Saved by the bonus round final question:
WHO was the gay iconic actor who was featured in the John Waters film “Polyester”?
We nailed it! Took first place in a winner-take-all pub quiz tournament on Monday night. Six of us split $435……..we even beat a team composed of the Pub Quiz Oregon hosts who MC the weekly quizzes at various venues. They finished 7th out of 19 teams! I didn’t nail that John Waters movie question, actually, my teammate Philip got it for the win.
Still, though…..I nailed some questions throughout the quiz, such as identifying a picture of a skyscraper and correctly naming it and the city that it’s in (Taipei 101 – Taipei, Taiwan), as well as totally bombing some other questions (WHAT state was LDS founder Joseph Smith killed in? E: - “NO! No, guys, I’ve never been sooo sure of anything in my life! It’s fucking Missouri! Goddammit, trust me on this one, will ya??”).
I was to find out later that he was actually murdered in Illinois…..hmmm….
WHO was the actor in the question above?
None other than Tab Hunter!
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You know it’s time to leave when……
It was my second-last day at work today, and my afternoon to baby-sit the planning counter. So, this person walks in and wants to see a case file of a neighbour who wanted to put theeeeee most absurd, four-tier, Godzilla of decks in their back yard and requested an adjustment to the minimum distance that their deck must be from the rear property line.
This guy’s voice just started to merge into a total drone: “….riiiight. And this desk doesn’t conform to neighbourhood standards, and is not in conformance with what the Homeowner’s Association says is…….blaaah blah blah….Gabba Gabba Hey…..etc.”
And it was at that exact moment where my mind just went into this bizarre mode where it felt like what one must see and hear when on an acid trip (I wouldn’t know firsthand). My mind just kept playing back the word “conform” and, at first it would just totally drrrraaaaag and drag like it was being played on a 16 R.P.M. turntable. Then, suddenly, somebody flipped the R.P.M. switch on the record player to 78 R.P.M. and then it was really FAST high-pitched helium “conformconformconformconformCONFORM!!!!!” I almost was starting to go into bad high school flashbacks when I just got up, walked away and told the guy if he needed any copies of the records to have Mary (our gatekeeper) phone me……
What I experienced was not unlike this Simpsons scene where Homer eats the world’s hottest chili at the chili cook-off in Springfield.
It was something out of Office Space….
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In recent posts, I’d mentioned that I’m going to put my Asus EEE pc through something I referred to as “….the road trip from hell.”
Well, that time is nigh, actually. Monday afternoon, I begin the first segment of the Road Trip From Hell. And I’ll attempt to post on it every day. But as I mentioned in the last post, this is going to be thee final post on this blog page until August.
The events of Road Trip From Hell are to be found on the following page:
http://skooter-on-101.blogspot.com
The prior posts on that page were written by my skooter, a Honda CN250 Helix. It talks about an ill-fated ride I had planned to take south along the Oregon Coast to San Francisco about a year or so ago. It is just basically rubbish where my skooter whines about how I ignored the tread depth of the rear tire on the skooter, and thus, how we got stuck in the middle of the Coast Mountain rainforest with dead-zero chance of any cellular fone coverage. But thass all in the past now! I know now that when little tiny steel threads are protruding from my skooter’s tire, that it is suggested that I not try to push it for another 400 miles or so…….
Wish me luck…….I’ll be back at you on Monday Afternoon on http://skooter-on-101.blogspot.com
-E-
WHO was the gay iconic actor who was featured in the John Waters film “Polyester”?
We nailed it! Took first place in a winner-take-all pub quiz tournament on Monday night. Six of us split $435……..we even beat a team composed of the Pub Quiz Oregon hosts who MC the weekly quizzes at various venues. They finished 7th out of 19 teams! I didn’t nail that John Waters movie question, actually, my teammate Philip got it for the win.
Still, though…..I nailed some questions throughout the quiz, such as identifying a picture of a skyscraper and correctly naming it and the city that it’s in (Taipei 101 – Taipei, Taiwan), as well as totally bombing some other questions (WHAT state was LDS founder Joseph Smith killed in? E: - “NO! No, guys, I’ve never been sooo sure of anything in my life! It’s fucking Missouri! Goddammit, trust me on this one, will ya??”).
I was to find out later that he was actually murdered in Illinois…..hmmm….
WHO was the actor in the question above?
None other than Tab Hunter!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
You know it’s time to leave when……
It was my second-last day at work today, and my afternoon to baby-sit the planning counter. So, this person walks in and wants to see a case file of a neighbour who wanted to put theeeeee most absurd, four-tier, Godzilla of decks in their back yard and requested an adjustment to the minimum distance that their deck must be from the rear property line.
This guy’s voice just started to merge into a total drone: “….riiiight. And this desk doesn’t conform to neighbourhood standards, and is not in conformance with what the Homeowner’s Association says is…….blaaah blah blah….Gabba Gabba Hey…..etc.”
And it was at that exact moment where my mind just went into this bizarre mode where it felt like what one must see and hear when on an acid trip (I wouldn’t know firsthand). My mind just kept playing back the word “conform” and, at first it would just totally drrrraaaaag and drag like it was being played on a 16 R.P.M. turntable. Then, suddenly, somebody flipped the R.P.M. switch on the record player to 78 R.P.M. and then it was really FAST high-pitched helium “conformconformconformconformCONFORM!!!!!” I almost was starting to go into bad high school flashbacks when I just got up, walked away and told the guy if he needed any copies of the records to have Mary (our gatekeeper) phone me……
What I experienced was not unlike this Simpsons scene where Homer eats the world’s hottest chili at the chili cook-off in Springfield.
It was something out of Office Space….
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
In recent posts, I’d mentioned that I’m going to put my Asus EEE pc through something I referred to as “….the road trip from hell.”
Well, that time is nigh, actually. Monday afternoon, I begin the first segment of the Road Trip From Hell. And I’ll attempt to post on it every day. But as I mentioned in the last post, this is going to be thee final post on this blog page until August.
The events of Road Trip From Hell are to be found on the following page:
http://skooter-on-101.blogspot.com
The prior posts on that page were written by my skooter, a Honda CN250 Helix. It talks about an ill-fated ride I had planned to take south along the Oregon Coast to San Francisco about a year or so ago. It is just basically rubbish where my skooter whines about how I ignored the tread depth of the rear tire on the skooter, and thus, how we got stuck in the middle of the Coast Mountain rainforest with dead-zero chance of any cellular fone coverage. But thass all in the past now! I know now that when little tiny steel threads are protruding from my skooter’s tire, that it is suggested that I not try to push it for another 400 miles or so…….
Wish me luck…….I’ll be back at you on Monday Afternoon on http://skooter-on-101.blogspot.com
-E-
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