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Post by rainbowsherbert on Dec 19, 2015 17:31:41 GMT -5
During the Halloween edition of Pub Quiz at the Mill, I successfully named all the subtitles to A Nightmare on Elm Street and Hellraiser.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Dec 19, 2015 17:33:17 GMT -5
I lettered in Academic Team.
Husband wins the geek flag though. He wrote and performed a radio sketch about a guy who would rather watch Star Wars than have sex. It was played on a national morning show.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 19, 2015 17:38:11 GMT -5
I have a book of Springsteen lyrics, and if anyone wants to open it at random and read a line, I'll tell you what song it's from. What about: "Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A." ? |
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 19, 2015 17:42:35 GMT -5
I have a book of Springsteen lyrics, and if anyone wants to open it at random and read a line, I'll tell you what song it's from. What about: "Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A." ? I'm afraid I take the game more seriously than that, sir. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 19, 2015 18:11:27 GMT -5
What about: "Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A." ? I'm afraid I take the game more seriously than that, sir. I'm sorry, but the correct answer is actually "Born in the U.S.A.", not "I'm afraid I take the game more seriously than that, sir.", which, as excellent a name as it would be for a song, is not actually the name of any Bruce Springsteen songs. Let's see if you can guess this one correctly: "Put your hair up nice and set up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Ooooooooooooooooooooooo oooohhhhh-woooooooo" |
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 19, 2015 18:19:53 GMT -5
I'm afraid I take the game more seriously than that, sir. I'm sorry, but the correct answer is actually "Born in the U.S.A.", not "I'm afraid I take the game more seriously than that, sir.", which, as excellent a name as it would be for a song, is not actually the name of any Bruce Springsteen songs. Let's see if you can guess this one correctly: "Put your hair up nice and set up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Ooooooooooooooooooooooo oooohhhhh-woooooooo" Atlantic City. |
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Post by Judkins Moaner on Dec 19, 2015 18:25:17 GMT -5
I lettered in Academic Team. Oh, shit, quiz bowl counts, doesn't it? I was captain of our high school team and I think we were Louisiana state champions twice. |
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Post by ganews on Dec 19, 2015 18:34:46 GMT -5
I led my quiz bowl team in middle school and at the Junior Beta Club state convention. We won first place in eighth grade; I answered literally every question asked in every game we were in, except one which was answered by my teammate.
I wish my high school had been cool enough to have a team.
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Dec 19, 2015 19:28:21 GMT -5
I'm writing something (article-length and possibly book-length) about a medieval bishop, who was a contemporary of another bishop named Lando. Somehow I'm going to work in the phrase "administrator of this facility" to see if any editor notices.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 19, 2015 21:01:14 GMT -5
We didn't have Quiz Bowl or anything like that. I did win 3rd place in the county math competition when I was in 8th grade. And my team came in 2nd.
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Dec 19, 2015 22:58:49 GMT -5
I played Quiz Bowl for five years as an undergrad, and I was captain/president of the club for four of those years. As an official university club we had to have a president and several other elected positions. But then the original president graduated, and his replacement decided over the summer that he just didn't want to play anymore, so he contacted me and was like "hey you want to be president?" And I said "er, ok".
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Post by Buon Funerale Amigos on Dec 19, 2015 23:29:57 GMT -5
Recently, as part of my drawing/comic projects, I ordered a couple of those Osprey Men-at-Arms military costume series which some of you may have seen back in the day in hobby places or the dustier corners of independent bookstores where sweaty, bearded guys occasionally congregated.* One of them was Armies of the Caliphates, 862-1098; I'm working on a comic set in some mishmash of Carolingian France and Umayyad Spain, and expect both the color plates and the commentary (which isn't as helpful post, say, nineteenth-century) to be useful. So not only was it a great moment in personal nerdery, but I also expect I've wound up on some sort of government registry (and it won't stop there; there's Armies of Islam, 7th-11th Centuries, and one on the Moors specifically, both of them by the great David Nicolle, that I'll be ordering in the next couple of weeks). *I bought Hungary and the Fall of Eastern Europe, 1000-1568, back in my Barnes and Noble days, and my co-workers gave each other condescending stares behind the register as I did so, one of them sniffing, "I always wondered who bought these." Wait... Osprey books are nerdy? Shit, I have like 135 of them, and here I thought they were the least nerdy thing about me. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Dec 20, 2015 6:43:08 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but the correct answer is actually "Born in the U.S.A.", not "I'm afraid I take the game more seriously than that, sir.", which, as excellent a name as it would be for a song, is not actually the name of any Bruce Springsteen songs. Let's see if you can guess this one correctly: "Put your hair up nice and set up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Ooooooooooooooooooooooo oooohhhhh-woooooooo" Atlantic City. A little trickier: "Ooooooooooooooo (Yelp)!" |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Dec 20, 2015 6:43:55 GMT -5
I'm writing something (article-length and possibly book-length) about a medieval bishop, who was a contemporary of another bishop named Lando. Somehow I'm going to work in the phrase "administrator of this facility" to see if any editor notices. "For Bishop Lando, the deal was getting worse and worse..." |
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 20, 2015 9:31:27 GMT -5
A little trickier: "Ooooooooooooooo (Yelp)!" State Trooper. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Dec 20, 2015 9:37:08 GMT -5
A little trickier: "Ooooooooooooooo (Yelp)!" State Trooper. NAILED IT |
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 20, 2015 10:46:18 GMT -5
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Dec 20, 2015 11:27:36 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 20, 2015 11:35:08 GMT -5
Also, two years later I dumped the same dude because he was less interesting than a mod character I had on the game of Baldur's Gate II I was playing. Are those actually the final words you scathingly uttered to him before closing the door in his face? |
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Post by Smacks on Dec 20, 2015 11:47:06 GMT -5
Don't know where either of these are going to fall on the Nerd Scale, but here goes. My sophomore year of high school I was in every singing group you could be in, Symphonic Choir, the offshoot which was Chamber Choir (culled from the main choir and consisting of 11 or 12 of the elite singers ooOOOooOOoo) and yep, even JAZZ choir. We were good, we traveled to some state competitions. One morning jazz choir was slated to perform in the main auditorium before a whole-school assembly. All the students, all the staff. And yours truly snagged a 'scat' singing solo during one of the songs. For those of you who don't know. Improvised scat solo in front of the whole school. And I was excited.
