What a night of arguing about the questions!  As you can probably see from the title, there were questions about what’s really in a Purple Hooter Shooter.  One of the arguments was that it comes in a big glass, well really, that’s not a shooter, so you’re thinking of something different.  The majority of websites I looked on all said the ingredients were; vodka, lime juice, and raspberry liquer or Chambord (one point for the bartending staff!).  But way to decide we should just do shots to try it out!!

Another dispute was about the Oliver! question regarding the Academy Awards.  A team disputed that Beauty and the Beast was also rated G and a musical, which is correct.  The part about their arguement that was wrong was that Beauty and the Beast was nominated, but actually didn’t win the award for Best Picture.

Someone that wasn’t even playing trivia argued about the question regarding Shakespearean plays.  He said that King John was not written by Shakespear.  “The Troublesome Reign of King John” was an Elizabethan play that gave Shakespear inspiration to write “The Life and Death of King John.”  So while he didn’t write the original, William Shakespear did write a play about King John.

The one that everybody argued about and they were actually correct on was about Tom Cruise.  It’s correct, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were first in a movie, The Days of Thunder, in 1990.

Ok, on to the good stuff…  At the beginning of the night, we had just one team.  Now really, I just can’t have that.  Last week, The Short Bus, was hoping they could win by default, being the only team playing.  While I like you guys and all, that would just be really damned boring.  So I wandered out to the patio, which was about to close, and recruited some people.  Surprisingly, I got three other teams to join.  While we had teams sitting closer tonight, they could see me better, they were between speakers and couldn’t hear me as well.  I think we’re going to have to pick the lesser of two evils on this one guys.

   This was week nine.  We have one more regular week before the showdown!  The winning team this week was some new girls, well one had played one time last year.  So really, yeah, they’re new.  Cooters won with a two point lead against the rest.  Like a lot of the chicks who come in and play, I was guessing they wouldn’t stay the whole game, but they did!  I guess they really wanted to get their eyebrows waxed!

The Short Bus came in with 18 points.  I’m sorry guys, I would have let you win if I could.  But really, I was tired and would have been totally bored and sleepy if it were just you and I playing.  I had an absolute great time getting to know you guys though.  But really, did we have to do so many shots?!  On the D.L., I was late for work this morning, as I was sleeping off those drinks!

How cute that they dedicated their team, Brown Dog Co, to their dog.  Actually, I’m not sure if that’s what it means or not.  It was totally awesome that you guys came in from the deck and joined us.  And even better, that you guys stayed the whole game and played.  In all of the arguing, I’m sorry that I totally forgot to get your picture.   Please come back next week so we can take a snapshot!

The Barney Killers ended a day of golfing by drinkin’ it up at Ogden Street South.  They also were all about the Purple Hooter Shooters and even purchased a round of them.  Please come back again guys, I know you had a great time and want to do this again!!

Well guys, I had a totally fun night- much less lame than last week.  Once again, next week will be our last regular week, then we have the showdown.  Here’s the rundown:  If your team has ever won a game, you are invited to the tournament, and have an opportunity to win $700.  The tournament will 7/16/08- same time- same place.

If you want to look at the scores, I’ll post them on my blog on myspace.  www.myspace.com/MarciBuzzwordz  you need to be my friend in order to look at it though. 

See you guys next week!!

Marci

So I must say I had a l lot of fun this week, I hope you did too!  At about 5 to 7, there were only like 4 teams or something and I was afraid this week was going to be super lame.  But then like magic, all of the regulars that I haven’t seen in FOREVER started trickling on in.  It was like a little reunion, awwww!  Good to see all you back in business, and to you newbies- we always like a fresh face- keep on coming back!

Oh and I think I need to clear something up here.  A few weeks ago I wrote something about a due date that led some people to believe there may be a little bun in my oven.  UMMMM, no.  The world is not ready for a natural disaster of such proportions. 

And now for my very first HONORABLE MENTION!  Stephanie proud member of Old Chicago’s finest staff- you kicked some boo-tay!  I think Mike should get you a present.

