Steve, an old mate from Yahoo! is visiting for a couple of weeks. He’s been in Bangalore India for the better part of the last two years off and on and before he heads back to Los Angeles, he’s checking out Europe.

I took him to the pub quiz at the Frog and Forget-Me-Not because the pub quiz is an important part of British culture that most tourists don’t get to see. The team names at these quizzes are often hysterical, offensive and just wrong-wrong-wrong. The wrong-wrong-wrong ones are usually the funniest. You laugh, hate yourself for laughing, and then giggle again. For example the last time we went one team called themselves: ‘The New Prime Minister of Pakistan: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Bhutto’. My favorite from last night was, ‘She’s My Step-sister. Does That Count?’.

Stuart has said that he wants to use ‘Number Of Days Since I Last Had A Crap’ but I’m not sure I want to be a party to that even though it hysterically infantile. As the quiz progresses, the quiz master would read out the score, so it would be, Number Of Days Since I Last Had A Crap: 54. Number Of Days Since I Last Had A Crap:102. Number Of Days Since I Last Had A Crap. . . You get the picture. (Stuart claims to hate being English then he turns right to toilet humor. You just can’t run from your nature. . .)

The best question of the evening was ‘Microsoft has bid 44.6 billion to buy what company?’ Jen, Steve, Colm and I looked at each other and laughed.

“There’s a funny kind of irony.” Steve said pointing at himself then at me and Colm.

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