last night
It was a big night. Each year, my place of work has a very large quiz night, which doubles as a giant costume party and general booze-up, all in aid of a very fine charity.
Our team went along as a kind of extended Benny Hill sketch, with Gryfon playing the part of Benny Hill; with others doing a nurse; a house maid; a meter maid; a schoolgirl (Steph); an archetypal grumpy old lady; and, somewhat more pedestrian (and certainly not as sexy), Dave5 and myself as bobbies. Plenty of photographic evidence here.
And over on another table, Mr Reasonable and his team mates made cracking Oompa Loompas. I hope to upload some pictures of that as well.
Our team name, “Resistance is Futile”, was less an arrogant statement of our quizly prowess (although it was probably taken as such) and more a geeky comment by our team organiser on the seemingly unstoppable encroachment of an alien culture upon our workplace.
I could not possibly comment, of course.
So, in the end we won for the third year in a row (and for the last time, as we’ve mostly gone separate ways work-wise now). Becky was very pleased with the little Ricoh R1Z I brought home for her.
And today at work, it was very, very quiet.
Ben
12 August 2005, 23:10 #
Your Atom feed is a little lean these days. It only has the titles!
Ben.
Alan
13 August 2005, 10:26 #
There is some content in the feed, but it’s malformed and not shown by most feed readers.
This is the result of a recent software upgrade I did on the site. The RSS feed is working fine.
Ben
13 August 2005, 12:36 #
I’ve switched it to the RSS feed now. Much better.
Thanks.
Ben.
Mr Reasonable
13 August 2005, 21:35 #
‘twas a great night. Some of the outfits were a bit saucy for my little Oompah Loompah mind, including the schoolgirl in your team!
I believe Oompah Loompahs are asexual…
Alan
13 August 2005, 21:43 #
Wow – so Oompa Loompas reproduce by GE &cloning!
Does Auntie Jeanette know about this?
Martha
15 August 2005, 21:01 #
I love a good quiz night.
llew
17 August 2005, 11:03 #
Gosh… you look fetching in a uniform.
That maid has dangerous looking teeth BTW.
Alan
17 August 2005, 13:22 #
Why thanks. Becky thought I looked a spitter for Hitler, so it’s good to get a favourable opinion.
And I’ll tell the “maid” what you said about her teeth. And what building you work in.