Week 11 Season 1 2009
Pre-trivia update.

This is it ladies and gentlemen. The final countdown.

We have fought long and hard to defeat Hitler. Tomorrow is D-day. We have ten rounds of all out war to rid the world of all that is evil. If we fail, I know how to kill myself like a man.

I found some inspiring words before the battle:

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
-Winston Churchill

Notice how Churchill didn't mention "cellphones" or "cheating" as great things. I thought Hitler and Churchill got along.... I might need to read more history.

By the way leave your 9th and 10th players home this week Hitler. Geez.

We are going to prove that Dark Helmet was wrong when he said "Evil will always triumph over Good, because Good is dumb."

To conclude this rallying speech I will summon the power of Thundera
Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats HOOOOOOO!

That should do it.

Week 10 Season 1 2009

Members in Attendance: Travis, Andrea, Steve-B, Trivia-James, Steve-Know, Cindy, The Original Craig T. Nelson.

Pitchers Won: 2

I asked Craig to post the trivia blog this week. He must have been confused. He posted these instead.

Week 9 Season 1 2009

Members in Attendance: Travis, Andrea, Steve-B, Trivia-Kari, Steve-Know, Cindy, The Original Craig T. Nelson.

Pitchers Won: 1

I apologize for both the lateness and brevity of this trivia update. I am currently swamped with a pile of school work almost as disgusting as PHDTS. Any Travisonian who would like to put something here is welcome to do so.

Umm yeah, PHDTS sucks.

Steve-Know

Week 8 Season 1 2009

Members in Attendance: Travis, Andrea, Steve-B, Trivia-James, Steve-Know, Cindy, The Original Craig T. Nelson.

Pitchers Won: 3 Boo Yeah


Round 1
We began the night with a win. We got 9 points. Other teams who matter got:
8 Wes
7 Bi-Polar Bears (honourable)
7 Hitler (not so honourable)

Some other insignificant team actually tied us, but they had 12 players, so we won. The two greatest words in the English language: Dee Fault! Dee Fault! Dee Fault!
Yay, we're +2 against Hitler again.

I made a special set of gauntlets to mark the occasion.
























Round 2
Once again we had a tie at 9.5 points. The tie breaker song was "Piece of Shit Car" by Adam Sandler. Well F that S.

Anyways, PHDTS who probably all drive piece of shit cars knew the answer first. They probably also do funny things with shampoo bottles if you know what I'm saying.

Ok, here's my biggest shit storm complaint of the night. PHDTS cheated all F'ing night again. They had 9 players, and I know that I'm be a picky dick. Here's the thing: it's a tight race. I know that they are going to say "He sat back when the questions were being asked." (which is only true for earlier rounds) Here's the thing, I watched that guy chime in numerous times tonight. Unless he was telling jokes that were so funny every one nodded instead of laughing, he was answering questions. But wait there's more, this new guy was using his cell phone too. Awesome.

I leave it to Drew to do something about this. However Drew had his hands full tonight (we'll get to the best part of the night in a bit).

Round 3

Here's a little on house fun. We had a pretty good fight on our team about which continent was the only one that did not have a desert. Craig and Jim were pretty sure that it was Antarctica, and Buchan and Andrea were hard set on Europe. Well Grew said it was Europe. But wait there's this. That's right, there's a desert in Europe as well. I knew there was a reason I didn't answer. Deep down I knew that they were both wrong.....

The highlight of this round had to be Craig showing us all his bulge. He hiked up his pants and I took this photo:


Craig got us our victory beer for the round with his pants in this layout. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that we won another round boohyashacka. In fact, we gained another 2 points on Hitler. Good stuff.

While Craig was getting the beer, Drew decided to pants him. I knew Drew was excited to have Craig back, but I thought he would exhibit better self control.

Quote: "I've got a semi." Rev. Jim (about our performance, not about the pantsing or Craig's bulge-show)

Round 4 The Theme Round

Tonight's theme was national anthems. Well we knew all but one of them. Ok, well we made correct educated guesses on all but one of them. We didn't know the chinese national anthem. I know the Japanese one. (Sorry for exposing you to that).

Hitler used their cell phone's on Oh Canada.

Now once again for the night, we had a tie with Hitler (who had 9 players). We sent up Steve B. for the tie breaker. Hitler launched a different weapon. Here's how the battle looked:














Steve did ok, but Hitler triumphed. Schizen.

Quotes
"To be honest, screwing in the bathroom is not about romance." Steve-know.
"To be honest, do you ever get so horny at trivia that you have to go boff in the bathroom?" Trivia-James

Our startling revelation this round (keeping with the bathroom theme), was that they should put the handicap urinal in the middle. Thus the rule of 1-3-5... will be better obeyed. (I bet the ladies are laughing at this bit).

Round 5
A "Friends" theme round.
Ok, I really appreciate all of the work that Grew and Drill put into trivia. Going the extra distance with common-themed rounds is a great idea. Here's the problem. Friends is arguably the worst piece of shit ever to make it on television. I would rather watch Rita MacNeil jump naked on a trampoline than be forced to watch (or listen to) one second of the disgusting drecch. Here's a computer script that writes an episode of Friends:

t=0
{
Do { output: "Line" //not funny
output: "HAHAHAHA" //shitty brainless laugh track
}
While: {t<22}
t=t+1
}

Here's what it produces:

line
HAHAHAHA
line
HAHAHAHA
(repeat 20 more times)

There you go, each line takes one minute, and in total you've wasted a half hour of your life (once the commercials are blended in).

There. I'm glad I got that off my chest.

Round 6
Alexis was absent tonight (we didn't get out carried over beer). I fear that my comment about her beaks a few weeks ago may have mortally wounded her. Someone else did the beak. And then things got really interesting.

