ignorance is bliss ... intelligence is money

Twice a year, the Guam chapter of Habitat for Humanity (nonprofit group that helps needy folks build houses) holds a fundraiser called Quiz Nite. Basically, it’s a team trivia contest, with six players per team. My newspaper usually buys two tables, and this year was no different.

The teams I’ve lead or been on have traditionally done pretty well — usually in the Top 5 or Top 10, but no one from PDN has ever won. The first-place prize is $600 — or $100 for each team member. Other prizes are pinned on cards on a big board. In descending order of finish, when a team’s number is called they rush up to pick a prize, which could range from $50 in gas coupons to cheap T-shirts or spiced nuts. At times they’ve had things like Chanel gift bags (filled with makeup), restaurant gift certificates, certificates good for pest-control services, etc. There are a lot of ties, so it’s funny watching team reps rushing to the board and trying to decide the best prize left.

Me and my team

The questions range from pretty easy to pretty hard, from esoteric, ancient stuff to pop culture. There are six rounds, with six questions each (I just realized — six team members, six rounds of six questions — 666 … Habitat for Humanity or secret devil worshippers? LOL). Categories this year were: Special Days; Animal Kingdom; Decades; Pictures; America 1770-1800; and Radioland. Oh, and you can pay $10 to double the points in one category.

Some of the questions asked (distilled version): On what holy day was Lincoln shot? What autumn holiday does the U.S. share with Italy, Spain, and Latin America? Humans and giraffes have the same amount of vertebrae in their necks — how many? Where was the U.S. Constitution signed? What does AM and FM stand for? Decades they asked when things happened; you had to place it in the right decade — 1940s to 1990s. Pictures they showed you six pictures of local, national and international people; you had to write down their name.

If you get an answer “wrong” according to Habitat’s answers, you can challenge with a judge for a donation of $5. If you can make your case, your answer is changed to right. At one point, we had to challenge one and got it overturned in our favor, and lucky we did — it put us into a tie for first place with another team! Woohoo!!

So it went to a “quiz off.” Us vs. them, six questions under potpourri. And we beat their ass!! Yesssss!! A championship, bragging rights AND $100 cash for each. That’s a lot of money for four people on my team, all of whom earn lowly reporter wages. For one of the girls, it was the first time she ever had a $100 bill — she was too cute and too funny! LOL

So the gals wanted to go out afterward to a bar called Fishbowl. Now those who know me know that I don’t like going out to bars, unless there are naked dancing girls involved. I burned out on the whole bar/club scene in my mid-20s. When I paid my cover and got stamped, I remarked to one of the girls that it was the first time I’d done the whole club hand-stamp thing in years … it’s been since last century, I think! LOL

Me and Lalaine at Fishbowl

So I stuck around for a few celebratory beers as the place started to get pack-jammed with people. After about an hour, I made my excuses and headed out … to Crazy Horse and Yvette! LOL … had a few drinks with her, snuggled up a bit, sat at the stage with her for a couple of dancers — one as bendy as fucking Gumby, omigod!, and the other a voluptuous little wench with nicely sized, soft tits. Then Yvette went on … that woman can work the pole, let me tell you. She does some crazy stuff.

A lipstick montage LOL

Plus, as evidenced by the pics, she gets a bit smoochy … and bite-y. LOL. I had no clue about the lipstick marks for awhile … until one of the other strippers pointed it out … LOL. I consider them to be my Red Badges of Horny.

It was closing in on 1 a.m. and I had to leave — I still had to write the two edits before dawn so my boss could read them at the crack of dawn.

So it was another good night for me. And you know what? I fucking deserve a few good nights of fun and frolicking and frivolity.

Oh, and the $100 is gone. I bought the first round of drinks at fishbowl, and the rest went to Yvette and her beautiful naked friends. Worth … every … penny. All of it. I don’t consider it a waste. After all, it was $100 I didn’t have all day. I spent it on friends and naked ladies. Is that so wrong? It’s not like I’m starving or I can’t pay my bills. It was excess cash; glad to have spent it on excesses.

As for today … I’m going to go get some lunch in a bit … then into the office for a couple of hours … then some more flighty, unnecessary buying (not shopping!) of consumer goods and merchandise. Tonight, hopefully, will be more poker … and, again hopefully, more winning.

Happy weekend, bitches! LOL

Random Guam Fact Of The Day:
• Guam’s Habitat for Humanity has, thus far, built 15 homes for needy families on Guam. It would be a lot more, but you have to remember that houses here have to be concrete and meet strict building codes for typhoons and earthquakes.