Author: aetchells

No Quizzo This Week!

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Hey kids, thought I had a fill-in for quizzo tonight but it fell through, SO NO QUIZZO TONIGHT. Which is actually kind of cool cause Internet access down here isn’t real easy to come by and it would have been a pain to do questions. Plus I have more shopping to do. Yesterday, my sis and I hit up thrift stores in Virginia Beach and Norfolk, and let me be honest with you: IT WAS AWESOME. Seriously, it is so much more fun and less stress than regular Christmas shopping. I highly recommend it. (Though I did make a small concession and buy my niece a lawn mower at Toys ‘R’ Us. Not a real one, you dimwits. One that blows bubbles.) But like I said, Thrift Store Christmas* is the new Internet Christmas shopping.

*I can say “Christmas” now instead of “holidays” because I’m in the South and liberals haven’t won the War on Christmas down here yet.

Yo Kids

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I’m off to Virginia Beach to go shopping with my sister. To make shopping more interesting this year, we’ve decided that gifts have to be homeade or bought from a thrift store. I already completed my kick ass homeade project and now it’s time for the shopping part. In the meantime, here’s a couple of Christmas things you might like:

Scoreboard, Brought to You by Me and Santa

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O’NEALS

  1. Young, Old, and Restless 98
  2. Why’s John’s Rum Gone 83
  3. Merry Listas 69
  4. Murder Book 67
  5. Baby Pictures of Ruthless Dictators 53

BARDS

  1. Sofa Kingdom 93
  2. …Angel Gets It’s Wings 69
  3. 13th Grade 66
  4. Blue Ball Assassins 65
  5. Predictably Last 45

LOCUST RENDEZVOUS

  1. Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout, Everyone 91*
  2. The Jams 83
  3. 1022 71
  4. Team Estrogen 61
  5. I Love Foot Stink 55

BLACK SHEEP

  1. Duane’s World 110
  2. Sexual Chocolate 98
  3. Ze Frosted Umlauts 78
  4. Total Strangers 76
  5. Who Throws a Shoe? 66

GOOD DOG

  1. Invincible 98
  2. Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins 86
  3. Hanukkah Harrys 84
  4. Duck Billed Assholes 83
  5. Ignorance 77

BARDS

  1. Thank God It’s Them Instead of You 100
  2. Hurtin Bombs 91
  3. Axis of Evil Knieval 91
  4. Just the Tip 81
  5. Padma’s Arm Scar 75

*Won the $20 bounty, which they donated to the Covenant House

Quizzo Cheating Now a Hot Topic

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Slow news week in Atlantic City (except for the fat guy with tiny ears story). Yesterday, a rather wordy expose came out in the Press of Atlantic City about quizzo cheaters.
The unanswered question at this trivia game – was there a cheater in their midst? With the advent of phones that double as online encyclopedias, it’s a thought that seems to be always on Quizzo players’ minds. “I’m pretty sure most people in here tonight are cheating,” said Alex Delsordo, 23, sitting with three other friends, all part of the team Jedi Knights. “We feel that, and of course we aren’t – so yeah, we get annoyed.”

Alex sounds like a royal tool. I could be wrong and nieve, but it’s been my experience that most regular, contending teams don’t cheat. Since we have a community here, regular teams know that their good name would be ruined if a cell phone was used and they got called out on it. Sometimes I see teams cheating and I let it go, because almost always the team that is cheating is like 40 points behind the leader and that team could keep Ken Jennings on speakerphone and still get crushed, so it is irrelevant. And I also keep in mind that it’s a game, so if a team with two players that isn’t going to win anyway wants to ask the bartender for an answer, I have no problem with that. And then we’ve got teams like the one at Black Sheep last week, who I told over the speaker, “I would appreciate it if you guys would be a little less shameless about your cheating. There were like 5 guys, all checking their iphones. But again, they were struggling to cross the 40 point plateau, so I wasn’t going to throw a fit about it.