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<\/a><\/p>\nI’ve been told that the window bar was designed with me in mind.\u00a0 The window seats at the Flying Saucer tend to be my home away from home, so the team wanted me to have a home away from my home away from home at BBQ Fest.\u00a0 Thanks for thinking of me guys!<\/p>\n
One of them pointed out, “At the Saucer there’s a Window Game, where we count the number of sightings in various categories – bums, police cars, cars going the wrong way up one-way Second, and so on.\u00a0 If there’s window seating in the team booth, there ought to be a Ques Brothers Window Game.”\u00a0 Good point.\u00a0 Only problem is, more than half the categories on the Saucer Window Game are vehicle-related.\u00a0 That won’t work in a festival in a public park.\u00a0 So this morning I designed the 2008 Ques Brothers Window Game<\/strong>:<\/p>\n The categories are Ice (the wagons that drive around and sell ice to teams), cops, kegs, fork lifts, Memphis in May volunteers, tube top sightings, moochers (people who don’t know anyone on the team but try to scam their way in to get free BBQ and beer), RUP (Really Ugly People, the lone holdover from the Saucer Window Game), and RDP (Really Drunk People).<\/p>\n We had a huge problem with moochers last year – people who would just stroll in and help themselves to beer and liquor.\u00a0 That shot our liquor costs to the sky.\u00a0 As a result, this year we’ve not only tightened security out front (the Door Gestapo) but we also built a bar.\u00a0 Here’s a pic of bartender Mikey serving drinks:<\/p>\n This year no one (not even team members) will be allowed to pour their own drinks.\u00a0 The people behind the bar will handle all the dispensing of beer, wine and liquor.\u00a0 That will allow us to maintain control of who has access to our supply.\u00a0 Plus, the bar looks really cool.<\/p>\n I haven’t signed up for any bartending or door security shifts.\u00a0 That’s not my best role on the team… I hate responsibility, and besides I don’t want to have to maintain the degree of sobriety necessary to do those jobs.\u00a0 My planned contributions for today are<\/p>\n One more picture.\u00a0 This is the booth next to ours:<\/p>\n This is the Valero booth.\u00a0 Not only do big oil companies pay for Republican Congressmen, they also pay for really expensive festival booths.\u00a0 Next time you fill up at the pump and pay record high prices, think about this booth.\u00a0 We were told it cost Valero 60 grand to build, about 4 times the cost of this year’s Ques Brothers booth.\u00a0 This booth is to BBQ Fest booths as the Ford Excursion is to vehicles.<\/p>\n All right.\u00a0 Time to crank it up again.\u00a0 My plans for the day:<\/p>\n This is the second BBQ post in the past 10 hours, so be sure to check out my previous post<\/a> for the initial round of BBQ Fest recapping.\u00a0 Also don’t miss the Ques Brothers 2008 photo album<\/a>, with more pics added daily, and be sure to think of our sponsor Circa by John Bragg<\/a> next time you want a great meal in Downtown Memphis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year, our team booth was built to include a window bar.\u00a0 Here’s a pic of team members Gary and Boo enjoying the window seating: I’ve been told that the window bar was designed with me in mind.\u00a0 The window seats at the Flying Saucer tend to be my home away from home, so the … Continue reading “More BBQ Fest notes”<\/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\/2023"}],"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=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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