Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
Our friends at de Vere’s Irish Pub in Davis have invited me to host a separate event after Pub Quiz tonight: a birthday celebration for the Quizmaster. Beginning at about 9:15, a limited spread of Irish cuisine will be displayed like the evening spread out against the sky. I would be pleased if you would join us. I don’t expect the grilled cheese sandwiches, pub salads, and several unsortable meats to last long, for undergraduates may attend, but I myself should last at least until 11. If you are anything like my friends and family, two hours of me will be plenty, but you may wish to stick around to meet some of your weekly Pub Quiz competitors.
I am on an anti-materialist kick these days, so I hope you will consider your presence a present enough at this mild little celebration. Better yet, please consider making a contribution to one of my favorite charities: The Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome Foundation. All year long the SLO Foundation is raising money for research into the causes and treatments of this rare syndrome that affects children such as my son Jukie. My wife Kate sits on the SLOSF board of directors – see the excellent SLOSF website at http://www.smithlemliopitz.org/ and the donations page at http://www.smithlemliopitz.org/donations/. Some of our friends from KDVS will also be attending tonight, hopeful that you will make an early pledge in anticipation of the 2013 KDVS fundraiser that begins the Monday after Picnic Day. Details can be found at http://www.kdvs.org.
Thanks to de Vere’s for hosting this informal party. I can guarantee that fewer politicians will be making speeches than was the case last year.
Because of my extended celebrations yesterday, the Pub Quiz Newsletter will contain fewer hints than typical. Rest assured that you will see questions on New York City, the indeterminate sexuality of the Geico gecko, drugs, music boxes, con artists, rock and roll hall of fame inductees, baseball, the Periodic Table, martial arts, a St. Louis sports question for Elliott, nouns that start with the letter A, producers in baseball caps, superspies, comic book heroes, working girls, aviators, malice, President Roosevelt, Irish culture, Harry Potter, science guys, people from Kentucky, sports, and Shakespeare.
I hope to see you this evening at least once, and perhaps twice. Come early to claim a table.
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P.S. This coming Wednesday afternoon and evening marks the annual celebration of St. Baldrick’s Day at de Vere’s Irish Pub!