Month: June 2012

Big Money Tuesday

Action starts tonight at O’Neals at 8 p.m. $3.50 margaritas. On to City Tap House, where there is gonna be a ton of beer week stuff going on in addition to quizzo, including reggae music and a late night party. Furthermore, they have a TON of new beers on tap this week. If you like trying crazy beers, this week is a must for the quiz. Action starts at 10:15 p.m. If the weather is nice, we might even move the action outside. We’ll see how it feels when we get there. $100 gift cert to the winners, and it’s slow during the summer, so you got a great shot at a sweet prize. See ya tonight!

Concert Tickets, Phillies Tickets to Give Away Tonight at Quizzo.

An exciting night of quizzo action, as we’re gonna play a little Name That Tune tonight at both venues. First up, at North Star, I’ll be giving away tix to the upcoming show of your choice at the Star, as well as a couple of drink tickets. Action starts at 7 p.m. $3 Kenzos. On to Sidecar, where we’re raising the prizes to $30 for first and $15 for second, and also giving away two tix to Thursdays Phillies-Dodgers game. These are kickass seats. Action at Sidecar starts at 9:15. Both of these venues are wide open with no dominant teams (though the staff at Sidecar is damn smart). Hope to see ya tonight!

This Just Made My Day

Just came across this. Thought I’d share: The Barbie Liberation Organization or BLO…gained notoriety in 1993 by switching the voice boxes on talking G.I. Joes and Barbie dolls. The BLO performed “surgery” on a reported 300-500 dolls and then returned them to the shelves of stores, an action they refer to as “shopgiving.” This action resulted in girls opening their new Teen Talk Barbie to hear it say phrases such as “vengeance is mine” and boys hearing their G.I. Joe say “the beach is the place for summer.”

Not allowed to embed this video, but you can watch a news story on it here. It was done by a group who was outraged by Barbie saying such obnoxious nonsense as “Math is Hard!” There is more in a 1993 New York Times article:

The group, which asserts it has surgically altered 300 dolls, says its aim is to startle the public into thinking about the Stone Age-world view that the dolls reflect.

The result is a mutant colony of Barbies-on-steroids who roar things like “Attack!” “Vengeance is mine!” and “Eat lead, Cobra!” The emasculated G. I. Joe’s, meanwhile, twitter, “Will we ever have enough clothes?” and “Let’s plan our dream wedding!”

Included with each doll is a leaflet from the group, claiming credit and calling itself, appropriately enough, the Barbie Liberation Organization. The leaflets list the group’s telephone number, as well as those of television stations and newspapers in the area where the doll was purchased. Buyers who agree with the group’s anti-sexist, anti-violent agenda are urged in the leaflet to call these news organizations.

I also thought it was interesting to read the word “twitter” in a 1993 news article.