If you entice a herd of nerds with cheap booze, fine Colorado whiskey and sex toys, what do you get? Aside from something easily cleared-up at the free clinic, you get a very special Geeks Who Drink edition at the Rackhouse Pub. Lasr night, we hosted the Denver Tweetup, a gathering
We filled the place with nearly 200 folks and 28 teams last night. I'd like to note up-front that no one payed attention to Quiz Rule 3: Don't Fuck With the Quizmaster. That's fine. I've called Santa and you're all on the list for a copy of Glenn Beck's new book in your stockings this year. Fuck y'all, too.
Here are some highlights of what Geeks can do when properly inspired:
* Donate nearly 100 toys and raise almost $200 for the Denver Santa Claus Shop (toys and funds stay local to Denver)
* Get Channel 4 News and Denver Westword out to cover the entire event, along with some shots of The Redhead and fellow drinking geeks getting their Quiz on (thanks @MistyMontano and @DenverWestword!)
* Keep a bar that's only been open for 20 days running at full capacity all night long (your waitstaff and bartenders LOVED you!)
* Whine about not having read the rules of the night's Grand Prize giveaway (that bottle-o-Stranahan's Whiskey)
* Make several jokes throughout the night about my "oral" skills with the mic. Original, guys. Goddamn inspired genius.
With 28 teams, you can imagine how fun the bonus rounds were last night. You'd think I was standing there naked and everyone was 13 looking for their first glimpse of tits. While I did not show my tits, you all repeatedly showed your asses. So much, in fact, that I had to do (yet another) a Dance-Off to determine the winner for one round since no one knew their freakin' mythology. Seriously, folks - you can tell me video game characters from the early 80s, superheros and the everloving river Glenn Beck's mother drowned in but your mythology skills...suckage.
The highlight of the evening had to be the boxing game in the back of the bar. While a kickass game for any testosterone-drenched being, it was pretty fucking annoying when you're trying to run a round of Quiz. The offenders were mercilessly flirting with your Quizmaster all night and once I told them, "Guys, that's fucking annoying. I'm trying to run an event here. If you stop, I'll buy you a beer..." the silence washed-over Quiz like the pall a glance at Sarah Palin's book could have on anyone with more than a third grade education.
At the end of the night, not only had this Nerd Herd done some fantastic things for charity while drinking over 20 of Colorado's finest craft beers, a shitload of people won things. Special thanks to the sponsor's of last night's Denver Tweetup: Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey, The Rackhouse Pub, ToyWithMe.com & Dear Redhead, and the Cru Jones Society. Everyone enjoyed winning iTunes gift cards, fuzzy red fetish handcuffs, low-card lube, boxed sets of Deadwood and flicks like Ghostbusters and Airplane!
Reminders for all of last night's Tweetup attendees:
* Sign up for the email list for The Rackhouse Geeks event - it's in the right hand sidebar of this page and you'll get sneaky peeks at each week's rounds so you can Wikipedia the shit out of them.
* Get your Geek on at the Geek Bowl - January 30th at The Gothic. Compete against 500 other nerds for the title of a lifetime. Kinda.
* Follow Geeks Who Drink, Dear Redhead, ToyWithMe.com, Rackhouse and Cru Jones Society on Twitter.
* Follow Ginger Pelz, your Sco Ho from last night, on Twitter. She did a thankless job of cleaning and scoring-up after your asses and I would have been toast without her.
* No Quiz next week - Gobble Gobble.
* Don't play that fucking boxing game if you want to walk out of Quiz alive next time.
And the leaders of the Nerd Herd are...
First Place - Can I Twitter the Man in Your Boat?
Second Place - Whiskey Dick and the Sister Fisters
Third Place - Kyle's Hooters
Scores
Can I Twitter the Man in Your Boat 65 Whiskey Dick and the Sister Fisters 56 Kyle's Hooters 54 Cru Jones Society 50 Anal Lube 44 Secret Kabal of Gays 44 Sara Bellum 43 Sola 42 Jesus Chrysler Supercar 42 Project Badass 41 Tee Pee 36 Meg Ryan Experience 34 Sushi Maulers 29 53 25 Doyle 24 Tits for Tots 20 Home Team 16 Shiny Marbles of Passion 15 Four Minus Three 11 Clarkson & Others 9 Sweet T & his Bitches 8 Filet Show 8 Jukebox 6 Rosealicious 4
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Also thanks for making my second tweet-up so much fun. My first was when I visited a friend in Seattle about two years ago. It was held at a savory pie restaurant and only had a dozen people including this one weird older gay guy who kept hitting on me oddly and telling me he could get me a job at his start-up which was like "Second Life conventions," where you could meet as an avatar in a convention and pay him instead of actually going to another city and maybe half enjoying yourself.
Whiskey tours and pub quiz is much much better.
I...love you.
Gobble gobble