4/26 Recap

Okay, last week's rounds, because I thought I'd added these and I just didn't:

1. On This Day In History
2. Winston Churchill
3. Famous Epileptics
4. Opening Lines To Movies (This was supposed to be read by you guys, but that didn't work out. Next time we do this, and mark my words, we will be doing this again, I'll be handing the lines out before the night starts. Everyone will have a different one-question head start.)
5. True/False

Janet With Gerry Adams

Janet With Gerry Adams, originally uploaded by Tony.

Janet got invited to Washington a month ago to eat green food with President Bush and former IRA head Gerry Adams, of all people. This may have happened over St. Patrick's Day, but the pictures had to go through as many channels as the friggin' Geneva Conventions to get to your pretty little eyes.

I also have a copy of Lindsay (our excellent waitress') appearance as one of the "Wonderful Women Of New York," but my scanner seems to have died. Soon as I remedy that, I'll upload that to here as well.

4/19 Recap

1. On This Day
2. (audio round) Spring Fever, Part II
3. On The Occasion of Queen Elizabeth II's 80th Birthday
4. Taxes (included one question on "Taxis")
5. True/False

The questions about the Queen were taken from this list of 80 facts about her 80th birthday. And yeah, there were other facts sprinkled through the rest of the evening as well. (I can't get over the fact that shehas a gold record for doing a spoken word album called Party At The Palace. That, with all due respect, is off the hook, kind of, innit?

Also, I'm kind of surprised (although I guess I shouldn't be) that the Queen was among the very first non-geek, non-military people to send an email, in 1976. I'm guessing she must have sent it from an IBM Selectric with a pterodactyl in it.

Notes:

• My favorite team name: Wes Mantooth and the Channel Nine News Team. (I was hoping they would all turn and face front in unison, like Ron and Veronica trained Brian, Brick & Champ to do, but that was just a low-level fantasy of mine.)
  
  
• The best reaction to a team name was for "The Roosevelt Island Swim Team." Everyone loves a tragedy. You heartless freaking vultures, all of you.
  
  
• Lastly, there were nine teams, but most teams had way too many people. We'll start getting a little harder-assed about the numbers on the teams (officially it's five, but six is a hard maximum) next week. Think of it this way: you risk winning more shit this way.
  

I have some images I'm trying to fix my scanner so I can share, and I'm thinking about listing the prizes in advance so you can prepare your desires accordingly. The bar tab prizes are a constant, but we have many books and whatnot as well. Leave a comment if you have any ideas about this.

Thanks for your support, and see you next Wednesday.

4/12 Recap

Okay. I'll be posting to this space at least weekly from here on in.


1. On This Day
2. (audio round) Spring Fever
3. Cabin Fever
4. Oh, No, You Di'int! (Everything kindasorta rhymed with "ono")
5. True/False

Janet ws away sick last week, and I drank myself absolutely stupid, but the people from Vassar who used to come all the time back in the old "Drinking & Thinking" era were back, and they should start coming again, which is good, because they're smart and good hecklers, which is always welcome. (What's the point of calling it the Drunken Smartass Olympics if you can't come and be a drunken smartass? Like Janet likes to say that I like to say, I'm just saying.)

Uh, yeah. Notes from this week:

• I was hoping to make an audio round based on ten different covers of "Fever," but I figured people wouldn't be able to discern the difference between Little Milton and Little Willie John, or Cindy Ellis, Veda Brown or Sharon Cash. So out of the 30 versions, I was able to pull five (Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, Madonna, Peggy Lee & James Brown), and then I put in five other songs about other kinds of fevers (it's the only time in my life I have ever wished I had a Ted Nugent record.)
  
  
• The loudest group was the eventual winners, "The Unleavened," who raucously cheered everyone else on, but when they were called out themselves, the rest of the room was eerily quiet. Don't be afraid to bring the noise. Also, the prizes have been getting better every week, and if you dress up, you're almost definitely going to be rewarded for your extra effort.
  
  
• I don't know if they were the funniest team name, but the longest of the night went to "Haha, Haha, This Name Is So Funny. I Have A Distended Asshole."
  
  
• Finally, I'm always happy when someone playing solo doesn't finish last. So "Jack's Joker," good on you for doing so well. Bring a couple of friends and clean up next week, alright?