Practically too much went on last at McCabe's for me to do it justice. Lots of good-natured trash talking, lots of jokes being cracked, and the balcony is open in all its glory. We had a birthday party, Borracha!! who played the quiz, and they erupted in ear-piercing bedlam everytime they got a question, which was infrequent enough that it didn't cease to be entertaining. Also we had a team, Rub Her Inner Tubing, win after going into Round 8 TWENTY-TWO POINTS DOWN. Plus my Rays swept the Red Sox!

Regardless of whether they win or not, there are few things more entertaining at a pub quiz than a birthday party.

It's a pretty heated rivalry between Literally Illiterate and John L.'s team, which you'll see in the photo below...

And in 3rd, God's Middle Finger

In 2nd, What Would Jesus Joker? BTW Shannon, Heidi says she agrees with you that the Harry Potter round was too easy. I on the other hand, would have made like team 'Spiracy and quit the quiz once the topic was announced. Unless of course Shannon was on my team.

And pulling off the biggest Round 8 comeback I've EVER witnessed, Rub Her Inner Tubing. In this photo it looks like the inner tubing is being rubbed by God's Middle Finger.

And to top it all off, I can now officially go to the Trop with a broom in hand without being ironic!

YOUR SCORES:

Rub Her Inner Tubing                        67
What Would Jesus Joker?                     64
God's Middle Finger                         60
Literally Illiterate                        41
Borracha!!                                  38
Fighting Sandals                            30
Linda & Gene                                16
'Spiracy                                    16
Squirrel Piss                               11

Seriously, you guys are awesome and I had a blast last night. I'm even considering coughing up the E-470 tolls to come out and play the quiz with you guys next week. Evil Rob out!

Smooth sailing last night. Every one was preparing for the long weekend so it was pretty chill. I would have to say I still had a great time. That might be blamed on the fact that I gave blood before drinking a couple beers but who knows.

Thanks to Aimee the birthday girl for delicious cupcake. It was quite tasty.

Interesting. Very interesting.

There was a great team name last night I Fucked Your Sister And All I Got Was This Lousy Kid. That name had me rolling all night.

Enjoy the beer guide kind sir.

There were some pretty good answers last night. Hey Dude was not the TV that had a character named Summer Roberts. Leeks and polenta look nothing alike. A Star Anise should not be confused with rangoons or dried starfish. Metamorphmagus Tanks' first name was not Dirty Sanchez. I realize that a lot of you are not NASCAR fans but I do appreciate you answering the questions with FUCK THIS QUESTION (FUCK IT GENTLY). The gently part really made all the difference.

These kids know their BBQ.

Scoring was all over the place since no one jokered round two. This Isn't Ironic had the strongest finish and took the cake.

The come back kids.

This Isn't Ironic                                     65
Mr. F                                                 61
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head                         58
Assclown Wonder Twins                                 48
Our iPhones Are Smarter Than Your Blackberrys         45
I Fucked Your Sister & All I Got Was This Lousy Kid   43
Meat Blankets                                         41
Nothing A Few Beers Can't Fix                         38
Kommana Wana Leiya                                    24
Dingle                                                22

Enjoy the weekend, be safe, and no forest fires.

Hoo-boy, another huge quiz at McCabe's. Man, what a hootenanny. What a fête. What a kookypalooza. Indeed.

Anyway, Camryn Mannheim Steamroller won again. Like, a lot. They pretty much thrashed the snot out of everybody else in the room and I sat back and did nothing because I am afraid of their geekery.

There were a ton of regulars mixed in with the many newbies. Some of said newbies were swindled by me into buying shots for the quizmaster, based on the nontruth that buying me shots would lubricate their victory. Haha! That's like the oldest trick in the book!

Yay for the Harry Potter round, even if it did cost me a—ahem—NINE DOLLAR MARTINI. My contrition has a price, and that price is nine dollars. Kudos to the team who didn't get like any of those right, but instead just wrote down "WALL-E" for each answer. Yes, WALL-E is adorable. I love you, too.

I'm going to show you a lot of pictures now, and there's not a thing you can do about it.

