{"id":1615,"date":"2008-02-19T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2008-02-19T09:11:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T15:11:06","slug":"mikey-the-trivia-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/mikey-the-trivia-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey the trivia guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s trivia night, but usual trivia master Pete the Trivia Guy won&#8217;t be able to make it this week.\u00a0 Therefore the Saucer has asked our very own MIKEY to step up and fill in as trivia master.\u00a0 Although he&#8217;s a longtime member of the Rapscallions, he has promised to call it fair and square and not give our team any special advantages.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s face it, the Rapscallions don&#8217;t need special advantages anyway; we&#8217;ll kick everyone&#8217;s ass regardless.\u00a0 Be prepared for tons and tons of Mikeyisms as trivia kicks off at 7:00 sharp.<\/p>\n<p>As always, if you don&#8217;t feel like losing to us you can play trivia at Tug&#8217;s on Mud Island (8:30 start time).<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I drank my plate beers in honor of friends:<\/p>\n<p>Previous total:\u00a0 $229.25<\/p>\n<p>Beers 46, 47, and 48 (but 43, 44, and 45 according to the Saucer):<br \/>\nYoung&#8217;s Double Chocolate in honor of Otto $2.50<br \/>\nHarp Lager in honor of Chuck $2.50<br \/>\nAvery IPA in honor of Clay $2.50<br \/>\nTip $1 X 3 beers = $3.00<br \/>\nTotal:\u00a0 $10.50<\/p>\n<p>Grand total:\u00a0 $239.75<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now settled the question as to whether Bridgeport IPA or Avery IPA is better.\u00a0 Where Bridgeport is actually drinkable, the Avery IPA was so horrible that I had to leave half of it, and order an ultra-sweet\u00a0Woodchuck Pear Cider as a follow-up to get that awful taste out of my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon to this blog:\u00a0 Bum video.\u00a0 I was sitting in the window about 5 PM, and it occurred to me to switch the camera to video mode and record panhandling all-stars like Sharp Dressed Bum and New Sharp Dressed Bum ply their trade.\u00a0 Due to cars in the way I didn&#8217;t get anything good before the sun went down.\u00a0 But two and a half\u00a0weeks from now, it will be light outside past 7 PM, and I&#8217;ll have plenty of time to record a new form of evidence of how bad panhandling has become in Downtown&#8217;s tourist district.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now, short post this morning, heading to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s trivia night, but usual trivia master Pete the Trivia Guy won&#8217;t be able to make it this week.\u00a0 Therefore the Saucer has asked our very own MIKEY to step up and fill in as trivia master.\u00a0 Although he&#8217;s a longtime member of the Rapscallions, he has promised to call it fair and square and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/mikey-the-trivia-guy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mikey the trivia guy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->