That’s right… the Olsen Twins were the victors at yesterday’s one year anniversary trivia competition at the ‘Shroom!
We were kind of disappointed in the turn-out, as was Kelly; only 6 teams showed up, even though many more had RSVP’ed. The weather probably had a lot to do with it (there’s a hurricane on, you know). The Bus Huggers, My Bitches Were Late, The Douche Wranglers, and the team with the German-sounding name that I can never remember were all absent. But, Seat Of Our Pants was there, with Dirty Nutjob looking dirty as ever. Although, they tried out a new name (and one that didn’t incorporate our name)… “She can’t curl but you should see her snatch.” Too bad it’s lame. You can’t just throw in a vagina euphemism if the pun in which it’s cloaked doesn’t make sense on its own. Update: Cari informs me that “curl” and “snatch” are both weightlifting terms. Shows how much I know.
Final score: Olsen Twins, 94; Hispanics Nominate Judge Judy for Supreme Court Justice*, 93. It was neck-and-neck throughout. An exciting game, to be sure. (Seat Of Our Pants placed fourth, with something like 63 points. How sad.) I think both our teams have upped our reputations even further in Mellow Mushroom trivia lore.
Pictures: here and here and here.
Oh, and as it turns out, aluminum is the most prevalent metal element in the earth’s crust. Silicon, apparently, is semi-metallic. Bah.
* I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m remembering their team name incorrectly.
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“curl” and “snatch” are both weight lifting terms. Just in case you didn’t know.
Yeah, I was gonna say– It seemed like a perfectly cromulent pun; it just wasn’t amazingly clever. I like “She isn’t a cat lover, but you should see her vagina” a little better.
They are?? What does “snatch” mean in weight lifting?
Nice use of cromulent, Garrett. Five bonus points.
I think we might have been Hispanics Drafting Judge Judy for the Supreme Court, but as long as it says “Judge Judy” it’s funny, yes?
Snatch (as part of the Snatch, Clean, and Jerk) refers to picking up a barbell that is resting on the ground (as opposed to a benchpress or squat in which the weights are on a rack).
Look at my enormous muscles.
*sigh* If only we had put the Z on Mikey’s last name, we would have won. Alas, our cockiness beat us down.
Good game.
Actually, if that had happened, we would have wagered 20 on the final question instead of 18. Technically we could have won by 3 points yesterday rather than 1.
There were a couple of other tactical errors against which one or the other of us should have lobbied more stringently. Alas and alack, we did not.
Whatever. It’s trivia. :-P
We made it close on purpose.
Tony, the snatch is a separate event from the clean and jerk, in which the bar is lifted from the ground to overhead (snatched) in one motion. In the clean and jerk, the bar is lifted in two motions, one to the shoulders (the clean), and then from the shoulders to overhead (the jerk).