To the scores:

Brainiac 5                         87
3+1=5                              72
Glory Haggards                     66
Nerd Force 20/20                   65
The Hymen Harem                    65
Brainiac 5                         63
Harlock's Elite                    63
SanBaxHurtsOats                    62
Jeopardy Style: Redneck-something-
or-other-that-I-didn't-write-down  56
That's One Fantastic Ass!          55
J3Turbo                            55
3 Beers and a Brain                54
Loraxes                            50
Cake or Death                      50
Listerfiends                       50
Bucky Kentucky                     44
Screwbirds                         40
All Things Weird                   39
Legend-O                           35
Bobby                              30
KJ                                 24

Last night's quiz was a wild collection of the absolute random. There was something for everyone there, leaving some people angry, but most with a sense of satisfaction that they got something right. We started with a round on summer, leaving quite a few of you in a haze of summers gone by. By the way, if you haven't seen Wet Hot American Summer, go see it now. Right now!

Sugar Tits & The Mud Wrestlers displaying their varying amounts of insanity that I am in no way response for

You guys brought back the pain with ROUND 2 - In the land before digital cameras. I love it when we get to burden your ear drums with some Huey Lewis And The News. Judas Priest vs Ron Jermey in our multiple choice round proved super hard for all of you (no pun intended). Turn's out that Ron Jeremy has a subtlety in his Porno names, whereas Rob Halford really doesn't in his song titles. New Jack Swing Music brought back the best or worst of your early 90's memories. It's not too often we have perfect 8's and 0's on the same round.

Team Sloppy Seconds…& Thirds, Fourths, Fifths, Sixths - makes you wonder what sort of freaky things they're all doing after quiz, and in what order...

Then we brought out the nerd guns. The children fantasy book nerd guns. Harry Potter and Nothing But was met with the same mixed atmosphere that the rest of the quiz was. Round 7, breakfast cereals was the one round that everyone did the same on - poorly. That's okay though, because now we love that maple taste. IT'S COOL! Was that really all it took to get kid's to eat breakfast in the '80s? A shirtless black bodybuilder with feathers from his ears saying to a gymnastics team, "It's Cool." Man... what was wrong with me...

HA! I Pushed Down The Lady That's Fallen and Can't Get Up has won like the last 4 O'Niell's Bonus E-mail Questions - GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

Occasionally many teams ride the wave and fall hard during round 8, and others do the exact opposite. That happened last night. Round 8 brought us the quiz equivalents of a photo finish, proving that questions about NASCAR, Latvia, Snakes on a Plane, Barbara Boxer, and SPINAL TAP!! was really the forté of some folks. Our top teams last night all thought they were out of the winnings, but came back with a vengence to bask in their newfound glory, one of whom proudly proclaiming, "We're Back!" Yes, yes you are, my sweet victors of quiz. And without further ado, or Fernando putting his junk in a box, the winners of quiz:

Third Place
A $900 Six Legged Rainbow Lizard - What The Fuck's Up With That Shit?

Second Place
Critical Drinking

First Place
Caucasian Rubbish

Remember that in one week we'll have a new 6 week QUIZ FOR CASH! on sunday nights and that on the 23rd, we'll be having our quiz mixer, allowing you to meet new people and get rewards for doing so (that may or may not be sexual in nature, but bank on the latter). See you next week, quizlings!

SCORES!

Caucasian Rubbish                               	70
Critical Drinking                                 	69
A $900 Six Legged Rainbow Lizard - 
              What The Fuck's Up With That Shit?	67
It's Marky's Birthday - Someone Drink His Milkshake	66
Sloppy Seconds…& Thirds, Fourths, Fifths, Sixths	64
The Oral-B-Reacharound                          	64
Misunderstood Gay Devo                          	63
Sugar Tits & The Mud Wrestlers                  	62
I'm Rich and Single Come See Me at Table 10      	60
Fighting Mongooses                              	59
I Hate Stellios                                 	57
Freudien Slip                                   	54
Let Me Tell You Something About a Porcupine's Balls	53
Cranberries                                     	51
Bob Dole                                           	48
HA! I Pushed Down The Lady 
                  That's Fallen and Can't Get Up	48
Take the Skin Boat to Tuna Town                  	37
We Could Take 1st But We Have Lives                 	36
Four Babes and A Stud                             	32
Clare's Apt.                                     	30
FoxFire	                                                24
The Dukes of Hazard                               	18

You may recognize our friend Adam Cayton-Holland from such Geeks Who Drink appearances as: Geek Bowl 2007, and Geek Bowl 2008. The Westword "What's So Funny?" author and ringleader of the monthly Los Comicos Super Hilariosos is filming his first comedy DVD. This is the ticket to get.

