Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
JRs; Small But Powerful!
Buff and Blue Balls (313 points)
Southern Decadence Gets Blown (307)
Joeys Boyz (296)
Stephanie Tanner / Does the Hanoi Hilton Count as a House (138) Tie
Rwhite
Southern Decadence Gets Blown (307)
Joeys Boyz (296)
Stephanie Tanner / Does the Hanoi Hilton Count as a House (138) Tie
Rwhite
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Random Trivia Wednesday: Pig Out!
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub - Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Giant Burger: Denny’s 15-pound, The 20-inch patty comes on a 17-inch bun and includes two onions, a whole head of lettuce, 25 slices of cheese, three tomatoes and lots of mayo, mustard, relish and ketchup. If you and a friend can get the whole thing down in three hours or less, you’ll get the $30 burger for free.
In addition, you can get the 123-pound burger for $379. That includes 80 pounds of meat, a pound of lettuce, ketchup, relish, mustard and mayo, 160 slices of cheese, five onions, 12 tomatoes, two pounds of banana peppers, 33 pickles and, of course, a 30-pound bun.
Beth’s Café - Seattle, Washington
12-Egg Omelets: At Beth’s Café they serve omelets in two sizes; 6 eggs or 12. Either way, it come with all-you-can-eat hashbrowns.
The Big Texan Steak Ranch - Amarillo, Texas
Giant Steak: The Texas King Steak is a whopping 72 ounces or four pounds. It costs $72 unless you can finish the entire meal – including the steak, a buttered roll, shrimp cocktail, a salad, beans and a potato – in which case it’s on the house. More than 7,000 people have succeeded at the challenge since it started in 1960. Frank Pastore, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, holds the record having finished the entire meal in nine and a half minutes in 1987.
Pizza Party - Santa Clara, California
Belly Buster Challenge - If you can eat this 20 inch pizza (made with cheese and two toppings) in one hour or less you get 1/2 the price of the pizza back, a t-shirt, a picture immortalizing you on the wall at the restaurant, a certificate and a free extra large pizza every month for the next year.
Pinata’s Mexican Grill - Bethpage, New York
Two 3-Pound Burritos - Pinata’s has a Wall of Shame for those who fail in their attempt and a Wall of Fame for those who succeed. That later has only two picutres on it.
Primanti Brothers - Pittsburgh, PA
5-½-inch tall sandwiches - Assuming you can fit a Primanti Brothers sandwich between your hands, it may still be impossible to wedge one between your teeth. At 5-½ inches tall, its an entire meal between two thick slices of Italian bread. You've got a layer of tomato slices and a half-pound of meat plus a fried egg, a large order of hand-cut fries and a mound of sweet-and-sour coleslaw top off this truly outrageous sandwich. The story begins during the depths of the Great Depression when three Italian immigrants decided to try selling lunch in Pittsburgh's Ship District. They opened up a tiny, no-frills restaurant near the docks without even purchasing plates and silverware. When the dockworkers began to file in on that first night, the brothers piled entire orders - including side items - between two thick slices of bread. The improvised meal allowed each worker to hold an entire feast in one hand while working with the other or so the story goes.
Ben and Jerry's - Over 450 franchise shops worldwide
The Vermonster - Made of 20 scoops of ice cream, four bananas, one fudge brownie, three chocolate chip cookies, four ladles of hot fudge, 18 scoops of toppings and loads of whipped cream.
Information from MentalFloss and the Travel Channel
Giant Burger: Denny’s 15-pound, The 20-inch patty comes on a 17-inch bun and includes two onions, a whole head of lettuce, 25 slices of cheese, three tomatoes and lots of mayo, mustard, relish and ketchup. If you and a friend can get the whole thing down in three hours or less, you’ll get the $30 burger for free.
In addition, you can get the 123-pound burger for $379. That includes 80 pounds of meat, a pound of lettuce, ketchup, relish, mustard and mayo, 160 slices of cheese, five onions, 12 tomatoes, two pounds of banana peppers, 33 pickles and, of course, a 30-pound bun.
Beth’s Café - Seattle, Washington
12-Egg Omelets: At Beth’s Café they serve omelets in two sizes; 6 eggs or 12. Either way, it come with all-you-can-eat hashbrowns.
The Big Texan Steak Ranch - Amarillo, Texas
Giant Steak: The Texas King Steak is a whopping 72 ounces or four pounds. It costs $72 unless you can finish the entire meal – including the steak, a buttered roll, shrimp cocktail, a salad, beans and a potato – in which case it’s on the house. More than 7,000 people have succeeded at the challenge since it started in 1960. Frank Pastore, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, holds the record having finished the entire meal in nine and a half minutes in 1987.
Pizza Party - Santa Clara, California
Belly Buster Challenge - If you can eat this 20 inch pizza (made with cheese and two toppings) in one hour or less you get 1/2 the price of the pizza back, a t-shirt, a picture immortalizing you on the wall at the restaurant, a certificate and a free extra large pizza every month for the next year.
