Please, pass this newsbite on, and share it where you can: To celebrate Daylight Savings Time being repealed this weekend (just like Obamacare and whatever else John Boehner thinks is so terrible), we at the Drunken Smartass Olympics have an important announcement. We’re starting an hour earlier on Wednesdays. From now on, the trivia festivities [...]
A very important notice: Effective next Wednesday, November 10, The Drunken Smartass Olympics Trivia night will start an hour earlier, at 7:00 pm. Details on this in the next post, but all other aspects of the night (On This Day In History, the Name Threes Round, the Audio Round, everything else) will run in the [...]
Now that’s more like it. A decent turnout, a few rounds that essentially wrote themselves, birthday cake (well, cupcake) and multiple tables doing between-round shots made for the kind of night I personally think Fast 50 trivia should be. If there’s anything else I can do to help that along, let me know. (Sponsors, call [...]
On November 2, 1898, America went from we-probably-should to YES-WE-CAN, in one small multisyllabic burst somewhere in Minnesota. Sometimes, it happens that way, not with a bang, but a raucous, unignorable whimper in a crowd of excited sports fans. Okay, maybe whimper is the wrong word. Johnny Campbell, a student at the University of Minnesota, [...]
Today is the 406th anniversary of the premiere of the hot new play Othello, which premiered at the Whitehall Palace Grounds in London on this day in 1604. (Not all of Shakespeare’s plays got their start at the Globe; often the royal family or the parliamentary people would be game for a little action, and [...]
