Tin Cup Puns

It was a couple decades ago now, but humanity was enslaved by an alien force called "The Hegemony Of Astreous."

We were absolutely not ready for any such war, and we tried, but it didn't work out.

There's a rumor going around that there's some humans on the outside biding their time and waiting for some sort of opening to counterattack, but those of us in The Pit consider that hogwash.

Oh right, you don't know about it... The Pit is the big-ass space prison all of humanity is stuck in.

The trouble (other than the most obvious trouble of being in a massive prison) started after a particularly pessimistic inmate decided to invoke some good ol' comedy to pass the time.

You see, "Operation Tin Cup" is a joke about the old practice of using a tin cup on one's jail bars to make noise... usually in order to escape the infinite boredom of being locked in the slammer.

How it was used tended to be something along the lines of "The next step of Operation Tin Cup is going to our cells and having a nourishing meal!" or "Operation Tin Cup demands that we go to the yard on time!"

Maybe it was the way that we said it?

Whatever the reason, after the "Operation Tin Cup" started catching on, we started getting more inspections, stricter time tables, the works.

The problem with that is... we just did what we always had done, and so we never got penalties except in rare cases that could be explained by other things.

Now, we didn't understand what was happening at the time, so we just kept saying the joke.

As time went by, the guards started to get more and more agitated, the higher-ranked officers started to yell more, and the warden added a constantly-annoyed expression to his face.

At this point, "Operation Tin Cup" had already died down as a joke, and we came up with something else to bide our time with.

Then it happened.

Random individuals started getting punished for the smallest infractions, and they started to interrogate us about where we'd been, and who we worked for.

It didn't make any sense until that particularly pessimistic inmate was taken in for questioning.

Apparently, it clicked in his head when they got desperate and asked him: "Who is in charge of Operation Tin Cup?!"

He even tried to explain that it was a joke, but each time he did, they called him a liar and tortured him.

So he made up the name of some faraway military general from the "Secret Operations Branch", who he named "Michael Jarhead".

After he told us the story, we

I haven’t heard of anything like this happening. I thought it could make a good movie. Tell me what you think about these.

1. When did Roy McAvoy start playing?

2. His time at U of Houston. Playing with David Sims.

3. Q school? A scene showing him taking a 13 on the par 5.

4. Him winning the Winnebago. Did he play HS golf with Boone.

5. How’d he get the driving range? Obviously he went back home, so was it passed down from family?

6. How’d he meet Romeo?

I’m thinking he played with HS golf with Boone and Romeo, playing baseball with them, too. Boone had the curveball. Romeo came up with the nickname because he heard the “clank” from shortstop. Romeo’s comment about Cup carrying Sims at UH makes it sound like he was an upperclassman to Sims. Winning tournaments in college, he was able to control his risk taking. Did he have a coach to teach him control? What took him back to Salome? I’m thinking he was a van life golfer living in golf course parking lots and showering at gyms, in between Q school and his return to Salome. Hustling around the courses in Houston, and becoming the man we see at the beginning of the original film.

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My local theatre still hasn’t received them yet, wondering if people have the same problems. And have your local cineplex got them?

Who would you like to see in the next match?

I'll grab mug from my cupboard and then shove some foil in it.

That way you don't dirty any dishes and you dont have to keep some dirty old can or jar full of fat lying around.

I will use a can or jar if I opened one during that cooking session though.