trivia woes
those four trivia teams who all had the same punchy name of "premature iraqulation" last night? yeah, not clever. just plagiarists. jerks.
whereas i am still confused as to how "blow it like beckham" beat out our supremely more awesome team name of "US pulls out early, iraq still getting fucked." not very concise, true, but FUNNY. really.
speaking of terrible euro teams, well, tangentially, now that italy's been kicked out but good, the american press can go back to focusing on more important italian news items, like this lovely one: "Italy Tightens Rules for Teen Drivers." which is such awesomeness, because you don't know what the grim reaper looks like until you see a maniacal 14 year-old italian bearing down on you on his vespa of death:
or a 16 year-old masturbating vespa boy. either way.
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Oh sh**, I laughed so hard at the Vespa Boy story...that's a classic.
I'm sorry to inform you that "blow it like beckham" really is the superior team name.
Well, fill us in. I know nothing about soccer. Did Beckham make a bad mistake in the Euro Cup? Is this title calling him gay? Help me out here.
a little bit of both, i think. also he missed a penalty shot against portugal in the euro 2004 cup.
but there is NO WAY that team name was better than ours (or several other good ones last night). i'm pretty sure there was some bitter englishman doing the name judging. but oh well. i didn't really want four tix to d.c. united.
honestly, the "pull out" jokes have been pretty thoroughly covered. I can't get too worked up about being passed over.
What continues to amaze me, however, is Kriston's female trivia partners' refusal to use his proposed team name, which was definitely the best I heard all night: "Borg Chick Not Down With Collective Action" (I got it wrong the first time -- this is the actual, much better-composed title)
Crandall, are you with me on this one?
Yeah, Beckham has now missed 3 penalty kicks in a row for England, including the one leading off their shoot out loss in the quarterfinals against Portugal. For a guy whose specialty is free kicks, he seems to really struggle from just 12 yards out and no wall to bend it around.
In the future I think you should try and figure out who does the judging for best name so you can appropriately capitalize on their biases. Oh, and I'll happily take any surplus dc united tickets from your next victory.
Tom, I'm with you on the name, it's topical, references star trek and sex, I mean, you just can't top that.
However, Star Trek: Voyager sucks (with the exception of Robert Picardo). If anyone wants to debate this, send me your address and I will come to your door and punch you in the face.
It seems appropriate that the team who's name mentioned Beckham would probably be interested in DC United tickets. Maybe they didn't like any of your names, but picked the team who would most appreciate the prize.
nah, the Fado staff are just pretentious jerks :)
hey - can we do this trivia thing when I'm in town next week? I have an entire plane ride to think of a clever team name.
YES! jeff, you have to come. we need help. we're terrible.
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