Halls
Back in 90 something, I was in Halls, at Leicester Uni. Being a bit of a geek at school I was relieved to find out that at Uni I was fucking cool.

OK not true. Still a geek. Whatever. At least I cared slightly less. The number of people in halls allowed us to partake in an activity that to this day, has (probably) never been repeated.

Yes thats right. We played Trivial Pursuit, with 6 teams of 6 people. The legal maximum.

We used the common room, it was very exciting. My team - The Geeks, were not particularly welcome as it was the Cool Kids Team game really but they reluctantly allowed us to play, thinking that cos they were cool, they might win, and therefore humiliate us.

No one could have predicted what happened that night. Even I dont believe it. Only those who were there know this. And they dont believe it. You get the idea.

By some twist of fate, we got to go first. A nice easy History question, and bang! Moved to a cheese. Sport & Leisure. Might as well get it out of the way for us geeks, it would be a long time before our turn came round again. Turns out, we knew that one and goddamn if we aint just got our first piece. We got the next question right, and the next, and the next... in fact, we had 4 cheeses within 20 minutes and we hadnt got one wrong. There were 30 very pissed off people.

10 minutes later, 5 cheeses.

20 minutes... 6 cheeses. Still not dropped a point.

We get to the centre. The excitement was palpablicious.

As are the rules when arriving at the centre, the other teams get to choose the category. They chose Art & Literature. Their stupid little faces light up when they see the question and we are nervous.

Cool Fuckwit reads aloud. "Who...wrote....the...Sci...Fi...Television series Blake's 7?"

They all high five each other and stare longingly at each others dicks. They think they've stumped us.

We all look at each other, pretend to look stumped, and in perfect unison we point and shout "TERRY NATION!!!!!!!".

Motherfuckers got pwned that night. Thinking we wouldnt know that.

Cool kids are shit.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 23:33, 8 replies)

Radical

(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 0:13, closed)

Let me get this straight,
you're bragging, at length, about winning a game of Trivial Pursuit, more than ten years ago?
( Zuowan, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 0:28, closed)

In a fairly impressive way
Against the arrogant cool kids.
Almost one of those Mighty Ducks underdog movies in the making, for sure.
(Sundayturkey has the biggest mug of tea, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 7:29, closed)

yes
I fucking am. I am still insanely proud.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 9:58, closed)

I'd be proud as well
I think thats wonderful!
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 11:01, closed)

Damn right
And then they pretended they didn't care?
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Wed 4 Mar 2009, 11:42, closed)

Blake's 7...
How bizarre...

I mentioned Blake's 7 as a descriptive in my post, even though I was worried about the cultural reference (and showing my age)...and here it is again.

I bet it hasn't been mentioned for ages (if at all) on here and then you get 2 in a week.

Weird.

Blake's 7 must be like buses or something.

btw - I liked your post and will duly click with the speed of the Puma
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 3 Mar 2009, 11:23, closed)

good one, but..
Trivial Pursuit - those weren't cool kids.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 16:36, closed)