Lititz VFW Thanksgiving Eve

JJ of the Posse, who was easily our youngest trivia player tonight, was a good luck charm for his team as they took first place. It was wall-to-wall people as everyone came out to enjoy Nita's Thanksgiving buffet. Chix and Dix and Room 2 took second and third as the We're Here for the Beer, Too! team took fourth and chose baseball and Planet of the Apes movies as next week's themes. Later, people stayed around to hear the Terry Mullens Trio.

Tom and Nick and their bodiless pilgrim friend wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Bube's Brewery, November 22nd

It was the strangest beginning to a trivia night ever. When I pulled up to Bube's at 7:30, there wasn't a single car in the parking lot! When I walked into the Bottling Works, there were only eight people there, watching "High Fidelity" on the movie screen. Then I realized that the eight were all Bube's staffers! J threatened to play with his laptop and cellphone while blurting. But then, like some Thanksgiving miracle, people kept piling in and the place was full. Truly a wonder.


Thanks to the Nutsacks for taking tonight's pix.

Steve was so excited by tonight's game that he couldn't control himself. (Actually his Trashbag of Deelite prize was a plastic rat and a fake booger...)

...which he promptly used to terrorize his teammmate.

The Nutsacks were missing their Mamma Sack, but still did well.

Another wacky prize was a pair of flashing eyeglasses, which Derek is sporting in this pic.

Sometimes the whole picking of the themes thing works: last week's fourth-placers, Team Discovery Channel, became this week's champions.

The Tesla Death Rays, like the spot they were sitting at, ran hot and cold all evening.

Fourth place team The Toxic Olives chose cosmetics and Christmas trees (yes, it's officially that time of year) as next week's themes.

These folks are always troopers.

Struggling over the picture sheet.

Doug and his wife are shocked they did so well.

Look at me, I'm Koppenhafer, E! (That's for you Grease fans out there).

Dave is stylin' with the Shirt of the Week: a Shawn Michaels Heartbreak Kid wrasslin' shirt.

Pay No Attention to the Woman Behind the Curtain

The Grand Exalted Vizier of Trivia (AKA Janey Dzubinski) tried to work her magic on the team, to no avail as We're Here for the Beer took first place for the second week in a row. We welcomed back, for one week only, Don the original Dick and the Foreplayers, who were confused by the warm weather into thinking that winter was over. A new team, the Smarties did well for their inaugural visit. And G-Man was a one-man tour de force. The B-52s settled once again for fourth and chose gemstones and cats as next week's themes.

Better Red than Dead

The Grateful Red team took Bube's by storm tonight. They had one simple request. The questions should be about:
Nothing after 1980
No geography
No history
No politics
No artsy fartsy stuff
No music (unless it's oldies between 1969 and 1971)
No social studies stuff
No religion

So, we had basically just stared at each other for 2 hours. Just kidding. It was a great night of trivia and trashbags. Crabby Dicks had a record-breaking fourth round. Ubersmack continued their slump. J and Tim and Dave had a fantastic run. Dead Bear Baby in a Jar made a big comeback in the 4th to take tird. And a new team from parts unknown almost won.FYI: TDC got to pick next week's themes: 90s grunge and recent politics.

This is Dan's Fans team, a group from out of town (rumored to come from Kansas). They were tied with Bite Fiona Apple's Red Cheeks (Fiona is J's favorite film star) all night, but lost the Captain Jack Off. Unfortunately for fans of Dan, his head is totally blocked in this shot.

Dixon is seen here modeling the Shirt of the Week: It shows a stick figure of a horse on its back and reads "Help Me! I've Fallen and I Can't Giddy-Up!" (Well, it was funny when I saw it at the Salvation Army store).