Who: YOU!
What: Trivia
When: Wednesday
Where: Craig's house, Let's say 8:00ish? (Cindy works early mornings and is a sissy)
Why: Because we love to spend Wednesdays together, and we need to plan a sweet pint token party (which sounds was less cool than a keg party, but believe me, will be a blast)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Trivia Recap - Ultimate Week
That was it. The final week of trivia. We started 51 points up, so let's see where we ended up at the end of it, shall we? Read on, dear readers. Read on.
Start Time: Only after all of us had gotten there, and we didn't leave Cindy's until 9:30. I'll say 10:00.
End Time: Probably in the region of 1:00.
Core Attendees: Craig, James, Cindy, Travis, Steve, Kari. Full house.
Support Attendees: None. Just the core bringin' it to the limit.
Orange Toques Forgotten: Craig, Craig, Craig. Fortunately, our erstwhile captain made the ultimate sacrifice, and wore an orange-paper dunce cap. It certainly looked much better than his "orange paper jammed down into his hat band" look. Take note: Should you happen to forget your hat, this might just happen to you!
Pitchers of Victory Beer won: Two kind of. One for sure. Sort of two.
Place for the evening: second, I think.
Place overall: First. By a long shot. There was a lot of complaining about this, from the Bi-Polar bears who insisted that they actually came in first place for the last seven (out of twelve) weeks, and yet didn't crack the top three. Hmm. Or from Push Her Down the Stairs, who claimed that had they not gotten caught cheating, that their score would have been high enough to win (hmm). It wouldn't. Plus, they were caught cheating again last night. Dag, yo. Bottom line: We crushed the competition, essentially by an entire night's worth of trivia. Unstoppable.
Name for the Evening: Travis saw Drew, Grill and Jon Stamos doing Yoga in matching outfits. This made the engineers crack like eggs. It was awesome. They even asked "who told you about that?"
Answer of the night: The fact that sodium hits water and....wait for it....explodes! Take that, AGE team, who would have said that it just makes salt water. No chance, apparently. Good work, Chemists in our group (Cindy, Steve, I'm looking at you).
Runner-up to best answer of the night: Steve clutching up and remembering that George Lazenby did not succeed Sean Connery, but just took his place for one movie. Oh, and in that movie he was married to Diana Rigg. AND IT HAD A SEQUEL, DARN IT!
Bonehead move of the night: Oh, so many to chose from. Was it James, going back on his original knowledge of Persia and Iran? Or was it Travis, saying that "Back in Time" was from Back to the Future II instead of I? You know, it's the last game, and we're done, so there were no bonehead moves. We did perfectly well.
"Dicks in your mouth": Okay, buckle up, because this is a little convoluted. Here we go: Mike Berry, from team Frank, asked Craig over, and then asked him how many beers he'd had so far, to make sure that he was still okay to ride his bike home. Craig replied with "Seven," innocently enough, at which point Mike said "DICKS IN YOUR MOUTH!" It was funny that team Frank got involved (they usually do it wrong). Anyhoo, Steve then had the great idea that he would ask Craig how many Dicks he just got hit with (going for the double whammy). Well, then, sure enough, when we asked how many Craig just got hit with, Mike, trying to answer quickly due to pride, said "Seven" all happy, and was then met with a resounding "DICKS IN YOUR MOUTH" from at least Steve and James. Nothing beats it. Good work on the reversal, guys.
Members of our team who have herpes: All of us, apparently. Who knew?
Triviagate scandal: Mad cheating going on from the team next to us. A bunch of upstarts who know how to use cellular phones, apparently. They were especially blatant during the last round, when new teams think it's perfectly acceptable to cheat when you're playing against the bar. What's the deal? Oh, and push her down the stairs got busted for cheating. Again. Big frickin' surprise. Oh, and some bozo tried to join our team in the last round. Yeah, not happening. Travis isn't a whore.
Music Excellence: "The humpty dance" was played again. I'll eat up all your crackers and your licorice.
The only real question now is when to have the keg party. There are going to be fifty pints of beer floating around (plus a few shots of cranberry juice for my poor pregnant wife), so we have to think of a time when we can all get together and drink ourselves stupid. Also, a guest list of sorts would be good too. You know, so we can keep out the riff-raff. Yeah, we're awesome.
Mad props to the engineers and to the bar staff for letting us take advantage of them. But seriously. Mad props to us. We're awesome.
Trivia James.
Start Time: Only after all of us had gotten there, and we didn't leave Cindy's until 9:30. I'll say 10:00.
End Time: Probably in the region of 1:00.
Core Attendees: Craig, James, Cindy, Travis, Steve, Kari. Full house.
