Around the Horn, brought to you by a Sexy Robot

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  • Spent my Saturday night lying on my couch watching the Buddy Holly Story (and you thought I didn’t have an exciting life!) Anyways, great movie. Did a little research after it was over and stumbled across something pretty incredible. Peggy Sue (the inspiration for the Holly song) and Holly’s wife, Maria Santiago, have never gotten along. Well, Peggy Sue recently decided to release a book in which she says that Holly was planning to divorce Santiago and marry her. Santiago is not pleased, and is suing for the book to not be released. I wish two women would get in a catfight over me 50 years after my death. That is my main wish. My 2nd wish is for a time machine.
  • It was on this date in 1950 that George Orwell died. Here is his obit in the BBC. One of my favorite Orwell shorts is “Shooting an elephant”. The correlation between this story and our current foreign policy is striking.
  • Sex with robots is on its way. Finally! Levy, however, foresees dolls imbued with artificial intelligence to give them personality and charm. The first talking sex robots, he says, could just utter a few stock phrases. (“You’re huge!”) With my luck with electronics (and women), I’m sure I’d order a defective one. “Wait, before we do anything, I’d like to…beeedie, beeedie, beedie…rehash that argument we had last night. “
  • Ram It! Just Ram It! Man, I hope the Patriots put out a rap song before the Super Bowl.

Scoreboard, Brought to you by King Obnoxious at the Black Sheep

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O’NEALS

  1. Young, the Old and the Restless 90
  2. Cornbread Mafia 89
  3. Does the Speed Round Involve Meth? 88
  4. I Got Nothin’ 83
  5. Dork Sided 82

BARDS

  1. Sofa Kingdom 115
  2. Western Omelette 107
  3. Hurtin Bombs 95
  4. Narcotyzing Dysfunktion 92
  5. Obama’s Not Half Bad 86

LOCUST RENDEZVOUS

  1. The Jams 100
  2. This Is Not a Bus 96
  3. The Marcie Salad is People 84
  4. Oprah’s Book Club 80
  5. If She Were a Tub, I’d Caulk Her 79

BLACK SHEEP

  1. Duane’s Satans 91
  2. Fine Young Cannibals 86
  3. Oops I Lost My Kids Again 81
  4. Philly Hardcore 77
  5. Baron Munchausen 75

GOOD DOG

  1. The Axis of Evil Knieval 101
  2. Fort Awesome 90
  3. Grandma Ashlie 89
  4. Crusaders 84
  5. The double dot Fa-Chinas 80

BARDS

  1. Sofa Kingdom 103
  2. Space Toilet 2: Electric Boogaloo 92
  3. Hurtin Bombs 88
  4. Western Omelette 87
  5. Brokeback Mountain 2: The TO and Romo Story 76

After a week full of upsets, the universe returned to normal this week, with the favored teams winning every single quizzo. But we did have some real tight contests, and one of the biggest shootouts in recent memory at the Bards. This is Not a Bus is the first team in a long time to consistently give the Jams fits. Hopefully next week will bring some more surprises. One surprise we had this week was the guy above, the loudest, most obnoxious player we’ve probably ever had to deal with. In the opening rounds, every time his team got one right, he would holler out, “Yeah M***** F******!!!” at the top of his lungs. Fortunately, as the game progressed and his team slipped further and further behind, the yells came at longer intervals.

Quizzo Bowl Update

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Been getting a lot of questions lately about QB4, and rightfully so. Usually, this is around the time of year that we do it. Well, due to a number of factors (a harder time than expected working something out with World Cafe Live, spring breaks, beer festivals, weddings, etc.), we have had to push it back this year. But no big whoop. I have a date tentatively set (March 29th), but I need to make sure I can get the band here on that date. Once they give me the OK (hopefull by the start of next week), I think I can sign the paperwork and we can start moving forward. As I said before, I think I have the venue I want, and it is a freaking awesome venue, but I want to have it in writing before I go off blabbing about it too much. Just trust me, it’s going to be off the chain. Thanks for your patience. -Mgmt.