Aren't You Guys Paying Attention?

Allow me to correct my own typo: that should be "all your DOGS have rabies and scabies." That was kind of like the old joke about "dog is my co-pilot." Or something. See you all tomorrow.

We're Bow-Wowed by Four-legged Trivia Players

The Dog Days of Summer are here...not because it's sooo hot, but because a few teams have been bringing their pups to play trivia. Those dogs are adorable and smart! Some of last week's team names: "Woof Woof," "Both Your God Have Rabies & Scabies," (no!!) and "Baby Dog!" along with the non-canine "Cants" (there's an umlaut over the "a" in Cants, but I still haven't figured out how to do that fancy punctuation stuff), and "It Will Make You A Sexual Tyrannosaurus aka Dug in Deeper Than An Alabama Tick."

Having been to Alabama a lot in the past (and not planing to go again in the future) I will say that is pretty darn deep, y'all. As usual, we asked you a bunch of stuff that is not as deep as an Alabama tick. For "On this Date" I noted that Danny Aiello and Olympia Dukakis not only shared a birthday, they also both appeared in "Moonstruck," and that it was the birthday of playwright/prevaricator Lillian Hellman (regular players know my love for Mary McCarthy and her quote about LH that "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" I asked a few questions about some Staten Island stuff (the ferry scene that opens "Working Girl," our local weather-predicting groundhog Staten Island Chuck, and Geraldo Rivera's TV reporting career before he became a big parody of himself) and Tony queried you on "Mirrors." (He thought I was gonna write a round called "Smoke." Sometimes it works out and sometimes it don't.)

BIG NEWS: We will be on hiatus July 4th and July 11th while Dempsey's gets some snazzy renovations. If it extends beyond that, we'll let you know ASAP, but for now, we will be playing on June 27th, back on July 18th. Tony may have a tan!