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Saturday Happy: Not a sports page, not a magazine

Tim Donnelly — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:20:02 +0000

The funniest damn thing I’ve seen all week:

warning: here be explicit lyrics, Tipper

It’s been around for awhile, but thanks to Joe Dairy for the introduction.

Oh, and for old-time’s sake,

This Week in Great Trivia Team Names

Re-Reading Kavalier and Clay Edition

Apparently Permanent Pubertal Smudge

Pseudonymous Hackdom

The Invisible Hand of Eleanor Roosevelt

They Were Childen, We Were Wolves

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Trivia team names for the week

Tim Donnelly — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:41:00 +0000

Ok, so I haven’t actually gone to a trivia night since moving to NY, but it’s not like I should be using my brain for other things like, you know, looking for a job or something.

Kafka’s Proctologist
Enter This Boy Soul*
Shellfish is an Obamanation
That Baby is a Dick
Liquid Meat
What Will Movies Spin for Dramatic Points Once Newspapers Die?
Tryptofurky
Just What In the Hell, Illinois?
Bill Murray Washed My Dishes
Brown Bagging is the New Cosmopolitan
Give Us Our New Bike Already
Hobo Fire Building 101
The Great Depression: Now in Color!

And, one of the best I’ve heard in a long time, from team Hilton Head in my absentia:
One and a Half Thumbs Up

*Say it quickly now

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Trivia team names for the week

Tim Donnelly — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:48:00 +0000

• Hot Dog Sticks
• Submerged Groin*
• Easy Jesus Keeps Us Warm*
• Teary-Eyed Handjob
• Save a Gumball. Buy Bluffton Today
• Fluff: Now 25 Cents a Serving
• Tsopping Whet Phanatics
• Jeremy Hsieh’s Dead Deer Stew
• The Angry Arby’s Employee Revenge
• Has Anyone Seen My B-Shaped Branding Iron?
• Communist Mani-pesto
• I’ll Redistribute Your Barack-O -Lantern All Over This Sidewalk

* Used in competition

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Trivia team names for the week

Tim Donnelly — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:46:00 +0000

• A Really Cool Potamus
• Large Hard-on Collider*
• EXPLICIT BARACK
• I Went To Four Fewer Colleges Than Sarah Palin
• Do You Know How Many Times I’ve Had to Look Up How to Spell ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’ In the Past Week?
• Hank Paulson’s Deal or No Deal Suitcase
• The Cleveland Browns Won’t Give Me the Finger
• Clarence was a Dapper Sight Astride his Four-Legged Friend+
• Nature: 2; Stuck Up Bitch: Zero

*Used in competition and rewarded with free beers
+ Won’t make any sense if I explain it either

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Trivia team names for the week

Tim Donnelly — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:55:00 +0000

-Sarah Palin’s Aborted VP Run*
-Hootie Never Burned Us Like This
-If We Don’t Get 38 Special In The Next Few Weeks, Someone’s Getting Shot In The Face
-Hanna and the Hurricanes*
-Mother. Moose Hunter. Maverick.
-Jim Cantore: Portent of Death
-The Death of Jonathan and Birth of J. Edward
-We Guessed*
-Your Mom’s got the Whitest Teeth … (too offensive to publish here)**
-Jim Faber’s Abandoned Box of His Childhood

*Used in actual competition.
**Name rewarded with free beers

Trivia team names for the week

Tim Donnelly — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:41:00 +0000

• The Infinitely Repeating Airport Egg Salad Sandwich
• Steve Blust’s Empty Fanny Pack of Dreams*
• OMG: Barack Nvr Txted Me
• Is There Anything Funny About the Situation in Georgia?*
• Joe Biden and the T-t-t-t-train to Victory
• Smullet
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit*
• I Buy All My Clothes from a Traveling Salesman

* Used in actual competition

Trivia team names for the week

Tim Donnelly — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:44:00 +0000

-Sometimes Love Is Large and Bearded
-Adam Carroll’s Bad-Ass Quilt
-Snot Rice
-Failed Olympic Ladder Ball Athletes
-Isaac Hayes Finally Got the Shaft
-For the Love of God, Someone Protect Samuel L. Jackson
-Not for Adult Use, and Other Warnings that Go Unheeded When 90 Beers are Involved
-Jeff Tweedy’s Mangled Face on a T Shirt
-Assginity

Trivia team names for the week

Tim Donnelly — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:54:00 +0000

You’re Next, Bea Arthur*
When Batman Hits His Mom, Does it Say ‘POW!”?*
The Overzealous Deputy
Omni-Bubba
One Knol of Jigga
A Stable Career in the IMAX Repair Industry
Matt Griffin’s Batman: The Ride Revenge
Questlove’s Poorly Wrapped Chipotle Burrito
Closed Exits and the Free Gallon of Gas Scheme
The Atlanta Rooftop Racists Association
The Layman’s Deadbolt Shopper’s Guide (Trailer Edition)

*Actually used in competition

Trivia team names for the week

Tim Donnelly — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:08:00 +0000

The Hamless Ham Sandwich
Olivia the Buoytender
John McCain’s Dial-Up Modem
Cribbs’ Batman Breakfast Omelet Sandwich
Sgt. Slaughter the Stumper
John McCain’s Prodigy Chat Room Experience
My Recently Established Male Prostitution Rates
Another Government Bail Out

Trivia Team/Band Names, as Related to Yesterday’s Developments in the Missing Persons Case

Tim Donnelly — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:03:00 +0000

-Hypothetical Press Release
-The Repentant Spokesman
-Ripped Crotch and the Exposed Flesh
-Reputation Management Services
-Authors of Nancy Drew Mysteries
-Locked Bathroom and the Phantom Knife
-Stu Rodman’s Political Genius
-Your Trash Provides No Clues