Unfinished Business

So with vacation back in December and my decision to retire from Quizzo and other assorted major life changes, I've been shirking some of my Quizzomaster duties such as dutifully posting results and pictures from past games and documenting major visits by family members. These things happen. So, herewith, a brief pictorial depiction of things that happened since December 18, 2007. (Wow, remember 2007? Good times, good times...)

My last Quizzo of 2007 began with two interesting interruptions. The first by my father, arriving unannounced, snatching the mike from my hand and loudly welcoming everyone to Quizzo. DC suddenly understands why I am the way I am. What is it that's said about apples and their proximity to their trees? So true. He and is lovely wife popped in for a quickie visit from California, getting into BWI with just enough time to get to The Hill for the start of the game. Just like Dad, always making great time.

The other interruption came from that Boston guy in the red and white striped tie who endeared himself to no one by being all shouty all the time. Not shouty ha-ha, but shouty shut-the-fuck-up. After his schtick grew tiresome I had to become a little shouty myself. Nothing like seeing your stepmother's face as you're telling a drunk to cool it before I made him suck my dick. Thankfully it didn't come to that. I hate forced sodomy. Usually. The guy, let's call him Mike, actually showed class by apologizing afterwards and explaining that where he's from, that's how the game's played. Ah, it was a cultural misunderstanding.

This is a great picture of Rebecca and Schwarz. (Or maybe it's Schwartz with a T in it. Not sure. He's mysterious that way.) He's our current bartender and, frankly, the best one we've had in the 6.5 years I've been at the Pour House. Don't get me wrong, we've loved most of our bartenders. They give us beer, what's not to love? But Schwarz has always gone the extra mile, setting up the mike and sound-system for us, actually playing the game instead of stealing answers and selling them to customers at the bar (hi Rob!) and just being an all around pleasant presence. Plus he has a wide variety of humorous and quirky T-shirts. And, as Rebecca is demonstrating in the picture, he is most huggable. Hug a Schwarz today!


Let's take a quick tangential stumble down bartender memory lane: Vince let us dance on the bar and used to ply women with free shots until they flashed us. Lance had more female fans than I thought possible... that is until Isaac came along. Rick was a hoot and he loved to flirt; I made his night by flirting back. And I can't forget Eric, the guy who first hired me. So what if he was a bit of a screw-up, we had fun. That was back when we all did more shots than we should have. One night he was a bit... altered shall we say? He paid me at the end of the night and then about five minutes later tried to pay me again. Short-term memory impairment is a hell of a thing. I, of course, declined explaining that he'd already paid me. But less than two minutes later when he tried to pay me again, I let him.


Based on the way they're looking at the camera I assume these people won things in December and on the 8th of this month. I'll be damned if I know who won what when. Congratulations! I'm sure





And finally, this is the first of a series of pictures of a threesome (Rene, Heather and... let's say Mike) that happened in the middle of the Pour House floor on January 8th. Each had claimed it was their birthday, so they all had to get into their birthday suit and do what came naturally. Unfortunately the other 84 photos I took of this event were confiscated by the police. Turns out, despite it being his birthday, Rene is not yet legal.




January 15, 2008
GAME ONE

$30 WINNERS: 10 YEARS LATER:: BILL CLINTON:: AN ORAL HISTORY 33









$20 WINNERS: GET ROIDS OR DIE TRYING 32 (Tie Break Wieners)









$10 WINNERS: GOLDEN GLOBES LOOK SAGGY 32










AT HIS AGE NEAL CAN'T PUT OUT 28
MITT ROMNEY BLOWS MORE SURE THINGS THAN JESSICA SIMPSON 29
IT TAKE A WHITE VILLAGE 23
COWBOYS DON'T CRY 27
EVEREST NEVER MADE THE REAL HILLARY CRY 21
3 WEEKS, 30 PRIZES, NO CHANCE 18
IS THAT A SMURF IN YOUR POCKET OR DO YOU HAVE POOR CIRCULATION? 27
BLONDE AMBITION 21
TRYING TOO HARD AGAIN 16
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A SUB-PRIME LOAN? 15
CLAVINS 27
DIKEMBE MUTUMBO'S JUMBO CUM GUMBO 18
WE'RE JUST TWO 18



GAME TWO - INAPPROPRIATE TRANSFORMERS
Is it just me or do the winners of the second game look suspiciously similar to the winners of the first game? Hmmmmm.


$30 WINNERS - MICHAEL JACKSON 32 (Tie Break Wieners)










$20 WINNERS - DECEPTICUNT 32









$10 WINNERS - AUTOEROTICASPHIXATRON 31









SPORK 22
VIBROLATOR 8
OPTIMUS PRIME 22
CUM DUMPSTER 23
PRECUMMERTRON 23
COCK GOBBLER 24
CLAVINS 30
THE CIRCULATOR 28
OPTIMUS PENIS 19
COCKBLOCKTRON 21
CLITORUS PRIME 21
EJACULATOR 28
TWATACON 8