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I'll just get the most important part of this blog out of the way here at the start: Stephanie Stone-Robb is a peach. She's a peach like the ones trucked up from Fredericksburg that you can buy at any of these makeshift stands set up on the side of a hill country highway of a summer's afternoon. Tender, juicy and able to swiftly troubleshoot all of the many struggs that yours truly is likely to encounter when there are cables and sound equipment involved. Just... a peach.
While Dear Leader Patrick was out gettin' his drank on to celebrate the anniversary of his birth (and in the company of former Penn Field QM Josh, no less), Stephanie and I thoroughly enjoyed broadening our knowledge, along with all of you, about various kinds of tools and Garry Shandling. I think we hit a high point when I taught everyone how to spell Goethe. How many hot German biermaids can you honestly expect to pick up, next time you're traipsing about the aforementioned Texas hill country on some drunk-ass bro-down road trip, without knowing that particular tidbit? And did you know that Garry Shandling has a pet snake?
Patrick will be back next week, joined again by Stephanie, who'll no doubt have an easier job to do by the side of someone who knows what the fuck is up with that giant mixer in the server station. Till then, y'all have a fabulous week and don't forget to check out the Facebook page.
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Howdy quizzers of the Opal at Penn Field. My name is JJ and I was your substitute teacher, I mean QuizMaster this evening. Also I had the help of Becca who was the kickass scorekeeper sitting next to me. Let not your heart be troubled Patrick shall be back next week helming this pirate ship.
It was an old school rock and roll kind of night here at Opal Divines Penn Field. We started out the night with the mixer dying because it knew it could not handle the METAL that was going to be played tonight. After some rigging we were able to get that resolved. Thanks to some quick help from the quiz overlords and the staff at Opals.
Whenever I host a quiz there are going to be two things that happen. One there will be Sing-A-Longs and two I bring the METAL! You lovely quizzers sang along to songs from Avenue Q, RENT and Tenacious D. As for the metal, one of the quizzer wore a Slayer shirt so lets just say their was some Raining Blood.
Tonight there was an excellent turn out even with some other geek events *cough * Game of Thrones Quiz * cough*. We had 26 teams at Opal tonight. We Broke Up, But She Said We Can Still Be Cousins won best team name of the night. Our first place team was Fallopian Boobs with an impressive 81 points. Although the story of the night was the battle for second place, after round eight there was a tie. Our Drinking Team Has a Trivia Problem and Freaks Who Drink each had 78 points. With some quizzes when there is a tie like this there is a “dance off”, but tonight was different. Tonight it was decided by a MOSH OFF, the team with the best mosh pit to Rammstein’s Du Hast would be declared 2nd place winners. This honor went to Our Drinking Team Has a Trivia Problem who won over the crowd with their moves.
Thanks again to all the wonderful people at Opals. Before I joined Geeks Who Drink, I used to quiz often at this venue so it was really great to get to host it tonight. I am the host at Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar on Monday nights at 7pm and Becca is the co-host at Billy’s on Burnet Wednesday nights at 7pm.
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Six things we learned tonight:
1. No one knows where potatoes grow outside of Idaho.
2. Big Sandy is my stage name at Exposé on the weekends.
3. Mercy is not just a song by Duffy, it's also by someone called 2 Chains.
4. It's hot as genitals right now but it's only gonna get hotter.
5. The Rumble in the Pub just got real.
6. Aaliyah never had an album, posthumous ot otherwise, called "Pearl."
Damn I really love y'all. Have a great Sunday and, until next week, stay safe, happy, and drunk.