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British Bulldog
2052 Stout St.
Denver, CO 80205
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8:47 AM, July 03, 2012
Scores
The Piccadilly Twitz 71
Fat Girls in Fishnets 69
Throw Peggy from the Train 67
Glug Glug, Vroom Vroom, Thump Thump 66
Arugula. It's a vegetable 63
Super Pooper Scooper Troopers 63
Cara and Scott 62
Team Knife Fight 53
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Currently homeless in Oregon 		Jason (Gryffindork)

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize. He would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds...pretty standard, really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum; it's breathtaking. I suggest you try it.

First, business: next week is my very last quiz at the Bulldog before moving away, so if you want one last chance to come say hey and play some quiz before your next QM takes over, you know the when and where. Hope to see you there!

As for last night’s quiz, it had something a little different going on for it: three rounds with linked themes. Round 1 was on appetizers, Round 4 was on entrees (not dishes, but debuts), and Round 6 was on deserts. No, I didn’t spell that wrong; we like to keep you on your toes. Looking at the averages for these rounds, I say we erred on the side of caution. I’d like to see those later rounds get a little harder. All in all, though, it was a solid quiz, and you guys did well on it.

I was especially surprised to see how well the majority of you guys did on our Rick Moranis visual round. Remember him? I was going to make a joke about how he dropped off the face of the Earth, but someone told me last night that he stopped acting after his wife died. Not much funny about the untimely demise of one’s spouse. It’s going to totally suck for my wife when it happens to her (me dying, not her).

I suppose the round was relatively easy, but what really amazed me was that most of you were able to identify Little Giants and Big Bully. These aren’t exactly burning up the DVD sales charts. I’d completely forgotten they existed. So kudos on that.

I was pleasantly surprised by how many of you recognized My Blue Heaven. We even had a team named for it tonight: Arugula; it’s a veg-e-table. Not sure why, but I consider this movie to be relatively obscure (for a Steve Martin movie, anyway). I don’t remember it coming out in theaters, and the only reason I know of it is because my family taped it (with a VCR!) off of HBO or something when I was young. No one ever seems to talk about it or reference it.

I can’t say it’s a hugely hilarious movie, but it does amuse me. And between Martin, Moranis, and Joan Cusack, the cast is pretty solid. And it turns out it was written by Nora Ephron! I had no idea. Regardless, this story basically picks up where Goodfellas left off, which is ironic, since it came out a month or two before Goodfellas. Martin plays the mobster-turned-stool pigeon hiding out in Blandsville*, USA (*not the real name of the town), and wacky hijinks ensues. Moranis the FBI agent tries to keep a leash on him and does a poor job of it, as we can see by their constant run-ins with Cusack’s district attorney. They all play it a little over the top, but I dig that, and I dig the movie. Good to see I’m not the only one.

 

Track List:

The Stray Cats – Rock This Town

Dion & the Belmonts – A Teenager In Love

Tom Petty – Runnin’ Down a Dream

DJ Khaled – I’m On One

Flight of the Conchords – Leggy Blonde

Presidents of the United States of America – Tiki Lounge God

The Strokes – Last Nite

M.I.A. – Bad Girls

The B-52s – Rock Lobster

The Sex Pistols –

Kool & The Gang – She’s Fresh

Steve Martin – King Tut

AC/DC – Baby, Please Don’t Go

Anthony Hamilton – Cornbread, Fish, & Collard Greens

The Knack – My Sharona

Richard Cheese – Three’s Company Theme

B.o.B – Don’t Let Me Fall

Nirvana – All Apologies

 

The Rundown

Round 1: Care For an Appetizer?

High Score: 8 (achieved by Arugula; it’s a vegetable) 

Average Score: 6.5/8

Low Score: 5

 

Round 2: Songs of the Season (Audio Round)

High Score: 11 (raw score, achieved by Cara & Scott), 9 + joker (total score, achieved by Team Knife Fight)

Average Score: 9.13/16

Low Score: 7

 

Round 3: You Don’t Belong To the City

High Score: 8 (achieved by Glug Glug, Vroom Vroom, Thump Thump)

Average Score: 6.13/8

Low Score: 3

 

Round 4: Have You Decided On an Entrée?

High Score: 8 (achieved by Glug Glug, Vroom Vroom, Thump Thump)

Average Score: 6.25/8

Low Score: 5

 

Round 5: Honey, I Shrunk My Career (Visual Round)

High Score: 8 + joker (achieved by Cara & Scott)

Average Score: 6.88/8

Low Score: 3

 

Round 6: Oops, We Wrote Eight Questions On Deserts

High Score: 6 (achieved by Glug Glug, Vroom Vroom, Thump Thump and The Piccadilly Twitz)

Average Score: 4.5/8

Low Score: 2

 

Round 7: What In the Hell Is That?! (Video Round)

High Score: 8 (achieved by Glug Glug, Vroom Vroom, Thump Thump)

Average Score: 6.88/8

Low Score: 5

 

Round 8: Random Knowledge

High Score: 11 + joker (achieved by The Piccadilly Twitz and Throw Peggy from the Train)

Average Score: 8.88/16

Low Score: 7

 

This week’s E-mail Bonus Question winner was Torre, who took home a slightly used copy of Ghostbusters!

 

3rd Place: Throw Peggy from the Train

 

2nd Place: Fat Girls in Fishnets

 

1st Place: The Piccadilly Twitz