Second place last night, again. But the good news is, Seat of Our Pants (again, not their team name this week; but I’m getting to that) did not place. Their brief interlude as defending champions must’ve been nice while it lasted; I hope they savored it, ’cause it’s never going to happen again.
The Douche Wranglers took first place; we, of course, took second; and the Hispanics Playing Hide the WMD with the Olsen Twins (clever, guys) took third. Which is pretty funny in light of one of their team members coming over in the 4th quarter to talk smack about how it would be impossible for us to beat them.
This week, Seat of Our Pants called themselves The Olsen Twins Like it Greek - which, apparently, is a sex industry term for accepting deliveries at the service entrance. LAME.
I will just reiterate Thomas’s point here:
It is one thing to incorporate another team’s name into your own like we so skillfully did. It is quite another to just assume that other team’s name entirely.
I don’t freakin’ care if people want to try to villify us by putting “Olsen Twins” in their name (and plus, the Hispanics [insert topical reference] actually KNOW us, so it’s kind of different)… but at least put it in the latter part of your team name, otherwise it just causes confusion. Every time Kelly read the standings, he had to take special care to clarify, “They’re your defending champions” or “They’re the team at the bar.” Gah.
Now the question (posed by Josh) is: should we try to incorporate “seat of our pants” into our team name next week, or do we not want to stoop to their level? (Although, Dirty Nutjob probably has trouble with stooping in general… -oh, did I say that out loud? My bad…)
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No, we shouldn’t ever incorporate another team’s name in ours. It’s annoying, and frankly probably sounds idiotic enough to all of the teams who aren’t related to either team.
In fact, if people are going to rip off our name, we need to just be “The Olsen Twins” or perhaps “The Original Olsen Twins”.
The Original Olsen Twins… I like that idea. Let’s go with that next week, and definitely for the July 10th game.
I’m going to try to talk the Hispanics into stealing the name “Magnet Face Iron Crotch” from that team who was there a couple weeks ago. You hear me, Hispanics? That shit is funny!
I just noticed where it says “What the problem is?” next to your comment window. That shit is also funny.
I totally agree with you on the confusion with the Olsen Twins. I thought you guys were the “greek” ones all night. Our name was like an homage to you - the Hispanics (current event) (Olsen twins) fits nicely and isn’t insulting.
There has been debate over changing our name, but i think we like the aforementioned format. It’s fun and keeps our political attitude :D
Stabbity Stabbity Face Face Face.
Stabbity Stabbity Face Face Face or Magnet Face Iron Crotch… a tough choice! And wait, wasn’t there also talk a while back about something like Ocular Covenant? Back in the days when we still thought CCT was worth our time…
Every Young Hispanic’s Ocular Covenant With His Broken Catsup Bottle
I think we should it “catsup” to fuck with the trivia guy.