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The full house was back in action last night, complete with Bob Saget and Mary Kate and Ashley action figures. Aka this was our biggest crowd at Jeremiah’s in months and was the perfect antidote to my Bonnaroo-withdrawl blues. It was a night of highs and lows—most teams were high enough to nail round 3’s chris tucker v. chris rock toe-may-toe/toe-mah-toe but crumbled in audible agony in response to round 7’s sparse clues on movie titles—and we all wept collectively when our eagerness to see precious LeBron tears of sadness was thwarted by the Spurs’ unbelievable choke. The only hiccup in round three was the bewilderment over question two, which everyone thought must be a lie due to the impossibility of either Chris Rock or Chris Tucker being nominated for a Razzie; I mean, seriously. Were they oblivious to Tucker’s Oscar-caliber work in Friday? Or his wonderful bit in Jackie Brown?? Hogwash I say!
A surprising amount of teams failed to identify Susan Boyle in our audio round on Hookers; I thought the theme practically gave the thing away, I can’t think of any singer who could more blatantly be confused with a prostitute than Susan Boyle, but hey, to each his own. Never heard of Virgil? Really that’s no big deal, although I’d like to become familiar with his work AeKeegan that one team suggested. Probably his undiscovered masterpiece. Not a single team identified Leader 1 as the captain of the Go-Bots, and I couldn’t fathom why, nor did they get Pepsi’s NY HQ. I think the latter was just an active protest to Pepsi in general because we all know it’s for fools in general as well as little girls who play Helen Keller in TV movies.
The grand conclusion to our contest was verily thrilling. I’m not talking about first place (congrats to Harriet Tubgirl riding that underground geek train to a commanding victory and excellent name) but for the runner-up prize. The second place team left the premises in agony before collecting their prize, and third place was so upset about missing out on second by two points that they left as well. This left us with a tie for fourth that evolved into a Thunderdome death match for the pseudo-second place. The first sudden death was a tie. The second sudden death was a tie. The art of guessing finally settled this madness with ground control to Major Chris Hadfield’s twitter following being closer to 700,000 than 2 million. A great effort from both teams, and a tip of the hat to Glass Half Empty for hangin’ tight and coming out with a runner-up prize after finishing in fourth—not bad.
See you clowns next Tuesday!
Best Team Names:
HARRIET TUBGIRL
TRIVIAL PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
ME AND JULIO WENT DOWN ON A SCHOOL BOY
MY EX-WIFE IS NOT A PSYCHO
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What do we know best over here in upstate NY, you ask? Why the artist formerly known as Shaggy and assault rifles, of course. Not sure what this means for my crew tonight, but heeyy man, “wasn’t me.”
Tonight was a unified battle as the field faced one of the more difficult quizzes of recent memory. Collective sobbing could be heard during Rd. 3’s aptly named “Cinema Clusterfuck,” as only a handful of teams opted for the double point advantage after three clues. It’s possible that the idea of some of these movies existing with these characters involved a la The Flintstones Meet the Jetsons threw them for a loop i.e. Serpico, Durden, and Will Hunting pulling off some sort of mad heist? That’s enough to distract me from the goal at hand. The most intriguing of results from this round, somehow rampant and conjured by more than just a few teams, was the misidentifying of The Usual Suspects as Honey, I Blew up the Kid. That hybrid is something that –might—just bring Rick Moranis out of retirement.
The American myth is dying…who is John Chapman? Hitler? Ghandi? Fat Albert?
Every team except for one got an 8 out of 8 on the visual round identifying gun parts. You tell me.
The ’98 Bulls have been resurrected by our weekly teammates of the McDonald Dynasty and co. as they bask in the glamor of their anonymity, changing their name from week to week. Under the guise of TANGERINE DREAM-TEAM, a ragtag red-headed crew with nothing to lose, they won with a commanding score of 84 points, an entire five points over the runner-up. Congratulations once again, I encourage the field to overtake the iron throne of geekdom at Jeremiah’s next week! The house of McDonald grows stronger by the week…hand sanitizers…baby books…bar tabs…where does it end?!
Best Team Names:
I HOPE THE NSA LIKES BRAZILIAN FART PORN
PETULA CLARKS
BUDAPEE
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Summer is unofficially here, settling itself in as we allcollectively yearn for it on the 43rd latitude line north. Dresses are thankfully in abundance, and our weekly crew has settled into a swath of regulars and a few newcomers. The warmth also provided our participants with a lil’ extra shot of excited-juice. Maybe that’s just called alcohol, but either way we had a right-peppy night. Bonus rounds were rather vicious—all in sport—and I’ve never heard anyone get so psyched from hearing a (sir?) Kid Rock lyric as our theme from round seven…I’m a cowboy, baby.
Most teams, myself included, were left a little perplexed at Clairol’s sales pitch with the ever-tactful “girl next door.” If this product aint fo sluts, remind me again why it’s called “Nice N’ Easy”….?!?! That’s like trying to convince everyone that bronzing skin cream isn’t just for the Jersey Shore and calling it “Gweed Cream.” But hey, I think it worked, somehow. Either that or women became more ok with being pretend sluts. I will certainly never know, especially after writing this post.
Our first audio round took us on a European quest through the ear canals of Venice and beyond. Although not many hit They Might Be Giant’s “Istanbul,” the round was generally a prosperous one for many teams. But really, nobody had a seventh-grade math teacher? TMBG is a total seventh-grade math teacher band, like I think it became a requirement after 1997.
Round six turned the geek-meter into overdrive and unabashedly full-throttled it through tri-dimensional chess boards, software companies, and something called “dream drop distance.” This round required bifocals and an accompanying strap to be successful, as only a handful of teams performed well this round.
In the end it came down to a battle of regulars, a re-match from last week’s winner and runner-up as well as a new team in the mix that came in to steal second place. Congratulations to C3PO GETS DRUNK ON PBR2D2 for the win and excellent team name. See you clowns next week! Stay phresh.
Best Beer of the Night: Long Trail Brewing Co.’s Milk Stout (Brown Bag Series) on draft
Best Team Names:
C3PO GETS DRUNK ON PBR2D2
DICK, SHORT FOR RICHARD
LARRY BIRD'S HOUSE OF CHICKEN N' WAFFLES
UNCLES WITH BENEFITS
MULTIPLE SCOREGASMS