We present, for your entertainment and frustration, a fiendishly geeky quiz from local quizmasters The Brothers Barry.

’Tis the season to be merry, so get yourself down to the Crown and Kettle for beverages and conversation at our Annual Christmas Social. There may even be a quiz.

Join us for our almost annual Towel Day/Geek Pride Pub Quiz! Think you know your sci-fi from your sci-fact? Or your Romulan Wines from your Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters? Join us from 8pm on Thursday 28th May in the upstairs bar of Bar 21. Entrance £1 per person. Maximum of 5 in a team. Use of smartphones to cheat punishable by airlocking (or arbitrary deduction of points).

Our usual friendly social event, shifted forwards a week because apparently there's some sort of birthday bash going on the following Thursday (not just at our venue but all over the place - some people!).

Depending on RSVPs there may be a quiz, of sorts. It may even be the sort with prizes.

Come along to ThanksGeeking…a GMSS event that celebrates Geek/Nerd Pride Day!

Geek Pride Day is an initiative to promote geek culture, usually celebrated on 25 May (although due to venue availability we've picked the closest Thursday which will be 23rd May so technically it will be Geek/Nerd Pride Eve's Eve). The date was chosen to commemorate the release of the first Star Wars film on 25 May 1977, but shares the same date as two other similar fan "holidays": Towel Day, for fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams, and the Glorious 25th of May for fans of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

We'll be hosting the fabulous Sci-fi & Geek pub quiz with probably a bit of skepticism thrown in for good measure. A certain comedy sponge will be joining us (no, not the one with oblong trousers, the other funnier one from Wigan). So come to Thanksgeeking this Thursday 23rd May for the GMSS annual fancy dress pub quiz and sponge based budget cabaret!

It's less than two weeks away, so it’s time to think about a costume!* In previous years we've hosted Holly from Red Dwarf, Beetlejuice, Neil Armstrong, Lara Croft and and Link from Zelda to name but a few. The bar has been set high so it's time to get your geek on!

*Costumes are by no means a requirement to attending the event, but you may lose serious Geek Points if you don’t!

Come along to ThanksGeeking…a GMSS event that celebrates Geek/Nerd Pride Day(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd_Pride_Day). A firm annual favourite now, we’ve had bowls of petunias, the amazing fancy dress shenanigans, the fabulous Sci-fi & Geek pub quiz prizes? Did you consume the blue Vogon cake (and who knew they like chocolate chips?)? And what about the fantastic PICO? Well, if you haven’t been before, and you didn’t catch the magnificent Pico and friends from Puppetual Motion getting their geek on, then no fear, for the time is almost upon us again, and PICO WILL BE BACK!

So, it may seem a way away, but it’s time to think about a costume!*

Due to venue availability, this will take place on the 24th May- otherwise known as Geek/Nerd pride Eve, from 7pm. Watch out for the upcoming details on our various channels!

*Costumes are by no means a requirement to attending the event, but you may lose serious Geek Points if you don’t!

Were YOU at last years' fantastic Geek/ Nerd Pride day event at Greater Manchester Skeptics?
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118801848149528

...Did you witness the Dolphin, the bowl of petunias, the amazing fancy dress shenanigans, the fabulous Sci-fi & Geek pub quiz prizes? Did you consume the blue Vogon cake (and who knew they like chocolate chips?)?

If yes, I'm sure you'll be back for more. If no, you'll be thinking "where on earth was I and why wasn't I there?"
Well now's the time to put things right!

We'll be celebrating all things science, sci-fi, fantasy, (and all other geeky things that make life so awesome) *again* with our now annual Geek/Nerd Pride day annual event.
So come along to our newly named "THANKSGEEKING" event.
Be proud and give thanks for your fellow geeks.

Due to venue availability, this will take place on the 26th May- the "boxing day" of Geek Nerdiness.

EEK! why isn't this TOMORROW?!!!!

See Links below for why the 25th May is Geek/Nerd Pride (and not, for example, May 4th!).

Geek? Nerd?
25th May *is* YOUR day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd_Pride_Day
Both Towel Day (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day) AND Star Wars Premiere anniversary...