Pinata’s Mexican Grill - Bethpage, New York
Two 3-Pound Burritos - Pinata’s has a Wall of Shame for those who fail in their attempt and a Wall of Fame for those who succeed. That later has only two picutres on it.
Primanti Brothers - Pittsburgh, PA
5-½-inch tall sandwiches - Assuming you can fit a Primanti Brothers sandwich between your hands, it may still be impossible to wedge one between your teeth. At 5-½ inches tall, its an entire meal between two thick slices of Italian bread. You've got a layer of tomato slices and a half-pound of meat plus a fried egg, a large order of hand-cut fries and a mound of sweet-and-sour coleslaw top off this truly outrageous sandwich. The story begins during the depths of the Great Depression when three Italian immigrants decided to try selling lunch in Pittsburgh's Ship District. They opened up a tiny, no-frills restaurant near the docks without even purchasing plates and silverware. When the dockworkers began to file in on that first night, the brothers piled entire orders - including side items - between two thick slices of bread. The improvised meal allowed each worker to hold an entire feast in one hand while working with the other or so the story goes.
Ben and Jerry's - Over 450 franchise shops worldwide
The Vermonster - Made of 20 scoops of ice cream, four bananas, one fudge brownie, three chocolate chip cookies, four ladles of hot fudge, 18 scoops of toppings and loads of whipped cream.
Information from MentalFloss and the Travel Channel
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
New Day? Still Rocking!
Instant Replay is for Losers (333 points)
Money Shots (323)
I'm Not Only the Vice President, I'm Also a Member (319)
Beaker's Internet Fan Club (318)
Trivia Newton John (305)
How Come There's No Porn Star Named Magic johnson?
You Can Call Me Whatever You Want Baby
Foe Paw
That's What She Said
Go Balls Deep
Sofa-king Money
A Noun, a Verb, and 9/11
Rap Aint Music (it's Delivery Like Digorno)
Rear Window
Money Shots (323)
I'm Not Only the Vice President, I'm Also a Member (319)
Beaker's Internet Fan Club (318)
Trivia Newton John (305)
How Come There's No Porn Star Named Magic johnson?
You Can Call Me Whatever You Want Baby
Foe Paw
That's What She Said
Go Balls Deep
Sofa-king Money
A Noun, a Verb, and 9/11
Rap Aint Music (it's Delivery Like Digorno)
Rear Window
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Question of the Week
REMINDER: ROCK BOTTOM TRIVIA IS NOW ON TUESDAYS AT 8 PM
Here is your question of the week:
(Name Game) What is the name given to the iconic black-and-white skull and crossbones pirate flag?
Here is your question of the week:
(Name Game) What is the name given to the iconic black-and-white skull and crossbones pirate flag?
Friday, August 22, 2008
12 Sports Cut From The Olympics
1. Cricket
Cricket made both its Olympic debut and swan song at the second modern Games, held in 1900 in Paris. Things got off to a rough start when the Belgian and Dutch teams withdrew from the field prior to the start of play, leaving just a British touring team, the Devon and Somerset Wanderers, to take on the French Athletic Club Union’s squad. The teams apparently weren’t even aware they were playing in the Olympics; they thought the two-day match was just a part of the World’s Fair Paris was hosting at the time. According to one contemporary report, the teams squared off in a cycling arena fit for 20,000 spectators but had only a dozen soldiers as an audience. The English side won the match and received silver medals and miniature Eiffel Towers for their trouble; the French team got bronze medals.
2. Croquet
Like cricket, croquet only saw action at the 1900 Paris Games before fading into Olympic oblivion. The host country made the most of the opportunity claiming all seven medals awarded in the sport. Records are sketchy, but it would seem that across the three events, nine of the 10 competitors were French, which probably facilitated their dominance. Even the players’ first names are lost to history.
3. Basque Pelota
The Paris Games of 1900 saw one last sport make its sole Olympic appearance. Basque pelota, a sport with ancient roots in which teams of two players use a curved basket to fling a ball against a wall in a racquetball-like game, made the Olympic program for Paris. Unfortunately, like cricket, participation was a bit of a downer; only two teams showed up.
4. Golf
Golf made its Olympic debut in 1900, but like the cricket match at those Games, it was poorly organized and lost in the shuffle of the Paris Exposition. Men played a 36-hole stroke-play tournament, which American Charles Sands won with a score of 167. Women played a 9-hole round, which American Margaret Ives Abbott won by two strokes with a 47. However, Abbott apparently never knew she was the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal. She didn’t even know she’d played in the Olympics; she spent her whole life thinking she’d just won a little golf tournament in Paris.
Golf again received a slot on the program at the 1904 Games but didn’t make the cut for any Games after that. Still, certain pros like Greg Norman are agitating for the sport’s inclusion on future programs.
5. Roque
Roque is a croquet variant played with short mallets on a hard rolled-sand court with a wall off of which players can bank the balls. The sport’s official rules tout it as “the most scientific outdoor sport in existence,” but it didn’t hold up so well at the Olympics. Roque debuted at the 1904 Games in St. Louis, Americans swept the medals, and the sport promptly disappeared.
6. Jeu de Paume
Jeu de paume, or “real tennis,” is a tennis precursor that was originally played without racquets; players hit the ball with their hands. By the 1908 Games in London, the sport had evolved to the point where small racquets played a key role, but the largely indoor variant remained separate from what we think of as tennis, which was also played at the Games under the name “lawn tennis.” American railroad scion Jay Gould II claimed the gold, and Charles Sands, who won the gold in golf in 1900, competed but lost in the first round. “Real tennis” made a brief reappearance as a demonstration sport at the 1924 Games before fading away.
7. Lacrosse
Despite lacrosse’s relative popularity in the English-speaking world, it never really caught on as an Olympic sport. It made the program in the 1904 and 1908 Games, and since only five teams combined entered the event over the two Games, every team that played won a medal. Canada won both golds and a bronze (they sent two teams in 1904), while American and British teams claimed the two silvers. Lacrosse was a demonstration sport at the 1928, 1932, and 1948 Games, but it never regained its medal status.
8. Rackets
At the rackets competition of the 1908 Games in London every single entrant was British. The sport itself is very similar to squash, which originated as an offshoot of rackets in the 19th century, and remains popular in the U.K. The seven-man all-British field included John Jacob Astor V of the famed Astor family; he won a gold in doubles and a bronze in singles competition.
9. Polo
Apparently the Olympics could never quite figure out how to handle polo, as it popped on and off the program throughout the first 40 years of the modern Games. Polo was a medal sport at five different Games, with competitions appearing in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924, and 1936. Only the British team competed in all of these Games, although the U.S. and Argentina both managed to claim gold medals during this time.
10. Water Motorsports
Motorboat racing first appeared as a demonstration sport at the 1900 Games, and in 1908 it received full medal status. Captains in three classes were set to race five laps around an eight-nautical-mile course in the only Olympic event to ever involve motors. However, the English weather didn’t feel like complying and whipped up a ferocious gale. Two boats entered each class, but due to the terrible weather, boats started to fill with water, ran aground, suffered engine problems and had to quit. As a result, only one boat finished each race, meaning that the only Olympic water motorsports medals ever handed out were gold.
11. Tug of War
Unlike some of the other discontinued sports, tug of war had a fair amount of staying power; it made the program for every Olympics between 1900 and 1920. The sport was played in pretty much the same way you remember from grade-school field days, but it was also a magnet for Olympic controversies. Scandal struck again at the 1908 Games when the American squad protested that the police boots worn by the British pullers from the Liverpool Police team were equipped with illegal cleats for extra traction. When the protest failed, the American pullers left the Games in a huff.
12. Rugby
Rugby has enjoyed intermittent medal status as well. It was part of the Games in 1900, 1908, 1920, and 1924 before the IOC pulled the plug. Like many of the other doomed sports, participation was a bit of a problem; none of the four competitions ever included more than three teams. Although rugby hasn’t been on the program since 1924, there have been attempts to bring it back to the Olympics—the sport made the finals for addition to the 2012 Games before losing out to squash and karate.
Info from a very timely article at MentalFloss
Cricket made both its Olympic debut and swan song at the second modern Games, held in 1900 in Paris. Things got off to a rough start when the Belgian and Dutch teams withdrew from the field prior to the start of play, leaving just a British touring team, the Devon and Somerset Wanderers, to take on the French Athletic Club Union’s squad. The teams apparently weren’t even aware they were playing in the Olympics; they thought the two-day match was just a part of the World’s Fair Paris was hosting at the time. According to one contemporary report, the teams squared off in a cycling arena fit for 20,000 spectators but had only a dozen soldiers as an audience. The English side won the match and received silver medals and miniature Eiffel Towers for their trouble; the French team got bronze medals.
2. Croquet
Like cricket, croquet only saw action at the 1900 Paris Games before fading into Olympic oblivion. The host country made the most of the opportunity claiming all seven medals awarded in the sport. Records are sketchy, but it would seem that across the three events, nine of the 10 competitors were French, which probably facilitated their dominance. Even the players’ first names are lost to history.
3. Basque Pelota
The Paris Games of 1900 saw one last sport make its sole Olympic appearance. Basque pelota, a sport with ancient roots in which teams of two players use a curved basket to fling a ball against a wall in a racquetball-like game, made the Olympic program for Paris. Unfortunately, like cricket, participation was a bit of a downer; only two teams showed up.
4. Golf
Golf made its Olympic debut in 1900, but like the cricket match at those Games, it was poorly organized and lost in the shuffle of the Paris Exposition. Men played a 36-hole stroke-play tournament, which American Charles Sands won with a score of 167. Women played a 9-hole round, which American Margaret Ives Abbott won by two strokes with a 47. However, Abbott apparently never knew she was the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal. She didn’t even know she’d played in the Olympics; she spent her whole life thinking she’d just won a little golf tournament in Paris.
