Week 2 of this season was not pretty or glorious, but a lot of necessary grunt work was accomplished and the six troopers who showed up gutted it out to put up a respectable score which kept Team Travis well within striking distance of our rivals.
With Trivia Cindy out with an early morning, Steve-Know out on his Watrous internship, and Captain Craig down with the flu and not entirely on his game...Andrea, Janelle, Jim, Kari and Travis stepped it up and kept us close.
It was a tough night question-wise, a lot of good questions on the part of the 'neers. We thought ourselves out of a few correct answers and lost a few unnecessary points by failing to double check the sheet before taking it up to the table, but overall we pulled a lot solid answers out of the hat.
I observed a little cheating here and there by new comers, but nothing serious. The bigger problem was the amount of cross-pollination and the tolerance of said cross-pollination by other teams. Geez Louise, it's not a Biology lab, it is not OK to share answers with the person at the next table.
Answer of the night:
Jim: No, Mary was not impregnated through her ear. (What were the Engineers thinking on that one anyway?)
Play of the Night:
Craig and Jim decide not to drink too much. Craig felt pretty good the next morning, Jim is still married, all good things.
Mistake of the night:
Andrea and Craig order the buffalo ranch "wings". Turned out to be chicken strips floating in miracle whip and anarchy.
Team Name of the Night:
The Plastard Bastards: "Travis is so old he was on the design team for dirt".
Anyway, good work by everyone, in three short months Travis will be getting medals hung around our necks by the Princess while everyone kisses and Chewbacca roars with his arms up in the air.
2 comments:
Gotta say, those "wings" were "gross." Yes, I am using quotation marks here correctly, as more than one person commented on the grossness of those wings. Spew. Nothing like a crapload of miracle whip to improve your evening. And two members of our team had them, too!
Sorry for dropping the ball on promising to do the recap. I'm just generally no good on the follow-through. I do know that James has the standings written on the back of a receipt, so he can keep us up to date on just how far we slid in the rankings, and how much brain power will be required to catch up.
I have to say I'm feeling the absence of Trivia Steve and his keen instincts, particularly with all that multiple-choice crap that came up. However, we did ace the theme music round, which I believe we did last week as well. One jug of victory beer was probably just about right.
Our task for the next two days: figure out a clever comeback for the Plastered Bastards. Our task for Wednesday: figure out which of the revolting X-rated names applies to team Drunken Hobbit and then roast them mercilessly.
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