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.
14 comments:
Yay Team Travis! Whooo! Do comments work? we will find out when I post this!
wow, that earmuffed pooch on the phone was exactly what those cheating jocks looked like!
Mad props also to the Leslie men who could name not one but two elements starting with the letter Y.
Also, sweet swag was had with the Great Western steins. Too bad those cheatypantses got some, too.
Eye heart trapezoid cats.
What is this? TwoFacebook or something?
I like my Trivia Recaps like I like my Trivia First Place Glory…Reserved for bona fide members of Team Travis, and Jud.
If I thought every cheater in the bar deserved to experience the hilarity of Team Travis Recaps I would send my recaps to their cell phones so they could read between cheating sessions.
Still, this is a pretty good recap. Not Captain material, but decent. The only two things missing were a summary of Craig's greatest brain-lock hits, and a mention of who was the best looking guy in the bar last night.
And now to pick up the slack for my TeamTravisMates, as usual:
A) Two of the top three brainlocks of the season for Craig happened last night. Here are the three for the ages.
1) Craig was not able to pull "Callaghan" from memory as Dirty Harry’s last name, even though he has seen all the movies 5times each. That is like Trivia James not being able to think of Luke Skywalker’s last name, or like Trivia Kari not being able to think of something really, really offensive to say about a dead celebrity.
2) Craig was not able to pull both Jim Lovell and Fred Hayes as the back-ups for Apollo 11, even though he subscribed to NASA's newsletter when he was 12...until he was 26. Craig only got Jim Lovell, that's embarrassing.
3) Craig was not able to pull "For What It's Worth" as the name of the Buffalo Springfield song in Round 4 last night...brutal. What was that big rolling stones song in the 60's called again? Satisfiction? Statistician? Status-Itchin?....I’ll get it eventually.
B) Best looking guy in the bar last night:
For the 11th week in a row the best looking guy at Trivia was Craig. Craig hadn't showered in the morning because he slept in an chair in the lab at the University the night before, but that didn’t really cost him much ground in the race for best looking overall...
Just like Team Travis didn't really lose much ground in the race for Ultimate Trivia Glory even after messing up a few rounds for shits and giggles last night.
Team Travis is a lot like Secretariat. (I'll explain who secretariat was for any Frankies out there who don't possess a lot of trivial knowledge).
Sectretariat was that 1970's horse that won all three legs of the triple crown by 25 lengths going away. That's Team Travis. All the other teams are those horses you can’t see in the camera shot when Secretariat crosses the wire…so those teams better get used to the view of a big horse's ass.
see you all next week,
Craig
(Captain of Team “Travis takes pride in being the biggest horse's ass at Trivia”)
P.S. Eye also heart trapezoid cats…and I’m not joking about that.
Once again I would like to point out a mistake: Yttrium (Yt), Ytterbium (Yb), Xenon (Xe), Zinc (Zn), and Zirconium (Zr) would make FIVE elements that come after Tungsten (W), alphabetically.
I cleverly put 4 as the answer because I knew that most engineers can't count past 4.
We got it right according to them. They are however wrong.
That's a big part of the reason that we picked you up mid-season Steve. You undertand the "mind" of the Engineering student. Plus we really needed to round out the MSM Committee with some core science brain power. It has worked out.
The AGE Committee also had to dumb down some of our answers to make them accessible to the graders this week. It's a good move.
This is public now, so I will explain the Travis organzition for any losers who may be reading.
Travis has two seperate, but interfunctional committees. The Captain oversees all operations unless he gets too drunk. In the unlikely event that the captain does get drunk, all captainly duties fall to the most sober team member. Which is always Kari, because she is observing lent.
MSM Committee:
Stewards of Math,Science & Music
(Cindy, Steve, Travis)
AGE Committee**:
Stewards of Arts,General & Egomania
(James, Kari, Craig)
** The AGE Committee members have a combined age of 126 years.
I'd like to point out that the MSM team can have other acronyms, such as Main Stream Media. The AGE team? Just spells out age. Yup, we're old.
I see that Frank has placed a vote in their own column. Always a bridesmaid, Frank, never a bride.
(having said that, I desperately hope that they beat Violence Against Women. We're not having a kegger with those dudes, are we?
Question:
What team is in Frank Place overall right now?
Answer:
Team Frank
Personally, I do have a morbid curiosity to see the hobbit from team Spousal Abuse get drunk and stupid, but maybe I should just watch their table more closely. Or maybe I should brew up a still of middle-Earthen mead or whatever those little creatures drink.
That being said, I would like to point out that Steve is not only a master of MSM knowledge but also an advanced Eningeer psychologist. Whatever it is that Craig is "working" on in his "lab," he's got some serious competition from the MSM committee.
I designed an experiment to study exactly how Engineers decide if trivia answers are correct. My hypothesis was that they decide that answers are correct if the answer is worded exactly like a sentence on wikipedia, or if the answer includes the word "boobies".
The NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council)would not fund the project for some reason. I picked up Steve in free-agency and his uncanny EnPsych intuition has resulted in a couple of extra points each week since.
Good job Steve, and remember that you will never be Captain of this team. Never.
Craig
Who is team 'violence against women'? I would say 'push her down the stairs', but I thought that was the cell phone cheat squad....
Push her down the stairs is team violence against women. The cell phone cheat squad are those dudes who showed up last week, and cheated like crazy. You're right, though. The same label can be applied to both.
Hello Drew, honorable RESS Trivia questioner. We welcome you to our blog.
Anything negative about engineers that might have been posted here was either a joke or was posted by a member of team frank.
Wow,
apparently, I'm on team frank and missed something.
I love online communities, now I can creep on comments here, and not just on facebook.
Tomorrow night promises to be a better showing by Team Travis. Some of us have been practising our dicks in the mouth jokes (wait a sec, that didn't sound right) and music identification (might I suggest symphonic rock). Even if we are way ahead, remember travis likes it on top.
Cindy "bringing her A-game" Cantelon
What are you up to Cindy?
That's borderline Adam Ant stuff.
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