Baked Mac and Cheese- There are not enough words in the world to express how I feel about you.  This is the truth behind my comments regarding you and your superb performance being so minimal.  I greatly appreciate your generosity this week.  I also am a big fan of your fashion statement of matching green shirt wearing.  Spray some airbrush on there and you’d be known as what we in Ohio refer to as a “Cedar Point Couple!”  Oh, and congratulations- AGAIN!  Are you ever going to give someone else a chance?

You are moving to SYDney Australia so You Can Pick Up Some Pointers on Being Supercool-  Enough said.  Second place.  I’m glad you decided to be friends right from the very beginning rather than enemies then friends.  Maybe you can be “frienemies” next week.

Zoso- I’m sorry about the whole you not getting to talk in the chat room thing.  But not that sorry I guess, because then people would have thought you were cheating and I would have had to scold you.  It’s much less awkward this way.  Bringing up the rear with 3rd place- Nice!

Big Willy- Wowee ladies- Brawn and Brains.  Look out for this guy!

Yea Yea Yea Yea Yea (or Yea x5)- Thanks for shortening your name.  This was becoming a bit of a tongue twister for me!

Double D’s- Where have you been?  Where’s Lauren?  I better see you soon!

L & J-  I have no idea who these people are.  Never seen ‘em before in my life.  I have no clue why they know all this stuff about me.  I think they are stalking me.  Barbie’s scared. 

JJMS- For some reason every time you turned in your answer WWJD popped into my head.  So tell me, What WOULD Jonah do?

Lonesome Drunk-  Oh, no need to be so lonely!  Just keep drinking, I’m sure you will make some friends:) 

Sexy Smart Girls- Wait, so when is this birthday extravaganza?  Next week or the week after?

Alrighty folks, hope you all have a good holiday weekend!  See ya next week!

Babs

What a crazy night!  I can tell the weather is getting hot, because it’s sure getting cranked up at Charlie’s!  With lots of drink specials, everyone was required to have a beer to play (ok, not really, but everyone still did- who can pass up 50 cent beers???).  It could be because it’s almost the holiday weekend- but everybody was cutting loose tonight!  There were also some regulars missing, what the heck?!

Ever since I took the reins, the same team has won every game.  But the other teams sure have been putting up a fight.  We used all three tie breakers this week, which is pretty unusual.  I also had men who prefer men hitting on straight women, which is also pretty unusual.  Oh what a night!!

The returning winner and also this weeks winner was The JETS.  They won two rounds, thus two pitchers, but at least they shared a sip :)  Last week I had reported that one of the member might not return.  But to the disappointment of every Charlie’s, the team had two regular members tonight.  With a much awaited hair cut and a burned shirt, they still took the other teams by storm!

The winner of the tie breaker for second place was Alleycat.  Most of the regulars for this team were out of town, they must have decided to start vacation early- but I didn’t approve that!

The third place winners had some new members tonight.  I recruited some of them from a dinner party I was at, and they joined Power Princesses.  This team was a forced to be reckoned with, but just couldn’t hack it in the tie breaker.  There were more members from the team, but due to employment and education reasons, they didn’t want to be included in the picture (eventhough we discussed just putting a black bar across their eyes, they didn’t go for it).

Sluts2 (that’s Sluts Squared) came in fourth place.  They were pretty good contenders until they drank too much in round three and just couldn’t keep up. They did promise to come back next week though.

Hot Stuff really only made it two rounds, then was “preoccupied” the final round.

We also had Team Giggy and Blue Eyes which only played round one then dropped off the face of the earth.  If you guys play longer next time, you have more odds at winning!

Other crazy and random pictures:

Michigan vs. Ohio - hometown rivals!

boy vs. girl’s boob

Free shots for everyone= love

As Al says, “thanks for the party!”

See you guys next week!

Marci

You’d think they dominated from start to finish winning every round and every prize, but actually, they did it the hard way.  Mugabe Flower Power started off very well winning the TNON and enjoying free beer from the get-go, but they had competition from Your Mama, Crippled Ugly and Stupid, and the Butterheads before they were able to win the overall prize by just one point! 

