllables of "Cyclone" and "Berry," in honor of this first computer!
Just to expand on that information, Darion Anderson, the "official" story is that the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, or "ABC Machine," was dismantled in 1948 after the two scientists had left ISU... but legend has it that is still exists in a back room somewhere on campus!
Why, a historical artifact that doesn't officially exist? I, Chris Babb, do declare: that must be worth millions!
Gentlemen... we must steal this computer.
(continues playing Skee-Ball on his iPhone)
We can't discuss this here. Meet me at the Jacobsen barn at midnight.
At the Jacobsen barn, which is overrun by livestock, hay, and Calvin-peeing-on-things stickers...
Let's steal this damn computer!
Eeeasy, Royce. We're not going to do it without a plan and a team. As you can see, all of us teammates from earlier today are here. Between you and us, that's six people. Here's who we've enlisted to help.
Tim Floyd, who can use his influence to get us anywhere we need to go.
Jason Berryman, whose strongarm tactics can mean the difference between success and failure.
Let's all just kick their stupid asses and take their cell phones and money!
Julius Michalik, for his invaluable Slovenian-English translation skills.
sir je star ter šablona. kraj je kopalnica.
And finally, from the Ocean's trilogy, Scott Caan and Casey Affleck.
We literally had nothing better to do. (start bickering nonstop)
I guess that makes... 11. Hmm. So what's the plan?
I've done some research, and apparently there's a map to the computer on the back of the Declaration of Independence.
Tim can get us in there with his money tricks, and then Jamie can decipher the code with his legendary Canadian brain tricks.
We do have to be especially wary of the cyber-police. If they backtrace us...
...consequences will never be the same.
(everyone gets silently somber for a moment)
We have a mission and a team. Let's do this.
(over the course of the next 48 hours, all of which has been consolidated into this one two-word synopsis, "does this")
The team gets to the door of the super-secret room guarding the ABC Machine, only to be met by Hoiberg and athletic director Jamie Pollard.
(shakes head sadly, then plays Nintendo DS)
I'm very disappointed in you. All of you. But especially you, Royce.
Your "Roycean's eleven" nearly got away with this plan. But I won't let you.
There's just one thing, sir. I've already stolen a computer once.
I'm quite aware! Why, this is certainly grounds for arrest and expulsion!
It's not that, sir; it's that, well...
...I guess you could call this caper my "sequel."
Then... this would be Roycean's Twelve? But then who's the twel
(karate chops Pollard in the throat)
C'mon, guys, let's commit grand theft computer!
But how will we get it out of here? This thing's enormous!
I've got this one, guys. Lemme use this cell phone acquired through undisclosed means and call a few friends from back in my football days...
The Iowa State cheerleaders! Hooray! They're big enough to pull anything!
Except the male gaze, of course!
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WE'RE SO UGLY (drag computer out with everybody riding on their back)
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I was having trouble with all the plot twists....
….until the cheerleaders showed up. Then, all was made clear to me.
That was very entertaining!
I was hoping for more Scott Caan hijinks though. He’s only like 5’3" (in stilt cowboy boots). Maybe he could ride on a player’s shoulders like Master-Blaster?
I can’t believe E shoved him into Vinny Chase’s expensive Allosaurus skull fossil.
Oh the tears of laughter won't stop.
Excellent!!
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
And you left it ripe for a sequel! Bravo, sir.
But who will be the 13….????
{dramatic music}
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
Ah, Beautiful!
And the Pulitzer goes too….
Who's leg do I have to hump to get a drink around here?-Brian
Petty and sophomoric ISU-bashing
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT!
"In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic!" - Homer Simpson
My favorite so far.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 20, 2010 11:07 AM CDT reply actions
Those cheerleaders are looking a little slim...
For Iowa State girls anyway.
A Voice From Kinnick - A Hawkeye Blog
So next time a Hawk gets busted for being in a bar...
…will you automatically re-post this, so when the CYtrolls get on here they’ll immediately be presented with their own hall of miscreants? That would be nice. Combine it with their marching band spelling “Eat a Bowl of Herky Dicks” or something and I think you’ve got your self a coup-de-grace.
Well done.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 20, 2010 11:53 AM CDT reply actions
Hmmmm...
…correction- – “their own hall of miscreants” plus Scott Caan and the non-steroid Afleck. Fixed.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 20, 2010 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions
Caan and Affleck weren't the only two original cast members to appear.
