Shootout at the OK Britinn

Howdy cowpokes and buffalo gals!

That's right. LSW is back, bitches, if'n a tad tardy. What can I say, y'all? I was born two weeks late, and I haven't been on time since. I'm a'comin' to you live from Stone Creek Coffee, where they have the best coffee north of the Mason and Dixon line. 'Course nothing beats Texas coffee, boiled over a campfire 'neath a Texas sky, where the stars at night are big and bright. (Clap clap clap clap.)

Last week's trivia night saw the usual suspects roundin' up to bring HGS to a stunning victory over our nemeses the Van Buren Boys. Without further fuss, the highlights:

lemur catta continues his rule o' geography. Yes, that is Uzbekistan. I coulda sworn I heard him mutter, "Our globe mighta be outta date, but at least we beat them damn commies!"

parenthesis (girl) showed us that white kids do love that hip-hop (a title formerly held by neurotic wonderboy). Yep, I do believe that gal's as smart as Hermione Granger, and she's got some serious book learnin' on her.

Alistair LaQuisha Spiritrunner educated HGS here on the finer points of basketball. Point guards? Forwards? Oh you Yanks and your "sports."

GTA Feghoot showed off his undying love for IMDb. Oddjob was Ko-rean? Who knew? GTA Feghoot, that's who!

And me? Ah, I'm just the clean-up crew, here to say, "Hey y'all, I may be from Texas, but I done read real good. So, I'ma gonna say this flag belongs to none other than Bo-livia." Hey Wickens, you're a'slippin'!

At the end of it all, HGS racked up 35 points, which caused us to despair. We thought our goose was cooked. Tin roof. Rusted. Ya gotta understand, there was seventeen teams there that night, and we didn't think we had a slug's chance in hell to oust VBB from the champs table.

Wickens 'nounced the teams from lowest to highest score. The team names fell while the numbers rose. Two teams had 18 points, two had 24, then 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. Then two teams had 32 points! Then another two had 33! HGS was a'ranked in the top three teams! You coulda cut the pro-verbial tension with a Bowie knife. Me and parenthesis (girl) started chanting, "Just one more with 34! Just one more with 34!" Sure enough, third place had 34! I looked over at parenthesis (girl), and said, "We're in the top two, but dang it all, those pesky VBB musta beat us!"

Then Wickens said the greatest thing I done ever heard. "We have a tie."

That's right. VBB and HGS, tied with 35 points at the toppa the heap.

What next? Sudden death, y'all. It felt like we was in the Old West, walkin' down main street, tumbleweeds a'driftin' past us. Who would draw first? Who would be the best shot in the Midwest?

The question: The Soviet Union was formed after World War I but in which year did this occur?

VBB: 1919
HGS: 1922

The answer: 1922.

Two teams enter! One team leaves! VBB went down in a rain of intellectual warfare. Raise your pistols to the sky, HGS, and blow off that gunpowder smoke. We gotta table and a title to defend. See y'all later tonight!