Getting the band back together

Taking a cue from the Blues Brothers, Elwood and myself (Elwood being Mark, as he’s the tall one) have decided to get the band back together. After over a year away from the game, we will be attempting to rematch our former pub quiz glory. Yes, that’s right; Chesty Nips is having a reunion.

For those unaware or who generally have bad memories, down in Southampton we spent essentially every Thursday for a string of several months at the Stile, doing our best with the pub quiz. We started out well, coming in 3rd, 2nd and then 1st in successive weeks, only to never place again. In those days there were questions that were easy for Americans to answer, but these seemed to disappear after my presence was noted by the authorities. That’s just my theory; however, perhaps we really just got lucky a few times. After weeks of frustration, we decided to start going to a bar in town called Mono on Thursday nights as they offered 2 for 1 pizza and 2 for 1 cocktails and no agony of defeat.

But now all of this has changed. Elwood (‘Mark’) and I managed to find a cute little pub in the middle of an otherwise completely residential street on a back route from our new house to the park. Called The Cottage, it lives up the name and features cute hanging flower baskets out front and a nice beer garden in the back. They also had a sign in the window advertising a quiz on Thursday nights at 7:30. Under the pressure to have people over to see our new place, but with size restricting the numbers we could have over at any given time, we have invited the Southampton folk to come down this evening to scarf down some jambalaya and then giving the quiz a whirl. Mind you, we really don’t know what to expect and will quite probably fail miserably and come in last, but maybe, just maybe, we’ll get lucky and it will all end with a giant car chase through the streets of Chicago.