(work with me here and pretend it's Wednesday)
Well, here I am, sitting at the Owl, all by my lonesome. Thankfully, Grill took pity upon us and sent a message that there was trivia tonight. By the time I got my butt there, I had missed the first trivia round. They kindly offered to catch me up on the first round, but I remembered my Travisian ethics: no table talk; no special treatment (apart from urgent txt msgs). So I declined the help.
I should have accepted.
The best I can say about my score tonight is that it wasn't zero. There may have been a time when we could skip an entire night and retain our lead, but unfortunately now we'll be playing Las Ketchup for the rest of the semester.
Round 2- music.
Y'all ready for this? My score was zero point five. I just sucked so much bottom on that I can't even believe it. I began the semester for us as the laughing stock of the bar. Nowhere to go but up.
The drawback of sitting alone in a bar: some guy just used the world's worst pick-up line on me. How's this for romance: "Did you work in a potash mine?" Shmooth. And no, I would not like your creepy help on the next round. Yeesh.
Round 3 - trivia, theme-style.
If I had gotten more right, I probably would have made the connection: the answers were all Saskatchewan lakes. Still, I came out with 5 points. At least I can hold my head up because I got the Diefenbaker question.
Poor Joel is taking lots of tagline hits. I'm hoping this is an inside joke and not just general cruelty. If not, trivia is becoming a hard, hard place.
8 point winners (only three more points than me, bee tee doubleyou): The Bakerloo Bruisers. Kudos to them for referencing the best thing the Tube announcer lady says.
For other funny things the Tube announcer lady says,
see here.
Round 4 - music covers and originals
Apparently you don't have to do your makeup or hair or not be wearing a wedding ring to get hit on at the Owl. Creepy guy number two has now swooped in. This time I dropped the husband bomb much sooner. He then went for the awkward complicated handshake and later the you're-a-long-lost-friend hug. *shudders* Apparently these guys have not been doing their homework with the excellent XBox program
Don't B Nervous Talking 2 Girls.
The theme for this round was cover songs/samples - name the old and new artists. Now this, I can sink my teeth into. I didn't get as many of the original artists as I had wanted, and I did in fact correctly guess a Kanye song. Surprising. I even guessed Black Eyed Peas when it was Fergie, which really, for a fogie like me, ain't bad. 5.5 points outta my yizass; PHDTS got 6. The winners were the Bipolars, whom we salute.
Chad's Gramma gives us a beautiful a capella rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody, including guitar imitation. Nyeer, nyeer nyeer nyeer nyeer na-nyeer.... They got a well-deserved pitcher out of it. Later attempts to sing Don't Stop Believing really humped the bunk, though.
Round 5 - Trivia.
I have popped a piece of melon mint gum. The jury is still out.
The beer cap map is up, it is beautiful, and it is extremely helpful for questions about Canadian geography. Yes, I referred to it for the question on the number of provinces bordering the Great Lakes.
A mid-round brawl breaks out at the Bipolars. Some brief fisticuffs, and then back to business as usual.
Being by myself, I'm noticing that the table talk starts to get really loud by this round. Unfortunately, none of it is helpful. And even though I sucked ding-a-ling on this round, I WAS NOT THE WORST. PHDTS got 4, and so did I. That's right -- one Travis brain equals all y'alls brains.
Uh-oh. Bad News. The Chad's Gramma team is comprised of engineers. This will lead to much tomfoolery.
More shitty bar singalongs. The Femmes Fatales seem to be flirting with Grill. Good work, buddy.
After the initial mint, the gum is decent.
Round 6 - music, the stop round feat. PHDTS stoppage
I completely was just terrible at this round.
God save us from the Femme Fatale who is singing an extended Karaoke version of the Power of Love. Oh God help us now. Please. Enough already with the lap dancing.
So that was my pathetic night of trivia. I had to take off abruptly to help James with a BP freakout, so I have no standings for you. The good news is that the dudes were moving so efficiently, I only had time to complete one round of knitting. Plus they were very punctual. We approve.
Could someone send or post the standings? Kthxbai.
