So I am not clever enough to come up with this name. There has to be a story.
The ever-present and (I predict) overused "we" that will find its way into this blog will refer to me and my husband. I am a middle-management wonk, alternating between hating and just mildly loathing my job, and I work from a home office (translation: I actually do work each and every day, though I do not actually get up, dress in nice business clothes, and go into an office like most normal adults...and yes, working from home has most definitely lost its novelty after doing it for over 6 years). My husband is a new lawyer still looking for a job. My cat is kind of crazy and fairly reclusive. But enough about us.
Given our current professional ennui (heh!), we look for various things to do at night that are neither extremely expensive nor that require a lot of effort. Trivia night it was since that amounts to walking about two blocks down the street from our apartment, plopping ourselves into a booth, and ordering some tasty drinks.
We've done the Trivia Night at Nicholson's before - we lost, and we hung our heads in shame because we fancy ourselves quite snappy people who know lots of useless information (and we've been banned from ever playing as a team in family Trivial Pursuit challenges since we so unmercilessly whipped every other team each time we've played). But we gave it another go tonight.
Who painted the Sistine Chapel? Please.
What state are you in when visiting Martha's Vineyard? Can we get some real questions here?
Who said "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" in Apocalypse Now? Ok, now we're talking.
What is the deepest lake in Russia, which also happens to be the deepest lake in the world? Ruh roh.
We missed at least one gimme - Who starred opposite Audrey Heburn in Funny Face?...don't get me wrong. This was not a "gimme" to me because I am woefully ignorant about movies not made in the mid-80's. But my husband is a film connoisseur. The man went to film school at USC for Christ's sake, so he knows his stuff. But we blew that one.
So Nicholson's trivia night always has a "speed round" of music clips...this is totally where we lost it in our previous attempt. Tonight's music was focused on contemporary female singers.
But they always do a little break between the first 20 questions and the music round, and it was then that we needed to decide our team name before turning in our answers. My husband suggested "SlothLoveChalk" after about 20 minutes of looking stumped and/or constipated about coming up with some clever name for us. So I wrote "SlothLoveChalk" all over our forms thinking it was a weird name, but he suggested it, so I was going with it.
He jerked the paper from me and laughed uproariously - "Sloth Love Chunk! From The Goonies!"....uh gee, what was I saying about mid-80's movies? Hmmm..."So am I Chunk in this team?" I asked. A look of fear washed over him and he insisted not, but I was caught between thinking it was funny and thinking it was totally not funny, and the music round started.
And I rocked that music round! I got all 10 pop songstresses without even having to think about it. Give me some Pink, and some Sara Barielles, and some Fergie, and some Adelle, Duffy, and Leona Lewis. So thanks to me and my bubble-gum taste in music (apparently), we won Trivia Night!
And when the winning team was announced, our name echoed through Nicholson's repeatedly - "Sloth and Chunk won! Sloth and Chunk are tonight's winners!"
The sweet victory was made all the funnier with "Sloth and Chunk" being bellowed through the place, but somehow I still wished I'd left it as Sloth and Chalk.
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Hi Sara! Thanks for your kind words on FKIA. I can identify with the need to find inexpensive things to do. My husband is also a film grad, but an engineer now, not a lawyer. I work a lot, but not at home, and he is sometimes disgruntled with his job. I have no cats, but quite a few spiders, it seems.
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