The team (Matt, Catherine, Sarah and me) went off in high spirits, despite the non-appearance of Stewart who was instantly cut out of “the deal”. This gave a starting place to Sarah who was supposed to have been the reserve.

We arrived on time and all looked amazing, so no need for hair and make-up – straight on set thankyou very much.

Postcode Challenge: Sign of the Nine

See?

The competition were from Ardersier, which is a wee place near Inverness. The captain in their team seemed to be at great pains to point out that her team-mates were definitely, absolutely neighbours and completely totally for sure from the same postcode.

This means one of them was absolutely definitely an outsider although it doesnt really matter cos its only the telly.

After all, who would come up with an idea to name quiz teams after sometihng as unsexy as Postcodes unless the concept came with the backing of a major sponsor – ie The Peoples Postcode Lottery?

Anyway, none of our team live anywhere near the postcode, EH9 1QR was simply the postcode of the Reverie where my Monday night quiz rocks hard.

So, the teuchter mob put us to the sword pretty badly in the first round via a series of utterly shit random questions to “gain control” and then a string of insanely easy questions that a three-year old should have got all right. They got two wrong but that still left us 13-0 down at half-time. Disaster.

Luckily we came roaring back, due in no small part to the captain of the opposition falling to ‘the fear’ in round two.

The Postcode Challenge format means that when a team member gets a question wrong in round 2, they have to face another question… and another… and another.

So, it only takes one team member to lose it the plot and your a team will get stuck in a hole, losing one point every time the guilty party says “pass” or gets an answer hopelessly wrong because their brain has ‘gone’.

And that’s what happend to Ardersier. Their captain was the stinker: she dried badly and after a big string of wrong answers and passes, her team were out and heading home to the Highlands.

Afterwards, our Matt confided in me that when he saw her beginning to show weakness, he began giving her the most evil and most direct stare he could muster. I admitted that I was doing exactly the same. Perhaps these tactics paid off or maybe this woman just wasn’t very good at keeping the heid. We’ll never know.

So we were in the money round and I won’t spoil the outcome for you. I’ll put a link here when its broadcast…

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What do they take me for?

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Gill has the ORIGINAL Krypton Factor trackie top to prove it. This is probably one of the best bits of game-show memorabilia you can get. Pow!

The photo shows Gill recreating the intelligence test from the Krypton Factor by building a pyramid out of Reverie’s menus.

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Here are those record breakers in full and I’m gutted I didn’t get a better photo. When will I learn to TURN THE FUCKING FLASH ON?

You can join in the fun next Monday, either just after or just before the music round – depending on how its going…

Will we ever beat 15?

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The folk handing this is did not explain why you would want to lick out a prostitute.

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Tonight (Monday) 9pm – Reverie – £100

Thursday 7pm – Bar 50 – UNKNOWN

Thursday 9pm – Newsroom – £50

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Craig found himself up against the legendary Dusty but neither could get past the first question and taht set up a £140 jackpot for next week.

Happier news: the Fag Break record was beaten and we now have a record of TWELVE PEOPLE enjoying each others’ company and a smoke at half seven… just after the picture round.

Bad luck to Gareth from THE GANG whose girlfriend didn’t know he smoked until she saw the picture of last week’s fag break on Facebook. Now he’s dumped.

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Google Eyed’s dance legend David was outfoxed by the “slight” style of Scott from the CHEESE PLANT team who finally got the win which has eluded them for so long.

No one really knows why, cos Scott did fuck-all dance-wise and David had loads of great moves. Mystery.

Anyway – it was all to no avail as Scott met Brendan from FLYSTRIKE and both players succesfully negotiatied three true-false questions before falling down on this belter:

True or False: A family from Romania had a child who was so ugly that they made him sleep outside in case he infected the other children?

Would you have guessed. They didn’t and we have a splendid £100 jackpot next week.

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Geez a Curly Wurly, ya Cunt

What’s The Point In Being a Midget If You Can’t Juggle?

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