Support Attendees: None. Just the core bringin' it to the limit.
Orange Toques Forgotten: Craig, Craig, Craig. Fortunately, our erstwhile captain made the ultimate sacrifice, and wore an orange-paper dunce cap. It certainly looked much better than his "orange paper jammed down into his hat band" look. Take note: Should you happen to forget your hat, this might just happen to you!
Pitchers of Victory Beer won: Two kind of. One for sure. Sort of two.
Place for the evening: second, I think.
Place overall: First. By a long shot. There was a lot of complaining about this, from the Bi-Polar bears who insisted that they actually came in first place for the last seven (out of twelve) weeks, and yet didn't crack the top three. Hmm. Or from Push Her Down the Stairs, who claimed that had they not gotten caught cheating, that their score would have been high enough to win (hmm). It wouldn't. Plus, they were caught cheating again last night. Dag, yo. Bottom line: We crushed the competition, essentially by an entire night's worth of trivia. Unstoppable.
Name for the Evening: Travis saw Drew, Grill and Jon Stamos doing Yoga in matching outfits. This made the engineers crack like eggs. It was awesome. They even asked "who told you about that?"
Answer of the night: The fact that sodium hits water and....wait for it....explodes! Take that, AGE team, who would have said that it just makes salt water. No chance, apparently. Good work, Chemists in our group (Cindy, Steve, I'm looking at you).
Runner-up to best answer of the night: Steve clutching up and remembering that George Lazenby did not succeed Sean Connery, but just took his place for one movie. Oh, and in that movie he was married to Diana Rigg. AND IT HAD A SEQUEL, DARN IT!
Bonehead move of the night: Oh, so many to chose from. Was it James, going back on his original knowledge of Persia and Iran? Or was it Travis, saying that "Back in Time" was from Back to the Future II instead of I? You know, it's the last game, and we're done, so there were no bonehead moves. We did perfectly well.
"Dicks in your mouth": Okay, buckle up, because this is a little convoluted. Here we go: Mike Berry, from team Frank, asked Craig over, and then asked him how many beers he'd had so far, to make sure that he was still okay to ride his bike home. Craig replied with "Seven," innocently enough, at which point Mike said "DICKS IN YOUR MOUTH!" It was funny that team Frank got involved (they usually do it wrong). Anyhoo, Steve then had the great idea that he would ask Craig how many Dicks he just got hit with (going for the double whammy). Well, then, sure enough, when we asked how many Craig just got hit with, Mike, trying to answer quickly due to pride, said "Seven" all happy, and was then met with a resounding "DICKS IN YOUR MOUTH" from at least Steve and James. Nothing beats it. Good work on the reversal, guys.
Members of our team who have herpes: All of us, apparently. Who knew?
Triviagate scandal: Mad cheating going on from the team next to us. A bunch of upstarts who know how to use cellular phones, apparently. They were especially blatant during the last round, when new teams think it's perfectly acceptable to cheat when you're playing against the bar. What's the deal? Oh, and push her down the stairs got busted for cheating. Again. Big frickin' surprise. Oh, and some bozo tried to join our team in the last round. Yeah, not happening. Travis isn't a whore.
Music Excellence: "The humpty dance" was played again. I'll eat up all your crackers and your licorice.
The only real question now is when to have the keg party. There are going to be fifty pints of beer floating around (plus a few shots of cranberry juice for my poor pregnant wife), so we have to think of a time when we can all get together and drink ourselves stupid. Also, a guest list of sorts would be good too. You know, so we can keep out the riff-raff. Yeah, we're awesome.
Mad props to the engineers and to the bar staff for letting us take advantage of them. But seriously. Mad props to us. We're awesome.
Trivia James.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Trivia Recap: Penultimate Week.
Well, it is official. The Trivia season will be wrapped up next week. That means that we have to work hard to hold onto our precious lead. But more on that later. Right now, let's discuss the week that was, shall we?
Start time - 10:00 ish.
End time - 12:15 or so. Actually, a reasonable turnover.
Core Attendance - James, Craig, Cindy, Steve, Travis.
Core Absentees - Kari (she had a lot of work to do....be nice).
Orange toques forgotten - Just Craig. Tsk. While I'm at it, Cindy and I both noticed that her toque came back a little "sexier" after Craig had had it for a week. Hmmm.
Pitchers of victory beer won - 2, but possibly could have been three.
Place for the evening - Second, behind the broad street brawlers. Now, we would have won a third pitcher of beer for that, since the broad street brawlers can't win, but since our whole team was gone, the pitcher went to the bi-polar bears.
