Yes we (beer) can: US abuzz with State of the Union drinking game

[Beacool]

AFP - Around the United States, Americans are shaking furiously ahead of President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address Wednesday.

But they're not trembling in fear, anger or anticipation: they're using cocktail shakers to get ready for the State of the Union drinking game.

Invented in 2002 by Marc Mezler and Howard Deutsch when they were students at Princeton University, the basic rules of the game require players to down a shot or chug a beer when the president says certain words or phrases, or speaks the names of people or countries during the key speech.

This year, "hope" and "change" both require a swig of something, as do mentions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran or Pakistan.

"Let me be clear" and "make no mistake" get a shot each, and if Obama references problems that his administration inherited, players drink a shot of something aged.

http://www.france24.com/en/20100127-yes-we-beer-can-us-abuzz-with-state-union-drinking-game

Hmmm, I think I'm not the only one getting sloshed tonight.

:beer:



:toast:

[CBR]

1. I can't do shots, so I am beginning to drink wine now so I will

be in the same place by the end of the SOTU.

:toast:

[Beacool]

2. What place is that, under the bar?

:D

[CBR]

3. Preferably on top of it...

:P

[Beacool]

5. Ohhhhhh, you hussy!!!

Just don't behave as if you were at the Coyote Ugly Saloon. The bar in NY was near the theater I used to perform in a lot some years ago. Many a memorable night was spent there. LOL!!!

:evilgrin:

[HuckleB]

4. This has gone viral!

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=state+of+the+union+drinking+game

[Beacool]

6. Wow!!! There's going to be a lot of drunken people out there.

Actually, that's the best way to listen to these things anyway. The alcohol dulls the pain of listening to so much B.S.

:D

[Jamastiene]

7. Don't forget Political Bingo too.

http://www.politicalbingo.com

[Beacool]

13. Thanks, I hadn't seen that one.

;-)

[otohara]

8. Beats Terror, Terraists, 911, Surge, Evil,

I still "heart" President Obama -

[Beacool]

15. Oh, the drinking game is not a bashing.

It's done in good fun. It started when Bush was president and it'll probably continue for years to come. Hey, any excuse to imbibe......

:toast:

[johnaries]

18. Absolutely! I mean, Bacardily!

This year, I suggest the words "jobs" and "economy" and "bail-outs".

Damn it, I already started and may not make it through the speech. Somebody tell me what he said tomorrow, ok?

[Beacool]

20. I can't help you.

I already forgot half of it. LOL!!!

:7

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. I'm going to take a shot every tenth time he looks at the teleprompter to his left.

Ohhhh tomorrow's going to be a long, painful day.

Watching Obama give speeches is like watching a very slow tennis match, or a very fast basketball game.

[Beacool]

12. Tomorrow?

The SOTU is tonight or is it that you expect to have a bad hangover by tomorrow?

:D

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. Bad bad hangover.

He's going to look at that teleprompter to his left fifty times if he looks at it once.

[Beacool]

19. How's your head?

My worst hangover was when I was 19 and they found me sitting on the bathroom floor hugging the toilet because I insisted that it was moving. One of the few times that I was ever so blotto.

:puke:



:7

[cherokeeprogressive]

21. Actually I didn't drink a drop. I was too anxious to hear him ask for repeal of DADT.

But...

My worst hangover happened in Mombasa, Kenya. They use formaldehyde in the beer (or did in the 80's) as a preservative due to a lack of refrigeration. I actually could not move.

[Beacool]

22. Formaldehyde????

Forget the hangover, that sounds positively poisonous!!

;(

[Jennicut]

10. Equal opportunity drinkers....main goal is to get sloshed.

Anyone got a Corona?

[Beacool]

11. With a piece of lime?

Yummy!!!

:9

[Jennicut]

14. Always...never without the lime, just isn't as good.

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[Beacool]

16. True.............

:hi: