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3catwoman3

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48. No, indeed. My friend and I were both involved in the air base's amateur t
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 12:02 PM
Nov 2025

…club, as both performers and dancers, and we worked together to choreograph numbers for one of the club’s presentations. The cast very much had fun with bandying about “On stage with Penix and Ball.”

Were that my last name, I would at the very least add an H and make it Phoenix, if not just change it altogether.

Ball was the subject of many athletic jokes, like, “How’s your brother, Basket,” and the like. In 7th grade, I used to get greeted every morning in homeroom by a classmate who would leer at me and say, “Hi, Ball. How’re they hangin’?” His buddies would laugh their asses off at his adolescent cleverness.

One morning, when I’d had enough and after much mental rehearsal so I knew I could pull it off, I glared at him and said, “Fine, thanks. How are yours?” His buddies laughed even harder, and he never said it again.

It was a moment of triumph I still enjoy some 55 years later.


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