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vonbontee said

Hope you’re going to use the “Even Easier!” thread for fact-checking purposes – just convince him that everything on it is canonical fact and you can’t lose!  

That’s true! The problem is that if there’s no such thing as a wrong answer he has the same advantage as I do… 

Also he’d never fall for it because from what I’ve heard his brain is literally the Anthology 

Beatlebug said
I’m back! I was away for a few days because I went to

NEW YOAAAHK CITTYY!

Well, New Jersey really, but we took a train into NYC to see things two of the three days we were there — the other two days we were driving I did a Floydathon (and got through eight of their albums, including the double The Wall) the first day, and a Beatlethon on the way back, which I didn’t finish due to various interruptions (I got from Love Me Do [single version] to the end of Rubber Soul and continued it today — I’m now listening to WMGGW).

AnYwAy . . . NYC was AMAZING, seeing all the northeastern lands which are so different from the South was amazing, and we also got to see some friends of ours who moved to Jersey years ago. And yes, of course we went to Strawberry Fields! It was nighttime by the time we got over there (about eight) and some blokes were blasting old-school hip-hop in what was supposed to be (according to the plaque) ‘A Quiet Place’, which completely spoilt the mood and rather peeved me until I realised that John would probably approve of their cheek.   

That sounds really fun! Was it your first time?

I’ve been to Strawberry Fields too! Instead of hip-hop there was a busker singing really bad renditions of Beatles songs.  At least his heart was in the right place?

Unfortunately my Strawberry Fields trip was made before my extreme Beatles obsession began. Maybe I’ll go back one day. 

I’m glad you’re back, I missed your posts!

The Hole Got Fixed said
Which is useful for those who learn by writing. I don’t know about other education systems, but the one we have in Victoria is geared way towards writing, not the other three methods. Too bad I’m the aural and kinaesthetic person…  

Yikes. For me, it kind of depends on the class/teacher. For instance, most of the math classes I have had involve watching the teacher explain how to do the problems and then doing a worksheet with similar problems, while most history classes have involved the teacher talking and us taking notes. Actually, this year it seems that all we ever do in all my classes is take notes.  Notes stress me out. But I’d say that most stuff here is geared towards writing, and we kinesthetic learners just have to live with it. 

50yearslate said 
!!! Very exciting news!!!

My dad just texted me that he met a friend of a friend who is an extreme Beatlemaniac. Like EXTREME. And apparently on Thursday he and the friend will be coming over to play Beatles Trivial Pursuit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently he can never find anybody who will play with him because he’s too good at it. I’m just happy to have somebody to play with at all  

Okay so we played it last night and it was

A M A Z I N G.

So he was good. Really good, but not quite as good as I was expecting. @Ron Nasty could have crushed him without blinking. But it was amazing. Multiple times throughout the game, we stopped playing for a few minutes to just talk about the Beatles– we’d talk about the smallest little details from their songs and their movies and it was just fantastic. I think I enjoyed that more than the game itself, which is really saying something.

So for a while the game was really close, because he, me, and my dad all had our pieces filled up all the way, but he got lucky and won with the question, “What was the name of the bonus disc of All Things Must Pass ?” (Apple Jam).

There were a few questions he didn’t know that surprised me a bit. For instance, he didn’t know which movie had Buckingham Palace in it– he said A Hard Day’s Night .  But he also got some pretty hard questions right without even thinking about them. I was quite impressed, and it was nice to talk Beatles with someone who really, really knows them. He seemed to enjoy it too, and when the game ended (he won, but it was close) he said he was very impressed with me, but I think he only said that because for one question (how many songs on With the Beatles are written by John and Paul) I wrote down thirteen of the fourteen songs on the album (I forgot Till There Was You  ) and counted them and got the question right. (Seven.)

All in all an extremely wonderful, fantastic, and amazing experience.