Mugabe Flower Power

(Quick reminder for any newbies: TNON = Team Name of the Night & the easiest way to get some free beer.)

Your Mama, not to be confused with Your Mom, took charge in the first round and won it easily.  The Your Mom team started a bit late in the first round but it was never really clear what was up with the Mom copycat theme thing.  Anyway, after the domination in the first round, Mugabe Flower Power came back and took round two easily setting up a showdown in the third round like always! 

Your Mama

At the end of it all, Mugabe Flower Power pulled out the win by one point with the surprise team, the Butterheads tied with Your Mama for second.  After the tiebreaker, no Mom or Mama won a top prize.  Maybe next week! 

 The Butterheads

With all that going on, I didn’t forget that the Cripped, Ugly and Stupid team actually won the third round and enjoyed some beer and a slightly longer stay than they expected.  Good reason to stay, IMHO. 

Crippled, Ugly and Stupid

We had a full house as usual and thanks for coming back after the rather sweat-filled previous week!  Here are the rest of y’all:

Tricky Trio

No Ideas

Team X

Flying Spaghetti Monster

fupa

Three Bitches

and last, but not at all least…

The Clean Up Hitters

That’s all folks!  See you Wednesday at 8pm at Old Chicago in Wheat Ridge!

Jen

HEY HEY HEYYYYYYY! What up everyone hope your Wednesday night was as good as mine? Of-course it was you were all there. And did you see that Smooooookin HOTTTTTTT “assistant” with me last night, don’t tell my wife, I had to hire some eye candy, Any who How about that solid competition last night which  started out pretty strong with 8 teams struggling to stay ahead but by the end of round #1 one we had a two way tie between teams Sleepy cougars and team Groove Cats and the survey says Groove Cats are your champs for round # 1 great job Y’all. Then on to round # 2 which proved to be an even closer round between two team, Teams Jerk Store and team Z dadadadadadad team jerk store winning by a hair. Great jobs to all the teams see ya next week. PEACE OUT.

Hey everyone thanks for making this week so great we ended up having 10 teams play and some new ones coming out to put pressure on the staple NE2! The Iowa Boys took the first round and ended up winning the game in a tiebreaker!  The Lusk Tribe returned with heat coming in third place and getting a gift certificate.  The Watermelon Kings were back as well as the Dinos, Us Two and Mike and Lorrie!

This was our most competitive game ever although we did have some complaints of the questions being a little hard so we’ll try and fix that!  They also gave away 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes this week so keep coming and keep bringing friends!!

Brody

Tonight an anonymous team pointed out the fact that the bumble bee mascot’s nose is easily rendered phallic. The Monkee’s cast looks at the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers’ seven competitor showing, though one of the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers arrived late and the one who left early is slightly retarded. Some new teams showed us that the only way to serve “Deep Dish Crotch” is to wash it down with a “Cold Dr. Pepper.”  Because of The Monkee’s dynasty, a new team is on the scene called “The Monkee Punishers” and we also had new teams DLK and Uni to round out the teams that made it through to the end!

Round 1: That’s Tight and The Little Lebowski Urban Achievers both had a perfect score by the end and That’s Tight took the round in a tiebreaker!

Round 2: Three way tie breaker (15 points) between The Monkees, The Monkee Punishers, and Cold Dr. Pepper concluded with Cold Dr. Pepper coming out on top

Round 3: Two way tie breaker between That’s Tight and the Monkees decided the winner for the game with That’s Tight taking the gold this week!

Thanks to everyone for coming out to play we are getting a good response from Old C’s so please bring your friends, I’ll see you all next week!

Brody

I might have to take back what I said about you guys last week.  Last week, I had gushed about how much more energy there was in the room compared to the week before, but man, the energy was gone.  We had a pretty low turnout, which I know, it increases your odds of winning.  But geez, we started with five teams, and ended the game with four teams.  I guess I should call up some friends and tell them to meet me at Ogden Street Southevery Wednesday evening!  Ok I know, it’s not your job to recruit rivals.  This game was pretty weird in that it was all or nothing.  For pretty much every question, every team got it wrong, or every team got it right.  I’m not really sure if the questions were just too easy or ya’ll were just cheating.  Either way, it was a tight game with 22 points for first, 21 points for second, 20 points for third, and 14 points for fourth. 

