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The Stone Church
5 Granite Street
Newmarket, NH 03857
Wednesdays: 7:00 PM
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10:47 AM, May 17, 2012
Scores
The Gnarly Geese 75
The Brony Brigade 71
Heady Lamar 66
No Name 66
Reckoners & Rainbows 66
Buddy Ream's Jellyfish 64
Wearin' Hawaiian Shirts & Hopin' to get Lei'd 58
The Bonecrushers 56
Underthinkers 54
Git Sum 44
Just Graduated Because of My Drugs! 38
Comparing a Johnson to a Gherkin is Not a Compliment
The Bay State Butcher


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Sundays, 8, Costello's Tavern, JP Mondays, 8, Tommy Doyle's, Harvard Square 		Ryan (The Bay State Butcher)

Let's play a game. Two of the three statements in each category are true. One is false. Guess which ones are which.

1. Growing up

a) Ryan grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts.
b) Ryan had spinal surgery when he was three years old.
c) Ryan is the youngest of four.

2. Celebrity crushes

a) Jennifer Connelly
b) Jennifer Lopez
c) Ginnifer Goodwin

3. Physical features

a) Ryan is flat-footed
b) Ryan is left-handed
c) Ryan is a polyorchid

4. Where he's been

a) Hawaii
b) Canada
c) Dallas

5. Where he's worked

a) Boston Celtics
b) Boston Bruins
c) Boston Red Sox

Answers

1. a-T, b-T, c-F; 2. a-T, b-F, c-T; 3. a-T, b-F, c-T; 4. a-T, b-T, c-F; 5. a-F, b-T, c-T

It was a fun night at the Stone Church last night for the Geeks Who Drink pub quiz. Covering for Tom, I came up to visit the Seacoast, evading the whole Stratham police department to deliver you questions on Mythbusters, Ghostbusters, small penis comparisons, animal asses, and much more. (Seriously, it seemed like all three cruisers were on patrol up and down route 108 last night, and my Massachusetts plates were like a bull’s eye on my ass.)

It was a hard fought battle, but in the end The Gnarly Geese won the quiz with 75 points. The Brony Brigade came in second with 71 points, followed by Heady Lamar, No Name, and Reckoners & Rainbows who finished in a three-way tie for third place. Sixth went to Buddy Ream’s Jellyfish, then Wearin’ Hawaiian Shirts & Hopin’ to Get “Lei’d,” and The Bonecrushers. Underthinkers, Git Sum, and Just Graduated Because of My Drugs! rounded out the standings.

The breakdown of all the rounds is as follows:

Round 1 (Duh!) average – 4.27
Round 2 (Know Your Place) average – 12.73 (out of 16 points)
Round 3 (Mythbusters or Ghostbusters?) average – 5.27
Round 4 (Things Girls Compare Your Small Penis To) average – 7.36
Round 5 (She Likes it From Behind) average – 5.9
Round 6 (Locks, Stocks, & Barrels) average – 3.82
Round 7 (Paging Ellen Page) average – 3.82
Round 8 (Randos) average – 8.6 (out of 16 points)

The first round included questions that should have been more obvious while the audio round included clips of songs that mentioned places. In the third round I read a statement that either applied to Egon Splengler of the Ghostbusters or Adam Savage of the Mythbusters and the Geeks had to identify which one it referred to. My favorite one there was the last one, “Presented methods for humans to achieve immortality….” It had to be Adam because if Egon tried to make humans immortal, he’d have been out of a job!

The fourth round was on everyday items that are small in size and the visual round showed images of animal rear ends and the Geeks had to identify the correct animal. Round six was straightforward and round seven had eight clips from eight different Ellen Page films. Geese and Lamar both had perfect scores on the audio round while a whopping six teams aced the small penis round.

Thanks to all for coming out and joining us. Don’t forget to Google “Do A Barrel Roll” today and watch the magic happen.

“When One Geek Drinks, All Geeks Drink”

The Stone Church
5 Granite Street
Newmarket, NH 03857
Wednesdays: 7:00 PM
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10:51 AM, May 10, 2012
Scores
Shame on Baines 79
Buddy Ream's Jellyfish 68
The Mad Bubblers 66
Sans Seraphim 65
The MCA's 65
Dark Side of the Womb 63
Vogueing With Shatner 61
Honey Badger Care Way Too Much 57
Nells Bells 55
I Didn't Take My Baby Tanning 53
The Little Lebowski Ueban Achievers 33
Shame on Baines! (And The MCA's. But not MCA.)
T-Math


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Wednesdays at 7 P.M. 		Thomas (T-Math)

I can be bribed with bottles of finely crafted brew, scotch whiskey, and gift cards for bookstores. If you're not coughing that up, you better be studying.

For anybody curious of my formal training for the position, I garnered it mouthing off on the back of the schoolbus, by dealing with drunken customers as a bartender, and by getting an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, which only blossomed my ravenous appetite for nerd culture.

