Alright, gonna post pics of winning teams. It was on this date in 1752 that the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the US, opened. So I’m gonna post questions about hospitals under pics. One guess per person.
The Scoreboard
O’NEALS
- We Got Nothin’ 100
- Turkish Babies Can Fly 93
- Young Old and Restless 93
- Are You Calling My Friend Fat…Tuesday? 66
- 4 teams tied at 64
BARDS
- Narcotyzing Dysfnktion 111
- Sofa Kingdom 91
- Western Omelette 87
- Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler 76
- I’d Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me…66
LOCUST RENDEZVOUS
- The Jams 104
- But My Mom Says I’m Cool 83
- This is Not a Bus 82
- Dripping Pus 73
- Puffy Shirts 72
BLACK SHEEP
- Duane’s World 116
- The Western Kingdom 96
- Fine Young Cannibals 95
- How’s My Sloppy Seconds 89
- Satan’s Minions 77
GOOD DOG
- Fort Awesome 100
- Dork Sided 96
- Mitt Pulls Out Early 90
- The Lawn Wranglers 86
- Sadma 67
BARDS
- Hurtin Bombs 110
- Sofa Kingdom 110
- Call Me Mint Jelly Cause I’m On the Lamb 105
- Lamda Lamda Lamda 103
- You Can’t Really Dust For Vomit 101
Week in Review, brought to you by Frank Buckles
A very interesting week of quizzo. It started on a quiet Tuesday, when I Got Nothin’, a team that’s been playing for a good year without a victory, finally got over the hump at O’Neals. On to a mellow Bards, where the Dysfunktion beat up on the Sofa Kingdom, scoring a 111-91 win. Big blowouts on Wednesday as the Jams cruised to a 104-83 win. The most impressive win of the week came at the Black Sheep, as Duane’s World only missed one question in the whole game on their way to 116 points. We finally got a thriller at the Good Dog, as Team Awesome (a team that included my ex) made a 4th round comeback to pull off a 100-96 win over Dorksided. Finally, a shootout at the Bards, as the Hurtin Bombs and Sofa Kingdom finished in a tie with 110, and the top 5 teams all cracked the 100 point plateau. The Hurtin’ Bombs pulled off the win in OT. To see the full scoreboard, click below.
Pics of All of the Teams!
Alright, I came to the logical conclusion that it would be a hell of a lot easier to upload and organize the teams on flickr, so you can click here and then click on whichever set you want to. I had to upgrade to Flickr Pro to organize these damn things, so you better go check ’em out!
The Donspiracist Returns With Fluoride: Poison Without Consent
The Donspiracist had to take off a few months to move…probably to stay one step ahead of the government, which is obviously trying to silence him. The powers that be will certainly not be pleased with his latest, in which he examines why our drinking water is poisoned, not by terrorists, but by our government. -ed.
If I claimed that the government is trying to poison you by putting hazardous chemicals intentionally into our water supply, you’d inevitably tell me I’m nuts.
Before you read any further, go to your medicine cabinet and take out your toothpaste.
Turn it to the back and read it carefully, especially where it says Warnings.
I have a tube of Colgate and Sensodyne in my bathroom (So I have sensitive teeth. So what?), and both their warnings read about the same: If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control center right away.
Funny, I thought this was a product that is safe for the whole family to use. Imagine if a box of Chips Ahoy said something similar. Or a jar of Cheez Whiz. Or a boxed fruit drink. Or a bottle of vodka.
If you look further, you notice that under ingredients, sodium fluoride is listed as an active ingredient. In FDA speak, that means it’s a drug.
This is the same stuff that is put in our water, Philadelphia included. Of course, experts will assure us that it has been done for over forty years and that the concentration is miniscule, only 1 part per million (ppm). What they won’t tell you is how small the gap is between a therapeutic dose of fluoride and a toxic dose of fluoride: therapeutic is 1 ppm, and toxic is 4 ppm. Hmm….