Place overall for the season - First. By a long shot. In fact, we are up over team violence against women by a total of 51 points. Yes folks, it's true. In order for Push Her Down the Stairs to catch up, they would have to have a flawless night, and we would have to get fewer than nine points. After we get eleven points for the evening, we might as well just crumple up the rest of our question sheets, because we can't be caught at that point. Of course, we never would, because we relish the spirit of competition.
Name for the Evening - "Travis also spent his 19th birthday in a spandex suit." You know, it was awesome having her there, hitting up all the other teams for free drinks.
Answer of the night - Cindy and Steve worked out how long it would take a clock running five minutes slow each day to finally get the right time again. They worked it out, even while thinking there must have been a trick they were missing. Way to not overthink it, guys!
Runner-up answer of the night - James knowing where this crap is.
Bonehead move of the night - It's no Harry Callahan, but Kyrie is not by Toto.
"Dicks in your mouth" - 'what round are we on?' Craig and James to Mike Berry from team Frank. The beautiful thing is, that we said 'Mazel Tov' afterwards, without rehearsing what we were going to say in advance. Guess that means that the dicks were circumcised.
Triviagate scandal - Now that the dust has settled from the Marissa debacle, well, it would appear that their spirit is broken. It would appear that Marissa had a "project" to do, which meant that they were absent completely. This has taken them from fourth place to out of the running entirely. That was certainly strange. The only one of their (former) members who showed up was the guy who defected. Oh dear. So Marissa is out completely, giving Frank place to team Frank for sure. I'm still surprised that Push Her Down the Stairs clawed their way back into second....
Looking ahead - Only one more week peeps. Let's hit it out of the park. Ah, yeah. Don't forget to vote on the new poll at the bottom of your screen, and be sure to add some comments. I'm sure I missed something.
Trivia James.
Start time - 10:00 ish.
End time - 12:15 or so. Actually, a reasonable turnover.
Core Attendance - James, Craig, Cindy, Steve, Travis.
Core Absentees - Kari (she had a lot of work to do....be nice).
Orange toques forgotten - Just Craig. Tsk. While I'm at it, Cindy and I both noticed that her toque came back a little "sexier" after Craig had had it for a week. Hmmm.
Pitchers of victory beer won - 2, but possibly could have been three.
Place for the evening - Second, behind the broad street brawlers. Now, we would have won a third pitcher of beer for that, since the broad street brawlers can't win, but since our whole team was gone, the pitcher went to the bi-polar bears.
Place overall for the season - First. By a long shot. In fact, we are up over team violence against women by a total of 51 points. Yes folks, it's true. In order for Push Her Down the Stairs to catch up, they would have to have a flawless night, and we would have to get fewer than nine points. After we get eleven points for the evening, we might as well just crumple up the rest of our question sheets, because we can't be caught at that point. Of course, we never would, because we relish the spirit of competition.
Name for the Evening - "Travis also spent his 19th birthday in a spandex suit." You know, it was awesome having her there, hitting up all the other teams for free drinks.
Answer of the night - Cindy and Steve worked out how long it would take a clock running five minutes slow each day to finally get the right time again. They worked it out, even while thinking there must have been a trick they were missing. Way to not overthink it, guys!
Runner-up answer of the night - James knowing where this crap is.
Bonehead move of the night - It's no Harry Callahan, but Kyrie is not by Toto.
"Dicks in your mouth" - 'what round are we on?' Craig and James to Mike Berry from team Frank. The beautiful thing is, that we said 'Mazel Tov' afterwards, without rehearsing what we were going to say in advance. Guess that means that the dicks were circumcised.
Triviagate scandal - Now that the dust has settled from the Marissa debacle, well, it would appear that their spirit is broken. It would appear that Marissa had a "project" to do, which meant that they were absent completely. This has taken them from fourth place to out of the running entirely. That was certainly strange. The only one of their (former) members who showed up was the guy who defected. Oh dear. So Marissa is out completely, giving Frank place to team Frank for sure. I'm still surprised that Push Her Down the Stairs clawed their way back into second....
Looking ahead - Only one more week peeps. Let's hit it out of the park. Ah, yeah. Don't forget to vote on the new poll at the bottom of your screen, and be sure to add some comments. I'm sure I missed something.
Trivia James.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
"The Theme From Team Travis" (Machine Gun, The Commodores)
Question: List the 5 greatest theme songs of all time.
1) The Theme from M.A.S.H.
2) The Theme from Clone High
3) The Theme from Cheers
4) The Theme from Team Travis
5) The Theme from The Jeffersons
I would have suggested an Adam Ant song for our theme, but the guy is just too big of a male slut. What is he up to?
I do know what Lionel Richie is up to. Cocaine!! Lots and lots of cocaine....
