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The Lion and Rose Pub (Broadway)
5148 Broadway
San Antonio, TX 78209
Tuesdays: 8:00 PM
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10:09 PM, June 14, 2013


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Mister Potato Head, Backdoors Are Not Secrets	75

Happy Hr.	63

Children Left Behind	54

Captain America	53

Pflugerville Tx	50

Two's Company	27

Strube	24

The Flocking Sea Gulls	20

Drive 45	16

Remmers	11

We're All Maniacs. And We're Quizzing Like We've Never Quizzed Before....

Gallifreak

And many of you had in fact never quizzed before.

It's weird hosting a quiz on a Friday. That's not something that happens very often. But our friends at the Lion and Rose – Broadway had a mission for me. Host a quiz for them celebrating the 80's to help them promote Flashdance: The Musical which starts this coming Tuesday at the Majestic Theatre. I'm a child of the 80's, so you're damn right I jumped at the chance to host such a quiz. It was also a quiz being hosted on a night that doesn't have quiz, so there were a lot of you out there that were having your regular Friday night Happy Hour, when this maxi zoom dweebie dressed in a Members Only jacket and hat started firing questions at you and you didn't know what the hell was going on. But many of you decided to join in on our fun, and enjoyed yourselves, so there's big win right there.

We got to dust off my 80's music catalogue which was a lot of fun as well. Speaking of dusting things off, believe it or not, I have a 30 year old bottle of Polo cologne that is still about 1/3 full that I literally dusted off and wore tonight. How dorky is that?

The waitstaff were all dressed in their finest 80's garb which was totally radical, and simply wicked. Thanks ladies for being in the spirit of the 80's.

We had a cool round tonight on 80's cartoons. I've gotta say that holy crap there were some shitty cartoons during that decade. Seriously, the would make a cartoon about ANYTHING in the 80's. You think I'm wrong. Explain why there was a cartoon featuring an anthropomorphic Rubik's fucking Cube, then. Exactly. They made shitty cartoons out of everything. I remember a Laverne And Shirley cartoon where they were in the army or some shit. But you know what's worse? I. WATCHED. THEM. ALL. Yep, all of them. Snorks, Gummi Bears, Kidd Video, an Drak Pack. Hell, I remember a cartoon called Meatball and Spaghetti. To this day I both shake my head at some of the lame assed cartoons I used to watch all the while lamenting the fact that there's essentially no such thing as Saturday Morning cartoons anymore. No more waking up early, making a bowl of sugar charged cereal and plunking down in front of the TV down in the basement and watching cartoons from about 8am until noon. Hell, there's local news broadcasts on Saturday mornings now. That's a travesty! When I finally build my TARDIS and perfect the art of time travel, I'm going back in time to any random Saturday morning (pre-Saved By The Bell and the over-abundance of horrible live action knock offs) and just chill out and lose myself in the bliss of Saturday morning cartoons and Lucky Charms cereal.

I want to thank everyone for coming out to this irregular installment of Geeks Who Drink. I hope to see you n00bs joining us on our regular Tuesday nights.

The Lion and Rose Pub (Broadway)
5148 Broadway
San Antonio, TX 78209
Tuesdays: 8:00 PM
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7:40 AM, June 05, 2013


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Stock Adders	76

The Chodes	75

4th Place	73

O'Trivia Newton John	71

Michael Douglas Is A Cunning Linguist	67

Iglesias	64

I Sheared My Weasel	63

Someone Shit On The Coats	58

Nacho Tits	57

Go LeBron Go	53

Uncle Sausage Finger Pants	47

Spork Amok	45

The Harem	39

Meet MEAT!

Gallifreak

Before we start tonight's blog I have an announcement to make. Next Tuesday (JUNE 11^th) there will be no quiz because the San Antonio Spurs are going to be throwing a ball into a hoop or something. We will be back the following Tuesday. Sorry for the inconvenience, but this basketball thing is apparently a big deal to some people. Meh.

We had someone training with me to be a Quizmaster tonight. Don't worry gang, I'm not going anywhere, this is for a different venue in San Antonio. His name is William, I dubbed him Meat as a joke, as in fresh meat. And then it just kinda stuck. I couldn't stop calling him Meat, and neither could you. I think I've created a monster. Sorry about that William.

