The Normal Kid

Sidney rolled on his side to face the window, the sheets wrapping around his legs. He went over the plan in his mind, visualizing every move. Thinking of each little step as he would perform the motion. Everything had to be in order and to seem natural. Every little detail including brushing his teeth, eating breakfast, grabbing his backpack with all the right books for his classes today.  Ninth grade was different from eighth grade. High school was different from middle school. He had different classes on different days. The school was a lot larger and he had to carry the books that he needed for that day with him and leave the others at home.
     Sidney had to do everything today as if it was a regular school day. Bring no suspicion upon himself. So everything had to seen like the things that boring, average Sidney would do during his boring, average day.
     If he got out of bed, and made his bed, of course, pulled a clean pair of blue jeans out of his drawer and put them on, selected a clean, probably hunter green, polo out of his dresser and slipped that over his head, walked to the bathroom where he would wash his face, brush his teeth and comb his hair, returned to his room to put on a pair of gray ankle length socks and then slip on his tied white and black Nike tennis shoes, the day would be one of Sidney's normal and ordinary day. So that's exactly what he did. He moved the extraordinary thoughts into the back of his mind for the time being. He would go over them again during breakfast.

Normal was as normal could be. Bright moonlight cut through the gap in the layered curtains shining upon the currently unopened eye of the bedroom's sleeping occupant. Sidney's brain told him to open his eyes. When he did, he saw the bright full moon shining through the trees outside his bedroom window. He read it as an omen. Today would be like no other in Sidney Tanner's life. His parents had prepared him for this day. He would make them proud, and rich.

Has it really been this long?  We have been "Fluffernutter rides again"; "Dyslexia ruined my lucking fife"; and " Premature evacuation". Cobblestone in Eldersburg has closed. Its under new management with a name change but it hasn't opened its doors as of yet.  Justin, formerly hosting at Cobblestone, is starting trivia at GL Shacks in Eldersburg on Wednesdays at 8pm. 8pm?!! That is a little late. We'll see.  So we have been going to trivia at Greene Turtle in Owings Mill on Tuesday nights at 7. Hosted by Meredith ( she's worth taking a look at ). We finished this season in 4th place. Only because we usually bet half of our points on the final question and get it wrong. However no one can make the playoffs on 6/22 anyway. Teammates are either at a wedding, playing golf or on vacation in Florida.
Well, maybe next season. We did, however, kick butt at the 80's audio theme night!

OK so we didn't do so well with Season 28. Didn't even bother with the playoffs. 
Season 29 finds us as "Rocket Surgeons" at Cobblestone and " Rule #5 there is no Rule #5"
We haven't started out so well but the season is 9 weeks long.

Do you know the last 14 states to join the union?

Let me know.

End of Season 27:  Kevin... ends up finishing 3rd at Cobblestone and Brian Dennehy Summer Tour 2012 finishes 3rd at Friscos. Neither of us has much time for the playoffs ( vacations you know ). So good luck to the teams in the playoffs.

Youngest to Oldest:

Daniel Radcliffe 7/23/89              Adam Sandler 9/8/66
Zac Efron   10/18/87                   Tiger Woods  12/30/75
Shia LeBeouf  6/11/86                Eddie Vedder  12/23/64
Keira Knightley  3/26/85             Johnny Depp   6/9/63
Carrie Underwood 3/10/83         Paula Abdul     6/19/63
Kelly Clarkson  4/24/82              Emma Thompson  4/15/59
Pink 9/8/79                                 Alec Baldwin     4/3/58
Angelina Jolie  6/4/75                  Tom Hanks   7/9/56
Luke Wilson 9/21/71                   Denzel Washington  12/28/54
Jake Gyllenhaal  12/19/80            Dennis Quaid     4/9/54
Ice Cube  6/15/69                       Liam Neeson     6/7/52
Renee Zellweger 4/23/68             Stevie Wonder   5/13/50
Jamie Foxx 12/13/67                   Paul McCartney  6/18/42


How about this:   15 #5's
I will give you 15 songs that made it as high as No. 5 on the Billboard Pop Chart by artists who also had,
at least, one  #1.  Name the artist and the year this song made No. 5


"Sing A Song"         "Sad Songs (Say So Much)"
"On The Radio"       "1,2,3,4 (Sumpin New)"
"Up On The Roof"    "With Every Beat of My Heart"
"I'm Coming Out"         "Hold The Line"
"When It's Love"        "People"
"Day Tripper"            "Fun,Fun.Fun"
"Big Love"               "Method of Modern Love"
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"

Good Luck!! I'll be back sooner than last time!

Middle of Week 3 Season 27: We are Kevin.... at Cobblestone. ( We won last night). And at Frisco's we are Brian Dennehy Summer Tour 2012.  This season is up in the air because the playoffs and championship are at times when different members of our teams will be on vacation so we are playing for the daily prizes of gift certificates.  At Cobblestone we are accumulating certificates so on the final night of the season we can all eat for free!!!! Hooray for Free Food!!

Answers to last post:
Elvis Costello and the Attractions                            
Florence and the Machine
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts                                  
 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Little Anthony and the Imperials                             
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers   
 Paul McCartney and Wings
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers                            
 Echo and the Bunnymen


Here's a challenge!  Put the following celebrities in order of their age: from youngest to oldest.
As of May 23, 2012.

Paula Abdul                         Alec Baldwin                        Kelly Clarkson            
Johnny Depp                        Zac Efron                            Jamie Foxx                 
Jake Gyllenhaal                    Tom Hanks                          Ice Cube                             
Angelina Jolie                       Keira Knightley                    Shia LeBeouf
Paul McCartney                   Liam Neeson                        Pink                              
 Dennis Quaid                      Daniel Radcliffe                    Adam Sandler          
 Emma Thompson               Carrie Underwood                Eddie Vedder                   
 Denzel Washington             Luke Wilson                        Stevie Womder                
Tiger Woods                      Renee Zellweger


Good Luck with this!!!!

Season 26 is complete and Slow Children Ahead finishes first at Cobblestone, with a direct route to the Championship on May 5 at Padonia Station.  Here For The Food finishes 3rd with an invite to the playoffs on April 29 at Greene Turtle. We didn't go to the playoffs.  So we are headed to the championship. And boy! did we bomb at the champioship.  We ended with 16.5 points. We got 3 questions correct and 16 points at the half ( which was a worksheet with pictures of 20 television sidekicks.  Better luck in Season 27!!!

Solo Artists and their former bands:

1B. 2I. 3A. 4H. 5C. 6D. 7G. 8D. 9F. 10J. 11B. 12E. 


Name the bands associated with these artists:

Elvis Costello and the ?                                  Florence and the ?
Joan Jett and the ?                                          Bruce Springsteen and the ?
Little Anthony and the ?                                Smokey Robinson and the ?
George Thorogood and the ?                         Paul McCartney and ?
Tom Petty and the ?                                       Echo and the ?

Good Luck!!