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randy_byers) wrote2008-08-12 08:08 am
randy_byers) wrote2008-08-12 08:08 am
The Age of the Pub Quiz
So after finishing fourth last week, last night Still Scared of the Yellow Ball in the Sky finished first at the Elephant & Castle pub quiz. This was without ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daveon, too. In fact, only three of us really participated in the quiz, although Nick popped in and out and provided us with the answers to the two questions that had been posted to the website earlier. He actually won a free pint by answering one of them via e-mail, too.
I was disappointed that I couldn't come up with the answer for, "Which Boston Red Sox player will always be famous for letting Mookie Wilson's single roll between his legs to lose game six of the 1986 World Series?" I got as far as "Bill B" when suddenly my mind was inhabited by "Bill Bowers". He wouldn't leave.
Further sign of advanced aging came in the mirror of the men's bathroom, where I spotted a long hair growing out of my ear. Criminey, how long had that been sticking out a half mile?! I trimmed it this morning, muttering querulously to myself. Some people are apparently shaping their ears to look like elf ears, while mine are turning into hobbit ears through natural processes.
My best correct wild (though reasoned) guess of the evening was for this question: "Which Seventies band was offered a billion dollars to reunite in 2000?"
A billion fricking dollars! Mamma mia!
daveon, too. In fact, only three of us really participated in the quiz, although Nick popped in and out and provided us with the answers to the two questions that had been posted to the website earlier. He actually won a free pint by answering one of them via e-mail, too.I was disappointed that I couldn't come up with the answer for, "Which Boston Red Sox player will always be famous for letting Mookie Wilson's single roll between his legs to lose game six of the 1986 World Series?" I got as far as "Bill B" when suddenly my mind was inhabited by "Bill Bowers". He wouldn't leave.
Further sign of advanced aging came in the mirror of the men's bathroom, where I spotted a long hair growing out of my ear. Criminey, how long had that been sticking out a half mile?! I trimmed it this morning, muttering querulously to myself. Some people are apparently shaping their ears to look like elf ears, while mine are turning into hobbit ears through natural processes.
My best correct wild (though reasoned) guess of the evening was for this question: "Which Seventies band was offered a billion dollars to reunite in 2000?"
A billion fricking dollars! Mamma mia!
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I thought 'Abba' too, then thought "No freaking way anyone wants them back that bad."
No accounting for taste I guess, much less lack of same...
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CNN - Showbuzz - February 2, 2000
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Members of the Swedish '70s band ABBA say they won't get back together -- not even for $1 billion.
An American-British consortium offered them that amount to reunite for 100 concerts, but they refused. "It is a hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we decided it wasn't for us," Benny Andersson tells the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet.
ABBA disbanded 17 years ago, but their hit songs are currently experiencing an international revival. Part of the credit goes to the teen group A-Teens, whose covers versions of "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" and "Mamma Mia" have risen up the charts. And the musical "Mamma Mia," based on ABBA songs, has become a hit in London -- sending sales of the album "ABBA Gold" soaring.
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Eh, what do i know about how big ABBA was anyway? I was <10 for all of the '70s.
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Re: CNN - Showbuzz - February 2, 2000
Punk!