Archive for October, 2007

Reminder: No Trivia Tonight

Dempsey’s is hosting a Halloween Party, and they’ve dolled the place up for everyone who wants to go down and do tequila body shots off each other and get mauled by Irish people. I’ve done it, it’s great. We’re back next week as usual, and I’ll be doing a special anniversary podcast for tonight instead. [...]

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Have A Scary Scary Holiday

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Chestnut Beats Kobayashi! Again!

The IFOCE circuit has grown to literally hundreds of events around the world, but there are still precious few prestigious ones: the Philly Wing Bowl, the new MLE Chowdown series in Las Vegas (which runs on Spike TV intermittently), and of course the big daddy of them all, the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on [...]

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Five Of A Kind

I’m making up for the fact that there’s no trivia tomorrow by finding stuff like this: What do these five guys have in common? Answer (& more examples) in the link at the period of this sentence, as the URL is a spoiler. (I’d save the link for a few hours, but Mr. Bogdanski did [...]

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

NY Subway Advisory

I can vouch for that the N/W train advisory listed here is accurate and will get you to my house if you follow it: From 12:30 am on Dec. 1, 2007 to 5:30 pm on Dec. 25, 2020, there will be no service to Astoria/Ditmars Blvd. For service to this station, take the (A) to [...]

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

DSO Trivia Podcast #9: The Second Greatest Love Of All

Today is the Feast of Saint Narcissus, and though I know that the Roman Catholic Saint is not the same person as the mythological figure who only had eyes for himself, such factual distinctions have no place in a trivia column. Well, okay, they do, in fact they’re what trivia is all about, but I’m [...]

 
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Monday, October 29th, 2007