QUIZ RECAP

Sometimes I do the recap drunk, and sometimes I do the recap hungover, and sometimes Mary from King Trivia emails me 2 days later and tells me to get off my ass and write the damn recap.

For those of you who were there, you know it was my birthday. And also, you probably remember better than I do exactly what happened throughout the evening. And hopefully I didn't say anything too offensive and cause all of you to never come back again.

My birthday began as usual. Work. Problems. Idiots. Home. Booze. Let's talk about booze! I got home at 11pm and stayed up until 5am drinking champagne, rum and Orangina (side note: Americans don't know what Orangina is, do they? ---Or do they? side note#2: auto correct tried to change orangina to "Orangutan"), and finally, when all else dried up, we started on the straight whiskey. Thankfully I was not drinking all of this alone. My friend Drew flew in from England and was still on UK time. I already had a cold at this stage, but fuck it, it's my birthday, so I'm gonna drink.

I woke up in the afternoon sometime and ordered a pizza. What kind of pizza does quizmaster john order on his birthday? Let me tell you:

One half: pepperoni, italian sausage, green peppers, olives

Other half: bacon, pineapple, banana peppers, diced tomatoes

Go big or go home. It turns out that the pizza was a wise decision. I didn't know at the time, but I was going to have a lot of booze to soak up later that night.

And which night do I mean?! The only night that matters---Trivia Night at OB's!!!!

There was beer, fireball, presents, balloons, cake, hugs, kisses, motorboats, singing, dancing. There was even a guy named Coco Crisp playing baseball! It was a good night.

It was a less good night for my friend Drew who was by this time very sober and jet-lagged, and had to drive me home afterwards. "You are the most annoying drunk I've ever met," she told me the next day.

Annoying? moi?

Let's see what others had to say:

"I've never given so many hugs to one person in under one minute in my life."--Rachel from Year of the Rat.

That doesn't sound annoying at all! That sounds adooooorable.

"Hope you had an awesome threesome at the end of the night!" (winky face)-- Tiffany from Wallets of El Segundo (side note: it's unlikely this happened, unless I put back on all of my clothes afterwards--including my shoes and my brand new OB's trucker hat)

Yes Megan, I have another new hat now.

What DO I remember about trivia night?

I remember that Courtney told me that she didn't hate me, and she's a lawyer and they have to swear an oath not to lie, right?

Chris and Kitty Kat and Keith and Alia all showed up so Wallets had the full contingent! Now if only they'd invite me to more of their football orgies. (you think I'm joking, don't you?)

Sarah and Allison were in the house for Cohort, but sadly had to leave early to finish their PhDs. What a bunch of geeks! Also, allegedly Sarah will be in Portsmouth over Christmas (for reasons unknown), so she will come back glowing about what an amazing place it isn't.

Charles and Co saved up a year's worth of Portsmouth/UK jokes to unload all on one night. I tried to find some German and Canadian jokes, but they were too busy invading Poland and not mattering at all. Damn it, that's what I should have said.

Also, I was given a very kind birthday card where everyone pretended to like me despite my fake British accent. It warmed the cockles of me ol' heart it did.

Thanks for coming out to party everyone! We had more people come in for trivia than came in for the World Series, so that's a result! Baseball be damned! Long Live King Trivia!!!

QUIZ RECAP

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soooooo... the dodgers were too busy playing the longest and shittiest game in history, so I had nothing to do but drink beer and talk to people.

moral of the story... it got a little sloppy. someone was giving out quadruple or nothings, and also, cannot count very well and scores were all over the place.

Just because Shawn can name 90% of WWF wrestlers does not mean he automatically gets to win the quiz. Or maybe it does. Depends on how terrible my score keeping is.

So everyone said to me, "You're not driving home are you?"... hmmmm... not sure exactly what that means, but maybe I drank too much? I dunno. Dodgers suck, I do what i want. Your Uber is arriving.

Also, congrats to E=MC Hammer for winning the quiz, until it turned out that they got second place. Woop Woop! Harry Potter trivia gonna be off the chain and we gonna have beers and funs. Andre got his very own question yet again. Mineko will be pleased to hear that I spilled a McFlurry on myself on the way home... How do you spill a mcflurry on yourself? well sometimes they fill it too high and then it melts a little bit and then you take the lid part off and it spills everywhere. Sabeen forwarded me an email today, which seems like something that should have happened about 11 years ago, but it's still strangely in practice today. and then there's Courtney who I'm not 100% sure if she likes me or hates me.

Year of the Rat! Sometimes I think Shawn only shows up to give me a hard time (that's what she said)... but yes, i do mean sexy time trivia. In this case though, he was correct and Year of the Rat did win the quiz. It seemed highly suspicious. I never should have let them do the scoring for me. Rachel and Megan and Angela all in the house talkin bout boys and movies which they liked or got bored in. Good times. Dodgers be damned. Rachel, please stop hugging me you creeper.

Wallets of El Segundo in the house. There was an inappropriate amount touching going on at their table. Or maybe appropriate... I can't figure it out. Chris showed up 2 rounds late, so he can happily blame his teammates for not winning. Although he did phone in his WWF answers, which is highly suspect, and yet, strangely allowed in this circumstance. Tiffany, keep wearing them grandma sweaters. You know how I like em.

For the final time this month it was not my birthday. Which means quite possibly trivia next week is going to be a drunken mess. I look forward to seeing you all...

Merry christmas to all, and to all a good niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

QUIZ RECAP

Cohort in the house! They may be down a member, but the spirit was high! They may have complained about some of the answers, but still won the quiz on a daring, go-for-broke double down on round 7. I salute the size of your balls Cohort.

E=MC Hammer duelling it out on the tie breaker. They threw out a random number, and hey, sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart. Sabeen knows a lot about Harry Potter and is actively recruiting new members to sit and watch the USC game with Courtney.

Long time no see Aeropeeps! They haven't been back since sports interfered with trivia 6 months ago... but with the demise of Buffalo Wild Wings trivia comes an opening on Wednesday nights. I've never seen a group of people so angry about coming third place. You still won a prize! If you're not first, you're last I suppose. And who am I to talk, they're one of the top ranked teams in all of King Trivia!

Year of the Rat had a bare bones team, with Michelle making her long awaited return. It's possible OB's is sending an all star team to harry potter trivia night, so watch out Los Angeles. Also, Rachel knows exactly how old Legolas is.

Wallets of El Segundo were missing their grumpiest member. But it's ok because they showed me their boobs.

Fun times were had. A merry unbirthday to you all.