It's cool to follow the rules 2-20-12

First of all, thanks to everyone who has been coming out to our trivia night. Even with the snow, we had a full house on Monday, and only a few people were so disgusted/dismayed with me that they left early. To all of you who played, thanks for putting up with the well-meaning interruption and revelation of the first answer.

For those of you who weren't there, after I asked people who weren't playing to keep it down, I started the game. As soon as I finished out the first question, a friend and fellow restaurant worker (who may have had a few drinks) blurted out the answer. In fact, I got a call from the Chipotle down the street, asking us to keep it down! No matter, I calmed him down and got on with the game -- and a fun time was had by all, even though I butchered a few pronunciations and mis-scanned a poem or two.

We had a tie for the Lose Some Shit award, at 26 points, but the team known as Trivia Tricksters has a bus to catch, so they fled the scene. That left the coveted LSS prize of a $10 Half Price Books gift card to go to Ask Me Anything *wink*.

This seems to be an unlucky spot at the bar, since at least 3 LSS awardees have sat here in the last month. These folks actually had more people, but they fled, too.

I made a mistake on grading (shocking, I know), so I felt compelled to award another $10 gift card for 4th place. It won't happen very often, but it felt right on Presidents' Day.. So in 4th place, with 41 points, here's Little Lebowski Urban Achievers.

As you can tell, I didn't have enough empathy to take a decent picture.

We had a three way tie for first, with 42 points. After the first tiebreaker, we dropped a team, and here they are, Just the Tip, Just to See how it Feels.

I caught them as they were trying to beat the worst of the snow, but I actually took a good picture of someone! There was a bit of problem with one of the questions, but I denied their appeal -- they took it in stride, as they always do.

In second place, after missing on the second tiebreaker, here's Sir Flava Flav of Akron.

Another solid performance by this group, and anytime you can work Flav into your name, that's a good thing.

I couldn't resist.

In first place, I give you Furious Permanent Mystery Pitcher!

Okay, let's get a couple of things straight. If we had a permanent Mystery Pitcher, than it wouldn't be a mystery would it? Furthermore, unless Omar gives me a half-barrel of Furious every month, your dream isn't going to happen. If you can convince Omar to give me beer, though, that would be fantastic!

Actually, though, this team had a great night. They got to drink cut-rate Surly Furious, and they won the big prize!

We'll see you next week when Furious will not be the Mystery Pitcher. Unless someone can convince Omar to give me beer, that is.