Peculiar results

Big props to The Peculiar Suspects who, Sunday night at Battleprov, not only won their first half ever but ended up winning the whole darn thing. (In BattleProv, two teams battle in the first half. The winning team plays the defending champions in the second half. Also, I'm a member of The Peculiar Suspects.)

While I did get a brown bag foul for saying the word "arse" on stage, believe me when I say that it was by far the softest brown bag of the night. And I maintain that I said it in "The Crucible" in front of a whole auditorium of junior highers, so therefore it's not really dirty.

(We were playing "What Are You Doing?" and we got the initials IA and I inexplicably chose to be "initialing my arse." Yeah, don't ask me what that means. I should probably stop watching British television. Thanks a lot, The IT Crowd.)

I also played a fun character during "Good, Bad, Worst Advice" called Luke "The Fist" Schell. Yep, that's a J-ville shout-out to be sure. Most of the names I use on stage are people I went to high school with. Hope that's okay. Anyway, this guy was the founder and head instructor of "Luke's House of Ninja" and knew nothing about the ninja philosophy but promised his students they'd gain ability to teleport and control animals with their mind. He also punctuated every answer with the exclamation "NINJA!" It was super fun.

Finally, in the game "Last Action Joke," the Bill Cosby impression was whipped out when I had to kill someone with Jello. Tara has told me this is pretty standard and not the mind-blowing creativity that I thought it was, but whatever, my Bill Cosby is better than yours.

Obviously, I'm focusing on my accomplishments because I'm a self-centered jerk, but needless to say, the Peculiar Suspects were all at the top of their games. Scott, Cynthia, and Chris had an awesome game of "Sing It" for which I can claim absolutely no credit and we had a running bit throughout the show about a battle for the captaincy. We switched three times, which we think may be a record. All in all, a great show all-around.

The irony is that BattleProv is switching formats and the champion no longer returns the next week to defend their title. But in my mind, that makes us the champions for all time. And that's pretty freaking great.