Hamburger Mary’s - Not just for the gays anymore! January 25, 2008
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Oh Mary’s- it could be the kitchy-est spot to grab a burger in this town, but who knew how SMART these teams could be?!? Excellent play by all our teams this week! Make sure you stay tuned to find out more about the infamous PATIO-style trivia (as the weather heats up, of course).
The results: Team Bobo was no so dumb and jogged into 3rd, Whole Wheat with Nuts landed 2nd and Jan’s John and friends struck gold in 1st place! Two weeks in a row; should we be nervous??
See you next week-
XOXO
Kyle
Katzenjammer! People in Denver can spell REALLY WELL!! January 25, 2008
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Seriously! We were down to the LAST WORD on our list trying to eliminate the super-smarties that came out for the first-ever Buzz Bee at Blake Street Tavern! I feel stupid for underestimating how great you guys would do. Lesson learned… harder words to come!
It all started out at 8pm with 25 players bravely being the guinea pigs for our first night. With the double-elimination process everyone had a second chance since there was an element of luck as to what word you got stuck with. Matt Cohen and I, your humble judge Jen, worked the Bee together and we had a blast!!
It took several rounds but we finally came down to our top five super-smarties: Allison, Shelley, David, Josh and Paul. Paul’s family was an entire group of spelling geniuses, but he couldn’t hang on when he was asked to spell sesquipedalian. (Yeah, that word is ridiculous!) Our final word of the night, to determine the winner was diphyodont and when Allison couldn’t quite get that one, we were left with Josh, genius supreme, as the winner of the first ever Buzz Bee. Way to go Josh! And a huge round of applause to our final five and the rest of the brave peeps who blew us away with their spelling abilities! Thanks so much for making it a killer night!!
Here’s Shelley, who can say all of the United States in alphabetical order in less than 28 (ish) seconds! She proved it tonight… (that was awesome!)
Our friend Paul…
David here was one of the bravest first two players!
And Allison, our second-place finisher. We’ll see her next week with more teachers to increase the competition!
Last, but not at all the least, our winner Josh!
We’ll be back next week, Bee starts at 8pm but show up earlier to register at Blake Street Tavern. Where else could you possibly want to BEE?
Kudos to Tobin for an excellent idea to get this going here in Denver. Looking forward to it becoming a huge success!! Also, to the Denver Art Museum and Tattered Cover who provided great prizes for the evening, it really completed a quality night. You guys rock!
See y’all next week!
Jen
