Dawn and Trish are big fans of the picture round. And by "big" I mean "not at all."

Relay for Life: Hot Time in the City

Wonder baby Lydia led Jim's Team to an eight point victory at the Lancaster Relay for Life. I think they should rename it "Lydia's Team," since she is obviously the brains of the bunch.

This was the fourth year of Saturday morning trivia at the Relay. Eight teams got four rounds of trivia at 7:30 a.m. before the oppressive heat kicked in. The Nielsen Cancer Crushers put on a last-round rush, but failed to catch up to Lydia. Kathy's Knights were third, followed by the Purple Peeps, who managed fourth place without even arriving until the second round! A-Nita Cure tied with last year's champ, Dave of the Rowdy Rankins for fifth. Breat Friends played again this year and took seventh, a little bit ahead of the Spirit Walkers.

Despite the blazing heat and the bad economy, the Relay raised over $940,000!!! (and that will go higher once late returns are counted.)

VFW: When You Find Yourself In Danger

Jeannie gives a singing lesson to her sister Carmen after the show. Jeannie had just won five bucks worth of lottery tickets after winning the Super Chicken Lyrics Contest. That tied in with our chicken theme night, won by the B52s (who were led by Paul the Psychic). Carmen's team was only two points behind, and they barely squeaked by the two man team of Matt and Matt (AKA Band Director Bad Touch). Pat insists that if Mixed Company had listened to him, they would have placed higher than fourth. Super Chicken's second biggest fan, Steve, helped his team capture fifth, Room Two was sixth and Shitz and Giggles took seventh. Since they are going on sabbatical for the summer, they are giving me the theme choice. For now, I'm letting it remain a mystery. Bwa-hah-hah-haha-ha!

Bube's: She Kinna Take No More

It was a night of smooth Scotch questions, followed by a chaser of John Waters films as Puff N Suds managed to pull of a victory on their second time at bat (how's that for mixing metaphors?). The Puffs beat Quietly Making Noise by only one point. Then we had a Jack-off between Brent of the Wise Men and Sarah of the Tony Danza Slap, with Brent going down in flames. The Earthgirls were fifth, followed by the flailing Ubersmack Is Back. That gave seventh place honors to the Toxic Olives, who are going with "home-brewing"as their theme.

Local Trivia: Davey & Goliath

John from the Brablock team brought this NY Times obit to my attention. Dick Sutcliffe, the co-creator of Davey and Goliath, passed away recently. What makes this of local interest is that Mr. Sutcliffe was a native of my hometown, Columbia! Who knew?

(For those too young to remember, Davey and Goliath was the inspiration for Moral Orel.)

Chuckles: The Comeback Kids

Deric is in shock from the huge come-from-behind victory by Bill and Marge. They had been in sixth place going into the fourth round, but managed to get all ten questions right! Smackdown was eight points behind and took second , with Ubersmack right behind.

Here's Jen (on the left) with her Boomking teammates in happier times. I've traumatized women before, but never to the point where they run screaming from the room (well, okay, there was that one time in Bloomsburg...). I didn't realize that Jen had an extreme case of snake-a-phobia (ophidiophobia for the word nerds), which sent her into a tizzy when I whipped a stuffed snake out of the Trashbag of Deelite.

Mary Todd Lincoln was our special guest tonight. She kept going on and on about her teenage crush, Marty "Red Fox" Van Buren. Apparently there are two presidents with that nickname, so my apologies to Marty and the Know-Nothings.

Due to lameness (both physical and metaphorical), Nick was left to fend for himself and play as "We Can Win With A Ticket." Nick was the one responsible for the crowd-displeasing H.P. Lovecraft theme. ironically, he came in seventh place again and is going with "superheroes" as next week's theme.

VFW: May Madness, Part 2

Gary, Cass and Bree, AKA The Good, the Bad and the Crazy were joined by the even Badder Blake tonight. They're holding up the Barnstormer tickets that they won in the May Madness Contest. The other three lucky teams are Alice in Wonderland, Chicks and Dicks and Mixed Company. Those four teams will be joining four teams from Bube's (see previous blog entries) at a Barnstormers' game on July 19th (International Earth Trivia Day).

In our regular competition, February Is Black History Month! made good on their vow to take first place, three points ahead of the hard-charging B52s. I announced that Chicks and Dicks took third, but it was my bad scoring that prevented the true third-placers Room Two from claiming the bronze (I'll have to think of a way to make it up to them). That putsMixed Company in fifth and D&M and the Hackers tied for sixth. Theme choice this week goes to Alice in Wonderland, who have chosen "chicken." Cheryl asked me to be creative, then proceeded to do her best Bubba from Forrest Gump impression. ("Fired chicken, baked chicken, chicken on the barbie...")

Bube's: May Madness, Part 1

Why are Justin and Janelle of A Dirty Shame so pleased? Was it because they tied for seventh and got to pick a theme for next week? (They chose "Jon Waters films" while Team Discovery Channel chose "scotch") No, it's because they were one of four lucky teams to win the May Madness contest at Bube's. They, along with the Earthgirls, the Wisemen and If I Can't Have You, Your Mom Will Do (aka Shannon's team) will join me at a Barnstormers game in July to celebrate my fifth anniversary at Bube's and the VFW!

Congrats also to Team Discovery Channel, The Nutsacks, The Tony Danza Slap and the Toxic Olives, who all had perfect attendance for the contest.

Nanette, Jane and Lynley Carol (not to be confused with Carol Lynley) had a most excellent night, taking home the gold and four Barnstormer tickets.

The Nutsacks Officially Hope Josiah Stays in L.A. missed first place by one point.

Mark and Tim of Corndogging It Celtic Style aced all the facial hair questions and took third place, in spite of my atrocious math skills.

A team of guys from E-town known as Puff 'n Suds discovered trivia and vowed to return to Bube's to continue their deathmatch with the Earthgirls.

Long-time trivia player Rod of Hey Now, usually found at Brendee's, brought along his friend Barb. They missed the first round, but still managed to place fifth!

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Chuckles: Happy Memory Day

Our Memorial Day show was a trip down memory lane, with the return of one of the trivia teams from the last millennium, Brablock. It was formed by John Brabson (left), who recruited his high-school classmates Mark (in the middle) and some guy named Mike Horn (not on the right, that's Mark's wife Cindy) to play the Curtis Earth trivia show at what was then called the Lancaster Malt Brewing Company. Brablock was a little rusty, but managed to tie for fourth with Skirtland, slightly ahead of another LMB team, the Lethal Amoebas. Ubersmack was third, three points behind Smackdown. If Smackdown were Yanni fans, they might have tied with Bill and Marge (yet another LMB team), but Out of the Vortex was victorious.

We Can Win . . . With Tickets! supersized themselves and took the coveted seventh place spot. They had a raging post-show debate on what their theme would be, and finally picked the stories of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Yes, I know it's obscure, but H.P. needs all the publicity he can get (even though he died in 1937).

VFW: Happy, Yet Sad

Tonight was a night of mixed emotions. Mixed Company, for example, was happy they won first place, but Trish was sad she had to fly solo. Jaclyn and Nurse Kirsten of the Buttery Nipples (above) were happy that they knew about rickets, but...