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  • #31
    Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

    Speaking of questions, I'd like to brag that Dr. Mrs. and I won DC Trivia at the RTC ATR last night. I invite anybody in the area to show up Thursdays at 7 -- it was fun and the higher level questions are very good. We'll be there every Thursday because we're trying to build enough points to qualify for nationals (except next week because Elvis Costello at Wolf Trap). Our team is Bonni Doesn't Know Zephram Cochrane.
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    • #32
      Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

      I love that name.
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      Originally posted by SanTropez
      May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
      Originally posted by bigblue_dl
      I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
      Originally posted by Kepler
      When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
      He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Speaking of questions, I'd like to brag that Dr. Mrs. and I won DC Trivia at the RTC ATR last night. I invite anybody in the area to show up Thursdays at 7 -- it was fun and the higher level questions are very good. We'll be there every Thursday because we're trying to build enough points to qualify for nationals (except next week because Elvis Costello at Wolf Trap). Our team is Bonni Doesn't Know Zephram Cochrane.
        But Nancy Hedford knows Zefram!!
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        • #34
          Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          Speaking of questions, I'd like to brag that Dr. Mrs. and I won DC Trivia at the RTC ATR last night. I invite anybody in the area to show up Thursdays at 7 -- it was fun and the higher level questions are very good. We'll be there every Thursday because we're trying to build enough points to qualify for nationals (except next week because Elvis Costello at Wolf Trap). Our team is Bonni Doesn't Know Zephram Cochrane.
          Perhaps you would be interested in entering the World's Largest Trivia Contest held every spring on UW-Stevens Point's 90FM. I believe the Contest is entering it's 49th year. I haven't played for ages but I used to play on a perennial top 10 team. It's 54 straight hours of madness with eight questions per hour and thousands of participants on several hundred teams. This is in the Big Leagues of trivia. Winning it is a virtual impossibility but it is an enormous amount of fun and sleep deprivation.

          I'm reminded that once, before the internet, on a 1:00 am question about what year the exploding scoreboard came into Comiskey and in what I thought was a real stroke of genius, I called information for Bill Veeck's home number in Chicago.

          I was his fourth caller. He was very nice about it though.
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          • #35
            Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

            Originally posted by Wisko McBadgerton View Post
            Perhaps you would be interested in entering the World's Largest Trivia Contest held every spring on UW-Stevens Point's 90FM which is entering it's 49th year. I haven't played for ages but I used to play on a perennial top 10 team. It's 54 straight hours of madness with eight questions per hour and thousands of participants on several hundred teams. This is in the Big Leagues of trivia. Winning it is a virtual impossibility but it is an enormous amount of fun and sleep deprivation.

            I'm reminded that once, before the internet, on a 1:00 am question about what year the exploding scoreboard came into Comiskey and in what I thought was a real stroke of genius, I called information for Bill Veeck's home number in Chicago.

            I was his fourth caller. He was very nice about it though.
            You can call for info?

            Boo!

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            • #36
              Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

              On a scale of 1-10, where 1 is a shrug and 10 is nuclear war, how bad would weighing in on a text message thread with future in-laws be:

              CC: Future Mother IL, SIL #1 + BIL#1, SIL #2 + BIL #2, fiancee
              Future SIL #1 (just moved to Texas): Something my daughter noticed right away is that there were American flags everywhere. It's great to be in a place where people actually love our country!
              Fiancee: let's not get into controversial topics now...
              FSIL #1: What!? I said (daughter) was excited to see the flags everywhere. I think loving our country is a good thing.
              FIancee: nevermind
              FSIL #1: That would be sad if that's controversial

              I really, really want to let her know the places I have seen the most American flags were Boston, NYC, and Washington DC.
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              Originally posted by SanTropez
              May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
              Originally posted by bigblue_dl
              I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
              Originally posted by Kepler
              When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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              • #37
                Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

                A family that group texts? Yikes

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                • #38
                  Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

                  Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post
                  A family that group texts? Yikes
                  THey do but they don't. It's rare I hear from BIL/SIL via text. They're generally good people despite their deeply misguided opinions on politics and vaccines. (I know, I know...) They were texting us about settling in and this was like text #15 in the string. Everything else was normal family talk.

                  That said, BIL/SIL #2, my fiancee, and I text all the time. All four of us at least have our heads on straight. Most of us are all reformed centrists/libertarians/etc.
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                  College Hockey 6       College Football 0
                  BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
                  Originally posted by SanTropez
                  May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                  Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                  I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                  Originally posted by Kepler
                  When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                  He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                  • #39
                    Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

                    I see way more Texas flags than American flags down here...
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                    • #40
                      Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

                      You can probably deflect by saying that it's nice to see the American flag flying and leave it at that. I'd rate it around a 4-5 as it stands.

                      You already know that this is a political Claymore sitting in your path. Just dodge the 1st one, but realize that if you keep heading down this path, sooner or later you will have to engage the problem. I am also assuming that this is ignorance of their stance on your SIL/BIL and not outright baiting on their part.
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                      • #41
                        Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

                        It's both. I know they're both veterans and you can boil both their characters down to Stan from American Dad.

                        I've been dealing with it now for like 11 months. We went out and visited them this past year at their old place. It's just the obvious trolling by them and I really want to answer in kind.
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                        As of 9/21/10:         As of 9/13/10:
                        College Hockey 6       College Football 0
                        BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
                        Originally posted by SanTropez
                        May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                        I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                        Originally posted by Kepler
                        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                        He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                        • #42
                          Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

                          Originally posted by RaceBoarder View Post
                          You can probably deflect by saying that it's nice to see the American flag flying and leave it at that. I'd rate it around a 4-5 as it stands.

                          You already know that this is a political Claymore sitting in your path. Just dodge the 1st one, but realize that if you keep heading down this path, sooner or later you will have to engage the problem. I am also assuming that this is ignorance of their stance on your SIL/BIL and not outright baiting on their part.
                          I would agree with this. My future SIL is MAGA (hoo boy), my bro is more centrist, but doesn't speak his mind that much because he knows what will happen, our mom is centrist, our dad is uber-lib (Bernie isn't lib enough for him). Basically, politics is NOT discussed at ANY family gathering. We all know better.
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                          • #43
                            Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

                            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            It's both. I know they're both veterans and you can boil both their characters down to Stan from American Dad.

                            I've been dealing with it now for like 11 months. We went out and visited them this past year at their old place. It's just the obvious trolling by them and I really want to answer in kind.
                            Where did they move from that apparently did not love America?

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                            • #44
                              Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

                              Originally posted by MinnesotaNorthStar View Post
                              I see way more Texas flags than American flags down here...
                              Traitors. They should leave Murica if they hate it so much!

                              Also, why is dx suddenly necro-ing threads?
                              Last edited by FadeToBlack&Gold; 12-05-2019, 12:37 AM.

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                              • #45
                                Re: Huh 1: We could play at Questions

                                Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post
                                A family that group texts? Yikes
                                always need to be careful then when telling the sil she looks hot
                                a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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