The winners from last week took their giftcard and ran, to never be seen again.  Maybe they were at the spa, but that just gave way for another team to win.  Our winner from this week was Trannies, a team that hasn’t won before, and hasn’t played very many games.  The team consisted of a woman and her husband that threw in answers once in a while, he was a little distracted by playing poker.  Also from the poker table, I had a guy who kept yelling out answers this week.  However, this guy always yelled the same answer, “Denver!”  He added a little life to the party, but really, that’s not the answer to every question.  I probably could find a bunch of questions that all had the answer “Denver” though.  What is the capital of Colorado?  Which city is coined “the mile high city”?  Of the following cities, which has the most population.. Aurora, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Denver or Lakewood?  John _____ sang the song, “Leaving, on a Jet Plane.”  Ok, you get the point.

Just one point behind the winner was The Short Bus.  They are a strong force, but maybe the number of them puts them at a disadvantage.  It’s easier to argue with one person than it is five others.  Still, they come back every week and have their eye on the prize.  Only a couple more weeks guys!  This competetive team is hoping that they win by default next week, because the nearing holiday weekend.  So if you want to piss of the bus riders, you know how to do it….

The third place team was just two points away from the winning team.  Boogie or the Bitch, came in third place this week, after a hiatus last week.  I think they will blame it on the pop culture questions  that were focused on a younger crowd.  After a while of trying to figure out who the bitch was, they explained to me that it’s a political name.  In that respect, I played a political song by the Flobots for the crowd.

Our fourth place team tonight, Dawisha’s Darlings came in with 14 points.  I’m not sure who Dawisha is, maybe it was the person you were on the phone asking answers to.  Ok ladies, I told ya the rules, no phones, that’s cheating.  You should bring whoever it was to the game next week, and maybe even buy them a drink or two, for their telephone work this week.  Next time ladies, no phones if you’re gonna play the game.  (You might be wondering why I let it happen- I didn’t find out about their phone calls until they were gone). 

Blonde Ambition, you really didn’t have a lot of ambition to play tonight.  You came for 11 questions and left.  You didn’t even play the whole round.  They at least graced us with their presence for a little bit, but really should stay longer next time!  You didn’t even make it for photo opps

I will have the scores posted on myspace at www.myspace.com/MarciBuzzwordz  then you can get the weekly results.

Alright guys, I’m signing off. 

Marci

Tuesday Night at the Glenn was…well, ok I’ll say it, I was late, OK?!? I’m sorry, I’m sorry I’m sorry. But good things come to those who wait because as always it was food, fun, and a bunch of merrily drunk triviateers hounding me about how wrong I am. Round 1 started as normal with teams Mad Dog and God’s of Wrong Answers dominating the field. However with their hilarious answer team Rendezvous kept at their heels the entire way. By question #10, it was a close game, but the starting favorites won out, making it a tie breaker for the miles of I-90, and winning by only 23 miles, team Mad Dog are your victors.

In round 2, team Fruitcake Interpretation got a laugh with their misinterpretation of the terms “withdrawal” and “pull out” leading them to answer completely inappropriately for the first question. How ever the rest of the round proceeded (almost) without incident. (Though Team Mad Dog thinks they’re clever by handing me random trivia that they’ve come up with…like anyone cares about prosciutto ham). The winners of the round, the ever present Gods of Wrong Answer cinching it with their knowledge, of well, knowledge.

Round 3 started with a tribute to the late great George Carlin, then proceeded with me butchering a host of Nordic names. I was wholly disappointed with everyone in the bar for not knowing their Heroes trivia, since it is (remember this it may someday be a question for a bazillion points) the most awesome show almost ever. Team Shell Bell made an unprecedented run for first time contestants, but, alas, the winner of the round, once again, is team God’s of Wrong Answers.

