Beartrap
By Daily Bruin Staff
June 6, 2001 9:00 p.m.
Q: What is “The Steel Curtain”?
   A: “A curtain that doesn’t
move.”
   -Jamie Dantzscher, freshman gymnast
   A: “It’s what Winston Churchill
referred to. The polarization of East and West
Germany.”
   -K.K. Holland, second-year political science
student
   A: “A prison.”
   -Chris Leung, first-year computer science
student
   The Pittsburgh Steelers’ 1970s
defense was nicknamed “The Steel Curtain.”
Q: What does it mean to “put someone in the
popcorn machine”?
   A: “When you throw someone in the mosh
pit at a Slayer concert.”
   -Brandon Chillar, freshman football player
   A: “To throw them in that big thing of
balls at McDonald’s.”
   -Kristen Maloney, freshman gymnast
   A: “My mother told me not to discuss
that in public.”
   -K.K. Holland, second-year political science
student
   To “put someone in the popcorn
machine” is Laker play-by-play announcer Chick Hearn’s
phrase for beating a defender after faking him with a
pump.
Q: Who are “The Bad Boys”?
   A: “I don’t know but I hope
they’re real naughty.”
   -Beth Norber, second-year world arts and cultures
student
   A: “Will Smith and Martin
Lawrence.”
   -Jonathan Bobbio, first-year psychobiology
student
   A: “Me and Ben Emanuel.”
   -Brandon Chillar, freshman football player
   A: “The men’s volleyball
team.”
   -Ben Emanuel, freshman football player.
   The Detroit Pistons’ 1989-90
Championship Team was known as “The Bad Boys.”
Q: Why was Venus Williams mad at Shaq last
month?
   A: “Because Shaq didn’t come to
her tennis game.”
   -Chris Leung, first-year computer science
student
   A: “He wouldn’t give it
up.”
   -Kim Klitofsky, first-year undeclared student
   A: “Because he’s taking up tennis
and is going to steal her spotlight.”
   -Erin Pooler, second-year women’s studies
student
   A: “She caught him with her
sister.”
   -Brandon Chillar, freshman football player
   Shaq joked on Power 106 FM that he slept
with her, Cindy Crawford and Aaliyah.
Compiled by Hannah Gordon, Daily Bruin Reporter.
