The New Thursday Night Quizzo

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Alright, not gonna give it away just yet. We got to make it a bit of a quiz first and see who can come up with the answer. The name of the bar is also the name of a book that was turned into a movie starring Marlon Brando, seen above. What is it? Post your answer in the comments. Let’s see who can come up with it first (If you already know don’t guess). The new Thursday night quiz starts next week.

UPDATE: Palestra Jon nailed it. Answer is in the comments. More details coming tomorrow.

Scoreboard, Brought to You by Dr. J vs. Larry Bird

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O’NEALS

  1. Savage Henry 89
  2. T. Mawesome 78
  3. Why is John’s Rum Gone 65
  4. TWSS 60
  5. Rocky Mountain Oysters 58

BARDS

  1. Rain Delays Suck 101
  2. Tooth Wind and Fire 92
  3. $1 to See It, $2 to Touch It 88
  4. Pulitzer Prize Winners 76
  5. Pete the Birthday Loser 69

LOCUST RENDEZVOUS

  1. Quiz on Your Face 96
  2. 1022 93
  3. The Jams 74
  4. File Clerks 65
  5. Tilda Swintons 60

BLACK SHEEP

  1. Craigslist Killer…Qu-est-ce que c’est 98
  2. Unusual Suspects 97
  3. Duane’s World 88
  4. Becky’s Birthday 87
  5. Catdog 87

BARDS

  1. Sofa Kingdom 107
  2. Interrupting Sloth 71
  3. The Smiling Somalian 70
  4. Lost my Microphone 68
  5. Lesbotronics and Hot Dude 63

This is Kind of Cute

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Yesterday, I went over to my Little Brother’s house because it was his 12th birthday, so his family was getting together for cake and ice cream. (His mom got trick candles. I am a big fan of trick candles.) Anyways, we’re hanging out front on the street throwing the football and his buddy Phillip comes riding up on his scooter with tinfoil in his hand.

“Hey Steve, I forgot it was your birthday until like an hour ago, so this is all I could get you.” So he opens up the tinfoil, and pulls out a cookie from a nearby bakery. Then he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a dollar in change, the only other thing he could scrounge up in the past hour so that he could give his buddy a birthday present. Awesome.

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William Penn, Sr. Thanks for the Reggae and Rum, Mon

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I was pretty fascinated by the fact that Jamaicans today speak English because of William Penn’s father (as we learned this week in quizzo), but I was unable to find a lot of information about the English takeover of the island. Apparently, Penn and his crew had tried to attack Hispaniola in 1655 but were repelled, so they had to settle for Jamaica, which was not considered very valuable at the time and was much less heavily fortified. He defeated the Spanish and took over the island, and it remained in English hands until 1962.

Here’s another interesting fact I came across about Penn Sr.:
The origin of grog lies with Vice-Admiral William Penn, father of the founder of Pennsylvania. In 1655, during Penn’s campaign for Cromwell in the Indies, Penn arrived in Barbados and captured Jamaica. Unfortunately Jamaica had few stores of beer or wine. Jamaica did, however, have rum. Penn, therefore, began the use of rum as a ration.

This makes it seem more like Penn introduced the English world to rum than to grog, as the origins of grog don’t date until 1740. So not only did the Penn family give us Pennsylvania, they gave us reggae (if it wasn’t for the William Penn it would be in Spanish, and probably use a bunch of horns) and rum. And is that a baseball bat in his right hand? Did the Penns invent baseball too?