Friday is fun day!

It's June 27th which in hockey terms means it's just a few hours until the free agency crazinessness begins.

Since many of us over at VS love the hockey, today's Friday Fun Day picture is from Japers Rink in response to the NHL.com "leak" of Ovie winning the MVP award a few weeks ago. The t-shirt was made available online before the awards show, therefore tipping us all off (as if Malkin even had a chance) that AO would be the 2008 NHL MVP winner.
How can you not LOVE this guy? He scores a shitload of goals in a season. Takes down Danny Briere. Goes to the Allstar game and racks up a huge room service bill for Cindy Crosby. Brings his team from basement dweller to the PLAYOFFS for the Stanley Cup. Makes the big man work for him. Has awesome highlight reels on youtube and channels dedicated to him. And scores this goal. And to top it all off has a girlfriend he met on the Russian equivalent to Facebook.

We do it so you don't have to!

The Vocabulary Shenanigans team made a field trip up to Nanny O'Briens in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, DC earlier this week for one reason: PUB QUIZ.

It seems that Irish bars do it best, so we wanted to put Nanny to the test and here's our report to our dear readers.

Cathy_Thighs thought the big night started at 8 p.m. but rather the fun didn't start until after 8:30. The quizmaster was trying out a new format so there were a few kinks to work out. It made us wonder what the old format was...the new format wasn't anything too revolutionary, but hey! what do we know?!

We came up with pretty unique name, The Team in the Back (or "book", as Cathy_Thighs wrote it) With the Guy in a Jersey. There were a few other great names but nothing as awesome as SOME of us wanted, but we'll save that awesome name for our next night o' trivia.

Our team came in third, winning nothing, but surprised us all with the # of points we actually got. The winning team, Three Guys and a Beer, got a $50 bar tab.

Pros:
-location is pretty awesome and convenient to those metroing
-dive irish bar
-strong drinks
-decent french fries
-several rounds of trivia with varying point values
-rounds included assisinations, sports, music, geography. There wasn't any multi-media questions (pictures, video clips, song clips, etc) but the questions were projected on a screen so it made following along super easy.

Locals are abound at Nanny O'Briens, trivia night or not and it's often hard as a non-local to feel comfortable. Locals, welcome new people to your bar. You should take it a compliment that we want to follow in your footsteps.

Each week we hope to bring you a review of some other DC-NoVA-MD trivia nights. Our goal is to find the perfect combination of quality questions, smart-ass quiz master that can handle a crowd, cheap and/or strong drinks, yummy snack food, good atmosphere and a respect for the Holler Bread.

Caption this photo

Congac_Thighs sent us the photo below earlier this week and we've spent every waking second since trying to think of something funny to say about it and/or a caption that would bring joy to you readers on a Friday afternoon. Despite all efforts, nothing was had and this is where you come in. Caption this photo NOW. The best caption will win something awesome that has yet to be determined, but it will be something tangible and well worth the effort. It won't be anything as helpful to the US economy as this one, as environmentally helpful as this one or as get-through-the-rest of-the-day helpful as this one, but it'll be great.

So go ahead and caption away...you aren't doing work anyway.

NHL awards ceremony TONIGHT

In honor of the hockey Oscars that are will be aired tonight on Versus, where hometown hockey heroes Alexander Ovechkin, Nicky Backstrom and Bruce Boudreau hope to bring back four trophies to Kettler, Vocabulary Shenanigans tips it's hat to Wayne's World, the book, for it's Top Ten Hockey Terms that sound dirty but aren't:

10 - On top of the crease.
9 - Spearing
8 - High sticking
7 - Penalty box
6 - Power play
5 - Dump and chase
4 - Wrap around goal
3 - Slipped it between the pads
2 - Putting your hand on a girl's breast
1 - Puck

And can't forget the guys over at Inside College Hockey and their "Things Found on Cocktail Napkin" list

• The Sin Bin
• Pulling the Goalie
• Touch-up Offsides
• In the Crease
• Holding the Stick
• Butt-Ending
• Change on the Fly
• Third Man In
• Hand Pass
• Dump and Chase

We'd like to add to the list:
-5- hole
- high sticking
-penetrate the zone
-poke check
-takes it deep
-2 man advantage

Needless to say, members of the VS team will be watching tonight, hoping that our guys bring some pretty stuff back to the Phonebooth.

