01 / August
01 / August
Drink, Beer Pong Killjoys

What's your favorite drinking game? Mine is beer pong. I am a bit old for drinking games, so I partake only when forced to. But if I could choose a game without coercion it would be beer pong. Apparently, many schoolmarms don't share my enthusiasm for tossing a ping-pong ball across a table into one of six triangularly arranged cups of beer.

Georgetown University has banned beer pong on its campus. Yale, Penn, and Tufts have banned drinking games in general. "Last year, Dartmouth College banned water pong...because of the risk of water intoxication," Time magazine explains in an article on the anti-beer pong killjoys. "I know that [water pong] seems like a good balance between the Dartmouth drinking culture and just trying to have fun," a Dartmouth administrator informed the campus. "However, it can be just as dangerous, if not more so." If the game involved gay sex instead of beer these schools would probably have mandated rather than outlawed it.

Can I make a drinking game rule? Any tattletale caught snitching on a beer pong game at any of the aforementioned reeducation centers has to play "party 'til you puke" solo in front of a laughing audience.

I know the name of another drinking game that readily applies to the typical anti-beer pong bluenose. These busybodies even strongarmed a video game company to change a release's name from Beer Pong to Pong Toss. The attorney general of Connecticut, perhaps in a moment's respite from rooting out smokers from the state's bars, even fired off an ominous letter to the company regarding Beer Pong. "We never anticipated such a severe reaction to the word beer," Jag Jaegar, an owner of JV Games, explained to Time. Next time use "pot" instead--and change that Pong to Bong. The meddlers currently in an uproar will leave you alone.

posted at 12:26 AM
Comments

I've always enjoyed a$$hole. Century Club (100 shots of beer in a 100 minutes) is fun in a I-want-to-get-wasted-fast kind of way.

Posted by: Ralph on August 1, 2008 03:38 PM

I like to drink (I am a Mick afterall) but I've never understood getting drunk for the sake of getting drunk. Thus, drinking games were never in my plans.

Have always enjoyed drinking strickly as a social lubricant. That's not to say I've never 'over socialized'.

Posted by: asdf on August 1, 2008 04:06 PM

The only purpose of drinking games is to get girls to drink. But when I play them, I am partial to A$$hole or King's.

Posted by: Ben on August 1, 2008 05:47 PM

Century Club sounds like the Hour of Power, only it's the Marathon whereas the Hour of Power is the sprint--or maybe the 10K.

Posted by: Dan Flynn on August 1, 2008 06:15 PM

play beer pong last saturday. i was the loser, and had a major hangover on sun.

Posted by: tagmnbagm on August 1, 2008 09:04 PM

or just have a keg race...

Posted by: Morris on August 5, 2008 04:16 PM
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