The Stableboy Incident

She was the disaffected daughter of the burgermeister. Though she called a small town on the German-Polish border her home, the legacy of the Hildebrands' extended family, which included the Kaiser himself, promised a life of ease. Yet her destiny lay not within the paradigm of propriety and decadence which would propel the Old World into the disasters of the early 20th century. No, for though History could end her fanciful girlhood, History could also birth a new hope, safe from the horrors that awaited an ageing Europe. The heiress Hildebrand had fallen in love with the stableboy, and in the chaos of the Burgermeister's fury she would be disinherited and forced to fly to the New World, carrying nothing save the title of the noble family into which she had been born.

In honor of the romantic turn which brought Great Great Great Grandmother to Chicago --where her proud German name first fell under the shadow of the Krueger household, and then passed a generation yoked to a Scottish clan of Snyders in Indiana, and finally returned to Chicago through the efforts of a hardy, if not regal, band of marginally Teutonic Hackers--a foursome of Staxxx associates played its inaugural game of Pub Trivia flying the banner "The Stableboy Incident."

The memory of Great Great Great Grandmother was done no disservice by our homage. "The Stableboy Incident," though one position behind the "Guys Who Aren't Really Trying" at the finish, demonstrated competence in fields as diverse as Major League Baseball statistics, 19th century English literature, and early 90's sexual scandal. A beautiful effort by all involved (excepting Joe), the Staxxx representatives proved to a host of over-educated alcoholics that, though spare on the Reg's shelves, there exists a bit of knowledge in the library. Check it out in the Pub next Tuesday...