There it is — they said it couldn’t be done, but through the magic of the interwebs, I managed to find it! Ah Google Image Serach, is there anything you can’t find? This quality quote came at us in Round Two last night. I didn’t know how I’d represent it in Blog, but there you go.

Lots of teams wished they had the Google on their side last night at the Space Room, where we took on a wicked, outdoor-themed quiz, the bewildered and astounded at least two of you. But in the end, Team Canada triumphed again — can anyone stop them!? Well, maybe I can. I’ve stopped taking their photo, and this week, I will represent them via this Team AMERICA image!

Hey, no complaining, Team Canada — at least I picked an image where their clothes were on. And they weren’t pooping. Don’t say I didn’t do you any favors.

The victory means that Team Canada is starting to break away from the pack in SPACE ROOM SAUCER STANDINGS. Three weeks remain, and anything can happen. So if you want your team engraved on the trophy for eternity and beyond, be sure to study up in the coming weeks. Here’s the current scores:

1 Team Canada 29
2 Spoonful of Something 23
3 House of Ill Repute 23
4 No Future 22
5 Argyle Mafia 15
6 The Jackson Three 10
7 French Dip and Reuben 7
8 Team Cupcake 7
9 Bishop and Queen 3
10 Project Pluto 3

That’s it for this week. Stop over at my FACEBOOK PAGE and say hey. Until next Wedesday, be well, play hard, and try to remember everything you can!

Again, the challenge of finding you funny pictures turns my Goggle Image Search pronographicly wrong. The above picture is INDEED Vondelpark, where according to the Shanahan’s Tuesday Tussle, people can no longer legally get it on. The two people in the middle of this photo now can only look forlornly at each other. Until that’s prohibited too. Amsterdamn. It’s like Footloose over there, minus Kevin Bacon and farms. And freedom.

You know who loves Freedom? “That’s What She Said,” because they were free to kick some ass again this week, besting the field in an outdoors themed quiz that was every Vancouver hippy for himself. (These hippies won.)

That’s all for this week! Come back next week when all the other teams yell “DIE!” and TWSS says, “that’s what she said.”

Until then, be well, play hard, and try to remember everything you can.

Oh, and stop by my FACEBOOK PAGE. You never call or write anymore. I wonder if you still love me!

Congratulations to Cattle Prodigy for first place!  They ran off before I could snap a photo, but they are on the blog as first place winners all the time, so no worries there.  Instead, here’s some randomly Google’d barcode art:

In second place, Swinging Along!  Thanks for the beer Christa, it was beertastic!

The wheel of prizes will be hopefully found next week and spun to the delight of the 5 teams that got the question correct.  I’ll try to have it ready next week  at the beginning of the quiz for you guys.

Also, the monthly standings for the month of August were misplaced last week – here they are:

4 points – Cattle Prodigy
4 points – Stringing (Swinging) Along
3 points – The Happiness Consultants
3 points – I’m with Stupid
3 points – Grandpa Major Dad
2 points – Yahtzee!
2 points – X ++
2 points – Sirens of Titan
1 point   – The Charlies

Congratulations to both Cattle Prodigy and Stringing Along for their joint first place!  I think the easiest thing to do is to split the prize between the two teams.  I’ll check with the Thirsty Lion next week to make sure that’s doable.

And here it is, the Thirsty Lion Monthly Standings for September:

3 points – Cattle Prodigy
2 points – Snipe Hunters
1 point    – Swinging Along

Hope you enjoy! If you haven’t heard that whole album, I’ll go ahead and highly recommend it — the movie, too, of course. And the book. And the idea, in general (though to some lesser extent, if only barely).

The Great Outdoors night at Biddy McGraw’s turned out to be a crowded one, and indeed, a competitive one at that.

Green & White Army jumped out to an early lead, and then built upon it throughout, until it was squandered away in their Final Challenge Round bet.

What is the Antarctic mountain, one of the Seven Summits?

There it is, it’s Mt. Vinson!

But with a bet of zero (and the incorrect answer: Mt. Poopy Pants), The Bastard Children of John Candy took home second place, while the champions for the evening, The Rake of Blood just barely eked out a victory, with a wager of 2 points! — and the final answer, “Ice Cream”.

Rake of Blood

Ice cream, indeed!

Congratulations to the top three teams at Schmizza this week!  First, Donner, Party of 4 took the top money spot:

Look at em, all cool with their blue lighting.  Nice.  You know the best thing about this picture?  I’ll tell you – it’s the pizza box in the middle.  It was full of leftover slices.  And they tipped me with the whole box!  Yep – they tipped me in PIZZA.  Which, if you’ve had Schmizza’s Pizza, you’d be excited about that too.  I’m slightly less excited right now, because I’ve eaten it all by now, and now I have no pizza.

