In what movie, directed by Joe Dante, did Corey Feldman play a character named Pete Fountaine?
Last Weeks WInners
Under the pics of last weeks winners I will supply a question about the July 16th birthday boy: Corey Feldman! One guess per person. No cheating!
The Week in Review
The week started on Monday with the birth of my 8 pound, 20 inch niece, Lucia Marie Sullivan. I smoked a celebratory cigar with my dad and brother in law on Tuesday morning, then drove back to Philly to get the quizzo week under way. Let’s face it, the questions on Tuesday and Wednesday were as tough as I have ever asked, and scores were pretty low. But before we get to quizzo, I gotta make sure that those of you who haven’t already read about Willie Gee getting fired at the thrift store do so, and read the ensuing comments section, as numerous people from the Eastern Shore challenge Palestra Jon to a fight.
We got back in the swing of things tuesday night, as the Young, the Old, and the Restless scored a 92 to cruise past the competition at O’Neals, and the Sofa Kingdom finally ended their longest schneid ever, winning for the first time in over a month with an easy 95-80 win over Narkotyzing.
LadyBird Has Flown the Coop (aka the Jams) knocked off Steve O and D-Macs team, Easy Round My Ass, 88-82, at the Vous. It was the Jams 5th straight win. I feel a bounty coming on. Duane’s World posted a 96-90 win over Toxic Megacolon at the Black Sheep.
A strange night at the Good Dog. We had a nice sized crowd, but I don’t know if I recognized a single player. A lot of new blood at the Dawg, and Nazakhstan came away with a 92-88 win over Salt ‘N’ Pepa.
On to the Bards, where the Hurtin Bombs missed 2 of the first 6 questions and then did not miss another one to knock off the Kingdom, 116-101. My ex-girlfriends team (The Birfday Squad) finished 4th with 91. We also saw our lowest score of the week, a 33 by I’d Rather Be Drinking at Drinker’s. Pics of winners, toughest questions of the week, and results of Constitution quizzo coming Monday.
News and Notes
Will get the Week in Review done manana. Gotta get to work on this American quiz at the Constitution Center. Again, the details are: Exclusive tour at 6 p.m., quizzo at 6:30 p.m. It will be a quizzo with lots of Americana and such. It does cost $12 to get into the museum but after that the quizzo is free. They will be selling booze and light snacks. Each member of the winning team will walk with a $20 gift certificate to the Stephen Starr restaurant of their choice. 2nd place gets free movie passes to the Ritz 5. We’ll be done around 8-8:30ish. Hope to see ya there!
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-Have you heard about ghost riding the whip? I highly encourage you all to ghost ride the whip yourselves, just to see what it’s like. I particularly think Darth Ern will enjoy it. What could go wrong?
–15 worst music ideas ever. Me performing “Flashdance” at Quizzo Bowl 3 did not make the cut, surprisingly.
-Did you know that there were porno games made for the Atari 2600? Did you know that one of them was called “Custer’s Revenge“, in which a visibly aroused Custer dodges arrows to have sex with a Native American woman tied to a cactus? Should I repeat the second half of that last sentence? “A visibly aroused Custer dodges arrows to have sex with a Native AMerican woman tied to a cactus.” Thank you.
Constitution Center Quizzo
The first of the three US History quizzos I’ll be hosting at the National Constitution Center will be tommorrow night at 6:30 p.m. It should be a lot of fun. You have to pay the regular fee to get into the museum, but the quizzo is free. Each member of the winning team is gonna get a $20 gift certificate to the Stephen Starr restaurant of their choice (team size max is 8), and 2nd place will get free movie passes to the Ritz 5. Not too shabby. Here is the press release:
JOHNNY GOODTIMES TO HOST THREE QUIZZOS AT NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
(Philadelphia) – Philadelphia’s only true man of leisure will be taking time out from his life of idle tranquility to host three U.S. history themed quizzos as part of the Happy Hour With the Founders event at the National Constitution Center (525 Arch Street), with the first quizzo occurring on Friday the 13th of July. The quizzo is part of the Historic Philadelphia Nights series, as the Constitution Center will be staying open until 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays on most weekends of the summer to offer dance lessons, exclusive tours, and bands in addition to quizzo.
