Following the return of the pre-quiz theme song (woohoo) and the standard "Good Evening Shorewood!" salutation, this week's quiz opened with a declaration (npi) that any and all celebrations of independence were forbidden. Luckily for us, we know not of this independence concept. Freedom? From others? Does that include my dissertation advisor? No? Ok.
This week the HGS were severely limited, missing GTA Feghoot who is really in charge of all things Oscar-related, James Bond and NFL. Hence we finished in an as-yet-unheard-of fourth place, albeit only four points out of first place. This week was a fast-paced and low-scoring week (out of 40 points as compared to recent weeks' totals well over 50). Hopefully it will just be dropped from our score as one of our "three lowest." Despite this blow, we remain in first place in the quiz-league standings, much to the disappointment of the other teams, I'm sure ::waves at Van Buren Boys::
We were also, it seems, undernourished, as there was no food service yesterday evening and at least three of us wanted potato skins to pair with our quaffables. Oh well. Next week.
What was good? We (like most teams, I'm sure) swept the lightning rounds handily. I attribute this in part to our many years as students (an average of 20 years per team member; and, yes, that does mean some of us have *more* than that) and having taken many multiple choice and matching tests in those years.
Our illustrious Quizmaster provides a link to this blog in his recap of last night's goings-on. However, there appears to be a typo in the link, leading the reader, hilariously I might add, to this lovely site. I hope it's a typo. Or a joke. Because, goodness.
In any case, if it gets fixed, welcome to new readers, friendly or foe-ish.
I won't dare close with an altered quotation from some Henry Adams or whoallever. Instead I leave you with this tidbit of an intarweb find:
There has already been a "team" calling themselves "hot grad students". Hopefully we won't suffer their fate, with someone (probably me) injuring their knee mid-quiz and having to drop out entirely.
yup. that's all.
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Ah! I only have 4 fingers. Did I have to cut one off to join Hot Grad Students? Cuz, if so, I am not sure that's Kosher. I don't think that having a missing finger adds to the hottness (and yes, that's hott with two t's).
Because if you spell it with two t's...it's hotter. Seriously.
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