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Dan insists<\/a> I tell you something of last night.<\/p>\n

One of my flatmates plus myself and Daniel headed to the notorious Retro Bar music quiz – although we got there a little early, offering time for several bottles of Magners before the quiz commenced. Despite this, and more trendy cider during it, we managed to score 18\/20 on the girls-names-themed quiz.<\/p>\n

We knew that wouldn’t be enough to win, though. The victorious team – excellently named The Cult of Skaro, and not led by Chris Black<\/a> – got 19.5\/20. They also went on to win the \u00a350 cash prize, although, like me, may have been disappointed not to have picked up the supposed booby prize of a set of Doctor Who<\/em> top trumps.<\/p>\n

By this time, we had moved onto wine (of which Dan drank most) before moving on elsewhere for another drink. I shan’t repeat the self-pitying text message he sent me through his hangover this morning while I was bright and sharp at work (despite my journey in taking three times as long as it should’ve done).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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