LITO is hosting a Trivia Contest!

Just like you, we are super excited that The Office is back.

In celebration of this momentous event, we’re giving away prizes to one lucky trivia winner, a Michael Scott Bobblehead and a Dunder Mifflin T-Shirt!

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Log on, or sign up for the LITO forum
2. Click on the “Office Talk” thread
3. Click on the “Trivia Contest” thread
4. Answer the 25 questions listed
5. Email your answers to lito.trivia@gmail.com

If you answer all the questions correctly, you are automatically entered in the drawing for the prizes! Deadline to submit your answers is April 22nd. The winner will be announced on  April  23rd.

Good luck LITO readers!  ~Donna

From LITO-ite Bob,

  “LITO-ite kgreene has posted a link to his NEW Office fan fiction. You can find it by going to the LITO forum, under “Office goodies.” This guy has a great “ear” for Office dialogue, and his work makes me laugh just like the “real thing.” Even if you don’t have time to get into his full-length episodes, he writes a lot of “cold-openings” that are flat-out hilarious, and take about 2 minutes to read. I really like reading his work, as much as I like watching the fan-videos you keep thankfully digging up. In these bleak “Office-less” times, we addicts have to settle for anything we can get our hands on.
 If it wasn’t for well-written fan-fiction like kgreene’s and those  cool music videos, I’d be like our Office pal Meredith reaching for the hand sanitizer! So if you get the chance, check out kgreene’s latest work.”

Thanks for the tip, Bob! I really enjoyed kgreene’s stuff. I needed  an “Office-fix”, and it certainly delivered.  ~Donna

One of the LITO forum users (plug: check out the LITO forums if you don’t already!! They are super fun!) has an adorable avatar created by LiveJournal user tacos_rebellion. I checked out her LJ, and she’s amazingly talented and creative.

Check out her icons here and other work here.

I wanted to post an example icon, but I couldn’t pic just one, so I compiled a bunch of them.

Even better: though these are just screenshots, most of the icons are also ANIMATED! The Season 3 icons are here. Note: All of the art was done by tacos_rebellion She writes: “Credit if you use, friend if you like. :)”

Enjoy!

This is why I love the LITO forum. From a post in the forum:

Today is Jenna’s birthday. If everyone on here wishes her a happy birthday, I’ll post a comment on her mySpace with a link to this thread, and she can see her support over here at LITO.

Happy birthday to Jenna! I’m a March birthday too so I’m glad to see that I have good company.

Over in the forum, Stella points us to a poll that Yahoo.com is conducting right now.

As you can see, Pam is not doing so well.

I’ve seen the kind of numbers that the LITO Army Of Champions can bring. Let’s rock the vote. For now, it is on this page. Scroll down a bit and it’s on teh right hand side.

One thing is for sure, there is a ton of creativity present in the forums. Today I saw the great thread that had some movie posters for The Office. An example is below.

Michael looks sweet on his bike. He can go cruising with me anytime.

We have a very craft person over in the forums. He took the fan-submitted Dunder-Mifflin floor plan I posted a while ago and made a game with it.

When I stumbled upon garbelini’s great floor plan design, I knew I had to take advantage of it. Fortunately he agreed to let me use it at PurposeGames.com. That site lets visitors play (and create) Flash games, usually geography maps to help you learn capitals and stuff, but it’s also great for less educational uses.

So, here’s the deal. Let’s see how well you know your Office. I’ll post the link to both games. You go and play them and then report back with your FIRST score. You can play them more than once, bt we only want to hear your first score.

Game One: Scranton Branch Layout - For this one, you’ll have to remember where everyone was sitting before Jim left to Stamford. I’d love to see an updated one, but it’s also fun to see how good your memory is from the early episodes.

Game Two: Hijinks - This is a test of different activities that have happened in The Office.

Here are my scores:

One: 100% in 35.6 secs
Two: 86% in 1min 8 secs

That second one was harder than I thought.

So what are your scores?

(PS, He’s taking suggestions for more game topics so head on over to this forum thread if you hav ideas.)

LITO reader Chris started a thread in the forum that asked everyone what the best scene has been so far. There were a whole ton of responses and a lot of good scenes revisited.

Well, Chris went above and beyond and put all these scenes together so we can enjoy them back to back to back, etc. My favorite scene is the “cookie scene” with Dwight, Angela and Ryan. I saw that one in there.

Did your favorite scene make the clip?

If you want to show that special someone how much you care, NBC has you covered. They are offering wedding ecards of the Vance Wedding.

Link: Phyllis and Bob Wedding eCards

(via the LITO forums)

I was reading thru the forums this morning and saw this post about Ed Helms.

Ed Helms is becoming a permanent fixture around “The Office.”

The actor, who has had a recurring role on the NBC comedy series, has been upped to a regular.

For those of you who hate Andy, I don’t think you have to worry so much. Although he has been pretty big in the last couple episodes, I don’t think he’ll always have that large of a role. Now that he knows that Michael is not impressed with his “sucking up”, I think he’ll just calm down a bit and be a fun character like he was in Stamford. Don’t you remember how nice he was in Stamford? “Did you check the vending machine?”

Link: Helms gets promotion at “Office”