Star Wars Fact of the Day: Mark Hamill’s middle name is Meriweather.

Signing off, this is Preacher.

Wow!  What a weird night that it was!  Let me give you a preface to the night, I went to a dinner for work, which was sponsored by a pharmaceutical company.  I went with a couple of coworkers and I snuck out early to make it to Charlie’s  on time.  One of the coworkers from dinner followed suit and came to join trivia night for her first time.  Funny thing though,  a couple of the guys that I didn’t even know from the dinner, they ended up at Charlie’s  too!  So here we are, a couple of gluttons, full from dinner, ready to do some trivia.  Then of course, we have the regular die-hards, that will be there no matter what.  Then there was a local dj that I think I was the only one that recognized.  And an up-and-coming artist who wasn’t sure about the place, cause he kept telling me how he was straight.  Really though, we were all one big happy family. 

We had a few teams tonight that were new to trivia night.  They weren’t new to the bar per say, but just new to playing live trivia at this particular location.  But being new didn’t really put them at a disadvantage.  A couple of the teams did cut out early though, it must have been past their bed-times.

Let’s talk about the winners again, then we’ll move on down the line.  JETS won yet again this week.  They had two members tonight, but fended off six members from the next team.  One of the members of JETS admitted to me that he’s a member of a prestigious academic community (maybe that’s why they kick ass so much, or he was just trying to convince me that he’s smart but really he’s just cheating).  Ok, I’m kidding.  I know that you know your shit.  Their team might be a bit shorter from now on, if one of them decides to move back to California.  But really, I don’t think he’ll find much more fun than Charlie’s, so I’m betting that he’ll stay!

In second place, and ten points behind first place was Alleycat.  They clarified their name and informed me that it’s singular, not plural, as I had previously reported.  They “are one” that prowl the alley’s together.  Hmm, I’m really not going to ask, I just won’t!  So they’ll be back next week, to spend their giftcards that they won tonight.  In the meantime though, I can bet a couple of them will be at home watching reruns of Heros, as they are avid fans of the show.

Our third place winner was a brand new team.  They were new to trivia night, but really kicked ass.  This group was a bunch of girls called Lez Go.  They really didn’t like the idea of having to walk their answers up, but did a great job when they did.  Two of my co-workers from my other job joined this team (they better have been the ones that answered the psychological questions). 

There were a couple other teams that played a few rounds and left.  Had you stayed, you may have taken one of the prizes.  Damn it, stay next time!!  Fabulous did fabulous!  Actually, they were tied for 4th place, but then had to run.  Those were the guys that I had dinner with that randomly ended up at the same destination.  Barbie Bears, oh how I loved your name!  (it was inspired by my Barbie shirt that I was wearing).  You guys did great, even though you were mad that my “cousin” isn’t doing trivia anymore.  So the name, Beavers, was random in that the members were men. Hmm, yeah.  So you should have stayed and finished out the game, but I know how to find you both!  Beer ‘n’ Buzzin, what the heck?!  You come and rip off your shirt for cheaper drinks, but then you bail after just a few questions.  Maybe you got accosted by an interested man, if that was the case, I’m sorry for dissin’.  Becki (with an I), you won my free shot contest and then only answered a few questions, that must have been ADD, cause it wasn’t boring tonight!

We started with a few teams, had others join, had others leave, but of course, it was still a showdown of JETS and Alleycat.  The tournament will continue next week!

JETS (still yet to get a hair cut)

Alleycat  Justin, why are your eyes always closed in every picture??

Lez Go I just couldn’t get them closer to get another picture, so we took three

 Barbie Bears

 Fabulous still dressed up from dinner!

Beer ‘n’ Buzzin

Beavers (I still don’t get the name, guys)

See you next week, Charlies Tuesday at 8:30pm (maybe a lil earlier if I’m ready to go- or later if I arrive late from a fancy dinner again).

In the meantime, we have a couple websites  www.myspace.com/MarciBuzzwordz   and www.myspace.com/Buzzwordz

until then

Marci