Entries tagged with "trivia"

Well-bred and mature, and out of her mind!

posted by srah on November 6, 2007 5:26 PM

Tags: nablopomo, nablopomo 2007, trivia

If you ask me "Where does [X] come from?" even (or especially) if [X] is an inanimate object or an abstract concept, there is a 95% chance that I am going to respond, "Well, when a mommy [X] and a daddy [X] love each other very much, they hug each other in a special way..." It's just what I do. Your only hope, your only savior from this predetermined line is that I might actually know some piece of trivia about where [X] comes from and feel a need to tell you the real answer. Only my love for trivia...

'I've seen lonely times when I could not Phone a Friend'

posted by srah on February 7, 2005 10:16 PM

Tags: movies, office space, roommate, trivia

My cell phone rang. I looked down at the display, assuming that it was someone who knew I'd been in class and had waited until five minutes after the end to call me. Instead I saw that it was my long-lost college roommate, Roommate. It seemed strange that she would call at 10:05 pm on a Monday, since we haven't seen each other in months and all of our recent correspondence has been in the form of LiveJournal comments. I answered the phone. "Hi srah. Listen, in the movie Amish Face--" "WHAT?" "In the movie Office Space--" "Oh, that's better...

Dod save our dracious tween

posted by srah on March 1, 2003 5:47 PM

Tags: alcohol, quiz night, travel, trivia

Here we are in Royston, Hertsfordshire. Or maybe it's Cambridgeshire. I never know where I am around here. Uncle Reg lives in a small village in one county but his address is in the other. Tonight we went to a quiz night sponsored by the Royston Photographic Society. I had a lot of fun and two glasses of wine, as Yiz ordered me a new one even before I'd finished the first. The quiz was good and challenging, especially for Americans with no idea who Huey Green is, let alone what his connection is to the musical clue. And for...