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I can catch any one of a million skillion buses there. Let me know if there are any addl spots open on I Love Trivia team for next time.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Resurrect for next week...anyone in or have I killed the idea by offering to turn up?

― Laurel, Friday, 22 July 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I am down for this Wednesday @ MF. It'll be the last partly devised by Quizguru Chris.

On a more South Slopey note, Sunday is the first anniversary of the Commonwealth bar, and there are whispers there may be outrageous beer specials from 6-8pm:

http://brooklyn.citysearch.com/profile/41544222

I'll be the one playing the Fugs' "Nothing" to break up the 100 GbV songs so beloved by perpetually semi-conscious owner/barkeep Ray.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

ka-BUMP

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still down for trivia. What time does it start?

― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Da website says 8pm!

http://www.magneticbrooklyn.com/calendar.php

Who else?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I am currently broke and obv can't go without a penny to my name. Will try and come up with some dough by Wed eve because I do love a good pub quiz.

Q: What's the longest river in Ireland?

― Laurel, Monday, 25 July 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

God you know there's a good punchline in that one somewhere.

I think Wednesday sounds marvelous, I will try and turn up for this.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

(I say "try" because I'm moving house this week, and I'm having difficulty even nominally controlling my own schedule.)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i may be there, i don't know for sure. i too am broke. what's the prizes? free drinxxx?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

CASH and Cyclones tickets! (and it's an ALL '80s edition, so between my college years and you peepul's halcyon junior high era we should clean up)

My friend was struck in the shoulder by a toss from the Cyclone leftfielder on Saturday, Stenc -- that coulda been you!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah sorry i couldn't make it! i think wednesday should work. man am i broke, tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh dear god, I know nothing of the '80s. My parents disapproved of popular culture on moral/social/religious bases and didn't allow unsupervised TV- or radio-exposure. Yes, we were more or less lucky they gave us crayons, so that we could color on the inside of our box.

I think the only thing I remember is all the lyrics to "Electric Blue" by Icehouse. Eh? EH??

― Laurel, Monday, 25 July 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

80s! Yes!

All I did during the 80s was watch TV and eat crayons or whatever...

(kidding on the crayons)

― Candicissima (candicissima), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I hear at Magnetic Field they include history too; that's why they say it's for "the Unwashed and Well-Read."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i am BACK in in the dt bk! count me in for trivia.

― not gettin' hassled, not gettin' hustled (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 25 July 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I hear at Magnetic Field they include history too; that's why they say it's for "the Unwashed and Well-Read."

Well, watch tv, read the almanac, and (not) eat crayons.

1-4 players says the site. Should we make a team plus alternates now or figure it out Wednesday?

― Candicissima (candicissima), Monday, 25 July 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's figure it out then? I assume ppl will decide to show up (or not) relatively late. If there are 5-8 folks wecan have a draft (plus a draught).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll likely be there in my spooky eye-on-pyramid Information Awareness Office t-shirt (bespectacled redhead with curmudgeonly aura).

No pressure, since I'd be going anyway to see my friend Chris, but I *am* giving up a free "Aristocrats" screening for this.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll be The Black* in pink and blue.

*Maybe not the only one, but I'll bet you can count us on one hand.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Am still broke, effectively, and there's a $5 cover for the pub quiz which is the first I've heard of such a thing. I will come if I can but if you don't see anyone who looks like The Milkmaid Next Door and swears like a juvenile delinquent, then I have not managed to come up with any dosh.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it possible the covers constitute the quiz pot?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Money problem solved! See youse at 8 -- am wearing a white men's undershirt and a black peasant skirt.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

i dont like to get involved in this whole hipster/non hipster williamsburg sucks go die argument but
apparently, my brother who does camera assistant/loading work has a job in august maybe working on a new show called

DUN DUN DUN
BEDFORD
and i was told its "like the OC but in williamsburg"
hahahaha

gaggag
gag

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh. God. They've officially run out of ideas!

Adventures in building a loft bed? Staredowns at the L stop? Mugged next to a dark warehouse? Can't wait!

― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a nice guided tour around Red Hook the other weekend from Nathan Michel.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

what's the matter, were you afraid to go yourself?

― club soda (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

What happened to all the people interested in trivia? Laurel and I were the awesome Gang of Two and we kicked ass.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, one of us kicked ass, anyway. Candissima wasn't kidding about knowing her '80s shit, yo.

― Laurel, Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i wanted to go but it was too hot and i wasn't feeling well (and other excuses).

― club soda (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

next time, i promise.

― club soda (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I stared uncomfortably at everyone in the bar til 8:30 and didn't see either of you! What, my OIA shirt was too faded to spot?

My friend Steve and I swept the 3rd World Dictators and Name That Year (heh heh, World Series matchups) categories but were gutted by those load-of-ass music video clips at the end. You had to have been a 10-year-old shut-in at the time to recall Ebn Ozn and Kim Wilde, I'm guessing, and I was a collegiate Minutemen fan. Cripe!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

You had to have been a 10-year-old shut-in at the time to recall Ebn Ozn and Kim Wilde

that explains me then.

― club soda (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

And most of the 'populists' here!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link

hey, that ebn-ozn record is damn good.

― club soda (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

C and I were wearing exactly what we said we'd be, and I stood around by myself from about 8 until she arrived at 8.45, maybe? Don't know what happened. I didn't see any apparent redheads but bars are dark, obv. Too bad, because we might have had a chance as The Gang of Four.

― Laurel, Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

tis OK. How'd you do on the dictators? Did you finish out of the money?

I won't dispute Ebn-Ozn's virtues, not having thought about them in 20 years, but NO movie questions all night? (except the year of The Empire Strikes Back -- oooh, obscure)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

You had to have been a 10-year-old shut-in at the time to recall Ebn Ozn and Kim Wilde

I got Kim Wilde, but not the other one. I was younger than 10 in the 80s! (Born in '81)

We were about 50/50 on dictators and years. I knew '86 though. I'm from NYC -- I know about some Mets in '86! And I got '80 because of Empire Strikes Back and I wasn't even born then!

Next time, we'll kick ass as The Gang of Four for sure.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I did get Garbage Pail Kids and Joe Isuzu.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Those were easy! I was obsessed with David Leisure a.k.a. Joe Isuzu a.k.a. Charley on Empty Nest when I was a kid. He was the best!

― Candicissima (candicissima), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

My friend invoked Empty Nest, and I only thought of Leisure's name this morning.

The last time I was in Magnetic Field, it was a gay bar called Friends circa '99.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Let me know if you guys do this again... I couldn't make it this time around but my gf lives around the corner.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry i couldn't make it, was up on the north side with britshes ladyfriend. maybe next time? or if you guys wanna venture up that way, i know pete's candy store has a quiz night too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

You only suggest Pete's because it's in Wburg and that's where your pink-cheeked British miss lives. Which location makes it hugely inconvenient for me (and probably Candissima, too).

Full disclosure, Stence, and drag yer ass out next time. ;)

― Laurel, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

(Okay, I am partially dissembling because I can catch the 48 bus to Wburg without TOO much trouble, but it's still a lot further away than downtown Bklyn.)

― Laurel, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm avoiding anything with "Eighties" attached in future!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i mentioned her in my post!? yeah i don't even live up there but the b48 is one of many transport options.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sorry I missed, but I was out of town. I went in there this past Wednesday to check it out and they told me they weren't going to do it again for another three weeks, they were taking a break from trivia.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 6 August 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Trivia is back at MF next Wed, but dunno if I can make it...

And holy crow, the Trembling Blue Stars are playing there 9/29.

http://www.magneticbrooklyn.com/calendar.php

The Pete's quiz is on Wednesdays.

http://www.petescandystore.com/quizz.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd like to do Mag Fields quiz again, if only cos I can bike there. Wburg kind of a pain for me, tho still possible.

Anyone else interested in hitting Mag Fields on 9/7 for the next quiz?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

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