At the end three sides of Griffin Park erupted into a brilliantly boisterous pitch invasion, the high point of which involved the spectacle of Marcello Trotta, the 20-year-old who missed that promotion-sealing penalty in such agonising fashion – being hoisted by a crush of perhaps 1,000 supporters, singing like a fan, and being bounced about in the air like a crowd-surfing starlet.
The buzzing about whether Michael Ovitz will leave the Creative Artists Agency to head up MCA has become an echo chamber: a rumor originates in a small circle, is bounced about, magnified, and exhausted, and then a fresh rumor enters the chamber.
He set out after sunset on 11 March, and after two days of being bounced about in rough seas, and nearly being spotted by a Japanese warship, he reached Cagayan on Mindanao.
Whatever its cause, therein lies a long and complicated mariner's tale that is now being bounced about in angry e-mails and radio transmissions among tugs and ferries from Sandy Hook, N.J., to Maine.
Lambs are bouncing about in the sunshine and the Archers omnibus is on the radio.
The hand grenade had tinkle-plinked down the periscope and was bouncing about in the cabin of the Labour submarine and – KABOOM!
So it underlines the ability of the self-proclaimed "little old band from Texas" to get people moving that within seconds of hearing the opening chords to Got Me Under Pressure, the Pyramid audience are bouncing about like labradors.
Mr Balls dismissed the poll, telling the BBC: "These polls have been bouncing about day to day, week to week, month to month.
They were bouncing about, forcing everyone to do the most uncoordinated dancing you're likely to see.
All around me, 21-year-old stick insects with glossy hair and flawless skin have been bouncing about, clutching files, painting walls (or the wall-that-becomes ceiling thing that celeb photographers use for celeb photo shoots) and generally looking like extras in some super-hip ad for some super-sleek gadget that's about to set the world on fire.