Goodtimes, who has performed at the Palestra and the Franklin Institute in the past, is particularly excited about this one. “I am a big US history buff, and am looking forward to challenging the good people of the most historic city in the United States to quizzos that will cover all aspects of the American experience, from Presidents to athletes to rock stars.” There are rumors that Goodtimes will be dressing himself in colonial garb for the events, but Goodtimes says that these are just “Scandalous lies perpetrated by my enemies.”
The Historic Summer Nights series begins on July 13, at 5 p.m. At 6:00 p.m.and 7:00 p.m., the Center will be offering a scandalous “Lurid Lives of the Founders” tour , which will let you know which of the Founding Fathers were lovers, gamblers, and schemers. Quizzo will begin at 6:30 p.m., shortly after conclusion of the 6:00 p.m. tour of “Scandalous Lives”. Quizzo and the “Lurid Lives” tour are free with regular Museum admission. For more information, go to www.johnnygoodtimes.com or call Johnny at (215) 327-4191.
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–Miss New Jersey released those blackmail photos this morning and, are you ready for this, they include one dude squeezing her boobs, one guy biting her boob, and her kissing another guy!!! OMG, that is like so grounds for, like, whatever. That whore! I thought she only loved me!
-You know how I did that thing on Lawchair Larry last week for the Metro? Well, I have an unbelievable update. A guy in Oregon went up in a lawnchair last week, though he got the proper permits, etc.
-Not to self: If involved in an elaborate plan to rob a bank, do NOT allow the other robbers to tie a time bomb around your neck. There is a chance it could end badly. I think I smell a Darwin Award winer.
-From Dan Gross’s column, I learned that Stephon Marbury will be promoting his new sneakers tomorrow at the Franklin Mills Mall. I have become quite a Marbury fan in the last year due to his attempts to make affordable shoes “kool” and stop the senseless mindset that somone needs a $180 pair of shoes to succeed in basketball or be popular. I blasted Lebron “Shill” James for his ignorant statements about those shoes a couple of months ago.
Bush Hates the Special Olympics
The Bush administration hates the Special Olympics, says the former Surgeon General. From the NY Times article: And administration officials even discouraged him (the Surgeon General) from attending the Special Olympics because, he said, of that charitable organization’s longtime ties to a “prominent family” that he refused to name.
“I was specifically told by a senior person, ‘Why would you want to help those people?’ ” Dr. Carmona said.
The Special Olympics is one of the nation’s premier charitable organizations to benefit disabled people, and the Kennedys have long been deeply involved in it.
I hate the Special Olympics too, but that’s because the “Everyone’s a winner” theme is too reminiscent of a communist force we worked so hard to overthrow. And you know how I hate communists.
Happy Birthday Tab!
While looking at his wiki entry, I came across the following incredible photo of him hanging with his bud John Bromfield, who had his initials monogrammed on his tighty whiteys right next to his unit while talking on the phone with a young and dare I say nieve Tab Hunter listening in. Challenges “Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima” as greatest photo ever. I’m going to monogram my tighty whiteys right now. And oh by the way, I would like to remark on what a dumbass I am, b/c for a while I thought Tab Hunter was the star of Hunter.
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–Trivia Art tells us how to celebrate the French tearing the heads off rich people in the 1790s in his weekly Metro column.
-Philadelphia Weekly blogger, quizzo regular, and all around swell guy D-Mac posts a column about Barbaro that is somewhat amusing, but not nearly amusing as the comments that follow from outraged Barbaro fans. “The echoes of the benefits for all horses brought about by this horse will reverberate for decades.” is a good one, which was quickly answered by, “just what are the benefits of this horse that will go on for decades? Glue only lasts a few years before its all used up.” Which was followed by, “I feel sorry for you that you can’t comprehend the power of love.” This is one of the awesomest comment threads I’ve ever read.
-Over/under on pics of my niece on this website before the end of the year: 734.
–Somehow I missed this like two weeks ago. (Fair is fair, I came across this in a roundabout way via Philebrity.)