So Close. Well, Not That Close

We came together to work out our minds for the first (of hopefully many) Pop Culture Trivia contests in the SF office.  The first order of business was to come up with a clever name. Given that I'm in HR, this proved to be difficult. However, we came up with Harsh Reality. (Get it? HR--Harsh Reality? Funny. Well, that's why I'm not part of the Creative team). The other teams were: Ed Rooney's Goonies, Everyone's Workin' for the Weekend, Eye of the Liger (Yes, Ligers are real. Look it up), No Whammies, and Philip Drummond's Funk Machine.

I loved this event. Everyone got into it. Eye of the Liger dressed up. Harsh Reality had t-shirts and their own cheerleaders. Go Yehji! The questions were hard, the environment intense, and then a false fire alarm went off. We persevered.

Harsh Reality came on strong. We were in the lead until the music category. I'm not ashamed to say that we didn't know that the answer was, "Part-Time Lover," by Stevie Wonder. We could have recovered, but the crippling blow that took us down hard was the sports category. Who knows about Argentinean tennis players? Apparently Eye of the Liger, because they won.

Kari Girarde