Author: Johnny Goodtimes

Email from PAWS

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A few weeks ago, the quizzo community raised $900 for PAWS (Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society). I received an email from them that will give you a better idea of where that money went. And I want to again thank everyone who donated. You guys rule.

Thank you so much for your generosity and support of Philadelphia’s homeless, abandoned, and unwanted animals. Your donation of $900.00 on 10/20/2015 to the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) in support of the 9th Annual Mutt Strut has made a significant impact on our ability to serve the city’s most vulnerable pets.
Each year, tens of thousands of dogs and cats enter the city’s shelters. Whether they had been wandering the streets or abandoned by their owners, all face an uncertain future. Many are injured, sick, or neglected, and have never known the comfort and safety of a loving home. PAWS is dedicated to saving them through rescue and adoption, and preventing them from entering shelters in the first place by providing affordable veterinary care to the neediest pet owners.
As the city’s largest no-kill shelter, PAWS saves more than 2,700 animals per year who would otherwise be killed. We rescue them from the city’s animal control shelter, house them in our facilities and provide needed medical care, spay/neuter, and TLC, and place them into loving foster or adoptive homes. Every time we send an animal home, we fill that vacancy with another pet who is desperately waiting for a way out of the shelter.
PAWS also works daily to prevent pet homelessness through our low-cost Spay/Neuter and Wellness Clinics. Serving nearly 24,000 animals each year, the clinics prevent the birth of countless unwanted litters and provide the veterinary care necessary for pets to remain as cherished family members. Each day, pet owners tell us our services have saved them from making the heartrending decision to give up their beloved dog or cat.
All of PAWS’ efforts are privately funded. Thousands of pets who had no place else to go are now enjoying the protection and love of a family, thanks to the support of generous donors like you.
You are an important part of PAWS’ lifesaving community. Together, we will make Philadelphia a city in which every healthy and treatable pet is guaranteed a home.
With gratitude on behalf of the animals,
PAWS

This Week In Worthless Knowledge

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Odds are, you love worthless knowledge. Otherwise, I highly doubt you would be spending any time on a quizzo website. Well good news, now you can get some of that worthless knowledge outside of the bar.

My buddy Nat “The Truth” Jones and I used to host a radio show together on the Eastern Shore of Virginia 15 years ago. Well, thanks to the wonders of mondern technology, we can do so again, despite the fact that he lives in Boston and I’m here in Philly. So we’ve decided to make this show about worthless knowledge, and more specifically, worthless knowledge that happened this week. You can grab the podcast off of itunes here. If you don’t have itunes, you can still listen online here.

On this week’s show (our 2nd), we discussed Sir Walter Raleigh’s head, which his wife carried around in a velvet bag for 29 years after he was decapitated on October 29th, 1618. The Sistine Chapel ceiling painting was completed on November 1st, 1512, so we discussed which would rather see: Michaelangelo’s Sistine Chapel or MIchaelangelo, the 6-foot tall crime fighting turtle. It’s a pretty entertaining podcast, so I hope you’ll subscribe. We’re gonna do a new one each week. And be sure to follow us on Facebook, where we’ll be posting more strange, unusual, and worthless knowledge all through the week.

The Oldest Tradition in Philadelphia (American?) Quizzo Continues This Week

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It’s time for the 13th Annual Halloween Spooktacular. Yep, we’ve been doing this one since the days of Frank Clement’s Tavern, since the youngsters playing at City Tap House were 8-years old, since Gervase was hosting quizzo, SINCE EVERYONE IN PHILLY KNEW WHO GERVASE WAS!

Anyways, as always, there will be questions about killers, zombies, vampires, and pure unbridled terror, and maybe even a bit of candy to give away. Action starts tonight at Sidecar at 9:30 p.m. Only gonna do one quiz this week. (We’ll be back to two quizzes next week.) Hope to see you at quizzo this week…if you DARE!

Pics and Scores of Winners This Week

O’NEALS

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  1. Pope Jawn II 112
  2. Fred Bassett 96
  3. Stately Plump Buck Mulligans 93

CITY TAP HOUSE

  1. Jesters of Tortuga 116
  2. Ukraine in the Membrane 110
  3. H to the Quizzo 107

THE VOUS

  1. Hispanic at the Disco 105
  2. Synch Tramp 102
  3. #1 Government Team Competitor 91

FOUNDING FATHERS

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  1. Who’s On Turd 109
  2. Jitney Spears 106
  3. Duane’s World 106

INDUSTRY

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  1. Pope Floats 94
  2. Imaginary Pablo 89
  3. First @2, Last @4 89
  4. Poop Deck Pappies 89

BARDS

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  1. Benghazi Netenyahu 90
  2. Jims Got a Harbaugh 82
  3. VP Of 76

Quizzo Tonight

We’re back at it this evening with a couple of great quizzes. We start the party at Industry at 6:30 p.m. $40 gift cert for first, $20 bonus if you can reach 115 points. $3 craft beers (yeah, you heard me right), delicious food, and terrific service. IF YOU LIKE THAT KIND OF THING.

On to Bards at 9:15. Let’s get it.

Quizzo Tonight

We kick it off at O’Neals tonight at 8 p.m. Double your gift cert if you can top 120. On to City Tap House, and you’re not gonna believe who is waiting tables: Erin from the North Star! After they closed I told her to talk to Andy at CTH. The interview went well, they hired her, and she’s gonna work quizzo nights! Very cool. Action starts at 10:15 (Last week I ran a bit behind so we started late but this week I’ll try to get there on time). Hope to see ya tonight!

JGTAI Scores at the Midway Point

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As we head into the 2nd half of the season, things are starting to get interesting. Here are our scores. A few teams went all out on last week’s Facebook challenge and chalked up some serious points. I just posted a new challenge on the page if you’re looking to rack up some points this week.

No quiz tonight due to what’s going on at North Star and the Eagles game. I’m only writing one quiz this week and we’ll operating our normal schedule Tuesday-Thursday. Your best shot to get a win? That’s a tough one. We see the most parity at Industry, though Imaginary Pablo blew it out of the water there this past week. The Tap House is a gamble, as when the Jesters don’t show up, it’s anyone’s ballgame.

So get your a-squad together and get out to quizzo this week, as we head down the home stretch, and only the best teams will earn an invite to the Big Event on November 22nd.