On to quiz. We had some virgin players in the house tonight. I'm thinking that this has something to do with the school year being at an end. Welcome to all the n00bs. Hope you all enjoyed yourselves.

We had a round called A Throne Of Kings, and it was evident that some of you still are butt-hurt over the events that transpired on the previous episode of Game Of Thrones. Someone even yelled out that The Rains of Castamere was the “worst episode ever”. And to you I say that you are wrong. In fact you couldn't be more wrong. I though the final minutes of the show were some of the best in the entire series. Why? Because it was shocking. It was a complete surprise (to those that have never cracked open the books), and as far as what the ramifications will be for the rest of the series, holy crap! Look at the events that have transpired over the horrible death of Ned Stark? In my opinion the deaths of Robb and Catelyn Stark are going to be so pivotal with the repercussions reaching out throughout all of Westeros. And think of what will happen when Arya learns that her brother and mother are dead in an even worse manner than that of her father Ned! Seriously, she's gonna lose her shit. She's young now, but experienced with a sword. I've not read the books, but damnit, I see her growing up to be some kind of crazy warrior woman that will fuck up some people in the name of revenge.

A lot of people out there are lamenting these deaths by saying, “All the Starks are dead”. Um...no. Ok, Sansa is fucking useless, but there's still Bran, and Arya, that other little bugger and Jon Snow if you want to count the bastard. The young ones have lots of time to get older and plot what I'm sure will be some sweet revenge for those that have fucked up their lives like this. People pissed off about the Red Wedding just can't see the bigger picture and I pity them for that.

Anyway, once again quiz will be cancelled next week because of Spurs. We'll see you all in two weeks.

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The Lion and Rose Pub (Broadway)
5148 Broadway
San Antonio, TX 78209
Tuesdays: 8:00 PM
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8:16 AM, May 29, 2013


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The Hop Ons	87

Choosy Mom's Choose .Gif!	86

Uncle Sausage Finger Pants	78

Hot Meat Hangover	74

Soggy Weasels	73

Heath Ledger Is Dead Sexy	71

Electric Boogaloo	71

Blarny Stony Parker	60

The Rhodesian Fighting Sticks	55

Grossly Incandescent	48

The Hedge Hog Poke	32

Sober Sistaz	29

Haute Randy Couture

Gallifreak

Welcome back! Did you guys miss me? I definitely miss it when I don't have a scheduled quiz. After 2 years of hosting a quiz on Tuesday nights it's odd suddenly having a Tuesday with no quiz. I have no idea what to do with myself. We didn't have quiz last week because of the Spurs and sadly, there will be more cancellations to come because those damn Spurs are now in the finals. Great for them, and not so great for me. So stay tuned to the blog page, and the Geeks Of Lion & Rose facebook page for any updates on upcoming quizzes and possible cancellations. And that said, now let's go to the blog.

Commercials. You hate them. We all hate them. I hate them too. Other than the odd stroke of commercial brilliance (Leonary Nimoy and Zachary Quinto springs to mind), commercials are nothing but an annoyance these days. Nothing makes my heart break more than when a cherished band (The Ramones) has their music used in some stupid commercial. There is only one that's worse than this in my eyes: when the commercial people REWRITE the lyrics to the song so that they incorporate their product into the song. When that happens, I just want to throw a brick at my tv. This particular circle of hell is where we end up with the most frequencey during Christmas time, which I think is beyond nausiating. I'm not a fan of Christmas carols to begin with, but something tells me that changing the words to “Jingle Bells” to essentially play as “Buy our shit, buy our shit, buy our shit today.” is so counter to the season that it just makes me cringe. Well, we got to visit this circle of hell today with Round 2 where we listened to come commercials where the lyrics were messed with in order to sell products. Now, don't get me wrong, as a round idea I think this was great! It's clever and it's something that takes us away from the usual R2 stuff. I would actually like to see more of this.

In my opinion, we were treated to more audio gold during round 7. Another cool variation from our usual R7s. You were given a string of sound fx from popular game shows and you had to identify the game show just from the sound fx used in it. I think you guys enjoyed the change of pace there as well.

Round 4 was a geek paradise tonight. We covered Star Trek, Asimov's Laws of Robotics, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Logan's Run and even Gremlins. How much more geek can you get? Audio rounds aside, I think that round in particular and the round 6 “Sooner or Later” round weres my favourites of the night.

Have a great week everyone and we'll meet up here again next Tuesday.

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