Julia Roberts can be clearly seen in the picture of the cheerle…oh wait, those are cows, not horses.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
Vera De Milo says
errrhaaaaahaa, that was funny.

One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
What happened to the Spy-Hunter story?
I want to know how Ricky Stanzi got out of that dirty commie JoePa’s trap.
There was a 3 year gap between Spy-Hunter and Spy-Hunter II
So we’re probably going to be waiting a while.
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I read this while playing the soundtrack from "Basketball Diaries"
It was amazing….the story just jumped off the computer screen!
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
i expect better
typically you guys are pretty funny. this was not very well thought out. I’d have to say that the guys at WRNL win today in the smack battle with their fran mccaffrey article
by femanineadamsapple on Jul 20, 2010 2:58 PM CDT reply actions
Wait...
You joined up today to say that AND your name has a typo AND you failed to even cite the article at WRNL that you’re trying to pimp as better than this? You are full of fail, sir.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Pollard is a bigger bonehead than I thought...and I never thought that possible.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
What the fuck is a WRNL?
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Jul 20, 2010 3:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Women Rocking Nasty Legs?
It's not that I'm lazy, Bob, it's that I just don't care
Women Raping Nathan Lane?
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Jul 20, 2010 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I shouldn't have laughed.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 20, 2010 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions
We* Require Nubile Livestock?
*"We" meaning “they”
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 20, 2010 10:35 PM CDT up reply actions
After way too much time spend googling
I think he means “Wide Right and Natty Light”, an ISU blog apparently run by twelve year-olds and knuckle-draggers (and no, I’m not giving him the link he so desperately craves). Trust me when I say perusing their site immediately lowers your IQ by 20 points.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
So....
Consensus BANHAMMER?
"Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad." - The Waco Kid
No way
someone who enjoys that sort of Jr. high humor will be lots of fun to use as a community punching bag…for a little while at least.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 20, 2010 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions
This comment is from one of the posters on HawkeyeNation
Black Heart Gold Pants just showed their black heart by pulling down their gold pants and teabagging wide right and natty light.
Here is the thread it came from.
"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me
by BStylin Hawkye on Jul 20, 2010 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions
From the same thread
I don’t think WRNL is trying to BHGP at all. BHGP has way more focus on actually posting legitimate news and semi serious takes on stuff. It reads like it’s trying to be a legitimate blog and funny at the same time. They want to be taken sort of seriously. WRNL is 100% spoof. It reads like a bunch of guys getting drunk and ripping on things. I think they’d abhor the idea of being taken seriously.
I think it’s safe to say that they’re not the brightest batch of commentors. Homerism aside, to compare what WRNL did with their dialogue post to the consistent quality that HS, Jacobi and Ross put out is absurd.
Obviously, BHGP is going to appeal more to Hawkeye fans than Cyclone fans, but it seems painfully obvious to me that BHGP is going to stand head and shoulders above WRNL to any non-Iowa based blog reader.
by The Mexican't on Jul 20, 2010 11:10 PM CDT up reply actions
People analyzing BHGP is amusing 100.00% of the time.
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
by Adam Jacobi on Jul 20, 2010 11:29 PM CDT up reply actions
But when you're drunk on Franzia
everything is amusing. Unless it’s a chilled red, then it’s just sad.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 21, 2010 4:38 AM CDT up reply actions
I can't be sure
Until I read with the fine, erudite commentors at Cyclone Fanatic have to say on the matter.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Fran McCaffery article?
Oh, the one nobody read, you mean? Yeah, I’m sure that was somethin’.
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 20, 2010 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions
WRNL is brutally unfunny...
and that’s coming from me, who usually enjoys stupid humor.
Unfortunately, by getting 4 of us to google it to find out what it was, WRNL just multiplied its traffic by 400,000 %. It makes Clone Chronicles look busy and professional*.
*(Sorry, CC fans/authors. Your blog is well-done, but I had to make some sort of Clone-related joke here).
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 20, 2010 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm just trying to figure out how you can tell us what's unfunny?
Did you laugh, thereby proving it unfunny?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 20, 2010 4:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe.
No.
It’s sort of like, if you dig a hole through the earth, you will eventually be going upward again. That’s kind of how my sense of humor works. While most people can not handle that earth’s molten core, that area is my wheelhouse.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 20, 2010 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions
OK, that's actually weirdly brilliant.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 20, 2010 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions
What is a wheelhouse anyway?
