Wednesday
Feb172010
Haters Aplenty!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 11:05AM Two things were made quite clear to me Tuesday night: 1) If I wasn't concerned about Homeland Security red flags - my Facebook doppelganger would clearly be former Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
and 2) the few faithful who showed up to play HATED the questions. "These questions are way too hard", I heard frequently. "Are there any questions someone from our generation would know?" And my favorite: "Who in the hell would know what Crash Test Dummies album "Hmm Hmm Hmm Hmm" was on?" Alright, the last grievance is justified. I even kept calling them Bare Naked Ladies, but all those Canadian bands look the same to me. Quirky, beaver lovin' bastards. I was even vicarious pissed when I noticed that questions 9 and 10 of the Sweet "Harts" Image Round (name the person or character whose last name is "Hart") asked for the first names of the characters on the 80's TV show "Hart to Hart". 
I grew up on syndicated TV as much as the next dweeb - but jeepers christ! I'd rather take an entire round of "Simon & Simon" related questions. 
Kudos to John - the surly, Courvoisier-addled curmudgeon at the bar, who knew that Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers portrayed Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, respectively. In fact, those two questions were the only ones he attempted to answer. Just to put the building-wide complaining in prospective, you all complained last night as much as Courvoisier John does on any given Tuesday through Monday night at the Green Mill. Let that settle in a bit.
and 2) the few faithful who showed up to play HATED the questions. "These questions are way too hard", I heard frequently. "Are there any questions someone from our generation would know?" And my favorite: "Who in the hell would know what Crash Test Dummies album "Hmm Hmm Hmm Hmm" was on?" Alright, the last grievance is justified. I even kept calling them Bare Naked Ladies, but all those Canadian bands look the same to me. Quirky, beaver lovin' bastards. I was even vicarious pissed when I noticed that questions 9 and 10 of the Sweet "Harts" Image Round (name the person or character whose last name is "Hart") asked for the first names of the characters on the 80's TV show "Hart to Hart". I grew up on syndicated TV as much as the next dweeb - but jeepers christ! I'd rather take an entire round of "Simon & Simon" related questions. Kudos to John - the surly, Courvoisier-addled curmudgeon at the bar, who knew that Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers portrayed Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, respectively. In fact, those two questions were the only ones he attempted to answer. Just to put the building-wide complaining in prospective, you all complained last night as much as Courvoisier John does on any given Tuesday through Monday night at the Green Mill. Let that settle in a bit.Whiners!
Without a single complaint, frequent champs The Stimulus Package humiliated the crowd with a first place victory of a mere 24 points! 
Perhaps the lowest first place score I've ever seen, but a fantastic score considering the difficulty. Bravo!
Perhaps the lowest first place score I've ever seen, but a fantastic score considering the difficulty. Bravo!With several complaints, this group of frequent champs aptly titled themselves Formal Complaint this week, and took second place with 22 points! 
They were so angered by the tough questions that they volunteered to show up to the Mill early next week and make up the questions themselves. Over my terrorist-doppelganger's dead body!
...Oh, two 500 lb bombs atop his safehouse took care of that four years back. Well then...gear up for some categories devoted to Harry Potter and Heidi Montag (two Heidi categories: before and after her surgeries).
They were so angered by the tough questions that they volunteered to show up to the Mill early next week and make up the questions themselves. Over my terrorist-doppelganger's dead body!...Oh, two 500 lb bombs atop his safehouse took care of that four years back. Well then...gear up for some categories devoted to Harry Potter and Heidi Montag (two Heidi categories: before and after her surgeries).With several complaints, some trivia host-mockery, and a less than subtle team name, How Dare You! indigently earned third place with 21 total points! 
Congrats, and go the hell (aka Thunder Bay, Canada)!
Congrats, and go the hell (aka Thunder Bay, Canada)!The masochist in me hopes next week will be more ridiculously hard. Til then...
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