Hog on the Run
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Forget Everything and Remember
Schpickley-Aye and me decided to enter our massive intellect into a pub quiz.
(For why Schpickley Aye? She does not know, but it had some significance when she drunkenly signed up to Blogger. She can remember posting a medium-sized rant to losthog, but it never appeared. Apologies, therefore, if you received a blog post that made little or no sense.)
For the record, out of 27 teams, "Hogs on the Run" came a smashing 23rd. Perhaps we have trouble with memory retention, but we remain blissfully unaware of the name of whoever won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, or who the oldest footballer ever to make a debut on the national team was. Shame, one of the prizes was described as "other bit and bobs". Note the lack of a plural there, had to be something good, I reckon. But we did get the question about horses right, and the one about who played Dirty Harry. And, most importantly, we were not last.
In lieu of entertainment, we spent our time doodling pictures of spaceships, beasts, cowboys and genitals on a spare bit of paper. Good to see we've matured nicely over the years.
When we skulked back to the car (knuckles dragging the ground and making "uh-hunk, huh grunt" noises as you'd expect), I noticed that a strange slimy streak of matter appeared to have oozed, like ectoplasm, from the metal and glass. It glistened sickeningly in the street light. I goggled at it for some time before I realised someone had egg'd the damn thing, and it wasn't anything we needed to call TV's "Most Haunted" in to inspect. Which led us to wonder who the hell carefully packs an egg, takes that egg into town, nestled deep in a soft pocket, chooses a car, unwraps the precious chicken ova, aims and throws? Did it offend them like a politician might? Perhaps it was a drive-by egging?
One single egg, mark you. I hope they chose correctly, and did not regret the decision later, when they were eggless. At any rate, it seemed like a judgement of sorts - fare crap in Pub quiz, receive eggs. On your windscreen and bonnet. So there.
:: gibbered Okapi, at 11:17 am
2 Comments:
I am so glad that you are enjoying drawing space genitals, and hope that you post some here.
Oh, I will. Mark my words. It's art, goddammit!
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Forget Everything and Remember
Schpickley-Aye and me decided to enter our massive intellect into a pub quiz.
(For why Schpickley Aye? She does not know, but it had some significance when she drunkenly signed up to Blogger. She can remember posting a medium-sized rant to losthog, but it never appeared. Apologies, therefore, if you received a blog post that made little or no sense.)
For the record, out of 27 teams, "Hogs on the Run" came a smashing 23rd. Perhaps we have trouble with memory retention, but we remain blissfully unaware of the name of whoever won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, or who the oldest footballer ever to make a debut on the national team was. Shame, one of the prizes was described as "other bit and bobs". Note the lack of a plural there, had to be something good, I reckon. But we did get the question about horses right, and the one about who played Dirty Harry. And, most importantly, we were not last.
In lieu of entertainment, we spent our time doodling pictures of spaceships, beasts, cowboys and genitals on a spare bit of paper. Good to see we've matured nicely over the years.
When we skulked back to the car (knuckles dragging the ground and making "uh-hunk, huh grunt" noises as you'd expect), I noticed that a strange slimy streak of matter appeared to have oozed, like ectoplasm, from the metal and glass. It glistened sickeningly in the street light. I goggled at it for some time before I realised someone had egg'd the damn thing, and it wasn't anything we needed to call TV's "Most Haunted" in to inspect. Which led us to wonder who the hell carefully packs an egg, takes that egg into town, nestled deep in a soft pocket, chooses a car, unwraps the precious chicken ova, aims and throws? Did it offend them like a politician might? Perhaps it was a drive-by egging?
One single egg, mark you. I hope they chose correctly, and did not regret the decision later, when they were eggless. At any rate, it seemed like a judgement of sorts - fare crap in Pub quiz, receive eggs. On your windscreen and bonnet. So there.
(For why Schpickley Aye? She does not know, but it had some significance when she drunkenly signed up to Blogger. She can remember posting a medium-sized rant to losthog, but it never appeared. Apologies, therefore, if you received a blog post that made little or no sense.)
For the record, out of 27 teams, "Hogs on the Run" came a smashing 23rd. Perhaps we have trouble with memory retention, but we remain blissfully unaware of the name of whoever won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, or who the oldest footballer ever to make a debut on the national team was. Shame, one of the prizes was described as "other bit and bobs". Note the lack of a plural there, had to be something good, I reckon. But we did get the question about horses right, and the one about who played Dirty Harry. And, most importantly, we were not last.
In lieu of entertainment, we spent our time doodling pictures of spaceships, beasts, cowboys and genitals on a spare bit of paper. Good to see we've matured nicely over the years.
When we skulked back to the car (knuckles dragging the ground and making "uh-hunk, huh grunt" noises as you'd expect), I noticed that a strange slimy streak of matter appeared to have oozed, like ectoplasm, from the metal and glass. It glistened sickeningly in the street light. I goggled at it for some time before I realised someone had egg'd the damn thing, and it wasn't anything we needed to call TV's "Most Haunted" in to inspect. Which led us to wonder who the hell carefully packs an egg, takes that egg into town, nestled deep in a soft pocket, chooses a car, unwraps the precious chicken ova, aims and throws? Did it offend them like a politician might? Perhaps it was a drive-by egging?
One single egg, mark you. I hope they chose correctly, and did not regret the decision later, when they were eggless. At any rate, it seemed like a judgement of sorts - fare crap in Pub quiz, receive eggs. On your windscreen and bonnet. So there.
:: gibbered Okapi, at 11:17 am
2 Comments:
I am so glad that you are enjoying drawing space genitals, and hope that you post some here.
Oh, I will. Mark my words. It's art, goddammit!