Golf again received a slot on the program at the 1904 Games but didn’t make the cut for any Games after that. Still, certain pros like Greg Norman are agitating for the sport’s inclusion on future programs.
5. Roque
Roque is a croquet variant played with short mallets on a hard rolled-sand court with a wall off of which players can bank the balls. The sport’s official rules tout it as “the most scientific outdoor sport in existence,” but it didn’t hold up so well at the Olympics. Roque debuted at the 1904 Games in St. Louis, Americans swept the medals, and the sport promptly disappeared.
6. Jeu de Paume
Jeu de paume, or “real tennis,” is a tennis precursor that was originally played without racquets; players hit the ball with their hands. By the 1908 Games in London, the sport had evolved to the point where small racquets played a key role, but the largely indoor variant remained separate from what we think of as tennis, which was also played at the Games under the name “lawn tennis.” American railroad scion Jay Gould II claimed the gold, and Charles Sands, who won the gold in golf in 1900, competed but lost in the first round. “Real tennis” made a brief reappearance as a demonstration sport at the 1924 Games before fading away.
7. Lacrosse
Despite lacrosse’s relative popularity in the English-speaking world, it never really caught on as an Olympic sport. It made the program in the 1904 and 1908 Games, and since only five teams combined entered the event over the two Games, every team that played won a medal. Canada won both golds and a bronze (they sent two teams in 1904), while American and British teams claimed the two silvers. Lacrosse was a demonstration sport at the 1928, 1932, and 1948 Games, but it never regained its medal status.
8. Rackets
At the rackets competition of the 1908 Games in London every single entrant was British. The sport itself is very similar to squash, which originated as an offshoot of rackets in the 19th century, and remains popular in the U.K. The seven-man all-British field included John Jacob Astor V of the famed Astor family; he won a gold in doubles and a bronze in singles competition.
9. Polo
Apparently the Olympics could never quite figure out how to handle polo, as it popped on and off the program throughout the first 40 years of the modern Games. Polo was a medal sport at five different Games, with competitions appearing in 1900, 1908, 1920, 1924, and 1936. Only the British team competed in all of these Games, although the U.S. and Argentina both managed to claim gold medals during this time.
10. Water Motorsports
Motorboat racing first appeared as a demonstration sport at the 1900 Games, and in 1908 it received full medal status. Captains in three classes were set to race five laps around an eight-nautical-mile course in the only Olympic event to ever involve motors. However, the English weather didn’t feel like complying and whipped up a ferocious gale. Two boats entered each class, but due to the terrible weather, boats started to fill with water, ran aground, suffered engine problems and had to quit. As a result, only one boat finished each race, meaning that the only Olympic water motorsports medals ever handed out were gold.
11. Tug of War
Unlike some of the other discontinued sports, tug of war had a fair amount of staying power; it made the program for every Olympics between 1900 and 1920. The sport was played in pretty much the same way you remember from grade-school field days, but it was also a magnet for Olympic controversies. Scandal struck again at the 1908 Games when the American squad protested that the police boots worn by the British pullers from the Liverpool Police team were equipped with illegal cleats for extra traction. When the protest failed, the American pullers left the Games in a huff.
12. Rugby
Rugby has enjoyed intermittent medal status as well. It was part of the Games in 1900, 1908, 1920, and 1924 before the IOC pulled the plug. Like many of the other doomed sports, participation was a bit of a problem; none of the four competitions ever included more than three teams. Although rugby hasn’t been on the program since 1924, there have been attempts to bring it back to the Olympics—the sport made the finals for addition to the 2012 Games before losing out to squash and karate.
Info from a very timely article at MentalFloss
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Covers? Increíble!
1. The Gambler (Mike Dougherty) – Kenny Rogers
2. Take the Long Way Home (Drew Emmit) - Supertramp
3. Thank You (Chris Cornel) – Led Zeppelin
4. Let the Good Times Roll (All American Rejects) – The Cars
5. Do you Believe in Magic (The Format) – Lovin Spoonful
6. Lollipop (Madison) – Lil' Wayne
7. Where Did Our Love Go (The Night Shall Eat Boys and Girls) – The Supremes
8. That's All (Keene) - Genesis
2. Take the Long Way Home (Drew Emmit) - Supertramp
3. Thank You (Chris Cornel) – Led Zeppelin
4. Let the Good Times Roll (All American Rejects) – The Cars
5. Do you Believe in Magic (The Format) – Lovin Spoonful
6. Lollipop (Madison) – Lil' Wayne
7. Where Did Our Love Go (The Night Shall Eat Boys and Girls) – The Supremes
8. That's All (Keene) - Genesis
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Random Trivia Wednesday: Poop
Here are some things you might not have known about poop:
1. Bird poop is white because birds can’t pee. Their kidneys work like ours do, but instead of producing urine, birds excrete a white paste which mixes with waste from the intestines unites and is excreted through the bird’s cloaca (yep, that's a multi-purpose hole). And, yes, by multi-purpose, I mean they even mate through it.
