Fast Eddie gives a refund to those watching Dana Perino's audience with the Pope.

61 degrees, partly cloudy
listening:  Boston's 80s Channel (via iPhone) -- Spandau Ballet - "True"

First off, of course The Tony Randall Experiment (w/special guest Miss Prien) rocked T-Joe's trivia again last night.  Miss Prien has claimed elsewhere that it was due to her saying that Martha Washington was the first widow to become First Lady (although my fancy wife actually said it first).  However I not surprisingly disagree and claim it was due to my knowledge of what state is home to the easternmost teams in both the AFC West and the NFC West (Missouri - Kansas City and St. Louis, respectively), of who the Texas governor was who was seriously wounded during the JFK assassination (John Connolly), that the bonus round of Family Feud is called "Fast Money", and that Paul Newman's character's nickname in The Hustler and The Color of Money was "Fast Eddie" Felson.

The bad news is that our trivia guy informed us that T-Joe's is no longer going to host Tuesday night trivia and that he's going to be moving to a different gig somewhere up the road, possibly BW3.  Also good, but not a 10-minute walk away like T-Joe's.

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This story is a couple days old but I've been meaning to mention it here:

Wigan players offer supporters a refund as an apology for 9-1 thrashing at Spurs

"Each of the 400 supporters who bought a ticket for the game – the largest win in the Premier League since 1995 and Wigan’s heaviest top-flight defeat – will be entitled to a refund after the club’s players voted to dip into their own pockets as an apology.


“We feel that as a group of players we badly let down our supporters and this is a gesture we have to make to pay them back for their tremendous loyalty,” said Mario Melchiot, the club captain."

---  That is what I call a class act, sports fans.  Why do I never hear of NBA players doing this after they get blown out by 40 points by somebody??  OK, it was a pretty distant away match (for England) so there were only 400 travelling supporters so we're not talking about the players dipping into their kids' college funds, but still...

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I can't even comprehend this:

Daily Kos:  To be fair and balanced, Perino must have gotten drunk

The salient quote -- 

Dana Perino (former Bush administration press secretary):  "But, you know, we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term."

Um ... huh?  Is she admitting that 9/11 was an inside job or what??

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So there's this neighborhood kid, let's call him Ricky, and last week sometime he showed up with wrapped presents for the stepchildren.  He told me initially that he bought them, but later it seemed more likely that they were just things he had in his room that he didn't want anymore.  A lot of Ricky's stories start out one way and then turn into something else later.  Anyway, the present for the maniacal 7 year-old was a book entitled How to Be a Gentleman by John Bridges that seems to have maybe been made for Brooks Brothers.  That in itself is funny enough, but I just got around to opening and looking at it (not that I need to, no matter what the fancy wife may say) and I'm pretty amused by the idea of the 7 year-old learning such topics as "How to Set Up a Bar", "The Etiquette of the Office Break Room", "An Audience with the Pope" (which I can't help but think sounds like either a really good euphemism or a slightly less good band name), and "A Gentleman and His Cologne".  Sadly, that last bit of wisdom could have come in handy for the 9 year-old when for some reason he attended church with the aforementioned Ricky last weekend but that's another story altogether.