In second place, We Got Woods!  They were in good spirits tonight, flippin me some shiznit and keepin me on my toes.  It was all in good fun though, and I loved it.  And I don’t have a working scanner, or I’d have uploaded your pictures Jenny.

It was Jenny right?  I’m confused now about your name, because you said it was the name of Daniel’s girl was Jenny in Karate Kid III.  It was Jessica though! I don’t know, maybe I’m not seeing it right.  Maybe I misheard through the crowded Schmizza and you said your name was Jessie.

Anywhoo, long story short – I looked it up and II was in Okinawa, III was with the cliff and the bonzai tree and Daniel-san looking for his dignity and never finding it.  They were both awful.  Seriously.   If you go back and watch Karate Kid II, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Last but not least, congratulations to the Hypnotized Chickens team, who were dominating the trivia all night, but lost it all in the last round.  If they can do well in the other rounds every time though, it’s just a matter of time before they take home the cashy-cash.

I’m out!  Until next week peeps.  And I’m sure I’m gonna get shit for not remembering your name, Jenny.  Jessie?  Ginny Weasley?  Geraldo?

File this under “Information I wish I had last week.” This little illustration (click on it for a huge sized one) explains a whole bunch of memes that are floating around the interwebz. After watching every team take a brutal beating at the last Thursday Throwdown, I’m considering getting this printed on handkerchiefs so you can all cry into it.

Of course, one team didn’t cry as hard as the rest (or as much as they usually do), because face it, the one guarantee of a Pub Quiz is that someone will walk out richer. This past week it was the No Mouth Monkeys. Not very surprising, actually, once you look at this picture of them:

“OH SNAP! Did someone say LAN PARTY!? I’ve got a case of Mountain Dew that says my frag ratio will outpace yours by 2.75:1!” Love the bathrobe too, Doug. I hate to out your secret, but everyone, want to know what’s on under it? Adult diapers and baby powder! That’s why he NEVER has to take a pee break!

Alright, enough picking on the Monkeys, after all, that’s what the BELMONT STEAK STANDINGS are for. Now Monkeys, before you get your controller cables in a knot, I made a mistake last week and didn’t give Stank their point for showing up. You can understand why I forgot to — they didn’t exactly ‘show up’ during muppet week. And I don’t just mean “Josh wasn’t there.” I mean they sucked gonzos at Muppets. Anywho, with FOUR weeks to go in the Pub Quiz, here’s your scores:

1 Can You Smell the Stank? 22
2 No Mouth Monkeys 21
3 Beige Food 16
4 Soylent Green 14
5 Team C Average 11
6 Kim and the Jong Ills 9
7 Crazed Sex Poodle 7
8 The Wildcatters 6
9 Hot Monkey 5
10 Scienticians 5

Alright, that’s all for this week. Which was technically last week. I’ll see you all again on Thursday, if I don’t see you on my FACEBOOK PAGE first.

Until then, be well, play hard, and try to remember everything you can!

But seriously, Pork Chop Express?  Dude.  Save some cash for the rest of the teams. Or don’t.  Just keep coming back and winning, cause that keeps teams like The Squirrels and The Turkey Vultures on their toes.  Oh, here’s a joke:

How do you know your computer is too old?  It keeps losing its memory!

So true it’s not even funny.

Okay so PCE didn’t actually have to win this week.  They were absolutely tied at the Bingo round (both they and the Squirrels yelled “bingo!” at the same time) but it was that pesky little secret code that started to spell 3479  254103! (that’s “we’re behind!” for the rest of you) for the Squirrels.  (I still don’t know how the Turkey Vultures figured out the code, what with the dearth of correct info they had to base it on.  Maybe they crack codes for a living.  Maybe they’re spies.  Maybe they’re ninjas.  I digress.)

I’m feeling a little ADD right now (it’s 5 a.m. so whatever), and what I want to know is, California: the natural state? Dude, team that answered California, have you ever BEEN to California?  Have you seen the LA “River”?  Better yet, have you seen LA?  Have you seen LA females??

Not much natural goin’ on there.

[I'm from San Diego so I can dis LA.  It's like bagging on your sister, even though your buddies can't bag on her.  But they can, you say?  Oh, I forgot we're in Oregon.  BRING IT!!  Boo Cali fake boobs! Boo!!!]

You so don’t even care, do you?  You just want to see your image emblazoned across the Information Superhighway.  Okay whatever.  It was close yadda yadda but in the end yadda yadda yadda Pork Chop Express.

