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At the risk of quoting John Edwards: I was wrong.

I thought there would be more team names involving crazed astronauts wearing diapers, but the trend went the other way, as thoughts strayed toward the freaky guy masturbating like Darling Nikki, behind a sheet, backlit thirty feet tall, in front of a screaming cheering live audience of sixty-five thousand and a viewing audience of a billion or so. Janet Jackson shows a nipple with a hat on it for a quarter of a second and society almost falls to its knees, and then Prince has himself a nice long lock-the-doors scream-all-you-want wank in the rain, and everyone breaks their fingers talking about it being the best live stadium show since Cheap Trick played Budokan. You puritans are so cute when you're being selective in your outrage!

This week's rounds:

1. On This Day - where we celebrated the birth of the Puerto Rican rapper Laura Ingalls Wilder, and mourned the death of the children's author known as Big Punisher.

2. Audio Round: Now We Are One - Commemorating the one year anniversary on the DSO, we pulled out all the stops, ordering pizza and doing an audio round featuring One Song Each from Murray Head, the J. Geils Band, the Fixx, Madness, and Johnny Cash covering U2. We weren't going to make it too easy. Also, we'll be doing another One soon.

That's a hint.

3. Inside the Box - Lots of box questions, including a question each about Joyce Carol Oates and Salman Rushdie, both of whom, in case you haven't for some reason been sick to death of my namedropping in the last 52 weeks or before, I have spoken with. One I took a writing class with, the other one I think is the greatest living writer in the English language.

4. Super Excellent Round Of Super Superness! - In which talked about the city at the near end of Lake Superior, the editor of Superman's newspaper, the NHL team Super Mario owns, and the lyrics to Liz Phair's Supernova.

5. Name 3's

A few less teams this week (because of the cold - if you want to win some prizes, this is the slower season, so you've got a better chance than in a month or two when it picks back up), but the quality of names was high as usual:

• 1st Place: Houston, We Have A Problem -- And She's Wearing A Diaper!
  
• 2nd Place: Tony & Me (actually, a series of vaguely stalkery drawings that quite frankly creeped me out)
  
• 3rd place: Fox Force Five (none of whom looked like Mia Wallace, but considering what happened to her in the movie, that may have been not the worst thing)
  
  Followed by (in no particular order):
  
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  Nicky's Angels
• The Straight Guys Who Work In Cosmetics
• Alex Trebek Is My Bitch
• JD-4-2
• Jarvis Cocker Is Not Joe Cocker's Love Child
• 95 2nd
• Scooter's On Ice
• It's My Birthday Too, Biotch!
• Prince's Phallic Shadow
• Purple Reign Stick, by Dave Grohl
• Bess and Dana Say, "Summer Never Has To End If You Still Wear Sunscreen During The Winter!"

Prizes this week included a pair of Tanya Tucker self-help books and a special Thanksgiving holiday 5-pack of Jones Soda (Turkey & Gravy soda, Sweet Potato soda, Dinner Roll soda, Pea soda, and Antacid soda). And as well, every person received a special thank you postcard and a fridge magnet courtesy of the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, who we are happy to continue having sponsor us, if they're game.

Thanks, everyone who's come out even once (and especially those of you who've made it part of your social life), for making this thing into a fairly big deal. If you've had half as much fun playing as we've had making up the questions, then we've had twice as much fun making up the questions as you've had playing.

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Okay, I figured that since it was the week after the holidays, and all the reveller types who'd come home to the city for a nice meal and a knees-up with their mates had come down and made the holiday versions of the DSO into such a killerdiller success had gone back out into the world to make their fortune or whatever, that this would have been a nice quiet week. Seriously, I was preparing for it. But it wound up being pretty rowdy. I just celebrated my birthday this week, and your presence was a wonderful present.

Oh, great. Now I'm getting vaklempt. I need a moment.

Okay. This week's rounds:

1. On This Day - Happy birthday to Linda Lovelace, George Foreman, Rasputin, Tintin and one-half of Steely Dan.

2. Audio Round: Little Things - A counterpart to the Big Things round of last week, in which we heard the Replacements, Otis Redding, Prince, Jay and the Americans, and the only Don Ho song most of you will ever need to know.

3. Buffalo - In which Janet asked about Buffalo Wings (having been to the Anchor Bar, I can vouch for that buffalo wings were actually a good idea once), Buffalo Girls, and the amazingly awful superstud-for-hire Vincent Gallo.

4. Let's Play Doctor! - In which you were to know about the dock at which the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum normally is moored, what Dock Ellis was on when he threw his 1970 no-hitter, who currently occupies the seat once held by Doc Severinsen, and how well you know the lyrics to "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay."

5. Name 3's - Three choreographers, three sopranos, three parts of a shoe, and three beans, one of which shared its name with a prominent goof-deathcore band.

There were a lot of teams (not a record size, but pretty close). If you finished in the top ten, you really accomplished something. This week, you were:

• 1st Place: Saving Pirate Ryan
  
• 2nd Place: Yvonne de Carlo Ponti of No Return (a shoutout to the two celebrity deaths of this week, and maybe just a little too clever by half. Still.)
  
