{"id":2598,"date":"2008-09-29T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2008-09-29T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T20:41:05","slug":"bff-of-the-month-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/bff-of-the-month-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"BFF of the Month decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s two days until the beginning of October, but I&#8217;m going to go ahead and announce my BFF of the Month decision.\u00a0 This is the most even contest in the history of BFF of the Month &#8211; we have the St. Jude scientists, Jenny and Michelle (wanting to do a double BFF), versus Calhoun&#8217;s bartender and Best Pool Partner Ever Lauren.\u00a0 Both are highly qualified.\u00a0 So, after a lot of thought on the matter, I&#8217;m going to give one of the candidates the opportunity to decide their own fate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/scientists1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2599\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"scientists1\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/scientists1.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/scientists1.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/scientists1.jpg?w=1200 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><strong>Jenny and Michelle (pictured at left, and note that Jenny has a tube top on) will be the October BFFs&#8230; IF they can do one thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Their trivia team must beat my team, the legendary Rapscallions, Tuesday night, September 30, at trivia at the Flying Saucer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that Jenny and Michelle and the other St. Jude scientists have played trivia against us many times before, and have NEVER beaten us.<\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt that they accomplish brilliant things in their research, but it&#8217;s time for them to prove that they still have some smarts once they step out of that lab.<\/p>\n<p>If Jenny and Michelle&#8217;s St. Jude team beats the Rapscallions fair and square tomorrow night at trivia, they will be the new BFFs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/paul_lauren1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2600\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"paul_lauren1\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/paul_lauren1.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/paul_lauren1.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/home\/content\/p\/a\/u\/paulrybu\/html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/paul_lauren1.jpg?w=1600 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>If they lose to the Rapscallions, Lauren (pictured at left) will be the new BFF.<\/p>\n<p>In case of a tie, and both teams finish out of the prize money (so there is no tiebreaker question), Lauren is the new BFF.<\/p>\n<p>If the St. Jude team no-shows trivia tomorrow, Lauren is the new BFF.<\/p>\n<p>If I have even the slightest suspicion that Jenny and Michelle&#8217;s team is cheating at trivia, Lauren is the new BFF (note: I&#8217;ve never suspected them of cheating in the past, but desperate times call for desperate measures).<\/p>\n<p>All things considered, it would appear that Lauren has an advantage here.\u00a0 I&#8217;m giving her a big advantage because of the out-of-line &#8220;barmaid&#8221; comment her competition made.\u00a0 However, her competition has the advantage of being able to determine their own fate.\u00a0 So all in all, I think it&#8217;s fair.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post the results Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Edit:\u00a0 One more thing.\u00a0 If Memphis receives more than 1 inch of snow tomorrow, September 30, former BFF Meghan from Big Foot\u00a0will regain her status as BFF for the month of October.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s two days until the beginning of October, but I&#8217;m going to go ahead and announce my BFF of the Month decision.\u00a0 This is the most even contest in the history of BFF of the Month &#8211; we have the St. Jude scientists, Jenny and Michelle (wanting to do a double BFF), versus Calhoun&#8217;s bartender &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/bff-of-the-month-decision\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BFF of the Month decision&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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