Chillin' With My Gnomies are a fun new team who made their second appearance at Chuckles, after winning last week. They were doing well until the last round, but still managed to place sixth. More importantly, they won a tiny Barbie styling head! (and they also won a special guest appearance by Alan of Skirtland in their team shot).

Nick and Jason of We Can Win....With Tickets! were thrilled with their tie for fourth place with Skirtland. They might also be thrilled that the Intoxicated Intellectuals chose as their theme for next week: The Simpsons.

Themes for this week

Here's a no-frills posting of this week's (Jan. 20, 22 and 23) themes:

Chuckles: The View
Bube's: Seinfeld
VFW: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

much more to come...

VFW: Coal in the Stocking?

That's a blurry pic of Sheila from We're Here for the Beer, who is delighted to get to pick next week's theme: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Yes, there is one person around who actually liked that show. WHFTB tied for sixth, but Squeal or No Squeal decided to give them the choice. Last week's champs Room Two came in fifth, right behind the B-52s. The resurgent Shitz and Giggles took third, while Chicks and Dicks, with some divine assistance took second, right behind tonight's champs, MIxed Company. Special thanks to Leroy for providing his re-gifted lump of coal, which Melanie greatly appreciated. And welcome back to the Foreplayers and Nix Lix!

Back to Bubes!

Fat, Drunk and Stupid display their Trashbag of Deelite prizes at our special porn night at Bube's. It was the first show of 2008 after a two-week holiday hiatus, and a good one it was! Some teams went with the theme and came up with names such as Laid in the Loft, They Harder They Come, Team Buckwild and Deep Ovaries. Others went for the direct (Team Shut Up, Richard). In fact, Fat, Drunk and Stupid were tied with Shut Up Richard for most of the evening, but both went limp in the final round, falling a mere 3 points shy of the third place Tony Danza Slap In Full Effect for 2008 team.

Karen insists that she is not as fat as this picture makes her look. Her team, Ten Bubes, Six Balls, had chosen this week's theme. That little boost was good enough for second place and almost had them beating toninght's victors, the It Was Just Lidociane and B-12 for Our Nutsacks. That's All. B-12. We Swear (Featuring Pornmaster Deric) team.

Ivan, Amanda and Phil, AKA Ron Jeremy's Body Doubles, were happy to take seventh place. Phil wanted to choose "Object-Oriented Sub-Quantum Linux Line Editors" (or something like that) as their theme, but we talked him into the more crowd-friendly "Computer Operating Systems."

I think the Wise Men need to seriously re-think their name, now that they're 50% male.

It's Jason from Friday the 13th's favorite group: Team Mango!

The Sex Files show off their Trashbag pickings.

Tom, Seth and Laura hang out, post-show. Soon after this pic was taken, Tom gave an impromptu bagpipe performance, accompanied by Seth on djembe. It's unexpected moments like these that make Bube's such a quirky, fun place to be.

Alois: It's a Wonderful Show

Sam "Jesus" Ridout and Eric "Thoroughgood" Weis prove that white men can't rap.

We had a great turnout for Winter Radio Theater Friday night at Bube's/Alois' with a fantastic crowd that enjoyed our unique brand of humor (not too many of them bolted for the doors at halftime). Thanks to everyone who attended and to Sam Allen for hosting us. We'll be back soon in April! (Details to come.)

Chuckles: The Gifts that Keep Giving

Our first Chuckles show of 2008 was one for the history books. We had our first re-giftathon, with teams getting rid of their unwanted Christmas gifts. Thanks to the Twin Roses, the Price Is Right and the Lethal Amoebas for providing their discharges (ewwwww!). And, in the trivia action, all the usual suspects were shut out of the top three places after a horrendously tough last round! First place went to my favorite team name of the night: Dropkick Molly.

It was a fantastic night for the Intoxicated Intellectuals. They won second place. But, more importantly, they won a wine warmer!

Three's Company was ready to head home after the last round was tallied, but I told them to stick around. They were convinced that they were seventh, but they placed third! There was a tie for seventh between the Tidy Bowlers and We Can Win...With Tickets, so we'll have two themes: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Tonight: at Bube's!

Tonight's the night that Winter Radio Theater takes over Alois' ballroom at Bube's Brewery. It starts at 8 P.M. All the laughs you can stand for 5 bucks. (details below)

Comedy at Bube's this Friday!

If you've had it with the holidays and want to put a final nail in them, may I suggest that you attend a special comedy show at Bube's this Friday night (Jan. 4th)?

I'm involved with a radio troupe that is staging two raunchy comedic readings that spoof the holidays: "It's A Wonderful Christmas Carol" and "The Friars Club Roast of Santa." The style is Garrison Keillor meets Howard Stern (how's that for a pitch?) and is for mature audiences only.

Price is a measly 5 bucks (cheaper than a movie!), payable at the door. It's being held upstairs in the Alois portion of Bube's. (Go in the first door on the left at Bube's and go straight up the stairs). The show starts at 8 P.M.

Hope to see you there!

Thanks!
Mike

P.S. You can read more about the show in this Thursday's Lancaster New Era.

VFW: The First Show of 2008!

I left my notes at home, so I'm recalling this off the top of my head: it was an extremely close night, with only a question or so separating the top four teams. Chicks and Dicks had, I believe a whopping 81 points for fourth place; Mixed Company and the B52s were either second and third or third and second, and Room Two had a surge at the end to take first. The Post Toasties were done in by the picture round. Mark and Sheila came in seventh and chose the movie The Princess Bride as their theme. Commander's Choice had some new players that enjoyed the game. And several players, like Ginny and Carmen (above) enjoyed some nice re-gifts from my co-worker Renate Sachse. Speaking of re-gifts, if you have any Christmas gifts that you received and don't know what to do with them, you can donate them to the Trashbag of Deelite. Next week is official Re-Gifting week at Earth Trivia!

Sheila and Paul enjoyed some gourmet butter cookies, courtesy of Renate Sachse.