Saturday, April 5, 2008
The Regulars at Trivia
I have noticed that it is difficult to explain to Trivia non-regulars about why we shouldn't cheat. And I think that instead of telling them myself, I should get Adam Ant to do so instead.
What is he up to?
What is he up to?
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Trivia Wrap-Up. Week Whatever.
Well, folks, it has come to this. Trivia night, that most sacred of all times (aside from coffee after church) has been invaded by the athletic awards. And that is a problem for me. As you may have noticed, our good friend made several appearances. Again.
Jock-tackular cell phone cheating. And yes, it looked exactly like the image above. Man oh man. However, the cell phone cheating was only part of the evening. Let's expand on the rest, shall we?
Start time - Late. Delayed by pointless other people, and our inability to find a table. The hell?
End time. Sometime just after one A.M. It was 1:11 as we were driving home.
Core Attendance - Cindy, Travis, Steve, Craig, Kari, James.
Support Attendance - Joel, Eric.
Number of orange toques forgotten - several. Tsk.
Pitchers of victory beer won - Zero. Not even one.
Place for the night - fifth, I think. Again, the hell?
Place overall - still mega first.
Average line length of the night - Immense. Visible from space.
Time taken for Travis to get a pitcher of beer - He grew a full beard waiting for it to get there.
Number of pissed off bartenders working at the owl - At least two.
Team name of the night - Tommy Tutone has more tones than the DJ. That actually got under his skin, and made him irritable. That was funny for me.
Answer of the night - Craig wrote a whole bunch of extra stuff that wasn't needed on who wrote songs, and although it was cool, it didn't help.
Bonehead move of the night - Craig missed a NASA question, costing us valuable points.
Mad sweetness of the night - The forever infamous "Baby Round."
If anyone in the bar was curious as to what our baby will look like, well, pretty much like this. Kari and I were left to fend for ourselves, and show ourselves to be terrible parents. In the future. Yes, we will suck. Thanks so much for planning that, it was a lot of fun, and it didn't eat into our lead too badly. Thanks guys, that was awesome.
Periodic Table Moment - We had to add some things together. Thankfully, we have some space geniuses on our team, who figured it all out, and knew about atomic numbers.
"Dicks in your mouth" - Number of astronauts on Apollo 13 - James to Craig.
Public Shame - Handing out shots to a whole bar full of cheaters. They didn't deserve those shots! We still wore our toques with pride, and handed out our shots with quiet dignity. Yeah, that'll teach 'em!
That's all for this week's trivia roundup. If I forgot anything, feel free to mention it in the comments section, or heck, become contributors, and you can edit this mess yourselves.
Jimmy.
Jock-tackular cell phone cheating. And yes, it looked exactly like the image above. Man oh man. However, the cell phone cheating was only part of the evening. Let's expand on the rest, shall we?
Start time - Late. Delayed by pointless other people, and our inability to find a table. The hell?
End time. Sometime just after one A.M. It was 1:11 as we were driving home.
Core Attendance - Cindy, Travis, Steve, Craig, Kari, James.
Support Attendance - Joel, Eric.
Number of orange toques forgotten - several. Tsk.
Pitchers of victory beer won - Zero. Not even one.
Place for the night - fifth, I think. Again, the hell?
Place overall - still mega first.
Average line length of the night - Immense. Visible from space.Time taken for Travis to get a pitcher of beer - He grew a full beard waiting for it to get there.
Number of pissed off bartenders working at the owl - At least two.
Team name of the night - Tommy Tutone has more tones than the DJ. That actually got under his skin, and made him irritable. That was funny for me.
Answer of the night - Craig wrote a whole bunch of extra stuff that wasn't needed on who wrote songs, and although it was cool, it didn't help.
Bonehead move of the night - Craig missed a NASA question, costing us valuable points.
Mad sweetness of the night - The forever infamous "Baby Round."
If anyone in the bar was curious as to what our baby will look like, well, pretty much like this. Kari and I were left to fend for ourselves, and show ourselves to be terrible parents. In the future. Yes, we will suck. Thanks so much for planning that, it was a lot of fun, and it didn't eat into our lead too badly. Thanks guys, that was awesome.
Periodic Table Moment - We had to add some things together. Thankfully, we have some space geniuses on our team, who figured it all out, and knew about atomic numbers.
"Dicks in your mouth" - Number of astronauts on Apollo 13 - James to Craig.
Public Shame - Handing out shots to a whole bar full of cheaters. They didn't deserve those shots! We still wore our toques with pride, and handed out our shots with quiet dignity. Yeah, that'll teach 'em!
That's all for this week's trivia roundup. If I forgot anything, feel free to mention it in the comments section, or heck, become contributors, and you can edit this mess yourselves.
Jimmy.
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