A Hollow Victory?

Last night, Tracy and I were having dinner with friends. Well, we weren't when the night started. See, the wives are good friends. They wanted to get us to be friends, too. It worked...largely because we all married the kinds of girls that would be friends. So, now we're all friends.

That's not the point of this blog, though.

We decided to play Trivial Pursuit: Pop Culture Edition. It comes with a DVD and some fancy-shmancy (by Trivial Pursuit standards) pie-piece holders. We chose the gnome. They chose the fashion boot. We all decided to play by old-school rules rather than bring the DVD into it...that way we could stay in the kitchen.

It was a slow start for the guys. We got plenty of questions right...just not for the pie-piece. The ladies were up 3-1 and then it all started falling into place for our team. Barry Bonds. Madonna. Boutros Boutros Ghali. Gerald Ford. Dana Carvey. We were on a roll and finished up in the center going for the win. I sealed the victory when the girls chose to use PINK (fashion & fads) to throw us off...and the question involved a celebrity downloaded a lot for something notorious.

Cameron Diaz.

Game.
Set.
Match...

...to the boys team.

And then it dawned on me: Did my team really win? It was a contest to see who knew the most about POPULAR CULTURE. Seems like all those hours watching cable and reading the paper weren't wasted...but were they? Hmmmm...