2. Eating poop has a name: coprophagy. Coprophagous insects consume and redigest the feces of large animals. The most famous feces-eating insect is the dung-beetle and the most ubiquitous is the fly. Rabbits, hamsters and other related species do not have a complex digestive system. Instead they extract more nutrition by giving their food a second pass through the gut. They produce pellets of partially digested food as well as produce normal droppings, which are not eaten. Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the feces of their mother to obtain the bacteria required to properly digest vegetation as they are born without these bacteria and would be unable to get any nutritional value from plants without them.
3. Cavemen were better equipped to chew and digest many plants and vegetables. They had larger molars and longer digestive tracts better at handling foods rich in indigestible cellulose, like, er, corn, for instance.
4. The word poop comes from the Middle English word poupen or popen, which used to be the root of the word we now call a fart. Clearly poop has onomatopoeic origins.
Need more? See Wikipedia!
1. Bird poop is white because birds can’t pee. Their kidneys work like ours do, but instead of producing urine, birds excrete a white paste which mixes with waste from the intestines unites and is excreted through the bird’s cloaca (yep, that's a multi-purpose hole). And, yes, by multi-purpose, I mean they even mate through it.
2. Eating poop has a name: coprophagy. Coprophagous insects consume and redigest the feces of large animals. The most famous feces-eating insect is the dung-beetle and the most ubiquitous is the fly. Rabbits, hamsters and other related species do not have a complex digestive system. Instead they extract more nutrition by giving their food a second pass through the gut. They produce pellets of partially digested food as well as produce normal droppings, which are not eaten. Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the feces of their mother to obtain the bacteria required to properly digest vegetation as they are born without these bacteria and would be unable to get any nutritional value from plants without them.
3. Cavemen were better equipped to chew and digest many plants and vegetables. They had larger molars and longer digestive tracts better at handling foods rich in indigestible cellulose, like, er, corn, for instance.
4. The word poop comes from the Middle English word poupen or popen, which used to be the root of the word we now call a fart. Clearly poop has onomatopoeic origins.
Need more? See Wikipedia!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Tuesday Trivia at Rock Bottom
Just a reminder, Tuesday trivia at Rock Bottom starts on August 26th. It will still be at 8pm.
No trivia tonight, yes trivia one week from tonight.
No trivia tonight, yes trivia one week from tonight.
Whooooooole Lotta Rock Bottom Scores
We Heart Drunk Trivia MCs and Tequila Shots (330 points)
Musharraf for Condo Board President 322)
Honeymoon Stallion (321)
Drink the Beer (320)
Money Shots / Powderworhty (Tied at 315)
Your Honor, the Gymnasts Told Me They Were 16
A Big Red Dog You Can Believe In
The Attractive Nuisances
Dorthy Zbornak
The Racing Presidents
Admiral Akbar and the Traps
Mark Spitz Took Jason for a Moustache Ride
Tenors Beasting
Knuckle Children
Uncle Peat's Death Core Warriors
Fuzzy Blumpkin
Campus Crusade for Chocolate
Pizetta
Too Cool to Go Back to School
Duranteer
Batman and Friends
Even My Mom Could Make a 23 Yard Field Goal
Wealthy Peanuts
Musharraf for Condo Board President 322)
Honeymoon Stallion (321)
Drink the Beer (320)
Money Shots / Powderworhty (Tied at 315)
Your Honor, the Gymnasts Told Me They Were 16
A Big Red Dog You Can Believe In
The Attractive Nuisances
Dorthy Zbornak
The Racing Presidents
Admiral Akbar and the Traps
Mark Spitz Took Jason for a Moustache Ride
Tenors Beasting
Knuckle Children
Uncle Peat's Death Core Warriors
Fuzzy Blumpkin
Campus Crusade for Chocolate
Pizetta
Too Cool to Go Back to School
Duranteer
Batman and Friends
Even My Mom Could Make a 23 Yard Field Goal
Wealthy Peanuts
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Question of the Week
(Name Game) Lending her name to a famous brand, who was the Greek Goddess of Victory?
News
Just a reminder:
This Monday, the 18th is the LAST Monday trivia at Rock Bottom.
Starting on the 26th, trivia will be at 8 PM on Tuesday.
Also:
To speed things along, check in with Jason before the game starts and give him your team name. He has begun to give people a number on their score sheet to help keep track of scores.
Finally:
August 21st Jason is running a trivia night for charity in DC to help needy kids. Attached is a flier. It cost money to play but the money goes to help those in need. And there ARE prizes and a bar -- in case you need any more reason to go!
This Monday, the 18th is the LAST Monday trivia at Rock Bottom.
