Monday night pub quiz at The Arc

we may get to meet tonight SiM. Prepare to be underwhelmed. (I'll bring a pen for autographs)

what do you mean "may"?
i thought you were firmly booked in a team for tonight, BR...

Aye, I heard you were going to be there. And with a fairly good team...but I'm going to get Topsy sloshed beforehand so she won't remember a thing for the quiz...

I never get sloshed on a Monday - not until after the quiz, anyway

I thought this thing was packed and was easy to miss people.


Course I'm deffo booked and honoured to be so. What time does the warm up start? (tight schedule this evening)


I'll put a stop to that

well, it's kind of packed, but i'm sure we'll be able to organise an introduction or two
and it's not like it's a huge place, or anything

the quiz starts at 8pm, but i guess i'll be there by 7.30pm at the very latest

ok will try and get there 7.30ish

if we go, I am steering clearing of Topsy. Bad influence, that one. I felt quite "unwell" last Tuesday.

I'm not a bad influence
It's everybody else who is a bad influence on me!

riiiight. I suppose your halo doesn't glow as well in the low bar lighting and therefore I missed it (again)...

butterbean, you going? Seeing as himself will be one of the 4 wheels on the Paddywagon, I'm teamless...

@SIM

What's this reading thing ?

Ah sorry Yeti, you can just watch TV...
@katrina, I like the name...Paddywagon...we might just use that, eh guys?

I'm not working tonight...So I can play!! It's been a while.

And no - Dr Matt doesn't tell me the questions (or answers) beforehand

"Paddywagon" ? Better than "Lonely lovely leprechaun lickers of Leitrim" or "Big Tom's Bodyguards".

Or "The Mammy wouldn't like it" because she wouldn't you know.

Or "De Oirish Maffia" as one of them told me they were called.

If I get out of work we can be team mates, K. I'm dull as dishwater.

gosh, that will cause a stir if the famously elusive MTV shows up at quiz night

That'd be the Murphia.

Nice one

Careful Keydeck, you're going to break the oath of O'Meara.

Good! MTV to us then - yay!
pootle will also be on the team so I was thinking of a teamname like "at least his head can be fixed" or something...
My alternative names for de Oirish Maffia were not very PC I'm afraid.
Pal of mine from work will eventually form an all-Irish ladies team, think she should call it "the Bernadettes" really

Go on tell 'em...

Come on SIM you can't believe Katrina would do something non-PC ?

ah, she was telling me the other day that she's decided to calm down a bit and turn square, though
so maybe she'll be going PC at the same time
there's a first time for everything...

Yeti: Think the least PC thing about me is you, dear.

Ach, sure you can tell us them later then...

That's a bit dearest.

Sort of a cooking receptacle pronouncing on absence of colouration.

"Revenge of the bogtrotters" was in the running as a team name I believe.

To be sure, SiM, to be sure...
Although yes "revenge of the bogtrotters", "IRA Cell Munich", "Pimp My Spud" and "BegorrahBejesusBlarneyBogmen" were mentioned.

Yerra, and why wouldn't she.

And "4 wheels on my paddywagon"

Ssshhh, you weren't meant to talk about that.

Our cover's blown lads. Eat your balaclavas, shave off the beards and we'll go to plan Z.

NO...not my beard...

It was worked out that keydeck was the phone tapper, parnell the strategist, you were the decoy and yeti the brains of the operation.
The last one being the sticking point.

Yes well, you were going fine until that last designation. I prefer to think of myself as the honorary village idiot. How many snows can you get in a side again ?

just for the occasion:

Paddy Irishman was the most intelligent man in Ireland. He was the president of the Irish branch of Mensa, had won a million pounds on who wants to be a millionaire, and was Professor of astrophysics at the Paddy Institute of Technology. One day he was in the pub (as Irishmen do) and his mates were telling him that he should appear on Mastermind, the quiz where the most intelligent men on the planet, show their superior brain power. So he filled in the forms and sure enough was called up, and over to London he went to appear on the show. The moment came when he was called up to the chair, to be questioned.

"Paddy, what is your specialist subject?"
"Irish History"

"Paddy your minute starts now. Who was the leader of the
Irish Revolution?"
"Pass"

"In what year was the revolution?"
"Pass"

"How many men died during the Easter Revolution?"
"Pass"

"What was the name of the British informer who helped
the rebels?"
"Pass"

All of a sudden his friend stood up in the audience and roared "Good man Paddy, tell the fucking English nothing!"

where was it you were born, SiM?

Name, rank and serial number SIM. That's all you're obliged to reveal. Unless of course they offer you beer. Then you can reveal all.

But not in the pub. Don't want to scare folk do you?

So next week we can expect the "Provisional Irish team", "Real Irish team" and the "Continuity Irish Team" being formed.

You boys remind me of the Penguins in Madagascar.

I was only walking like that cos my jeans were around my ankles...

"Cute and cuddly boys, cute and cuddly"

Marty: The penguins are going, so why can't I?

Alex the lion:: Marty, the penguins are psychotic.

I think I see where you're coming from MTV.

"This ships going to Kenya? That's not gonna wash."

LOVE it. Well done Yeti. A man of exquisite taste.

Well obviously I'd agree with that MTV (but you might not if you ever see his VDub van).

@Katrina - how many are you still looking for on "your" team?

I think I've done the easy job of convincing butterbean to show up tonight.

hey, you callin' me easy mister???

Nope, else I would have said "...the easy job of convincing butterbean to come tonight."

That was the first version that edited before it was posted.

Excellent. My first quiz and a lot of fun it was too.

Learned a lot as well. For example, I have no idea how to spell Britain. By Britain I mean that place which begins with an M and ends with an O and has lots of people called José Maria Tequila Sanchez living in it. Britain. Also it turns out that TT tough guy, Parnell is a closet "Sex and the City" fan. Who knew? And as for using boats to plug dykes, I mean really, that's just being silly now.

Great fun. Thanks to my team mates for carrying me through it. Yeti, you're a lot smarter than you look. SiM, you still look like Rincewind. Parnell, "Sex and the City"? Really?

Yeti is still complaining about not getting any of my crisps.