Andrew is displaying his winning ticket, while Aimee regrets not having seen the first season of Dexter.

The Smokeys won some Pffeffernusse (say what?)

"There were never such devoted sisters."

Team Hufford kept us in line all night long.

The guys from Guest won 10 bucks on their lottery ticket!

Special Christmas Wish for a child in Lititz

I received the following request on our campus e-mail at F&M and am passing it along to you all.

Thanks!

-Mike

Dear F&M Community,

This is a very special Christmas wish for a young child who is not expected to live beyond the next few months. I know you may see many of these requests but this really is a local child with a very simple Christmas wish. I just visited a friend who had cancer treatments with this child's mother and she gave me the following request from her cousin.

Hannah’s Christmas Wish

This is the true story of my 5-yr old 2nd cousin, Hannah Garman, who was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a rare and incurable brain tumor. She was going to be the flower girl in our wedding in May, but was diagnosed a week after we asked her to be the flower girl. This is especially sad because her mother died 2 yrs ago from breast cancer.

Right now she has lost most of her motor skills. She is confined to bed and cannot really do anything or play with the gifts she is getting from people, but she LOVES getting cards - she has gotten so many from people she does not know and just loves to have grandma read about the people who send them and see their pictures and is so proud of all her cards. Her room is just filled with cards.

When asked what she wants for Christmas she said she wants to see how many Christmas cards she can get. Many people have passed this wish along to their churches, prayer groups, friends and family. There are school groups where children are making her cards. People are including pictures so she can see who it is that is sending her the card.

If you would like to help with her wish, you can send a card to her at:

Hannah Garman
704 Orchard Rd
Lititz, PA 17543

THANKS! Let’s see if we can have the cards coming in big postal bags for her this Christmas.

VFW: It's a Wonderful Game (or: Zusu's A-Gaga!)

"No, Darla, don't feed the poinsettia to Blitzen! It's poisonous!"

It was an extra special holiday episode of the Earth Trivia Show at the VFW tonight as we had our last competition of 2008. Grant won a date for one at Penn Cinema, Karen won four whoopie pies and Darla won the beautiful plant seen above (Darla is the one in blue).

Clarence Oddbody AS2 pulled off a Christmas miracle and earned their wings by flitting by Chicks and Dicks and Room Two in the last round. Champion Jack-offer Matt beat Carmen for second place. Nerak, a one-woman team, missed second place by only one question. The B52s were fifth, followed by Trivia @ 8. And Grant had another present as his team got to pick the theme for the January 7th show: sitcoms of the '80s.

Bube's: Oh, the Weather Outside Appeared Like It was Kind of Gonna Be Frightful

Possibly icy conditions kept the crowd away, but there were enough teams who braved the roads to have a fun night of trivia. In honor of the sparse attendance, tonight's winners named themselves It Looks Like a Blue Jays Game In Here...Nutsacks! They had been slugging it out with Quietly Making Noise all evening, but pulled away by two questions in the last round. Danisha's team She Better Show Up! won the bronze, three points ahead of the Toxic Olive. The Black Beatle was fifth, the Shameful Dead sixth and Noel's Team ran away before the finale.

Vanessa and Janelle are curing the icy blues by hogging the stove.

Obsessing over the Picture Round.

Dana the Toxic Olive was able to make it (even though her team didn't) since she now only lives a mile away from Bube's. She also got theme choice for next week, and she's going with the shows of Sid and Marty Kroft. Also, it's our extra special Christmas show, so wear your formal attire.

Dave the Black Beatle had to decide between the Christmas Elf and the Chocolate Porter.

Jonathan is shocked that Steve would trade away his Bonanza DVD for a bag of irradiated spaghetti and meatballs.

I think I might decorate the tree tonight. (It's been up since last year, since it conveniently hides some water damage on the wall behind it).

Chuckles: Skirts Rising

Here's a nice shot of tonight's winners, Skirtland, who passed Ubersmack in the last round for the victory.

The battle for third was intense as Patricia, Kimmy, Rob and Carl were joined by the next generation of Zombies and they took the bronze...

...while A Pixie Stick and a Couple of Whirlygigs was only one point behind...

...and a brand new team, the Sick Bastards, was only one point behind them.

It was like Christmas in December for Team Chamo, as they finally made their life-long goal of placing seventh. To celebrate the holidays, they chose Dexter, a show about a serial killer.

The Smokies were in the boonies.