Starting on the 26th, trivia will be at 8 PM on Tuesday.
Also:
To speed things along, check in with Jason before the game starts and give him your team name. He has begun to give people a number on their score sheet to help keep track of scores.
Finally:
August 21st Jason is running a trivia night for charity in DC to help needy kids. Attached is a flier. It cost money to play but the money goes to help those in need. And there ARE prizes and a bar -- in case you need any more reason to go!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Chair or Swear?
From this week's "picture" round: Chair or Swear?
(There goes my PG rating...)
a. Agen – CHAIR
b. Balser – CHAIR
c. Feslijummen - SWEAR (Lukewarm Fart)
d. Fladdermus - SWEAR (Female dog who has sex with everyone)
e. Knöllare - SWEAR (F*%ker, also term for penis)
f. HÄSTVEDA – CHAIR
g. Harola – CHAIR
h. Rövskägg - SWEAR (Butt Beard)
i. Poang – CHAIR
j. Sprutludder – SWEAR – (Sperm C*#t)
(There goes my PG rating...)
a. Agen – CHAIR
b. Balser – CHAIR
c. Feslijummen - SWEAR (Lukewarm Fart)
d. Fladdermus - SWEAR (Female dog who has sex with everyone)
e. Knöllare - SWEAR (F*%ker, also term for penis)
f. HÄSTVEDA – CHAIR
g. Harola – CHAIR
h. Rövskägg - SWEAR (Butt Beard)
i. Poang – CHAIR
j. Sprutludder – SWEAR – (Sperm C*#t)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Go Go Gadget Scores!!!
Stroking with Phelps for the Gold (261 points)
Track 13 (250)
Buff and Blue Balls (244)
Happy Tuna (174)
Phelps for VP (172)
Joeys Boys (Missing Joey)
Tom's Teeth Hurt
Jim
Huevos de Mono
Track 13 (250)
Buff and Blue Balls (244)
Happy Tuna (174)
Phelps for VP (172)
Joeys Boys (Missing Joey)
Tom's Teeth Hurt
Jim
Huevos de Mono
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Happy Birthday, Alfred
- Born August 13, 1899
- He was knighted in 1980, and died the same year.
- Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films, in a career spanning six decades, from the silent era, through the invention of sound films, and far into the color era
- Hitchcock had a dislike of egg yolk. He once said "I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it."
- Hitchcock also had a serious fear of the police, which was the reason he said he never learned to drive. In an attempt to punish Hitchcock for an instance of misbehavior, Alfred's father detailed in writing that the young Hitchcock had engaged in some form of childish mischief, then handed the description to Alfred, sending him to the local police station. The on-duty police officer immediately locked Hitchcock in an empty cell for a full 10 minutes as a means to reprimand the young boy. This perhaps influenced his signature theme in his movies where an innocent person would become entangled in the web of another guilty person's behaviour.
- According to many people who knew Hitchcock, he couldn't stand to even look at his wife, Alma Reville, while she was pregnant.
- Alma Reville and Hitch had one daughter, Patricia Hitchcock, who appeared in several of his movies: Stage Fright (1950), Strangers on a Train (1951) and Psycho (1960)
- Hitchcock eventually began making his appearances in the beginning of his films, because he knew viewers were watching for him and he didn't want to divert their attention away from the story's plot.
- The famous Hitchcock profile sketch, most often associated with "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955), was actually from a Christmas card Hitchcock designed himself while still living in England.
- When finishing a cup of tea while on the set, he would often non-discriminatingly toss the cup and saucer over his shoulder, letting it fall (or break) wherever it may.
- Hitchcock delivered the shortest acceptance speech in Oscar history: while accepting the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award at the 1967 Oscars, he simply said "Thank you."
- Is the "voice" of the "Jaws" ride at Universal Studios.
- A statistical survey he did among audiences revealed that according to moviegoers the most frightening noise in films was the siren of a police patrol-car, followed by the crash of a road accident, cracklings of a burning forest, far galloping horses, howling dogs, the scream of a stabbed woman and the steps of a lame person in the dark.
- Though he was Oscar-nominated 5 times as Best Director, DGA-nominated 6 times as Best Director, and received 3 nominations from Cannes, he has never won in any of these competitive categories.
- Made a live cameo appearance in all of his movies beginning with Rebecca (1940), excluding Lifeboat in which he appeared in a newspaper advertisement; Dial M for Murder in which he appeared in a class reunion photo; Rope in which his "appearance" is as a neon version of his famous caricature on a billboard outside the window in a night scene and Family Plot in which his "appearance" is as a silhouette of someone standing on the other side of a frosted glass door
- Walt Disney refused to allow him to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because Hitchcock had made "that disgusting movie Psycho
- Always wore a suit on film sets
Monday, August 11, 2008
Rock Bottom Winn-ahs!!!
Oh My God, They Killed Chef! (315 points)
Shuttlecocks, Just Because It's a Fun Word (303)
Disproportionate Response / Powder Worthy (296) Tie
Money Shot (295)
The Jackasses
Ocean's Ten
Racing Presidents
Helicopter Society
John Edwards Illegitimate Love Children
Admiral Ackbar and the Traps
The Afrekenized Honey Vees
Miss Buffalo Chips
Clay Aikens' a Father and John Edwards Insn't? Yeah Right.
Knuckle Children
Bipolar Bear
Bearded Ax Wound
Sterkin is Lame
Cock Meat Sandwich
Shuttlecocks, Just Because It's a Fun Word (303)
Disproportionate Response / Powder Worthy (296) Tie
Money Shot (295)
The Jackasses
Ocean's Ten
Racing Presidents
Helicopter Society
John Edwards Illegitimate Love Children
Admiral Ackbar and the Traps
The Afrekenized Honey Vees
Miss Buffalo Chips
Clay Aikens' a Father and John Edwards Insn't? Yeah Right.
Knuckle Children
Bipolar Bear
Bearded Ax Wound
Sterkin is Lame
Cock Meat Sandwich
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Question of the Week
(Music) Which song title do Nelly Furtado and Hall and Oates have in common ?
Remember: Rock Bottom trivia will be switching from Mondays to Tuesdays staring on August 26th. The time will still be 8pm.
Additionally, Jason is doing a charity night for a children's homeless group, Project Northstar (http://www.projectnorthstar.org/), on August 21st. See information on the below post and please come out and show your support.
Remember: Rock Bottom trivia will be switching from Mondays to Tuesdays staring on August 26th. The time will still be 8pm.
Additionally, Jason is doing a charity night for a children's homeless group, Project Northstar (http://www.projectnorthstar.org/), on August 21st. See information on the below post and please come out and show your support.
Project Northstar Trivia Night Fundraiser
Project Northstar Trivia Night Fundraiser
Date: August 21st,2008
Time: Doors open at 6:45pm - Trivia begins at 7:30pm
Cost: $25 per person - Register as an individual or as a team of 6 to 8 persons at www.projectnorthstar.org or pay with cash only at the door!
Project Northstar needs your help! Come catch up with friends, eat delicious food, enjoy drinks, and play trivia, all while supporting Project Northstar’s mission of helping homeless children throughout Washington, DC overcome barriers to a quality education.
*All proceeds go directly to Project Northstar’s general operation for the upcoming 2008-2009 school year.*
Cover charge includes door prizes, food and drinks from Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Potbelly’s, Bacardi, and many more!
Please visit www.projectnorthstar.org for more information and to register!
Date: August 21st,2008
Time: Doors open at 6:45pm - Trivia begins at 7:30pm
Cost: $25 per person - Register as an individual or as a team of 6 to 8 persons at www.projectnorthstar.org or pay with cash only at the door!
Project Northstar needs your help! Come catch up with friends, eat delicious food, enjoy drinks, and play trivia, all while supporting Project Northstar’s mission of helping homeless children throughout Washington, DC overcome barriers to a quality education.
*All proceeds go directly to Project Northstar’s general operation for the upcoming 2008-2009 school year.*
Cover charge includes door prizes, food and drinks from Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Potbelly’s, Bacardi, and many more!
Please visit www.projectnorthstar.org for more information and to register!
Friday, August 8, 2008
Ol' Reliable Covers
a. Dancing Queen (Abba) – The Yayhoos
b. Take a Bow (Rhianna) – Ne Yo
c. Bette Davis Eyes (Jackie DeShannon/Kim Carnes) – Brad Roberts (from Crash Test Dummies)
d. America (Simon and Garfunkle) – Alyssa Graham
e. Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins) – Homesick Elephant
f. New York State of Mind (Billy Joel) – Rowlf the Dog
g. One of Us (Joan Osborne) – Brad Roberts
h. This Will Be Our Year (the Zombies) - Quasi
b. Take a Bow (Rhianna) – Ne Yo
c. Bette Davis Eyes (Jackie DeShannon/Kim Carnes) – Brad Roberts (from Crash Test Dummies)
d. America (Simon and Garfunkle) – Alyssa Graham
e. Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins) – Homesick Elephant
f. New York State of Mind (Billy Joel) – Rowlf the Dog
g. One of Us (Joan Osborne) – Brad Roberts
h. This Will Be Our Year (the Zombies) - Quasi
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Rock Bottom Champions
Third Place (314 points)
Punch Me In the Trivia (305)
20 Nails on a Dead Body (300)
Who Need 40 Cents When You Have a Mushroom Stamp (295)
Corner Heroes (285)
I Think It's a Jackal
Drink the Beer
Racing Presidents
TBA
Team Who is Kraven Moorhead
Driving Miss Daisy Into a Ditch
Money Shots
Colt the Colt Killer
Why does Morgan Freeman Drive a 1999 Nissan Maxima
Team Rocketbottom Crew
Team Cracker
Let's Do Dis
3 Non-Blondes
Shits Satan's Love
Captain Jerk and the Shrimp Shack Invaders
Punch Me In the Trivia (305)
20 Nails on a Dead Body (300)
Who Need 40 Cents When You Have a Mushroom Stamp (295)
Corner Heroes (285)
I Think It's a Jackal
Drink the Beer
Racing Presidents
TBA
Team Who is Kraven Moorhead
Driving Miss Daisy Into a Ditch
Money Shots
Colt the Colt Killer
Why does Morgan Freeman Drive a 1999 Nissan Maxima
Team Rocketbottom Crew
Team Cracker
Let's Do Dis
3 Non-Blondes
Shits Satan's Love
Captain Jerk and the Shrimp Shack Invaders
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Question of the Week
(Food and Drink) What brand, Coke’s first diet soft drink (first released in 1963), was relaunched as a different tasting energy drink in 2006?
Just over fifty years ago, the Velcro® trademark was registered.
It all began with Swiss engineer George de Mestral’s 1941 hunting trip in Switzerland. While walking his dog in the mountains, de Mestral accidentally brushed up against some cocklebur plants, and by the time he got back home, dozens of the round, spiky seeds were clinging to his wool trousers (and his poor dog’s fur).
The engineer quickly figured out why the seeds were so sticky by examining them under a microscope; the spikes each ended in tiny hooks that grabbed onto fabric and fur and wouldn’t let go. But it wasn’t until 1952 that de Mestral made a serious effort to mimic the cockleburs’ hooks using different types of fabric. He quit his day job and raised $150,000 in venture capital, an enormous sum at the time. He also joined up with a textile weaver from France, the only weaver who thought the idea would actually work. The pair’s first attempt, using cotton, was a failure. But nylon, sewn into tiny hooks under bright infrared light, worked much better. He dubbed it “Velcro” after “velvet” and “crochet,” the French word for “hook.”
For more, visit Mental Floss
It all began with Swiss engineer George de Mestral’s 1941 hunting trip in Switzerland. While walking his dog in the mountains, de Mestral accidentally brushed up against some cocklebur plants, and by the time he got back home, dozens of the round, spiky seeds were clinging to his wool trousers (and his poor dog’s fur).
The engineer quickly figured out why the seeds were so sticky by examining them under a microscope; the spikes each ended in tiny hooks that grabbed onto fabric and fur and wouldn’t let go. But it wasn’t until 1952 that de Mestral made a serious effort to mimic the cockleburs’ hooks using different types of fabric. He quit his day job and raised $150,000 in venture capital, an enormous sum at the time. He also joined up with a textile weaver from France, the only weaver who thought the idea would actually work. The pair’s first attempt, using cotton, was a failure. But nylon, sewn into tiny hooks under bright infrared light, worked much better. He dubbed it “Velcro” after “velvet” and “crochet,” the French word for “hook.”
For more, visit Mental Floss
Friday, August 1, 2008
Coppertone
Coppertone is the brand name for an American suntan lotion, owned by Schering-Plough HealthCare Products Inc.
It dates to 1944, when pharmacist Benjamin Green invented a lotion to darken tans. The company became famous in 1959 when it introduced the Coppertone girl, an advertisement showing a young blonde girl in pig-tails in shock as a Cocker Spaniel sneaks up behind her and pulls down her blue swimsuit bottoms, exposing her pale white buttocks in stark contrast with her tanned body. Accompanying the ads was the impish slogan, "Don't be a paleface!"
At the turn of the 21st century, Coppertone revised drawings of the Coppertone Girl so that they would be less revealing in an era of heightened sensitivity regarding pedophilia. Some recent versions show only the girl's lower back, as opposed to her buttocks or wearing a T-shirt, a hat, and holding a bottle of Coppertone while the puppy is shown pulling on her shirt.
Swear it was a little brown dog? Yeah, me too. Here's what the picture looks like on bottles:
Info from Wikipedia. Picture of bottle from Amazon.
It dates to 1944, when pharmacist Benjamin Green invented a lotion to darken tans. The company became famous in 1959 when it introduced the Coppertone girl, an advertisement showing a young blonde girl in pig-tails in shock as a Cocker Spaniel sneaks up behind her and pulls down her blue swimsuit bottoms, exposing her pale white buttocks in stark contrast with her tanned body. Accompanying the ads was the impish slogan, "Don't be a paleface!"
At the turn of the 21st century, Coppertone revised drawings of the Coppertone Girl so that they would be less revealing in an era of heightened sensitivity regarding pedophilia. Some recent versions show only the girl's lower back, as opposed to her buttocks or wearing a T-shirt, a hat, and holding a bottle of Coppertone while the puppy is shown pulling on her shirt.
Swear it was a little brown dog? Yeah, me too. Here's what the picture looks like on bottles: Info from Wikipedia. Picture of bottle from Amazon.
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