wednesday night is trivia night

local mover and shaker, dee tension, runs a weekly trivia night at major's pub over on jackson street every wednesday night at 8pm. the masseuse and i dropped in to check it out last night, and even though we didn't even have kids born late enough to get some of the questions, (like, who from the 60's knows what the hell the smurfs named their cat?!?), and all attempts to conscript a more diversified, i.e. younger, team (teams can be up to 5) went bust, the two of us still finished within a couple of points of the victory and ahead of almost all but the winners. (only missed the smurfs cat, a photo ID of the lead singer from the killers, the fact that beauty and the beast was the only animated film ever to be nominated for best picture, and please see reference to the youth factor above, and an extremely fascinating series of clues about cyndi lauper). next time we're going to call in favors from people young enough to be our children so we can vie for the title!

other noteworthy highlights to the evening include $2 bud drafts, elbow-rubbing with several members of the lowell devils, (offered as incentive for younger ladies to consider coming out with us next time, though it must be noted in the interest of full disclosure that at least one certain bilingual member of that crew, though professing supreme allegiance to the new jersey devils, which makes a certain amount of sense considering that's whence from comes his paycheck, still had to admit to possession of habs season ducats upon closer questioning of his quebecois patois, so caveat emptor), and a general ambience of bonhomie that is always characteristic of this great small city of ours. the questions were fun, the sociability factor extremely high, and the time great.

unfortunately, the heart of the "free agents" (as in both founding members) won't be able to be back there next wednesday owing to schedule conflicts and pesky little things like having to earn a living, but if you aren't motivated enough by all this just to show up on your own and start your own team next wednesday, and, instead, you want to get on board the "free agent" bandwagon for the 25th, you just say the word. we're looking for diversity, (i.e. you get extra credit for being born after the fogeys graduated from college), a willingness to drink beer, and...

i think that just about covers it.