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The Last World War I Veteran
Last night I asked the question, “Are there any living American veterans of World War One?” The answer is yes. There is one. His name is Frank Buckles and he just turned 107 earlier this week. Here is an article on him that was in the Times a few months ago.
Quizzo Tonight
- Word on the street is that it is too tough to win a Johnny Goodtimes quizzo. The people spreading these rumors have obviously never played at the Good Dog, where a one man team has won the last two weeks. The Good Dog is wide slam open. Anybody can win there. 8 p.m. 15th and Locust
- Another urban myth: The Sofa Kingdom is unbeatable. They have lost by 24, 13, and 20 points in the last two weeks. They’re in a slump. Now’s your chance to kick their asses. Bards 20th and Walnut 10:15 p.m.
- Photos of all of the teams that played this week will be on the site manana. Also coming tommorow: the Return of the Donspiracist!
Around the Horn, Brought to You By Ken Romney
- Here I’ve been spending all this money on my teeth and not even making a dental vacation out of it! What was I thinking?
- Wanna check out the venue for Quizzo Bowl IV? Tex Cobb is going to be honored during a great night of boxing at the Blue Horizon tomorrow night.
- Another amazing wikipedia line, this one pointed out to me by Blind Squirrel Steve, comes from the wiki page of former Phillie catcher and current eccentric Darren Daulton: He recently claimed in a televised interview with ESPN that he has “skipped through time” and undergone “astral travel.”…He plans to go back in time and break Mitch Williams’ legs after the 4th game of the the 1993 World Series.
- I wasn’t the only person to blast Wing Bowl (I don’t even think I blasted it. I just thought it was kind of boring.) This kid at Cornell got in some pretty wicked shots.
Strip down the niceties, tear down the façade of political correctness, and you are left with Philadelphia at its most naked — unapologetically fat and perverted and disgusting for all to see. The bottom of the social barrel migrates to a small plot of land in South Philly to deliver a big “eff you” to the world. This holiday stands for debauchery, for broken bottles covered in vomit, for smoking in the non-smoking section, for savagely objectifying women without a shred of guilt, for donning an Eagles jersey and shot gunning beer after beer while the rest of America is tightening its tie and sipping its coffee.
Dispatch from the Wing Bowl
Here’s my latest in the Metro. The hate mail has already started.
Sorry you were not intellectually stimulated at the Wingbowl. If you don’t like beer, wings and ‘wrists’ then why would you even attend?
You seem to think you are above everybody else in attendance, yet you claim you stayed up all night drinking like an ignorant frat boy…!?
By the way, the wing eating actually last 30 minutes, not 15 as you state. Get over yourself.
Hopefully there’s more to come. (Please feel free to leave me hate mail in the comments section below.)
Swap Shoppin’
The guy over at That Blue Yak regularly listens to “Ron’s Swap Shop”, a radio show hosted by the self proclaimed “Sultan of Swap” Ron McNeil (right) on an AM station out in West Chester, and his descriptions of the show are hilarious. They have to get streaming radio on their website! I’m from a small town that has a swap shop show, and I once heard a guy call in trying to sell a Go-cart “that got pretty smashed up when I ran it into a wall last week”. Anyways, I just took a look at the website for the Swap Shop on WESR, the radio station near me, and I found that people were trying to buy or sell the following items in the past couple of weeks. I swear I am not making these up:
- Free: old bricks in Cape Charles
- Looking for a hood for a ’73 Chevy pickup
- Looking to trade deer antlers!!!!
- Electric breast pump $25
- Looking to buy large rabbits
- Looking for someone to trap muskrats
- Free 42″ screen tv. Does not work.
Because who couldn’t use some old bricks, a tv that doesn’t work, or a used breast pump? And I really wish I knew the story behind the trading of the deer antlers. Was the guy hoping to impress some people with bigger antlers than he had? Or did his wife tell him that the antlers on the wall were too big, and he needed to downsize? Also, don’t bother calling the one guy if you have medium sized rabbits. Large rabbits only! Finally, I love that someone got so fed up with the dang muskrats that they decided to do something about it…and that something was calling Swap Shop.