Close enough to Wet Hot American Summer AKA the best movie ever! I was surprised by how many teams didn't get that question right! I was also surprised at how many teams we had last night! When only two people were at Tusk at 7 p.m., I got worried. Would we have to cancel GWD for the week of the 4th of July!? Dear god, no! And my prayers were answered. We had eight teams! Possibly a record for the growing GWD crowd at Tusk.

One new team sat quietly at the bar, not turning in their answer sheets. They claimed to be practicing for the next quiz.

Here they are, The Virgins
Dolls & Balls and Headcleaners were tied for second until the 8th round when everything changed. Let's look at the pictures!

Dolls and Balls

Headcleaners doing jazz hands!
Three Brawling Women and Their Bitch. The bitch was the only person who knew all three NASCAR drivers! Surprised?
One of our new teams, The Niwotians

Our losers of the night, We're Half Tempted

And our winners, again...Youth in Asia. Congrats on your numerous wins!

Ray from the Headcleaners won this bacon pennant for his team and is rightly proud.

The Score

 
Youth in Asia                   63
Headcleaners                    52
Dolls and Balls                 49
3 Brawling Women & Their Bitch  46
We're Half Tempted              30
The Niwotians                   26
Ramrod                          25
Virgins                         16

It would have been more appropriate for me to have been in an Irish pub with Murphy in the name, as the man whose name if often connected with a law that seemed more the rule than the exception tonight. Thanks to everyone for their patience with both the audio and the the crankiness it caused me. Just so everyone knows, GWD is working on resolving the sound issues.

Anyhow, we did quiz even if it involved me standing on a chair screaming about summer in the early goings. Everyone seemed endeared to the concept of sifting between Ron Jeremy laying pipe and the Judas Priest heavy metal reach-around, but struggled with the right answers. On the other hand, teams killed when it came to walk down the New Jack memory lane.

Let's take a look at the winner's circle beginning with the champs who hold a perculiar rationale: it's not a double date if it's trivia...it's Planet Unicorn. Apparently the name came to them when they found out a young Matthew excitedly thought the name of the destructive planet in the animated Transformers movie was named Unicorn and not Unicron.

Harry Potter knowledge can only get you so far...say second place. Self-Propelled Salami Rockets's answers to round six suggest multiple reads. While they held down the lead on and off and even took home the internet bonus prize, the rowdy bunch fell three points short. I really wish I could award points for rowdy team spirit.

Our third place team, Drunken Noodles had to bail as we ran late and so we have a picture of one of the fourth place teams...Boner in Sweatpants, which I only found out two days ago is an actual website. These guys used to play quiz with me like 20+ miles away and then disappeared. I had assumed they got lost one night and cannibalized one another.

I went the whole quiz assuming Why is John Always Late were goofing on regular PC quizmaster John, but in fact they have their very own John who is apparently late for his period again.

Next week, pray for normalcy and quiz-John, aka the man with one quiz shoe, should be back to guide you through the latest batch of need to know information.

the SCORE

Planet Unicorn                  67
Self-Propelled Salami Rockets   64
Drunken Noodles                 59
Boner in Sweatpants             54
Achoo!                          54
Hospice Field Trip              51
Fitz O'Clarity                  50
Why is John Always Late         50
4-H                             49
Boyd-O and 9 Pints              36
Tied for Last                   34
Frank N Beans                   26
Diddowny                        25
Rockin Socks                    17
The Pea                          7

Wow. I was expecting a small crowd, due to the holiday. I was wrong. We had 15 teams last night, and the Rover was the place to be. Thanks for bearing with me last night. I am still sick this morning, and I’m not happy about it.

