DSO 1/24 Recap: For My Next Trick, I'll Need A Volunteer

[mirrored from here.]

Yesterday started with Janet being a guest on Howard Stern, and ended with closest Scrabble Solution near-tie ever, in two wild guesses as to the distance from Uranus (2,735,555,035 km = 1,699,795,070 miles) that were less than 9,000 miles apart. Yow.

Last night's celebrity spotting: A man who used to make sure Warren Zevon's bottle was always full while on stage. And on Warren's birthday and everything! (More on that below.) Yes, the Charlie Hodge to Warren's Elvis Presley, his Vodka Fluffer, was in the hizzy last night. Right On.

That said. This week's rounds:

1. On This Day - Big ups to Yakov Smirnoff and Ray Stevens, as well as the Emperor Hadrian (who turns 1,931 today) and his childhood buddy, The Great Ernest Borgnine.

2. Audio Round: Warren Zevon's Collaborators - a compilation of acts with whom Warren has collaborated, from the Everly Brothers and the Turtles to Steve Winwood and REM. (And someone asked about this, and I wasn't sure, so I had to look it up: John Waite ["Missing You"] was a guest vocalist on Zevon's farewell LP, The Wind. It's not the closest connection, but it counts.)

3. Burn - You know who did well on this round? Your mom. She says hi. Burrrrrrn!

4. Earthquakes - Earthquake, the standup comic? He's not bad, actually.

5. Name 3's - Three soles, three vampire movies, three kinds of sleeves, and something about a dirndl.

I'm noticing the team names get better and worse like the stock market. Team name futures are way up this week, so sell high:

• 1st Place: The Harpo Marxists
  
• 2nd Place: The ACLU (personal to you guys: are you actually with the ACLU?)
  
• 3rd place: Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza! (Which always reminds me of the WKRP episode where the Russian defector communicates his forbidden love for Bailey Quarters through an Elton John song. Och, I'm tearing up.)
  
  
  
  Followed by (in no particular order):
  
• The Remanders
• Hillary and Obama: Jungle Fever! Do The Right Thing!
• The Brain Machine
• The Resolvers
• Rob Torfleson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuck!
• Please Don't Call (845) 641-[last 4 digits redacted], that's (845) 641-[last 4 digits redacted]! (If he gets any actual phone calls, they're from someone at the party last night. I can't help you with that part, my friend.)
• The No-Tards! (a solo act for most of the night, she finished tied for 12th, which is pretty solid)
• Touched By An Uncle (who would have won best team name but they booked as the final scores were being read. Stay to the end, people. You'll win stuff.)
• The State Of The Onions
• Hokey Birds (whom I didn't mention the first time around, which was good, because they moved up four spots by the next reading round)
• The Fart Sandwiches (who drew the best doodles of the week; scans to come)
• The Twinsters
• Are You There, God? It's Me, Pirate.
• Wonder
• The Penis Mightier
• Nice & Thrifty!
• The Comeback Kids.
  

Prizes this week included a paddle with LEVITICUS 20 written on it, as well as a few different special items from TV Guide, including a commemorative Elvis interactive CD-ROM and a portable trivia gameboy-type thing.

Some new pictures taken by Vidiot have been added to the DSO Flickr group already, so have a look, and bring your camera next week!

Podcast and potential new sponsor information (!) coming up.

I know there was more. What did I miss?