• 3rd place: The Mighty Mice
  
  Followed by:
  
• ÖRPS
• Hokey Birds
• At Least We're Not Sitting On The Floor! (or, Boy These Chairs Are Comfy!)
• New Jersey: Smelt It, Dealt It!
• Headband Masterplan
• I Don't Particularly Like Trivia; I Just Don't Want To Hear Bush's Speech
• We Wish We Had A Clever Team Name
• Go Tard '06 Overstock
• New Jersey Natural Gas
• The Bolsheviks
• Team Schaboma
• The Surge!
• The Team Formerly Known As...
• The Gordon Shumways
• Hell In A Handbasket
• Axe Wound
• The Moustache Ride
• Dutchboys & Dikes
• NYC Air Quality Control
• Shiney McShine & the Dreams

Prizes this week included some fridge magnets (not just from our friends at the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, but also a novelty set for doctoring fridge-photos), a suction-cup battery-operated fan shaped like a little airplane, and packs of Tally-Ho playing cards, in case we weren't enough gameplay for you for the week.

Janet & I really appreciate you coming out to this thing every week. Thanks, as always.

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Well, that went smoother this week than last week. Also, I drank more, which was nice. Wednesdays are certainly the one night I crawl out of my haystack and pack up my needle* and talk to you guys. I'm always game to hang out.

Oh, and in case you were curious: We will be running the DSO through the holiday season, so if you're not leaving town to go to Ibiza with your harem or wherever and you have no other plans, you are always welcome to come chill with your brethren & sistren at the same bat-time and bat-place. We'll be ordering pizza for everyone who shows up the next week or two, so don't load up on transfats before you get there.

Rounds were as follows:
1. On This Day

2. Audio round: the Big, the Bold, the Badass, the Beef, the Brisket, the Bratwurst, the Bellydancer, the Barium, the Barracuda, and the Beautiful (which included tracks by the Band, Barry Manilow, the Beastie Boys, Big Star, Barry White, and others. To clarify, we won't be running through the alphabet for the next 26 weeks, but I'd be lying if I said we'd not be visiting this theme again. The goal is to cover more than one kind of stylistic ground.)

3. Garys (with Gary Cherone, Gary Burghoff, Gary Gygax, Gary Bettman, Gary Dell'Abate, Gary Glitter, Gary Gilmore, and the voices of Roger Ramjet, Powdered Toast Man, and Space Ghost. Oh, and the Ambiguously Gay Duo. Of course.

4. Grays

5. Name Threes (What are the Schlong, the Ape Drape and the Missouri Compromise all examples of?)

Second week in a row with primo team names. The best name was a rare three-way argot that was topical and lurid in equal measure. I fucking love that shit.

• 1st Place: God Is My Co-Pirate
• 2nd Place: Waiting For Godot To Exhale
• 3rd Place: Transfatuals
  
  
  

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  followed by, in no particular order:
• Manx_x On The Beach (who lost the third-place tiebreaker)
• The Replacements (winners of a Ricky Martin video collection)
• Catcher In The Wry (best dressed award winners)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley Winters
• Daddy, Can I Borrow Your Iraq Study Group Notes?
• Desperate Jobwise
• The Go-Tards! (Not Fakin' It!) (Still Less Filling!) El Tards Del Go!
• San Andreas Westfault
• (and the best team name of the night:)
  Evidently, Britney Spears No Longer Supports Bush!
  

Comments & further heckling after the jump.

* This is a metaphor. The only needles I'm using are when I'm on the mic, busting on you beautiful people.

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So proud of you bastards last night. After two rounds, no one had less than 10½ points, and I thought the questions were pretty hard, but then what do I know. And the only reason the guy playing solo won the whole night was that he was really into documentaries, which is why I'm kind of wary to hew too close to one topic for ten questions. Still, it was nice & raucous regardless. I can't stand a quiet room.

NOTE: This recap, like all DSO recaps, is mirrored at the official DSO blogsite.

Our penultimate DSO before next week's great getaway party was another decent success. I'm starting to think we're getting the hang of this. Ah, who are we kidding. Pride before the fall. Still, it was a fairly upbeat night, and that's even filtered through a serious hangover after a few of us went to Punk Metal Karaoke afterward and, um, got kind of blasted.

Thanks to everyone who came, and who come (more or less) every week. It's a lot of work to put these questions & audio rounds together, but I for one (and Janet for two) are grateful that you guys seem to like how the night has grown into itself a little bit. We're always (always) open to suggestions. I'm not going too far afield next month, so email me personally or just leave a comment below. You can even do it anonymously if you feel self-conscious, I don't care. We have a chance to improve things for our big comeback on Wednesday, September 6 (mark your calendars; there will be a kickoff party to rival those of ancient Rome, or at least the one we're throwing next week).

