Secrets of the City

I was going to get all reactionary but then I read the entire article and in context, as Abeler explains it, it just seems to be a misunderstanding. He seems sincere in his letter.

It’s one of the best apology letters I’ve ever read. He seems to actually have learned from the situation.

I too thought it was a very nice letter.

[Nicer than the email I got just now kicking me off my trivia team.]

But seriously, I thought it was a well thought out letter. It was refreshing that it wasn’t just a canned response, like we often see in these situations.

Wait, I need to go off topic and know what you did to get kicked off your trivia team.

@Kurtis

Check your email.

A bunch of us MNspeak hotheads oughta go find Bixby’s trivia team and thrash them thoroughly… at a trivia contest.

Bixby sux at trivia?

Good idea, Jane. Let’s call ourselves the Avengers.

There are nice people in the world and not nice people. Brandi is one of the nice ones. That’s all I’ll say.

Bixby does not suck at trivia. In fact, trivia is one of the few things Bixby as good at.

Yeah, so if anyone else has a trivia team I can join, I can assure you that I do not suck at trivia and I do nothing but read, surf the internet and watch TV.

Also.

You once called me a fucktard, so you can’t join my really fun trivia team

@baker

Sorry about that. I was having a bad day. Now can I join your team? If you’re fibbing about a having a team, I’m going to call you more bad names.

Who knew baker was such a sensitive wittle bunny?

And, FWIW, I’m sorry about derailing this thread.

Ok, so I am sort of fibbing… But I really like trivia and consider myself pretty good at it too. And if I did have a team, or happen to form one in the near future, I’ll invite you for sure:)

Aww. Well thank you, baker. And really, I do feel bad for my outburst at you way back when. If you do find a team, please let me know.

But holy shit, even what I wrote to baker that time I lost it wasn’t even as mean as the email I got today.

I love it when we can all come together this way.

It’s change I can believe in.

Thank you, Barack Obama.

My trivia abilities have transcended snark and race.

Now lets all make out…

er…inappropriate?

Why our you trying to get in on our special moment. We’ve talked to our friends and we’ve decided that it’s best you not come back to this thread, Alie. I know it’s hurtful but that’s what we decided.

Man, it *is* funny when it’s not being said to you by a hurtful wench.

/Inside joke. Sorry.

*are not our.

I can’t even get homonyms right, how am I supposed to contribute to a trivia team.

Man, Bix, what on earth did that email say?

Short answer:

Don’t come to trivia tonight or ever again.
You’re too quiet and my friends don’t like you because of that and several of my friends are thinking of quitting the team that’s been together for 5 years because they don’t like you. Don’t come back to our team. I know this sounds hurtful but all our friends agreed on this, we’ve all talked about it. Kthxbye.

Except it was a lot bitchier and hurtful. Hurtful enough that it made me cry.

It should be noted that no one ever brought this up to me or my only friend on the team and I answered a ton of the trivia questions correctly each week. Also, I didn’t know anyone on the team, so I wasn’t really in on their inside jokes.

Most decent people would have said, “We’d just like it to be friends” which is completely understandable. Most people.

Yeah, so…it was awesome.

It’s all better now that I had poutine yesterday but it still smarts when I think about it.

I think we could totally whip their butts in a trivia contest! The Avengers ho! Wondertwins activate!

I think MNSpeak should make the MNAvengers into a crimefighting enterprise instead. It should be noted that I would be useless as loud noises and any air of danger frightens me. But I promise I’ll be very social. Unless some shit goes down, then I’m peacing out.

And speaking of trivia, I’d just like to say that I think Cash Cab is a truly underrated show.

/Really it’s the only thing interesting on at 930am.

Oh, wow…my whole family (wife, 6-yr-old girl, mom and self) loves Cash Cab. If I ever make it to Manhattan, I’m going to scout for that cab’s license plate.

To further derail the thread, where did you come by the poutine, Bixby? If it was homemade, did you make it with the government cheese we occasionally talk about?

If I see the Cash Cab plate, I’m going to request that I be taken to somewhere Westchester, then I’ll answer enough questions that I’ll never have to work again.

As for the poutine, I made it with KC and it was delicious. I never thought to make poutine with government cheese but I fear it wouldn’t get melty enough. We used mozzorella cheese curds. You can get pretty good poutine at Triple Rock and I hear that Harry’s has poutine but it’s not that good an overpriced.

The Avengers! Yes! An itinerant internet gang of trivia contest participants. We’d travel the metro, dropping in on trivia contests and with our combined smarts, we would blow the minds of the regular attendees.

We could use our power for good OR for vengeance.

We could also get a little rowdy and loudly make snarky comments, as though we were on the internet.

I’m officially advocating for a name change to the MNVengers. But I like where Jane is going with this roaming trivia crew. No one would know our true identities while we toiled away at our day jobs/stayed home on unemployment. Our logo would be a picture of a kitten in a Trivial Pursuit box that said, “Im in ur trivia enjoying ur questions”. DouglasG, can we see a rendering of that graphic?

I’m a trivia outcast. I played Trivial Pursuit once with family in the mid-’80s, won big, and no one ever wanted to play with me ever again. If you’re auditioning, count me in!

P.S. Do we have to have a superpower?

Superpower optional. Braininess strongly encouraged.

Oh and for Baker, et al, here’s the email. I thought long and hard about posting it. Really, I did.

And Noodleman, today we are all trivia outcasts.

Or something.