You know how some weeks it doesn't pay to get out of bed? Well.
After leaving all the results and scoresheets from last week at work over the long weekend, my laptop, on which all trivia everything is stored, shit the bed this weekend, and while I have almost everything backed up in places, for some reason I left my folder of emergency rounds on the hard drive. Which I can't get to at the moment. My sweet baby is in the hopefully capable hands of a bunch of Russian grad students who could be selling all my
I'm kidding, of course. I'm sure they're great guys. They came very highly recommended, and whatever it was I said about them on the Don Imus show, I totally didn't mean it. It was 6:30 in the morning, and I was still pretty ripped from the night before. You know how it is.
Right. Last week's rounds:
1. On This Day - Big ups to McKinley Morganfield, Kitty Kelley, Dave Mirra and Jamie Lynn Spears. (Imagine those four in a hot tub. Mwrowr.)
2. Audio Round: Money - Featuring the monetary monotony (and polyphony) of Rush, Biggie Smalls, Spinal Tap, The Pet Shop Boys, and Warren Zevon. And Eddie Money, because how could I have left him out? I ask you.
3. Ians - Janet schooled you-all about Sir Ian McKellen, Ian Ziering, and Janis Ian, without having to resort to Ewans, Euans, Jans, or any other esoteric spelling with which new parents are surely ruining their precious newborns' schoolyard futures these days.
4. In Your Face - Some facey questions, in which I managed to ask about whiteface (just like blackface, except the other way around), the Steal Your Face logo (shown two posts down), and I got to mention my favorite unit of measurement (totally stolen from some old factbook; if I find it I'll post the link here later):
A millihelen is the amount of beauty it takes to launch one ship.
5. Name 3's
Team names this week:
- 1st Place: Urbina Machete & Gas Company (regarding this story)
- 2nd Place: Brian Wilson Pickett's Charge
- 3rd place: Muddy Waters Lives
Followed by (in no particular order): - Iran 15, Briatin 0!
- Everybody Loves Ramo (later, Ramo Needs To Step Up)
- NAMBLA (The National Aviation & Motor Boats League Association)
- S&M
- Steamboat Willie Randolph (whose shirt won best dressed, and quite spectacularly so)
- It's A Bellobration! (we're always looking for new sponsors, guys)
- Team Derrières Extraordinaires!
- The Drunken Inquisition
- Farfa Nouveaux
- Snakebirdz (who did quite well considering they missed the first two rounds)
- and last but certainly not least, ...Off In The Shower
Prizes this week, aside from the usual bar tab madness, included a nice hardcover volume of all of Opus the Penguin's Sunday appearances from Bloom County, Outland and Opus, as well as a DVD featuring an actress named Hussey playing Mother Theresa. Sacred, profane, lenten and perfect for the tone of the evening.
We'll see you Wednesday night, hopefully in warmer moments.
