Pub Quiz

source: Clintons.ca

I'd been on the lookout for a good quiz night for sometime when we decided to check out the trivia at Clinton's Tavern in Korea Town back at the beginning of January. While we had a really good time, due to a rather publicly embarrassing incident we had to wait several weeks before returning to the bar, in the hopes that they would forget us.

It all began when Claire was at the ROM doing work for her internship. She was digitally cataloguing items from the Greek and Roman collection. On this particular day, she was handling male fertility amulets. This included various small metal items such as men with big shlongs that some ancient dude would have carried around with him in the hopes of fertilizing his ancient wife's eggy. Fun times! One of the amulets was actually just a set of bronze testicles you could hang as a pendant on a necklace.

Flash forward to Monday night trivia and we were all discussing the possibility of bringing back this ancient genitalia jewelry. (I mean really, the hipsters would jump ALL OVER this trend) We started brainstorming names for our new gonad jewelry line and eventually settled on "Scrotumulet" a combo of scrotum + amulet. A short while later we had to write down a name for our trivia team so we put down Scrotumulet, figuring there was no way we would win that night anyways so it didn't matter what our team name was. Little did we know that part of the Pub Quiz includes reading aloud all the team names (each team cheers when their name is called). We weren't sure how the host would pronounce Scrotumulet, but we thought it would just sound like a gibberish word so we'd be fine. Unfortunately, the host read Scrotumulet as "SCROTUM MULLET" to which he added, "Presumably a bad experience one of you ladies had..."   !!!! Not surprisingly we didn't cheer for our team name.

Pub quiz is every Monday night at 8pm (doors at 7) It fills up really fast (last week ppl were turned away at the door) so get there early! We are currently recruiting for our team, we need someone who knows sports and someone who was alive in the 80s.