Rounds were as follows:

    * On This Day: In which we celebrated the birthdays of Anthony Edwards, Ilie Nastase, George McGovern and the great Max Fleischer.

    * Audio Round: Sweets for my Sweet. All the songs were sweet ones, because who wants hate? Not even me. Not all the time, anyway. (Spoiler: We may do this round again next week!)

    * Perfect 10s: I understand there is a pornographic magazine with this title, but I didn't have any questions about that. (Maybe next time; we're certainly not afraid of occasionally "working blue.") There were, however, questions about the board game Perfection, the cruddy John Travolta/Rolling Stone magazine movie vehicle, Nadia Comeneci's current husband, and the present perfect tense of the phrase "I rock the house."

    * States of Mind: Janet brought up the Ohio Players, the two senators from Illinois, and a few places Billy Joel isn't allowed to drive to anymore.

    * True or False: I think I may have to correct something from last night. I mentioned that Mark Twain had a birthmark he called "Mr. Cantankerous." I checked it in a couple of places, and decided to go with it. But I'm looking at those sites again today in writing this recap, and it's starting to look like this was a prank item dropped into Wikipedia and picked up by a few other sites. Nowhere else, in different language, is any birthmark at all mentioned. I'm guessing Mister Cantankerous does not and did not exist.

I'm not changing the results from last night or anything, but don't ever say we don't follow through on our research.

The first Scrabble Solution Question involved the number of asteroids officially logged and registered (129,436; a couple of teams tanked this question, including our returning championship team. (Have you people no shame?)

The second tie-breaker question decided second place: How many states does Bruce Springsteen mention by name in all the songs of his recorded catalogue? This is not something you can google easily, so I'll let that one sit for those who weren't there last night.

The top three teams were: Rabinowitz, Rabionowitz & Rabinowitz (a two-person team, so I'm sure there's some explanation), You Would Totally Love This Drawing Of A Duck If You Could See It But You Cannot, who made that name longer and longer over the course of the evening, and Human Rights Watch Rocks My Socks, who took valuable time out from helping the planet and watching "Project Runway" to finish in the money for the first time under their new name. Good on youse!

The other teams were: Milk Us Till We Moo, Tonight's Winner, May The Sri Be With Us, 'Cause Pussy Too Tasty!, and The Drunken Inquisition (welcome back, you bastards!).

There was something else I mentioned I was going to post here, but I've forgotten what it was. But this recap is already too long by half, so I'm not too concerned. If anyone remembers what it was, I'll up it later.

Did I miss anything important?

NOTE: This recap, like all DSO recaps, is mirrored at the official DSO blogsite, but without the picture and audio links. We'll be taking a month-long hiatus, though, at which point we'll see whether moving things over to this space is worth the trouble. Regardless, I'm mirroring all my writing here, so watch this space and you shouldn't be missing anything.)

It was kind of a hot room (in every conceivable way) on 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Fridge Magnet Night, but it felt like a pretty good night. Nine big teams, a lot of new faces, and everything seems to be rolling as we near the six-month anniversary (and a one-month break) from the DSO. (We took some great pictures of some steamy people, and they're up in the DSO Flickr Stream here.)

Rounds were as follows:

• On This Day: In which we celebrated the 27th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night, the 55th birthday of Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor, and the ascension to the throne one year ago of Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi.
  
  
• Audio Round: A Quick Quiet Quiz: A series of samples featuring artists who have nothing in common except for the seventeenth letter of the alphabet. There was one exception, but it makes sense to be on this list as well once you figure it out. Listen and see how many of these artists you know.
  
  
• Grab Bag: A list of classic trivia questions from the previous incarnation of the DSO, back when Janet did this whole thing more or less by herself with the occasional guest host.
  
  
• Movies Featuring a Color: Which was a lovely round, if I may say so myself, except for the final question, which dealt with the prequel to Vin Diesel's The Chronicles of Riddick, entitled (ahem) Pitch Black. (It's now available on DVD, and it seems to have gotten decent reviews in a wide USA release, even.) If some people forgot this film existed (and forgot the title of the round), that's trivia for you. Apologies can be offered in the form of the beverage of your choice.
  
  
• True or False, which had to be shouted as the PA system went down. We promise this will be fixed by next week. Janet is a woman of many talents, but shouting is, alas, not one of them.
  

Team names included Team Head Butt, Aunt Anteater's Aunts Aren't Ants, Norfolk & Chance, Don't Insult My French Mother, Zid Vicious' Bald Faced Lie, The 12th Step's A Charm (who changed their name to The Dartboard Is Still In Sight), By The Way, I Had Sex With Your Mom & All I Got Was The Herp & This Lousy Pub Quiz, See Emily's Dad Blow Up The Town House, and Breakin' Knowledge II: Electric Boogaloo.

It was a feisty night, but I had a ball. I hope you guys did, too. Remember, in two weeks there's the Summer Cotillion Ball and Hoedown Cabaret Jamboree, with food supplied by Dempsey's, a special game setup, and more than the usual amount of the usual silliness.