I use that term every so often, but with feigned knowledge of what it means. I also use the term feigned with feigned knowledge. So I am kind of in the weeds at the moment.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
Something, something
about blind squirrels and random nut finding
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
I think the wheelhouse
Is where this guy used to buy his cigarettes.

I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 20, 2010 5:31 PM CDT up reply actions
He's your wheelhouse?
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I think my wheelhouse is more long these lines then:
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"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
LOL
And yes, your pic is a more accurate representation of my wheelhouse, as well.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 20, 2010 6:10 PM CDT up reply actions
I think I found my wheelhouse

There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 20, 2010 7:25 PM CDT up reply actions
:(
Meanie.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 20, 2010 7:24 PM CDT up reply actions
The pic of Capt. Phil
was meant as a tribute, not as a dig at him. OK, maybe a bit of a dig at his gravelly voice, but not the man as a whole.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 20, 2010 7:38 PM CDT up reply actions
This is my favorite post of the offseason.
Nicely done.
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Jul 20, 2010 9:08 PM CDT reply actions
Ever played hockey there?
Iowa State has (or had, it’s been awhile) this god-awful ice arena that looked like the inside of a hog shed and didn’t smell much better. Whoever ran the Zam did such a crummy job that the ice was a solid three to four inches higher in the corners, up above the yellow kicker in some places. And, the white paint under the ice was worn off, so it looked like you were about to skate across pavement at center ice. Decrepit basketball arena nothing!
Yeah, but we play in a shopping mall, so...
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
by Adam Jacobi on Jul 20, 2010 11:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Wait, seriously?
You play hockey at Coral Ridge? I’d laugh uncontrollably right now if I weren’t overwhelmed with pity.
"Nothing turns me on like doe estrus." - ReadingRambler
by leeharvey418 on Jul 21, 2010 7:45 AM CDT up reply actions
I think the Iowa Hockey Club...or Iowa Club Hockey...
Or whatever you call it plays at Coral Ridge. I mean, can you think of any other ice rinks in Iowa City?
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That is terrible.
Our club hockey team is so awesome, we’re actually considering building a larger rink so we can make them Div. 1 and use them as a replacement for our basketball “program”. If it works, give us a call.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 21, 2010 8:04 AM CDT up reply actions
Let's just say...
Iowa probably won’t be a charter member of any Big Ten Hockey Conference.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
@ Rambler...
From TV, it appears the PSU basketball team was already playing on an ice-covered floor.
I’m sorry. I had to make that joke.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 21, 2010 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions
What is a 'hockey'?
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Jul 20, 2010 11:55 PM CDT up reply actions
When you go to bed at 7:30, your mom sneaks out and watches it.
She doesn’t want you to know about the awesome.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 21, 2010 8:03 AM CDT up reply actions
I think it's a crude misspelling of "Hawkeye."
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
by Adam Jacobi on Jul 21, 2010 10:20 AM CDT up reply actions
Hawkeye is a crude misspelling of hockey. FACT.
Montreal Canadiens fans are so, so close to being as annoying as Ohio State fans. FACT.
Much like Jacques Demers, Kirk Ferentz cannot read. FACT.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 21, 2010 10:28 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't care that we play in a mall...
I would love to see the Hawks in a Big Ten Hockey conference. Also, I would then have an excuse to be drunk inside Coralville Mall, instead of being “asked” to leave.
More out there than Chris Kingsbury!
by Thanks, Oops I Crapped My Pants on Jul 21, 2010 10:57 AM CDT up reply actions
I had to look it up
The cy/ber thing is not true, I’m not sure where that got pulled from, but if an ISU grad told you that, he’s been urban legend’d. Originally cyber- was not a prefix, but in the 90’s (probably from the portmanteau cybersex) it became one.
Cybernetics
coined 1948 by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) from Gk. kybernetes “steersman” (metaphorically “guide, governor”) + -ics; perhaps based on 1830s Fr. cybernétique “the art of governing.”
“The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” [Norbert Weiner, “God and Golem, Inc.,” 1964]
Brunettes not fighter jets
I had to look it up
The cy/ber thing is not true, I’m not sure where that got pulled from, but if an ISU grad told you that, he’s been urban legend’d. Originally cyber- was not a prefix, but in the 90’s (probably from the portmanteau cybersex) it became one.
Cybernetics
coined 1948 by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) from Gk. kybernetes “steersman” (metaphorically “guide, governor”) + -ics; perhaps based on 1830s Fr. cybernétique “the art of governing.”
“The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” [Norbert Weiner, “God and Golem, Inc.,” 1964]
Brunettes not fighter jets

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