Today is Guy Fawkes Day. What king was Guy Fawkes hoping to kill?
Jams Win (Repped by CHef Tell)
In his skit “The Liar” on Saturday Night Live, Jon Lovitz always claimed that his wife was this woman, who was born in Dallas in 1950.
Cornbread Mafia wins at O’Neals
What’s the name of the arena where the Mavericks and the Stars play?
pics of last week’s winners
THis week, just to salt the wound a little bit, the theme for questions is gonna be ” Dallas”. One guess per person.
Ouch!
“As Eagles fans filed out of the stadium with nearly 20 minutes of football still to be played, at least they had some clarity.
They walked in wondering whether the Dallas Cowboys were for real, having gotten to a 6-1 record without beating any good teams. They walked out knowing the Cowboys are 7-1 and still haven’t beaten any good teams.”
–Phil Sheridan in the Inquirer
Brotherly Love
Michael Nutter called out the people of Philadelphia today in a stirring speech at LOVE Park. “This is supposed to be the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection. We need to start acting like it. We need to start acting like it,” he said. WE NEED…TO START…ACTING LIKE IT.”** What are you doing to show Brotherly Love? There is still a severe shortage of men in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, which is a great way to make a huge impact on the future of the city. If that’s not your bag, why not go to philacares.com and find something that does interest you. The future of Philadelphia is in your hands. GET INVOLVED!
And speaking of Brotherly Love, I highly encourage you to watch this great 3 minute film about our beloved city.
Johnny’s returning to the Punkin Chunkin
A couple of years ago my girfriend at the time (the one who hates Houdini) and I took a romantic holiday weekend to Delaware for the Punkin’ Chunkin’. It almost turned out tragic. If you have not already read the story of the pumpkin accident that nearly ended my life, I highly recommend you read it. Last year, I went down, but got their too late for the actual chunkin and just hung out in Ocean City for a night.
Well, my old freshman roommate in college goes to Punkin Chunkin every year and this year he rented a freaking RV so that he and his friends would not have to leave the punkin field the whole weekend. You can see why we hit it off so well in college. So I’m heading down first thing tomorrow morning and will be taking plenty of pictures and some video. And hopefully this year I can avoid pumpkin tragedy.
Results from the 5th Annual Spooktacular
It was essentially the same quiz, though I must admit that I took out a couple of questions that were just too obscure for the last two quizzoes. Though that only partially explains the high scores. I think Philly Hardcore would have still had the week’s high score either way. Oh, and if you haven’t already seen me and CHip’s flick, click here and vote funny.
ONEAL’S
Cornbread Mafia 78
Young Old and Restless 75
Fangtastics 70
Halloweenies 68
Pumpkin Bread Mafia 67
BARDS (Tuesday)
Ghost Dad and the Darkness (Sofa Kingdom) 90
Narcotizing Dysfunktion 75
His and Herpes 74
JGT in a Pee Wee Costume Makes my B**** Itch 70
Bud Hoffman 56
LOCUST RENDEZVOUS
The Tell Tale Chef (aka Jams) 94
I’m Only Here B/c the Good Dogs Closed 73
Frankenstein and His Brides 71
Stewed Screwed and Tattooed 65
Barack Obama Dat Azz 62
BLACK SHEEP
Philly Hardcore 108
But My Mom Says I’m Cool 97
Flaming Dog Poop On Your Porch 86
Ackula 84
Pumpkin Thieves Have No Balls 81
GOOD DOG (No quizzo this week due to renovations)
BARDS (Thursday)
The Premarital Sextet 101
Hurtin Bombs 95 (won 2nd place tiebreaker)
Bald Bull and the Badass Bullies 95
That Double Music Was Awful, JGT 84
Snortina Hingis 67
Around the Horn, brought to you by my upcoming root canal
–The Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets died and with him went his dream of dropping another atomic bomb.
-I don’t watch many movies, obviously, but I gotta admit, I’m kind of excited about American Gangster and might try to actually go to the theatre to see it. Denzel was so good as a bad guy in Training Day (though it wasn’t that great of a film), and I look forward to see him as the bad guy again.
-Speaking of gangsters, the City Paper has an interesting article about a restaurant in South Philly that is apparently run by the mob, but because the writers didn’t want to go swimming in the Schuylkill, they didn’t say what restaurant it is. Anybody got the inside scoop? (CP via Foobooz)
-Went to the dentist yesterday and got some great news: I’m getting a root canal! That’s right, only $3000 for one of the most awesome experiences of my life! Seriously, I can’t wait. I love not having dental insurance! This is gonna be awesome.
Pick which movie I should watch!
Alright, we’ve got until 5 p.m. today to determine which movie I’ll be watching. Just click here and vote for which classic movie I should watch for the first time. There’s some good ones, and we’ve got a pretty close match between three of them.