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  1. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    The brutality isn’t slowing down at all – the rest of the Round 3 match-ups are just as rough (if not more so): CLICK HERE TO VOTE ON ROUND 3-3 - (1944) Arsenic and Old Lace vs. Road to Rio (1947) - (1964) Dr. Strangelove vs. The Nutty Professor (1963) - (1975) Monty Python and the Holy...
  2. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Results! Results for Round 3-1 and 3-2: - Duck Soup chowed down on Animal Crackers 8-5 - The Pink Panther snuck past It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 10-8 - Blazing Saddles blasted The Sting 20-1 - Vacation outlasted Strange Brew 12-8 - The Princess Bride disarmed The Naked Gun 19-2 -...
  3. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    It's beginning to get pretty cutthroat in here. Both Adam Sandler and John Belushi each had to pit their two remaining movies against each other in Round 2, so they're both in danger of getting knocked out entirely. Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks, and Robin Williams have all already fallen. Many more...
  4. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    ROUND THREE: FIGHT! Round 3: It’s getting brutal now. A bunch of your favorites are about to get knocked out of the running. CLICK HERE TO VOTE ON ROUND 3-1 - (1933) Duck Soup vs. Animal Crackers (1930) - (1963) It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World vs. The Pink Panther (1963) - (1974) Blazing...
  5. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Round 2 Final Results And that’s the end of Round 2! Here are the results: - Road to Rio defeats Bringing Up Baby 8-5 - Dr. Strangelove scratched Cat Ballou 14-6 - Young Frankenstein walked all over Harold and Maude 21-2 - Time Bandits outlasted Porky’s 13-10 (Ouch! That one hurts me!) -...
  6. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    2-7 and 2-8 voting is open! CLICK HERE TO VOTE ON 2-7 - (1938) Bringing Up Baby vs. Road to Rio (1947) - (1964) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb vs. Cat Ballou (1964) - (1971) Harold and Maude vs. Young Frankenstein (1974) - (1981) Time Bandits vs...
  7. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Results! Almost all of the matches this time were either blowouts or neck-and-neck. Here they are: - Arsenic and Old Lace just barely edged out Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 9-7 - The Pink Panther completely shut out What’s New Pussycat? 24-0 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail obliterated...
  8. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Oh hey, you CAN see the results! I was just tinkering with the settings on the SurveyMonkey site, and realized I'd overlooked something simple. I don't know how many will find this of interest, but I only just discovered I can allow the results to be seen publicly for all polls. So if you've...
  9. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Round 2-5 and 2-6 voting open! CLICK HERE TO VOTE ON ROUND 2-5 - (1944) Arsenic and Old Lace vs. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - (1963) The Pink Panther vs. What’s New Pussycat? (1965) - (1975) Monty Python and the Holy Grail vs. Sleeper (1973) - (1983) Vacation vs. Trading Places...
  10. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Results! Round 2 is proving to be (mostly) a much tighter race. Lots of close ones this time, and multiple ties! - Animal Crackers took down A Day at the Races 8-6 - It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World easily knocked out The Absent-Minded Professor 17-6 - The Sting came back to edge out The...
  11. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Round 2-3 and 2-4 voting open! In the first round we weeded out most of the lesser movies, and now things are geting much harder. Here's the next match-ups of the second round: CLICK HERE TO VOTE ON ROUND 2-3 - (1930) Animal Crackers vs. A Day at the Races (1937) - (1961) The Absent-Minded...
  12. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Rounds 2-1 and 2-2 results are in! Here are the results: - Duck Soup toppled The Great Dictator 9-7 - The Nutty Professor outgunned McLintock! 13-7 - Blazing Saddles washed out Shampoo with a clean sweep 26-0 - Ghostbusters called out Stripes 22-5 - The Princess Bride walloped Big 24-3 -...
  13. UselessTriviaMan

    Where is the strangest place you have played an RPG?

    I once DM'd for two players on a 3-hour road trip across Illinois, and again on the way back. I've run games at a gaming convention held in a nursing home. Twice. I DM'd virtually every night for a 6-8 month period while stationed in Korea. (There was nothing to do. You either picked up a...
  14. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    So here is the Big Bracket with all of Round 1 completed: • Three #1 seeds and five #2 seeds were defeated in the first round. • I count 44 total upsets out of 128 match-ups. • The only way Woody Allen was able to win a match-up (he had six movies in the running) was by beating himself...
  15. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Round 2 voting begins! CLICK HERE TO VOTE ON ROUND 2-1 And here we go with Round 2! - (1940) The Great Dictator vs. Duck Soup (1933) - (1963) The Nutty Professor vs. McLintock! (1963) - (1974) Blazing Saddles vs. Shampoo (1975) - (1981) Stripes vs. Ghostbusters (1984) - (1987) The...
  16. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Round 1-15 and 1-16 Results And that’s the end of Round 1! Lots of upsets again, and apparently we don’t find silent movies as funny. Here are the results: - Road to Rio took down The Kid in a big upset 9-5 - Cat Ballou upended Alfie 9-1 - Young Frankenstein stomped Silent Movie 21-2 -...
  17. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Okay, the Round 1-16 link is now fixed. Sorry 'bout that.
  18. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Round 1-15 and 1-16 voting is open! CLICK HERE TO VOTE ON ROUND 1-15 And here are the final match-ups of the first round: - (1921) The Kid vs. Road to Rio (1947) - (1966) Alfie vs. Cat Ballou (1964) - (1974) Young Frankenstein vs. Silent Movie (1976) - (1982) Victor Victoria vs. Porky’s...
  19. UselessTriviaMan

    Ultimate Comedy Movie March Madness: ROUND FIVE (Sweet 16) voting now open!

    Round 1-13 and 1-14 results And here are the Round 1-13 and 1-14 results! - Bringing Up Baby upset The Philadelphia Story 8-3 - Dr. Strangelove thrashed Girls! Girls! Girls! 20-2 - Harold and Maude edged out Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* 7-6 - Time Bandits sacked Mr. Mom...
  20. UselessTriviaMan

    When Dragons Play Dungeons

    If you look at it from a security-minded point of view, it makes sense to ban role playing games from prisons. "No sir, we're not planning a real jailbreak. We're planning a pretend jailbreak in a made-up world." The guards have no way to tell the difference between a group of RPG-enthusiast...
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