We had a lady who was new at trivia tonight. She was not impressed with the pace that trivia moved at. (In Drew's defence, Grill was away, and he only had a mangina to help him.)

She got loud. And mad. Really mad.

Drew responded by using the microphone to his advantage and made her look worse. Then he took his sweet ass time getting the round going.

She got more mad.

Now, I'm leaving out where she works and what she does for the Department of Sociology at this university because I have class. Some things are just wrong.

Apparently their table was there because of a facebook group called "Vote for Change" or something like that.

Anyways, the culmination of the event was Drew and being talked to by a dude (ogre) from her table. Here's how it looked:


















Quote: "You know what's not cool? When you have to send up your boyfriend to deal with it." Steve B.

Yes, their table's Shrek did not look happy. I think it's because Drew announced where the lady at the table works. I bet Drew wants to borrow my gauntlets.

Returning to the trivia round, things went shitty for us.

We lost all of our lead points on Hitler for the night except for 1/2 a point, which was enough to net us the overall win for the night.

I think that Tom Cochrane White Hot (actual name from Craig) sounds a lot like Bon Jovi Runaway at the beginning. I know they aren't the exact same, but at least I'm not crazy.

Ok, to summarize tonight's trivia:

-too late
-too many players (on hitler)
-too funny (lady freaking on Drew)
-too legit to quit
-too shitty (Friends, that is)

The scores for the night are:

1. Travis 49.5
2. Hitler 49
3. Wes 46.5
4. Broad Street Brawlers 45.5
5. dunno (Bi-Polar Bears?) 43
6. Bite the pillow 44.

Overall scores for the season as best as I can get are:

1. Hitler 320
2. Travis 312.5
3. Broad Street Brawlers 298.5

I cannot say anything more regarding standings with certainty.

Week 7 Season 1 2009

Members in Attendance: Travis, Andrea, Steve-B, Trivia-Kari, Steve-Know, Cindy

Pitchers Won: 3 Boo Yeah


Round 1
Gwahahahaha a perfect 10. We showed our true trivia prowess by destroying the first round. The next closest team was Hitler, with 7 points. That right, we started the night off by gaining three points on the vacuously disgusting, perverted and filthy Hitlers.
Some fun things that we knew were:

How many humps a bactrian camel has (2).
What a wormhole is (well, what a wormhole may be).
Djoser built the first pyramid.

Yes we thoroughly spanked that first round. Things were off to a great start, but then......

Round 2

Shit. We got a 5. Grew and Drill have taken up a love of country music or something. Hitler's cell phone knew 8 of the questions. Dammit, we gain 3 points on them only to lose them in the next round.........yaaargh.

Here's how losing points on Hitler felt.
Round 3

This was a fun round. (So was the first btw. Did I mention how awesome we did in the first round?) The worst part about this round, is that we got a 7, and we had pondered the correct answers for 2 of the ones we got wrong.

Where on the human body would you find the thinnest layer of skin? We said 'lips'. Apparently its the 'eyelids', which we debated.

What is the fastest non-mechanical sport? We chose bobsled. The inner physicist knew that skydiving was faster (after Travis (the person) brought it up). Our debate was over whether or not skydiving is a sport. I don't think it is. Big whoop, you leapt out of a plane. In the words of Buzz Lightyear, the rest is just falling with style.

The one question we didn't know was what 'pop' in 'pop goes the weasel' means. Apparently it's a bit of English cockney, and 'pop' means 'to pawn'. We assumed it meant to kill a weasel, and that this children's nursery rhyme was no different from any other one and involved killing something. (it turns out the pawning is so that people can buy booze in some interpretations).

Now I would like to take a moment to address some concerns that have brought to my attention. Some complain that this blog is too far right and that I'm a right wing crackpot. Well here's something for the lefties regarding weasels:







































Note the weasel fur jackets lefties. These guys love having red paint thrown on them as they are engineers.

Somehow I seem to have gotten off track.

Round 3 ended with us getting 7, Hitler got 6. Sweet.


Round 4. The Theme Round

Tonight's theme was game show themes. Well I would like to brag about our 10, but there was a 6 way tie for first, and one of those teams was Hitler. Being in league with them some how lessens the perfect score....

Anyways, BF Prentice, our expansion team, yelled out the answer loudest (but not first) and won the beer.

Fun round.

Round 5

The guys put together a clever theme round where all of the answers had a common theme; they were 'nuts'.

Ok, here's my beef, christmas trees are not necessarily pine. All you said was conifers. Wikipedia lists 12 common types of Christmas trees used in North America, and 7 of them are firs (which we put down as our answer), the other 5 are pine. 7>5. Do I have to do another math proof this week?

Anyways, the theme was clever.

Us 5, Hitler 6. Shitty.

Round 6

Hmmm something strange is going on. Alexis came out and told us that she was not going to beak us for the rest of the semester. She claims that she is saving up for some sort of mega-beak at the end of the semester. Then she proceeded to do her best to hold in her hatred for us. Some of it still slipped out. "You guys better be lubing up your assholes. Be prepared for the beak of your life."

The round went swell for us: a 9.5 and Hitler only got... I think it was 6.5.

The point is, we won the night. Boo yeah!! Then we were faced with a predicament. It's late, no one is drinking a lot on our team and we just won 2 pitchers of beer. Props go to Alexis for letting us carry over a pitcher.

The results for the season thus far are:

6. 2 Tall Broads 240
5. Wes 241
4. Bi-Polar Bears 245
3. Broad Street Brawlers 253
2. Travis 263
1. Hitler 271

This was one of the most satisfying Trivia nights in awhile. Good times guys and gals.