What about you? Got any hockey related terms to add to the list of giggle-worth words?

Wednesday is hump day

Remember back in the day the website Hot or Not where normal-ish people posted their pictures and asked you to vote, Am I Hot or Not and you rated them on a scale of 1-10.

We here at Vocabulary Shenanigans may have spent many countless hours on HorN during our college days, and would like to bring it back to a younger generation, with a twist. Think "Hot or Not?" with an element of "Who would you rather?"

Todays contestenats are....

Judy from Le Claire Wisconsin. Judy's a school bus driver, "I just love getting the kids to school on time every day. I'm doing my civil duty to get the next generation educated." Judy likes to spend her down time watching movies rented from her local Videos-R-Us and likes short walks to the all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet and a cold case of PBR. Who doesn't?! Hi Judy!

Is Judy Hot or Not?

Norma is a single mom to three from Hastings, Michigan. She's currently pursuing her dream of cosmetology, "I get such a high from making people realize their inner beauty. I realized mine long ago and want to bring peace to others." You can also catch Norma down at the local watering hole, serving up cold ones to the hard workers of Hastings. Plus, you can't beat the tips! Norma loves spending times with her friends and family on the porch of her double wide and has a seat free for that special someone. Hi Norma!

Is Norma Hot or Not?

Now, the part two to this game:

Who would you rather
go out with Judy or Norma knowing she blew the whole football team, or go out with Judy or Norma NOT knowing she blew the whole football team?

Special thanks goes out to Congac_Thighs and The Suit for their help on this post. I owe you guys a shot of old granddad and a pabst chaser.


PS this game only works if you (yes YOU) answer the question. Go ahead, comment ;-)

You try not laughing

A recent game of Circle of Death/Kings went like this:

"Category: balls."
"hairy balls"
"chocolate balls"
"tennis balls"
"basketballs"
"Caucasian balls"

wait, what?

"She said chocolate balls...so I say Caucasian balls..."
"I said chocolate balls in terms of the candy, the snack. NOT a black man's balls."
"oh"

Balls....it's just funny. No explanation needed. You try saying balls out loud without laughing (or anyone in the near vicinity laughing at you).

When technology goes bad: Twittering

Our online source of all the important info known to man, Wikipedia, defines Twittering: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter web site, via the Twitter web site, short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.

We here at Vocabulary Shenanigans think otherwise, especially when uttered by some poor Cap Hill staff who thinks it's cool to be connected to every social networking site available, but in fact, it just makes them sound completely unconnected to the real world.

It's especially funny when taken out of context or as defined by Urban Dictionary: Twitter--female perineum; that area of the anatomy between the the twat and the shitter.

"DUDE! I'm twittering" just makes us giggle, no matter what.

Friday is Fun Day

Here at Vocabulary Shenanigans we also appreciate visual humor.

Items that are meant to be completely innocent, but for one reason or another, cause a fit of laughter at any given time.

Every Friday will be a tribute to things that aren't supposed to be funny, but are.

Today's entry is from Congac Thighs

"I see it [this sign] on my way home everyday and giggle." So do we, CT, so do we.

What is Vocabulary Shenanigans?

There are words out there, that when said, just make people chuckle. Properly used in context the word is fine, but when an outsider hears just one word (or sometimes a sentence) out of your conversation, they crack a smile.

Devised over a few beers before a Washington Nationals game in May, this is a list of words that cause us to giggle. Vocabulary Shenanigans was born.

Who is "us"?
We're from varying geographic locations, backgrounds, alma maters, career paths, and teams we cheer for, but are bound together by just a few things: calling DC home (at least for now), throwing one, two or seven back and having a good time.

A new word will be posted each day, with it's own little intro or background as to why it made someone at the table giggle, but please feel free to add your own words via the comments section.