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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Postscript to Experiment 006

Christopher Hurt enjoyed Team Trivia last night at the Roving Imp Coffee House. Our host, Chanté, was in a team (The Lady or the Tiger) with Jenifer, Zach and David were the Muggles, and my sister Kimberly, and I were the Lan Evo Squad; the order in which these teams were listed indicates their places.
I would like for you to consider the following: ‘Hope Floats’, then flounders, and sinks. Thank you, Pamela and Kimberly (my sisters), that is all.

What are we going to do? Fall out of last place?”
Each team chooses a name for each game, and I have chosen names from teams in Initial D in the last two games. OK OK OK, for the first game in the new series, two weeks ago, each team only had one person; at that time, I chose WRX STI, which corresponds to the top edition of the Subaru Impreza.

All right, the WRX STI was never the name of any team in Initial D and only referred to the car. Also “Lan-Evo Squad” is supposed to be hyphenated, and was not an actual name of Team Emperor, but rather a nickname. Although I somewhat knew, I had forgotten some of these facts, which is no wonder that my team is placing last.

Both the Mitsubishi Lancer with front-wheel drive and the Subaru Impreza are compact cars; however, Subaru Impreza WRX STI and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (Lan-Evo) are both rally-inspired and have turbo-charged engines and all-wheel drive with traction control; they are altogether different animals than their base-model cousins.

My team missed a few easy questions last night. When she is on my team, like your girlfriend, I really should listen to my sister, or at least to my better judgment. Although I do like the sound of Team Emperor, I am pretty well decided on Impact Blue for next time we play trivia.

5 comments:

  1. I forgot to mention a few things.

    Subaru Tecnica International (STI) is analogous the motorsports division inside the Ford Motor Company, Ford Racing.

    Initial D was originally written to parody street racing in Japan, but eventually gained its own popularity.

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  2. I think the next time I'm by myself, I might go with something non-Harry Potter related.
    Of course, the first time I was teamed with Nifer, we combined our team names from a previous week (I was The Werewolf of London and she was the Mother-Fuckin' Lyers). Our first time on a team together, we were the "Mother Fucking Werewolves of London."

    P.S. That is the most swearing I'm going to do on your blog's comments. I swear...
    but not as much as I used to (laugh track or groan track inserted here).

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  3. David, please, swear as much as you like! You, and a good friend from work, are the only two people who publicly follow this blog. For me, a certain amount of privilege comes with that.

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  4. However, in reality we are all bound by the Blogger Terms of Service agreement.

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  5. It was a bad joke. I said "swear" like I was promising but then refered to the fact that I had just sworn.

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