Thank GOD no one used that name this week.  I struggled enough with seamen and poop decks and finally at the Sellwood, with “Long hard and full of seamen” I can’t help it with the damn tired old braces, the lisps just slip out.  Just like the seamen.  (When the water gets rough and tumble)  This week at Sellwood, I thought certainly it was time for team Sharky to claim their rightful ownership of the first place winnings.  Sadly, though they played the best game I’ve seen in awhile, staying ahead of our more mature team in second place Cattle Prodigy, Sharky just couldn’t hold onto that 20 point lead at the end, thus they AND Cattle Prodigy lost out to New Quiz on the Block.  New Quiz quietly crept up from 5th place to jump in and win all the money!  Sometimes it’s all about the wager.  Sometimes it’s all about the seamen slipping off a boat, but sometimes, it’s that wager at the end that gets you.

And so, in the second week with the newly labeled “Cursed” sharky t-shirts, they went home with nothing but pride in the job they’d done.  That alone is worth like 5 million dollars though, right?  I mean, come on, it’s better to know you’ve done a good job. Chin up Sharky!  Next week, I’m betting my money on YOU.  Those shirts will win out yet, I guarantee it!  I mean, hell, if those old guys can’t beat you at all that trivia from beyond your birth year, then you’ve done all right in my book.  :)

I’ll post some pics tomorrow here of the awesome ships in a bottle that the good teams at Sellwood created.  Don’t forget to start thinking of all the ways that YOU can represent ME at the QATQM. Perhaps, team Sharky, what you need is some way to alter the shirts temporarily for the game, thus inscribing upon them my moniker.  There shall be booty and great celebrations at this fine event, indeed.