–A guy goes cross country in a car in 31 hours. A cross country trip with no Detroit hookers, no JFK conspiracy theorists, and no 72 once steaks? Not interested.
-Holy cow, this dude puts the “car” in cardboard.
–Greatest reward for a stolen item ever. “The person who returns [it] is obviously the person who stole it, so they don’t deserve any reward!” Name that movie.
-Any “Fish That Saved Pittsburgh” fans out there? If so, you need to see this. Insane.
Here’s a few from last week. Answers after the jump. Quizzo tonight at Good Dog at 8 p.m. and Bards at 10 p.m. If you haven’t already played the online quizzo, click here.
1. Due to a contract dispute with the leads, Coy and Vance became stars of this show, causing it to jump the shark.
2. Who is the only current major leaguer to have played in both a World Series game and an NCAA Final Four, as he used to back up Steve Kerr at Arizona?
3. What state had a dead animal on it’s license plate from 1987 to 1999?
4. Buddha was born in an area that then belonged to India, but in what is now what country?
5. What was the subject of the documentary Triumph of the Will?
6. In what sport would you find positions such as the long-off, the fine leg, and the third man?
7. In what 1995 Hughes Brothers movie would you have found Chris Tucker?
8. This co-founder of Untied Artists was known as America’s Sweetheart, though she was born in Toronto in 1892?
Joey Bishop of the Rat Pack passed away last night. Though Bishop was born in the Bronx, he grew up in South Philadelphia and got his start on the local burlesque scene. He was the last living member of the Rat Pack. This from philly.com:
When he was 3 months old the family moved to South Philadelphia, where he attended public schools. He recalled being an indifferent student, once remarking, “In kindergarten, I flunked sand pile.”
-NBC’s 10! show has long been on the cutting edge, and they kept that edge sharp during a recent show when cute co-host Lori Wilson said that Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love For You” sounded like, “I’m Shaving Off My Muff For You”. Her co-host Bill Henley has no room to talk, because on the episode of the 10! show I hosted last year, he made perhaps the funniest double entendre in the history of television.
-Last night, when I asked, “Which one is further east, Charlottetown or Niagara Falls?” Ern and a few of his pals hollered out, “Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned, and step by step, inch by inch…” A few people asked me what in the hell he was talking about. It’s this, a famous old vaudeville act.
-James Watson raised quite a few eyebrows recently when he said that black people have lower IQs than white people. But when people blasted him for this theory, he was like, “Oh really, genius, well how many deoxyribonucleic acid double helix’s have you figured out in your life? Because I invented that s***, son.”
Here’s the latest. Hope ya like it. If you know of any fun facts about Canada (true or untrue) feel free to post them below.
-A new scoring wrinkle that will help teams in bad shape after round three was given a trial run last night and worked fairly well. We’ll see it again tonight.
-Could the empire be expanding to North Broad? Stay tuned.
-Questions were pretty tough last night. Expect more of the same tonight.
-People always ask me where they have the best chance to win. It varies over the course of the year, but right now I would definitely say the Good Dog. No dominant team and a new winner nearly every week.
-Oooooh, I’ve got some sweet new last place prizes too.
QUIZZO TONIGHT: Locust Rendezvous 6:15 p.m.
Black Sheep 8 p.m.
-Cheesy chain Buca Di Beppo closing down. Nice work, Philly! But let’s don’t stop there. Now let’s run the Olive Garden out of town. (But not Applebee’s of course. Those poppers are amazing. And porterhouse steak topped with melted cheese? Brilliant.)
-More Trivia Art, this time in the Metro.
-Mitch Williams to AJ Daulerio of the Phillymag blog: Keep Curt Schilling away from this team.
-Yesterday I posted that things were going from bad to worse in Atlanta: First Joey Harrington, then TI, then the water shortage. Well, finally some good news: they’re getting a WNBA team!!!
-The rankings are in, and the toolbags who fill out polls for Travel and Leisure have spoken. Philly sucks at pretty much everything, which is great. That means the squares who fill out these polls and their friends will stay away. Perfect. Oh, and we were the ugliest out of 25 cities. Um, hello. That’s exactly why I moved here. In the land of trolls, I look like a prince.
Hire this man immediately. (Good call, Garrett. He posted it in the comment section). Leo Mazzone is one of the greatest assistant coaches in MLB history and after his suicide mission in Baltimore, is available. Fire Rich Dubee and hire this guy today.
D-Mac and I started out on Friday at about noon, bound for Toronto. After stopping in Old Forge for their famous pizza (their not so secret ingredient: onions), we drove hard and fast for the border. Flew past Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. Were allowed into Canada and then drove by Hamilton and toward Toronto, rolling into Canada’s largest city at around 9:30 p.m. Dropped our stuff off at the Comfort Inn and headed for the Players Ball. As soon as I walked in the door, I had people challenging me to money games of RPS. I walked out later that night $35 richer. The Players Club was just off of College street, and the women walking around were quite cute. After winning some money and having a few beers, I headed back to the hotel and crashed hard. Spent the next day walking around Toronto. The first thing I noticed was it’s cleanliness. We were sort of wandering aimlessly and found an area that was sort of a cross between 8th and Market and 22nd and Market: A few record stores, some adult bookstores, some regular used bookstores. And even this sort of sketchy area was clean. Impressive.
That night, I dressed to the nines and headed to a bar called the Steam Whistle for the RPS World Championships. D-Mac is doing a story on it for the Philadelphia Weekly, so I won’t give a whole lot of details about the RPS, but I did fall in the first round on the final throw. Very disappointing. Hung around, saw the first ever female RPS Champ get crowned (also, the most unexcited winner of $7,000 ever), got shot down by a few more Canadian women, then headed with the Philadelphia contingent to a bar called Goodtymez, which was a dive bar near our hotel.
Buffalo, Cooperstown, and lots of photos after the jump.
What two US Presidents won Nobel Peace Prizes while still in office?
