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pub quiz win!
turn up late to girlfriend's friend's pub quiz get together. they're all very nice, quite nerdy, all work in politics. i always feel a bit like the scruffy underacheiver with these guys. i get given the list of ones they can't get, as it turns out i fare pretty averagely on these and get about half right. feel i have upheld my end of the bargain and am satisfied with that.
when the results come in turns out we're in a tie-break for 1st place. wowee. tie break question is "name the three astronauts on the mission that 1st landed on the moon." easy! i know it. "neil armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins" *POW! back of the net! we win! i know because:
a: everyone knows neil armstrong.
b: everyone knows buzz aldrin. plus he's in one of my favourite simpsons episodes ("second comes right after first!") and the "day today" sketch about "distorted sex drive in space".
and c: michael collins because eddie izzard mentions him "going round and round" as the one who never went down on to the moon during that sketch about neil armstrong pretending there were monsters (and squirrels playing flutes) on the moon. easy!results come back, we've got neil and buzz right but apparently the third was "alan shepherd". the other team have "john shepherd" (and are mocking me because michael collins was an IRA prisoner duhhh!) so another tie break question is sought... it's something about the magnificent seven, i don't remember because as we're about to hand in our answer for that (which is also right btw) the guy comes over all apologetic and flustered, he's commissioned a bit of urgent research between tie-breakers and found out that he was wrong. the third guy was michael collins! we wiiiiiin! TWENTY FIVE WHOLE POUNDS! (a fiver each!).
i bought epic win fish and chips with the spoils of my dramatic victory.
honestly, it was one of the greatest moments of my life.
*victory baby
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whoop for dooks!
*mental note - enter more pub quizzes -
I'm getting a monkey bike this week.
mainly to be laughed at.
I think they are fucking Wicked machines though
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mines got blue tyres though..
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a: everyone knows neil armstrong.
b: everyone knows buzz aldrin. plus he's in one of my favourite simpsons episodes ("second comes right after first!") and the "day today" sketch about "distorted sex drive in space".
and c: michael collins because eddie izzard mentions him "going round and round" as the one who never went down on to the moon during that sketch about neil armstrong pretending there were monsters (and squirrels playing flutes) on the moon. easy!it's surprising how we learnt from popular culture that somehow managed to stick with us easily in our head, like the Eddie Izzard sketch.
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High five Dooks.
I won my last pub quiz too. Did'nt feel much like win. I had unwittenly desended into the roll of the old guy, who knows old film, music etc.
Still free beer is free beer.
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i got choked by a chained up monkey once.
there were two of them chained to either end of this covered bench thing outside a restaurant in bali. they were friendly and would climb all over you for tummy scratches. one of them somehome got it's chain wrapped round my neck, then freaked out and tried to get away but couldn't. it pulled me off the bench and i dropped to all fours and was choking and trying to free myself. meanwhile the panicked monkey's monkey wife was going nuts and launching flying teeth-bared monkey attacks at me, it's chain pulling it short just inches from my rapidly purpling face.
it's a magical place.
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If I was building a bike specifically for bombing downhill id make it have a longer wheelbase.