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We love when people come and eat and drink with us and we love it even more when they enjoy themselves. But if you've got a blog, enjoy our company and food and beer AND you want to write about us, we'll bro-hug like awkward friends. Cereally.

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She can't win based on the amount of votes allowed, her campaign is hemorrhaging funds and yet still she doesn't just stop. I'm seriously expecting her to, after Obama gets the nomination, come out of a closet (literally, not figuratively) all bloodied and limping for one last chance to get him, but Michelle Obama's going to see her first and shoot her over Barack's shoulder. Then the campaign will be over...Believe it or not, Quizzo content following.

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It's been a good couple of weeks for Philadelphia. The Flyers are doing great, the Phil's are on a roll, the Kimmel is out of debt, we're keeping The Gross Clinic in Philly, hell, we even voted OUT a guy under federal investigation. Now if I could just get a fucking win in Quizzo...

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While you were getting busy in your "Marriage Bed" at the compound or being bitter and shooting guns, we were having a blast with Quizzo. I mean, sure the pope gets to wear an awesome cap and gets carted around in a fancy bullet proof thing, but is seeing an ex-Nazi in a mu mu chit-chat at a stadium worth getting worked up over? My hungover blahg after the jump...

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I was thinking of doing another movie-mock-up of Hillary as Rocky this week to match last weeks equally bone-headed move of lying about her trip to Bosnia, but to tell you the truth, I'm just a little too flabbergasted to do it. She does know Rocky lost and she also knows she's not the underdog, right?

::sigh::

Quizzo talk after the jump.

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This morning my iGoogle reported that there was a small explosion in New York, the Israeli/Palestine conflict has reached a new boiling point, Colombia and Venezuela are at each other's throats, the Obama/Clinton race is devolving into a negative campaign that could weaken the Democratic party and I brushed it off because of how beautiful of a day it was. Now I hear Patrick Swayze has cancer?? My whole life is crashing around me like, as if I were in some sort of place where planes drop things that make stuff blow up. I mean, if we don't have our scruffy haired, dirty dancing, surprisingly acrobatic yet not gay, Johnny Castle to bring the nation together, I don't know what I'll do. I'm going to watch Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights and curl up with a half gallon of Breyer's Waffle Cone Overload.

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In our first year of existence, we've been voted the trendiest by Fox News, the best nightlife spot by Yelp and even had a shout out to our bathrooms by City Paper and now Philly Weekly voted us in the top 50 bars in the city. We only got to 41 but shit, we've only been open for a year. I don't know about you, but that calls for a drink or 6. Cheers!

I am pretty sure Andy misremembered, but I didn't have a beer last night. I mean, ahem, ahaw, I just know that the product, subst..umm..beer, was not what I had. I drank water...and got shitfaced.

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Adding to our list of ever-growing accolades, praise and other forms of exaltation and glorification; we won the Philly Yelper's Award for Best of Nightlife. Thanks to all the Yelpers for your reviews and business and you are more than welcomed back for another Yelp Happy Hour, just as long as we get great reviews. Haha, just kidding...but really...I'm not.

The beer it does flow.
The drunks they do come to drink.
The bar is our stream.

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Greetings and welcome to the first Quizzo blog of 2008. It feels electric (boogie woogie woogie) and since iiggle-a-mesa-cara, she's a pumpin' like a matic, she's movin' like electric; she sure got the boogie. Yeah. I googled the lyrics to the Electric Slide and that came up. Wow.

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This New Years you can celebrate in one of two ways. You can go to a bar that will charge an enormous cover, feed you well drinks and shrimp cocktails to make you forget you dropped $50 to get into a bar that is normally free, give you a glass of champagne at midnight and send you home to cry yourself to sleep, or, you can come to National Mechanics where there is no cover, our great everyday deals and all your friends. So ring in the New Year with us, your friends and no stupid cover. We'll be setting trends all night.

Last night was a Quizzo game you shouldn't have missed, although you probably aren't reading this if you weren't there, unless you are some weird Quizzo Blog lurker who reads this only by the light of your monitor, smiling devilishly to yourself at my hilarious jokes, clever quips and earth shattering revelations. Well, in any case, a bunch of funny shit happened so if you were there, remember all that stuff? And if you weren't, sod off, weirdos.

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This weeks Quizzo game was one of the rowdiest I have ever seen. There wasn’t an open seat in the room, teams were cheering, glasses were clinking and Annie and Dave were running at full speed as Irish John, like a ringmaster amidst the circus surrounding him, sounded off question after profanity-laced question to an appreciative and uproarious crowd.

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So our First Friday fest this month is a totally interactive exhibit featuring real alcohol consumption combined with music which, if you choose to realize the artist’s vision, will lead to dancing, sweating and maybe even more, depending on the level of crowd participation. So bring your dancing shoes and prepare to commit a faux pas.