We had great fun at trivia last night. The questions were unusually hard, and everyone did worse than usual. The hardest category was "Eponymous Laws," which no one even knew what it meant until D. explained: laws named after a person. He read the law and we had to name it. (When he described the category I was hoping he'd do Godwin's Law, but no such luck.) We only got one from that whole category, Sturgeon's Law. Major kudos to D. for reading the actual Sturgeon's law, "ninety percent of everything is crud," not crap as people usually say. I was impressed!
In any case, we got lucky and did less bad than everyone else. It seems to be an advantage to us when D. and S. write the questions, because we have enough common interests I guess. The only weird thing was at the end: when they read the scores, one of the other teams got all shocked and "wha???" And I stupidly thought they were expressing confusion at our team name, "Hail Fredonia," so I stood up on my stool and yelled "woo!" Which maybe sounded like gloating, which wasn't how I meant it at all. I wanted to stand up and sing "Hail, Hail Fredonia, land of the FREEEEEE" but I sure as hell can't sing like Margaret Dumont. Then one guy on the other team started yelling about how did we get a score so much higher than theirs. He went on and on and it was really kind of creepy. It reminded me of high school, and not in a good way. (Honestly it's kind of hard to imagine something reminding me of high school in a good way, but definitely not this.)
Other than that moment of weirdness, it was a fun evening. Dain's is a nice place. Especially when it's busy enough to be fun, but not super crowded and noisy.
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