Players: Mark, Clyde, Julie, Brett and Todd.

To close out the evening, we pulled down "Why did the chicken...?" and let the laughs begin. As described in the reivews above, it's a game where players come up with punch lines for riddles, and a judge awards points to the best two answers. It seems to start slow but build as the turns go by and the jokes become intermingled.

First riddle: "Why does a brain surgeon hate a cricket?"
This was our toughest of the night, as seen by the best answers "They're so cheeeep!" and "Because Portugese chickens have straw-like appendages."

Second riddle: "What happened at the wedding of the butcher and the camera?"
A number of us came up with two punch-lines, with the best being "The bride flashed the priest," and "The knife ran away with the lens-cap."

Third riddle: "Why would a penguin want to be a teddy bear?"
Our first running joke began with "Because the teddy bear ran away with the lens-cap," and a few answers related to Linux, but the ulimate winning lines were "Because teddy bears can fly," and "Polar bears love cuddly little mini-bears, but they eat penguins."

Fourth riddle: "What do a pitchfork and the garbage collector have in common?"
This time the penguins made a reappearance, with the winning answers being "Both are useful for disposing of dead penguins," and "Both are in the hands of Satan."

Fifth riddle: "What is the punchline to the old joke about a bus and a moth?"
By now we were churing out three or four answers a piece. The chosen answers were "And that's how we got Mothra," and "You can only fit 66 children on a school bus." But the winning answer clearly should have been "His ass," after Brett told us the joke was "What was the last thing to go through the moth's mind when he hit the bus?"

And on that note, we bid you goodnight.

Final score:
Mark - 4
Brett - 3
Todd - 2
Julie - 1
Clyde - 0