I want to apologize to Gobias Industries. I owe you a pitcher of beer. I didn’t mean to leave you all… I completely forgot. So, cheers to you next week! (please say you still love me)

The Harry Potter round was brutal… for most of you. All I know is that I really like the name Nymphadora. It sounds so sassy.

Team Miss Jackson if You’re Nasty knew a lot about Ron Jeremy. Well, they said they knew a lot about Judas Priest, but we all know the truth.

Gobias Industries. Third place. A little upset.

Blackbeard's Delight. Second place. Very sweet people.

Miss Jackson If You're Nasty. First place. Quite happy.

Here They Are

Miss Jackson If You’re Nasty   65
Blackbeard’s Delight           64
gobias  Industries             62
Hmmm Why’s This Sticky         58
That Burning Sensation         56
El Fantismo!                   50
Patriots                       50
Quiz Masters                   48
Kissy Sounds                   41
Hot Chicks Gone Camping        38
Smooth and Creamy              36
Colonel Angus                  33
Wiggy Dig                      33
Big Blue                       33
Bukake on the Rockies          32

Have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Well no, not here, here; you could’ve located yourself next to a TV but still: dude got hit in the face with a fuckin’ baseball! If you see that everyday then it’s time to either move or switch to T-ball. Your choice.

Hell, even as I write this blog I can’t help but think if I got hit in the face with a baseball that would probably suck but not even today could that dampen my spirits because we’re coming up on the 4th of July Weekend and that means a Twilight Zone marathon. Fuckin’ A, you heard that right, Twilight Zone marathon! Now you don’t even have to be unemployed to get down with that… it helps, yeah, but not necessary. Walking around with a bounce in my step like I got laid and didn’t have to pay for it not even my most common of irritants is pissing me off: in this would be infomercials, because they make the easiest of tasks look impossibly difficult causing me to question if I’m actually even part of the same gene pool. The other big one is adding syllables to words, frequently found in cereal commercials so instead of “crunch” its “kuh-runch.” Don’t even get me started on Tony the fucking Tiger. But oh no, motherfucker, not today. It’s the Twilight Zone marathon which is probably my second favorite day of the year (behind Matt’s House Drinking Invitational where the liver must be punished).

Quiz –n- things

Let’s step back to last night to recap the action, specifically the sweep of quiz and bonus from JJ –N– CD . Tough debate on that side what round to joker but in the end they chose wisely and with their 1 point win the can breathe a sigh of relief while runners-up We Put Out ☺ is smiling through the hate.

WTFWJJNCDD? Put that on a bracelet!

Everyone likes it when We Put Out. It’s really a win/win.

I can’t leave out Jill and her win of the mini take-out box which looks like it could only hold some crack rock or maybe some chap stick but open it up and magic happens; it’s a veritable clown car. You might even find Hoffa in its cavernous depths.

With shit this cool, how can you not like it? You live in communist Russia, that’s how.

2 down, 2 left

3rd place changes their name every week, you know this, last night they were Hugga Wugga & The Sunshine Gang. I don’t even know Double you-Tee-Eff that means but I know that I like it. They are some funny individuals and I can tell you what: they keep me sharp because sure as shit I better be on my toes and bring my A-game because if I don’t, if I show any weakness I’ll get a verbal ass-kicking.

Next week name: Stinky Winky & The Hangdowns? Just an idea. Roll wit it.

Nymphomania, is there anything not to like? Sure, the “dictionary” would have you think that it’s a negative concept but I’m of another opinion. Although I think nymphomaniacs are women only because who ever heard of a male nymphomaniac? That’s a little redundant innit? I’m going to give it a new definition right now: Nymphomania. Puts out even with a headache. This definition shit isn’t hard, maybe I’ve found a new career… probably not.

Nymphomaniacs lost but with Nymphomania does anybody ever actually lose?

I’m out. Next week you have Bobby up on deck so treat him like you would me. Actually, don’t; treat him better than you would me… at least until you get to know him and have eased him into the way of Snooks.

The Scores:

JJ –N– CD			61
We Put Out ☺			60
Hugga Wugga & The Sunshine
   Gang				51
Nymphomaniacs			43

Hey, nobody ever accused me of being classy.