{"id":880,"date":"2009-09-11T08:36:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2009-09-14T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T16:01:51","slug":"stfd-or-gtfo-new-threats-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/stfd-or-gtfo-new-threats-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"STFD!<\/em> versus GTFO!<\/em>? There can be only one!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"War-painted<\/a><\/em><\/em>
War-painted Header!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

STFD!<\/em> was incomplete and outplayed this week at Tin Whistle Trivia<\/em>. We offer no excuses; we do offer an explanation.<\/p>\n

Since the Silbergleit Summer Carnival pulled up its tent pegs and hoofed it out of town, we expected fewer\/weaker competitors and we handicapped our varsity team accordingly. Our magnanimous, parity-seeking actions (we left both Abigail and Emily off the roster!) were horribly misplaced, as five fully-staffed rival teams ponied up and came to play harder than megashark and giant octopus<\/a> combined.<\/p>\n

We did not know who won the first ever Monday Night Football<\/em> game, we did not know all of the monthly birthstones, we were not familiar with Jay-Z’s catalog of crap, we did not know Vince Vaughn’s sundry Hollywood aliases, and there were absolutely no questions concerning the wingspan of fowl.<\/p>\n

\"Homework<\/a>
Feel lucky, punk?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Andy also proved to be, in the words of one observer, “pretty damn useless” during crunch time, since the final round was a puzzle variety akin to the brain-wrenching rebus riddles<\/a> to be found beneath the evil caps of Lucky Lager<\/em>. This is an area where Andy has never performed above the .08 percentile, and he once again folded before the challenge like a house of cards assembled by a kindergarten class.<\/p>\n

A few Tin Whistle<\/em> Trivia final round puzzle examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. 18 H I A R O G<\/li>\n
  2. 200 D F P G I M<\/li>\n
  3. 8 S O A S S<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \"Would-be<\/a>
    Would-be utensil usurpers?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    But perhaps more troubling than our third-place finish was the emergence of a new trivia team named Get The Fork Out!<\/em>, a team clearly parodying the legendary success of Shut The Front Door!<\/em> with admirably postmodern, mock homage.<\/p>\n

    This new team (which finished in forkly fourth… heh heh!) will undoubtedly polarize trivia fans, since it makes sense to either<\/strong> Shut The Front Door!<\/em> or<\/strong> to Get The Fork Out!<\/em>, but to do both is unnecessarily redundant.<\/p>\n

    Next week we will field a complete, well-conditioned, motivated team. We will listen to additional crappy music, we will drink and solve several cases of the Lucky Lager<\/em>, and we will arrive early to Shut The Front Door!<\/em> before the fork folks even arrive. We’re curious to see if Get The Fork Out!<\/em> turn into Lettuce The Fork In!<\/em> when faced with a blocked entrance. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    STFD! was incomplete and outplayed this week at Tin Whistle Trivia. We offer no excuses; we do offer an explanation. Since the Silbergleit Summer Carnival pulled up its tent pegs and hoofed it out of town, we expected fewer\/weaker competitors and we handicapped our varsity team accordingly. Our magnanimous, parity-seeking actions (we left both Abigail … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,23,22,21,18,19],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genmoore","tag-abigail","tag-moore","tag-silbergleit","tag-stfd","tag-tin-whistle","tag-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}