Winners (again) Pork Chop Express I mean the Krips.

Second place Turkey Vultures with their wound up Captain Kirk

Third place Squirrels with their high-tech audio cassette (The Cure: Wish)

You haven’t even SEEN fake boobs until you’ve checked out my facebook page.

In first place, a team that got their inspiration from an internet phenomenon, team I Can Haz Pub Quiz?

And in case you don’t get the reference, here’s a couple pics that sort of show you what the lolcats thing is about:

And then there’s:

Polar bear that close is not cool.  Not cool!

In second place, The Geeks United!  Dynamic Duo Squared made the final round but left with nada, and just missing the fianl round were Dazed & Confused, Someone Has to be Last, and The Beer Whores.  It was a room full of regulars, which makes me feel fuzzy inside.

I’m off to paint a kitchen from an awful blue color to something more neutral.  I think we got a light beige.  Perhaps it’s even tope.  Pretty exciting weekend ahead, let me tell ya!  See you guys next week.

That wasn’t the end of the surprises either!  Round 2 was fairly tough, with some interesting rules changes thrown in there – it definitely threw some teams off, but one team actually got a PERFECT score!  The trivia Kung Fu is strong with team Grandpa Major Dad.  Their brilliance was rewarded with a first place pot!  They ran away before I could snap their picture for the blog, but here’s at least a little reward for their efforts:

In second place, with a strong showing all night, Sirens of Titan!  And making it into the money, as well as having a good themed team name – A Series of Beige Tubes:

Nice.  What’s strange is a different team actually brought in this picture for bonus points.  :)

Worth mentioning is the plethora of awesome/ridiculous/disturbing team names:

The Digiri Don’ts
Team Interweb (That’s my word!)
The Internet is for Porn
Herpes Complex
Badger Awesomeclaus

And my favorite: Sarah Palin’s Three  Invisible Dicks, which is apparently one of the internet phenomenons I completely missed somehow.  A quick google search found it though:

Okay yeah, I’ll admit I laughed.  To be clear here though: I’m just not into this sort of thing.  I absolutely would NEVER ever be involved in something as debased as…. sex with Sarah Palin.

I don’t understand why someone started that Internet meme of fake facts about Chuck Norris — the real ones are so much better! For example, did you know he was the 2006 Jewish Humanitarian of the Year? Or that he turned down the role of Mr. Foreman on That 70′s Show? How about that he founded Chun Kuk Do, his own martial art? But the one thing he didn’t do — which I totally made up — was serve as the initial inspiration for the Mr. Myagi role in the Karate Kid.

In lookinf for a photo for this blog post, I can, in retrospect, see how evil that question was, as he seemed to star in a total rip-off of Danielsan’s masterwork. Only don’t tell Walker Texas Ranger I said that — if even one of the other things they say about him is true, I wouldn’t last very long with him mad at me.

You know who I could outlast though? Team Canada. Sure, sure, they won their third straight Space Room Pub Quiz (hello, Space Roommies — you’re getting your ass kicked, how about studying, m’kay?), but I got news for you all, it’s not about winning or losing, its about who gets to grade the quizzes — and that’s ME. So, if you want to throw down, Team Canada, I’m all over it. Just keep in mind though, that I grade the quizzes when we do.

But leave it to the IT Crowd over at the Argyle Mafia’s table to muscle their way into second place — nicely done. These guys eat, breathe, and sleep internet, which means they took the blue pill. (Or was it the red one? Oh wait, I just remembered — I don’t care.) They bested Spoonful of Spam who didn’t know the answer to the Challenge Round question about DSL lines, though coincidentally they did know the answer to the one about Spam.

And now for the SPACE ROOM SAUCER STANDINGS! With only four weeks to go after last night’s quiz, the pack is starting to spread out. But it only takes one slip-up for the Top Three to make it interesting. There’s only one way to scrape your way into contention (and get your team name on that sweet, sweet trophy), and that’s by showing up and playing at Space Room!

1 Team Canada 25
2 Spoonful of Something 22
3 House of Ill Repute 21
4 No Future 19
5 Argyle Mafia 14
6 The Jackson Three 9
7 French Dip and Reuben 7
8 Team Cupcake 6
9 Bishop and Queen 3
10 Sparging the Mash 2
11 Project Pluto 2

That’s it for this week. Be sure to swing by my FACEBOOK PAGE where starting next week I’m going to be posting naked baby pictures of the team in last place. Maybe. (You’ll have to stop by and see!)

Until then, be well, play hard and try to remember everything you can.