1. There are so many children here.
"Were there this many children when I was competing?"
2. Who's going to tell the humor kids that bowties and suspenders aren't cute anymore after you graduate High School?
"How much money have they spent on ugly bowties? Why are none of them a normal color? Where does one find purple suspenders?"
3. Is using Twenty One Pilots a requirement for every POI?
"Oh, you're reciting Car Radio, too? How original! Glad I haven't heard that one yet..."
4. Is Declamation really a real category?
"How hard can it be to memorize someone else's speech? What is this, competitive plagiarism?"
5. Are they trying to guilt trip me?
"Their grandma has cancer, their dog died yesterday, and they have no mother? I sincerely doubt all of these (if any of these)things are true."
6. If I have to hear singing one more time in a piece...
"It's time to begin, isn't it?" "Nope, it's actually time to stop."
7. That was a lie.
"That's a lie. Lie. Lie. You're all bad liars, and your made up story still isn't good!"
8. I will scream if one more person uses a canned phrase in their speech.
"And that got me thinking." "That man was Albert Einstein." "As Gandhi once said..." "Stop! Be original! That's what Original Oratory means!"
9. Yes, I want the door closed.
"Nah, leave it open. This is a Dramatic round, after all! How much screaming could there possibly be?"
10. Stop asking for other people's numbers.
"Why do you want their competitor numbers? Why are you ranking them? That's my job."
11. Stop trash talking the other competitors!
"What just came out of your mouth? Oh heck no, your coach will be hearing from me."
12. Stop trash talking the Judges, too!
"Well, I guess that kid just went from a 2 to a 5. Pretty sure professionalism is on this ballot somewhere."
13. One. Clap. ONE CLAP. How hard is it to understand one clap?
"*Clap* DONE! STOP! SHHH! NO MORE!"
14. Who do you think you are?
"Did I say you could walk into the room before me? I don't think I did. Get behind me, kiddo."
15. Yes, I want your ballots now.
"No, actually, why don't you just wait until you all leave and hand them in as you exit? I'll fill them out then."
