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Dearly dishonest

Published Date: August 29th, 2007

I want to write a quick rant on behalf of ONLY myself. It seems that Savannah is full of mid-twenties to mid-thirties CHEATERS!!!!! Last night at trivia we had to call out cheaters three times. How do they cheat? They call friends on cell phones. They text each other from across the room. (The old place a lookout at another table deal). They use V-Cast to figure out songs. They “buy” the answers of smart kids who are lonely at the bar. They use their data features on their PDA phones to literally google answers. I ask, why is this necessary? Are our days not already filled with “dog eat dog” mentalities and “step on or be stepped on” competition? Why do we have to then go to trivia, a bar game meant to enjoy teammanship and random intellect, and be subjected to the same thing? I go just for some fun and some low-key entertainment. I don’t go to watch people get over competitive and turn to dishonesty to win a freaking pitcher of cheap beer! ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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#1
imberrydone
August 29th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Sorry about your evening of low-key entertainment being upended by a few spoiled brats. However, it is not the freaking pitcher of beer, it is a way of life for them. I read that the new age “40″ (as in midlife, I suppose) is age 80 years old. I am serious. If you subtract 40 years from the age groups you mention, then these kids haven’t even been born yet. They are still a gleam in their parents eyeballs. Rest easy, my BS buddy, you knowe it all from experience and mental skills, they only know it from a cell phone screen. I say buy your own pitcher of beer and share it with the next person who can honestly answer your trivia questions, with their eyes closed and their hands tied behind their backs, sans cell phone. This is how you separate the real truthful men/women from snot noses embryos, yeh! Cheers!

#2
imberrydone
August 29th, 2007 at 4:42 pm

Here’s one to try all by your lonesome and no booze to lose.

#3
imberrydone
August 29th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

Sorry, I forgot the question in #2 and had to post it again. I must be older than dir, if 80 is 40 years old now. Oh, yeah, what President of the USA served the shortest term in office and why? Post you answer tomorrow and I will grade you then! No Googles or cell phones allowed. Cheers!

#4
Shawn
August 29th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

If I weren’t so busy with school, I go with you. I’m sort of good at trivia. And I don’t need a phone to cheat.

And shortest presidential term* was the one of William Henry Harrison, who died after 32 days in office of pneumonia. He had the longest inaugural speech of any president. It was a cold March day and he became sick as a result. Lesson learned: Keep it simple.

*That is if you don’t consider the case of the one guy that some people say was president for a day around the time of Millard Fillmore. This is off the top of my head; I can’t remember his name, other than his first name, I believe, was David. Some people consider him a president because the day of inauguration, at the time, was in March. This day fell on a Sunday. No government functions were performed on Sunday. The old presidential term expired (according to date), but the new president wasn’t sworn in yet. According to the rules of presidential succession at the time, David was at the top of the list that was still serving his term. I think he President Pro Temp. As a result, some people see David as the president for one day. This guy’s term as president is one of those things that isn’t considered official, but people like to think of when playing with semantics.

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