Also, back around 1994 or 1995 I was big into Magic The Gathering, as a lot of people were. But my current crowd, a bunch of metalheads and stoners, were not so interested. There was a small group of us who would routinely bust out our decks at the house parties and attempt to play, to the derision of the rest. One time we had our little card table set up among the other partiers in the basement, and as the music was going and people were getting fucked up, it was increasingly hard to protect our little card table from getting knocked around. So there we were yelling at those around us to be careful of our little group, playing Magic, in the middle of the party. At some point the whole damn table got knocked over, spilling beer and scattering cards. I remember looking down in desperation to gather my cards off the floor before they got messed up. I remember yelling "MY JUGGERNAUT!" at some point. Which Juggernaut was not that rare of a card so who knows why I was so concerned about it, but I just can see young Smacks comically (and nerdily) yelling that in the middle of this crazy basement party and it cracks me up to this day. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 20, 2015 12:10:27 GMT -5
That's from 1975, most likely one of the two Hammersmith concerts. Joe Strummer and Michael Palin both attended, though I don't know if they were there on the same night. |
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Dec 20, 2015 12:17:23 GMT -5
That's from 1975, most likely one of the two Hammersmith concerts. Joe Strummer and Michael Palin both attended, though I don't know if they were there on the same night. Your mind truly is a steel trap when it comes to Springsteen knowledge. Needless to say, I whole-heartedly approve. Thanks for the tidbit! ps. I thought it was from the 70s too, given he's still pretty skinny. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Dec 20, 2015 14:05:54 GMT -5
A little trickier: "Ooooooooooooooo (Yelp)!" State Trooper. The yelp in that song is one of the most awesome things I have ever heard in music. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Dec 20, 2015 14:07:51 GMT -5
Also, two years later I dumped the same dude because he was less interesting than a mod character I had on the game of Baldur's Gate II I was playing. Are those actually the final words you scathingly uttered to him before closing the door in his face? Nah, he was a nice enough dude. Just boring. Didn't deserve to know I liked Kelsey the spellcaster better. |
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Post by Spicoli Burger on Dec 20, 2015 17:43:13 GMT -5
I earned a doctorate in applied physics building devices to make molecular biological measurements.
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Post by Spicoli Burger on Dec 20, 2015 17:50:18 GMT -5
I'm writing something (article-length and possibly book-length) about a medieval bishop, who was a contemporary of another bishop named Lando. Somehow I'm going to work in the phrase "administrator of this facility" to see if any editor notices. Please tell me that this Lando introduced some widely adopted cataloguing or administrative or ecclesiastical method or something and you could have an excuse to starting talking about "the Lando System"? Bonus points if Bishop Lando showed any evidence of being a gambler and a scoundrel. |
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Post by ganews on Dec 20, 2015 20:07:04 GMT -5
Perhaps I will use this thread to keep poking Lifemate. At this very moment she is poring over our turkey carcass from last night's dinner party, separating out large bones to bleach and piece back together.
Was it last year or two Christmases ago when I gave her a display pigeon skeleton?
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Post by Ben Grimm on Dec 20, 2015 20:13:26 GMT -5
Perhaps I will use this thread to keep poking Lifemate. At this very moment she is poring over our turkey carcass from last night's dinner party, separating out large bones to bleach and piece back together. Was it last year or two Christmases ago when I gave her a display pigeon skeleton? I'm not sure, but Brian Fuller just had an idea for Season 4 of Hannibal. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Dec 20, 2015 20:57:59 GMT -5
Writing my undergraduate thesis on British television. Skipping my senior prom in favor of a Billy Wilder film marathon. I'm still pleased with that decision. Okay, let's all be clear: a Billy Wilder film marathon is way cooler than senior prom. In fact, it's hard to think of things that are cooler than a Billy Wilder film marathon. Here is my attempt. Things You Should Attend Instead of a Billy Wilder Film Marathon
a badass holiday party hosted by a lovable celebrity the opportunity to drink, and sing a drunken duet with, Terry Pratchett wedding (your own or your best friend's) funeral (your own) a rival Billy Wilder film marathon that also includes all-you-can-drink themed cocktails |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Dec 20, 2015 21:36:44 GMT -5
I entered (and won!) a spelling competition. In 11th grade. I actually still had the medal up until about 2 years ago, when I realized it had fused with the green styrofoam it had been resting on in its little case.
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