Team Travis: Persecuted, Reviled, Awesome

Now that we're at the penultimate round of the season, it appears our complete and total awesomeness is rubbing a few people the wrong way. PHDTS took a shot at us in a tagline (and poor Joel's coif suffered as well) and the geers were reeeally giving us the gears. Grill, despite an extremely generous and giving offer from yours truly to inherit a beautiful piece of retro music technology for free, was particularly testy. Guess we need to ply him with beer at our kegger.

Our wonderfully inevitable kegger.

Break it down:

Steve, Travis, Buchan, Kari in attendance. Steve put in some serious loner hours waiting for us to get there. This shall not be the case this coming Wednesday, though, because trivs will be starting at 9:00 sharp in order to accommodate super extra bonus rounds. For our part, we will both be in attendance to help ensure total trivia domination.

Round 1: Some hits; some misses. 2TB won. PHDTS gained 2.5 on us. Ooooh.

Round 2: Obscure 80s/90s music. Well, obscure to the normal human; a piece of cake to Travis. 2TB win again. They are becoming a threat, so it gets dirty: "Two Tall Broads? Yeah - horizontally tall." OUCH, SL.

Round 3: Our perennial favourite, the themed trivia round. We managed to get all the answers without figuring out the connection between them! We were pretty close, guessing military vehicles when in fact they were all tanks. Let me say that what began to tip me off to the militariness was the fact that panther was one of the answers, which I assume to translate to panzer in German, which I knew was part of the name of the panzerkampfwagen because of our friend Cam's excellent TV commercial. Yes, folks. That's why it's called trivia.

This is where Grill got a little testy. Buchan may potentially possibly might have theoretically challenged our points total, which caused Grill to take away our points, which removed us from the tiebreaker, which deprived us of the sweet taste of victory beer. Steve-know coined the following, which I will kindly censor for the more delicate among us:

c*nt: [kʌnːt] v. trans. To treat unfairly; screw over. "Grill totally cun*ed us that round."

Of course he didn't really take our points away, so I guess he can still have my record player. I guess.

Round 4: movie production company themes. Very challenging; lots of fun. 6 pts.

Round 5: a tough trivia round.

Question: What was Lady Penelope's licence plate on Thunderbird 5?

Answer : Who the hell cares?

(courtesy of T-rav)

Question: What is the fruit with the most calories?

Answer: Grill.

(courtesy of SL)

This caused Grill to threaten to take away ALL our points. Eventually he had mercy on us.

7pts.

6. Grill's testiness continues, but at least other teams are feeling the wrath as well. I am mesmerized by the PHDTS guy's hideous sleeveless grease monkey shirt and his copious pit hair so I take no note of the content of the round. 7.5 points.

Quote of the night: "It's not about us getting free beer; it's about other teams not getting free beer." Buchan, I presume?

Has anyone else noticed that we have kind of a legwear theme happening in the names of our team members? Please pardon the funnery here, but I just have to point it out. There's (apologies) Cindy Pantalon, and there's Tr...avis H...auser. Tr...auser. Trauser. Say it out loud.

What of the other members, you say? Well, I'm working on that. How about: Craig Scott pants on. Craigscott pants on. (This is another one best enjoyed aloud.) Just saying, is all. Just saying.

And down to the the nitly gritly:

for the night -

1. Bite the Pillow - 45.5

2. PHDTS - 45

3. T-Rav and the T-babes - 43.5

4. 2TB and Boner City, tied at 42

5. BSB - 41

6. BPB - 39

and the cumulatives -

1. Travisse - 441.5

2. PHDTS - 409

3. BSB - 392

4. BPB - 380

5. Ses and the Wexlies - 378.5

6. 2TB - 374.5

This is it - the homestretch! Cruisin' into a kegger. Nice work.