Thursday, September 21, 2006

9/20 Recap: "I'm going to have to ask you to come in on Sunday, too..."

So proud of you bastards last night. After two rounds, no one had less than 10½ points, and I thought the questions were pretty hard, but then what do I know. And the only reason the guy playing solo won the whole night was that he was really into documentaries, which is why I'm kind of wary to hew too close to one topic for ten questions. Still, it was nice & raucous regardless. I can't stand a quiet room.

1. On This Day - in which Chester Arthur became President, Lee Iacocca became the head of Chrysler, Orville Redenbacher drowned in his hot tub, Matthew & Gunnar Nelson tossed their long ironed-straight blond hair, and Bill Lumbergh turned fifty.

2. Audio round: Father's Day - Including Father Of Mine, Papa Legba, the Temptations' Papa Was A Rolling Stone, and to kinda pad it out, Feliz Navidad ("Dad?" Geddit? Dad? Geddit?), and This Is Pop by XTC.

3. Famous Howards - Including Howard Stern, Howard's End & Ron Howard (though not Elston Howard, Howard Beach or the great Emily Howard, who is a very pretty lady!)

4. Great Documentaries - Triumph of the Will, March of the Penguins, Roger & Me, The Aristocrats, The Kid Stays In The Picture, the Seven-Up series, and of course Spellbound.

5. Name Threes - Three American writers living in France, three New York City mayors, three types of clams, and three actors who played FBI agents.


Nine teams this week (kind of quiet by our standards; if you haven't come recently, now's the time, before we get busy again with the change in weather and the prizes are still easier to get).

1st Place: The Dreaded "Rear Admiral" (USN, Ret.) (a solo act, who won dinner for two to Cremcaffe next door. Your move, ladies!)
2nd Place: The Schadenfreudes
3rd Place: Soco & Lime Diseased (I had a terrible experience with this drink, and even typing it today I get a memory-twinge of nausea, so, uh, thanks for that)

and then, in no particular order:
  • Dankberg, Dankberg & Dankberg (It's Not Rabinowitz)
  • We're Not Wrong! You Just Don't Understand!
  • The Little Way
  • The Super Jews
  • My Ex-Wife Got Our Brains In The Divorce Settlement

Thursday, September 14, 2006

9/13 Recap

Well, that worked out pretty well.

We got last night’s game in before today’s monsoon, and it went pretty well. I set a new record for cussing up a blue streak in the questions, on the same night my father came down from Toronto to watch me do my thing. (I don’t believe he got the question about GG Allin, but I could be wrong.)

1. On This Day

2. Audio Round: I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts - Songs about Parts: It's My Party, Junco Partner, Particle Man, that sort of thing. In brainstorming versions of this round out, there was a Sam Cooke song in the mix, so even when that song didn't make the final ten, I decided to put a mess of his songs on the end of the disc, just because.

3. This was a guess-the-theme round, but the answers included GG Allin, Alcoholics Anonymous, LL Cool J, AA Milne, Bebe Neuwirth, and the top-level domain for Estonia. I threw out the question about BB King's nightclub, because I lost the ability to tell my East from my West. D'oh.

4. Pluto & Other Planets: The two teams that chose this round as their daily double rocked the round like crazy.

5. Name Threes: intended as an occasional rapid-fire substitute for the True/False round, it seemed to go over pretty well. I gave three items, and you gave me the one thing they had in common (Examples: "Formidable Opponent, Better Know A District, The Threat Down" or "Jackie Robinson, Henry Hudson, the Korean War Veterans"). We'll test-drive this baby for a month or two and see how it works out.

Team names this week included:

  • 1st Place: The Dusseldorf Overcompensators (Don't Mention The War!)
  • 2nd Place: Frites and Geeks
  • 3rd place: Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz & Rabinowitz: The Savage Jews Who Will Tear You Limb From Limb

    Followed by, in no particular order:
  • Three's Company, formerly Take Two
  • Road Head On The BQE
  • We Impregnated Neil Toomey's Mom, formerly We Piss On Neil Toomey
  • Sherman Helmsley's Revenge
  • The Yael Gottlieb Fan Club (Be careful out there)
  • The Humpalots
  • The Unnecessaries
  • Snakes on Joey Buttafuoco, formerly Snakes on Valerie Plame
  • The A Levels
  • Snap & Crackle (Pop Died)

Och, another impending recap

The second night of Season Two of DSO was great. we managed to sneak it in before the monsoon hit, and you-all helped my father get through what was the most foul-mouthed question round we've done yet. (It's okay; where do you think I got this mouth?)

Welcome to Caffecreme restaurant, our newest sponsor, as well as to the Spelling Bee, who ponied up with more prize action, which you-all will have the chance to win over the next few months.

Details to follow, as soon as I make sure I don't get fired today.

Friday, September 08, 2006

Pics! Och, Pics!

Recap will be up tomorrow (it's my first week at the new job, and I'm paying extra attention to making a good impression until they get used to my slack ass and I can get back into ranting at youse), but until then, I've added some pics from Wednesday night to the the DSO Flickr page.

Add yourself to the group, and take some shots next week! (Oh, and we've got another announcement in the next recap. Another reason to come out, if you need one!)