Lititz VFW

The dynamic duo of Cindy and Sheila were awarded the Point Per Persons (or the Pee Pee-Pee) award of a box of peanut butter tandy cakes for their stellar performance. They also placed fourth and chose their old standbys of cars and medicine as next week's themes. Sheila also won a beanie baby vampire teddy bear (which only goes to show that beanie babies were getting despearte for ideas). We welcomed back Mayor Theodore and we learned, despite Tom and Dennis' more colorful suggestion, what the state pie of Massachusetts is. And I forgot to wish Nikk a happy birthday, so we'll make that the first order of business for next week (of course, I'll forget again).

Program note: the Wednesday before Thanksgiving (Nov. 23rd), trivia will be an hour earlier, beginnning at 7 P.M.

Bube's Brewery, Nov. 8th

It was a wild, see-sawing night as teams rose and fell like crashing waves. Leigh was sure that the Tesla Death Rays were doomed, but they got 8 out of 10 right in the last round and claimed the crown. TDC was second and Terrell Owens Is Not Worthy to Lick the Salt from My Nutsack got third. The Axis of Evil (AKA Dead Bear Baby in a Jar) got to pick next week's themes: the TV show Arrested Development and superhero hangouts.

The Fool Monkey was joined by stuffed animal fancier Tim.

A compact version of Dead Bear Baby in a Jar debuted their new moniker: The Axis of Evil.

The appropriately named Two Guys at the Bar had an early lead.

Half of Team Discovery Channel wonders where the other half went.

The Outsiders had a friendly rivalry all night long with the Birthday Bitches.

The photogenic Nutsacks.

B is for Brian the Birthday Boy, who celebrated his 36th at BuBe's Brewery.

Mixmaster Marshall.

Laura and I practice our Guinness commercial.

Derek attempts to play an extremely tiny version of that game that Junior Achievement is always trying to get you to buy.

A premature Victory sign by Dixon and Dana, as the Olives burned out on the last round.

Themes for this week

Okay, once again I've dropped the ball. Here, at last, are this week's themes:

Bube's: Prohibition and the board game Trivial Pursuit.
VFW: TV westerns and sports movies.

Happy Halloween!

Here's my first ever carved pumpkin, done this weekend. (I also had my first corndog this weekend at Millersville's homecoming, so it was an exciting time.) Dressed as Professor Plum (see below) and was one half of Green Eggs and Ham (pic to come). And today it's Happy Hawaiieen, so I got to dress down. All in all, a good Halloween week.

And thanks to the scariest trivia host of all, Chris Ivey for volunteering to substitute. We're back to whatever passes for normal this week. At Bubes, the themes are Laguna Beach and the Ultimate Fighting Championship, two shows of which I know nothing about (FYI: I'm going to limit the themes from here on out so that they should come from two different genres; ie, you can't pick two movie categories or two TV shows -- just for variety's sake); at the VFW it is the pre-picked original Godfather and human sexuality.

Get a Clue!

What do you do when you have a week off from trivia hosting? Why, you become a trivia player, of course. I went to two of Billy Warmth's shows, including his annual Halloween game at Celi's Clubhouse. This is the sixth year that a group of friends and I dressed up as unit. This year we were the suspects from the board game Clue. We won the grand prize for best costume! Woo-hoo!

Counterclockwise from bottom left we have: Professor Plum (me) with the wrench, Mr. Green (Fritz) with the lead pipe, Colonel Mustard (Chris) with the knife, Mrs. White (Lisa) with the revolver, Mrs. Peacock (Sue) with the candlestick and Miss Scarlet (Colette) with the enormous white corded thing.

Chris Ivey's favorite holiday...

.. is Halloween (go figure). Therefore, Chris will be guest-hosting both the Bubes and VFW shows this week. And the themes for Bube's are current events and Halloween, of all things.

Benefit Dance for Hurricane Katrina victims

Frank of the We're Here for the Beer team informed me of this worthwhile event that you might want to attend:


Benefit Dance for victims of Hurricane Katrina, featuring DJ Soundwaves

Saturday, November 5th
8 P.M. to midnight
St. James Parish Hall, Lititz
$20 per person

Benefits Catholic Charities and the American Red Cross

Refreshments, snacks and door prizes

Sponsored by the St. James Mens Club and the Knights of Columbus

Contact Maryann Ambs at 627-1161 or Lisa Sharp at 626-8231

Lititz VFW Oct. 18th

The Foreplayers will be sorely missed as they return to the Newmanstown area for the season (snowbirds of a sort). They always enjoy themselves and are a blast to have as contestants. See you in April!

PS: Themes for next week's Halloween show with guest host Chris Ivey are spelling and collegiate team nicknames (as chosen by Room 2; due to a scoring malfunction -- I have to fire the scorekeeper -- Room 2 were the actual 4th placers; Nix Lix will choose the following week's themes).

The B52s enjoy their spot in the corner.