You can find me at the Stone Church, which is perched atop Zion Hill in Newmarket, NH on Wednesday nights at 7 P.M. Bring your animate friends.

Good Day to You, QZA's,

I must say, you proved mighty unruly yesterday. Perhaps some residual effects of the Supermoon? No matter. It was still a fun evening for all! And, no, I won't be spelling anything out for you.

But before I get into recapping the events of the evening, I just want to point out a glaring bit of irony that is troubling me this morning, mostly because I was literally cornered by a team last night who tried to assault me into a single point that they didn't even come close to deserving.

So here's the scene, a team who was carrying on the recurring game-wide trend of naming their team after the dead celeb of the week had beef with one of the questions. They didn't like that I asked which country to Goji berry was from, and went on to explain that because Tibet isn't a country, their incorrect answer of "Berma" (which I won't counter-argue is also not a country on the basis of spelling) was not their fault, but mine. Unfortunately, not only does their answer have no credence because the appropriate answer would default to China, which the word "occupied" in the question would clarify, but THEY NAMED THEIR TEAM AFTER A GUY WHO FOCUSED TONS OF HIS ENERGY ON TIBETAN FREEDOM. And then they took a huge dump on his memory for the sake of a point in Pub Quiz. Bravo.

Okay, done with that.

On another note, order appears to have been restored to the standings, making Team Shame on Baines this week's winners. And seeing how they tend to do so well at Pub Quiz and are such loyal winners, I thought they earned the right to have their team name of the week understood, not just by me (Google to the rescue!) but by the loyal readers: http://www.eagletribune.com/newhampshire/x2089086157/Chester-College-community-urges-president-to-step-aside

As a friend of a graduate of Chester College and as a fan of alternative forms of higher learning in general, (Goddard College MFA FTW!) I have to go ahead and join in on the winning team's chant. Shame on Baines, indeed.

Also, I hope you all are having fun with the secondary playlist game. I'm glad so many teams put the effort in this week, but remember, it's always going to be four songs, and four songs only.

Hearts,
-T

The Stone Church
5 Granite Street
Newmarket, NH 03857
Wednesdays: 7:00 PM
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11:09 AM, May 03, 2012
Scores
Dark Side of the Womb 59
Game of Brones 58
Davey Jones' Diary 51
Loss of Memory 50
The Mad Bubblers 50
Buddy Ream's Jellyfish 49
Cupid Stunts 46
Honey Badger Care Way Too Much 44
Spinach a trois 40
Da Nerds 20
Ural Stoopid.
T-Math


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Wednesdays at 7 P.M. 		Thomas (T-Math)

I can be bribed with bottles of finely crafted brew, scotch whiskey, and gift cards for bookstores. If you're not coughing that up, you better be studying.

For anybody curious of my formal training for the position, I garnered it mouthing off on the back of the schoolbus, by dealing with drunken customers as a bartender, and by getting an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, which only blossomed my ravenous appetite for nerd culture.

You can find me at the Stone Church, which is perched atop Zion Hill in Newmarket, NH on Wednesday nights at 7 P.M. Bring your animate friends.

On last night's episode of GWD, we learned some valuable lessons about the use of the joker in higher-scoring rounds, what kind of tastes the host has for additional playlist-related games, and the proper use of shenanigans.

Front to back, this was one of the tightest games we've had, where many teams went into the final round with a clear path to victory (get tons of points and use that stored-up Joker!) which resulted in a few regular top-finishing teams faltering in favor of a couple of groups to whom the success is fresh! It was an exciting game to score.

As a result, teams Dark Side of the Womb and Game of Brones took the top spots. Congratulations, teams!

Regarding the playlist, I've resolved to keep playing the highly-esoteric supplemental playlist-oriented game, not because of the reaction, (I've had one team in two weeks who actually handed in an answer sheet) but because it's a game I'd want to play if I was in your shoes. Anyway, I'll keep trying to come up with themes that are sufficiently difficult to grasp so that you don't win a bunch of stuff for me to put on my tab all the time, but that are accessible enough to anybody with the knowledge that you and I can high-five over both knowing about whatever thing it is. It all works out in this manner because this would normally result in me wanting to buy you a beer anyway.

(For those that have missed the last two weeks, the supplemental playlist game goes like this: there are four songs mixed into the playlist that share a connection. At the end of the game, if you've figured out the connection, and if the case requires, have identified the specifics of the connection--if the theme is "songs written for original motion picture soundtracks" you name all the movies the songs are from in addition to the theme--you win a beer. If you also correctly name all of the artists and song titles, I buy your team a pitcher. Only one person wins, so the most information on your sheet will set you apart.)

Lastly, team Cupid Stunts tried to pull one on me by inappropriately calling shenanigans when they didn't know that Moscow was in Europe, then followed up their misstep by properly calling shenanigans when I thought they were team Da Nerds. Everybody Wins!

Affectionately Yours,
-T

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