SPITactular Finish

A bunch of us attended S.P.I.T.'s last night of free shows for August at Mag:Net Cafe, w/ most of the them from Dee's side of the family. My new friends and acquaintances include: Caz, Nes(tor), Sharlyn Kaw (who I suspect is related to my old Saint Jude Catholic schoolmates Karen and Albert) and Rachel Ti. KV, Maine and sister Marilyn completed the group.

While this was my third time to catch SPIT, a new face (for me, anyway) joined the cast in the form of Big Boy. (Embarrassingly, aside from friends Aryn and Kenneth, and celebs Joel and Gabe, the names of other cast members are a mystery to me, even when Aryn introduces them before the start of every skit. Sigh.) His techniques of exaggerated accents and a meta-approach to the joke telling hit the spot. For my part in audience participation I was thrilled 2 out 3 song lyrics I contributed made it through, plus my suggestion for biik (Tagalog for piglet, to my non-existent foreign readers) made for some good jokes following KV's poorly utilized suggestion tattoo.

After the show (again, now down to 90 mins. from the previous 120) it was Trivia Night. KV unscrupulously volunteered our group to join this no-prize quiz contest, either working under the impression that we'd have a fun time or to somehow take advantage of my not-so-limitless knowledge of useless information. Talk about being disappointed on both counts.

KV registered us under the modest name of Team Right Answer, w/ him as team captain Captain Caveman. There were 5 teams, 60 questions, but no buzzers, so we had make animal noises. Captain KaVeman chose "woof," overruling my "quack." The team to get 3 right answers got to vote other people out, while a team getting 3 wrong answers had to kick someone out of their group.

First up: Celebrity triva (alright!), but w/ mostly sports figures (ah, crap!). Goal: spelling their Eastern European Block-loving, vowel-hating last names. Long story short: we lost, and KaVeman (and all the other team captains) were eliminated.

The game continued. We were this close to scoring our only legitimate point of the evening had we spelled Christina Aguilera's name right, but used one 'L' too many. Next to be elimnated: first people in line or in front of the mike. Cue Me.

The rest of the evening was spectacular, to be completely dishonest. The Name That Font segment and Kenneth Keng's Star Wars trivia portion probably had Dee use up her "What the hell?" catchphrase quota for the evening, while I was in the audience wondering out loud if Kenneth got out of the house often. After 80's Showbiz (unfair, IMO, seeing as most of the team were born in that era), Team Right Answer (w/ not even the 5 pity points Gabe awarded but took back for enduring Kenneths SW trivia) called it a night. We stuck around for one more round of drinks, basking in the taste of light beer, picture-taking and a cacophany of pretend animal sounds. (One team gave up trying and just went, "Chicken chicken" instead of clucking.)