Shamelessly purloined from Utne.com, this is the drinking game that I aim to play tonight when Homer, Forrest and I get together for our little Election Day Party.
Utne Reader’s Election Night Drinking Game
by Hannah Lobel
Need something to take the edge off as you wait for your fellow Americans to decide the fate of the nation? How about a distracting drinking game? (Those who prefer not to imbibe, or want to ensure they’ll be both awake and alert when the next president is announced, can substitute alcohol with stale Halloween candy).
Here are the rules, suggested by experts Bennett Gordon, Elizabeth Ryan, and Kari Volkmann-Carlsen here at Utne Reader. Drink or dig into the Halloween candy every time the following happen, unless another frequency is otherwise noted.
1. A red state goes blue, or vice versa (Potential targets for the former: Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Nevada, Colorado, North Carolina, New Mexico, Indiana. Potential targets for the latter: Pennsylvania, New Hampshire.)
2. A pundit says something he or she actually believes, mistakenly assuming that his or her mic is off.
3. Drink/pop a Reeses every tenth time Joe the Plumber is mentioned. Anything less could cause alcohol poisoning or a hypoglycemic event.
4. Voter suppression reported. Do not drink or candy-binge for five minutes.
5. Flagrant network abuse of new Election Day gadgetry.
6. Keith Olberman pounds his chest saying, “What’s up now?”
7. A Fox News anchor starts to cry.
8. A former candidate looks more convincing than he ever did while he was running (i.e., Al Gore, John Kerry, Bill Richardson)
9. James Carville uses folksy expression hitherto unknown to all speakers of English.
10. Network assures you, Joe the Viewer, that they won’t screw up this year by calling any race too early. Then calls a race too early.
11. Hanging chads come up.
12. Network actually mentions the Green Party (drink twice).
13. Obama wins. Stop drinking/eating candy. Go and dance in the street.
14. McCain pulls off upset. Finish off all the bottles in house.
(Here's the link to the real thing by Hannah Lobel.)
Wow, you guys must be really hung over right now. Wonderful news on the election, though my heart is very heavy this morning from the sweep that the anti-gay forces achieved. California is a particularly bitter pill.
Posted by: DougT | November 06, 2008 at 12:03 AM
I drank so much wine that I bawled when Charlie Gibson called the race for Obama...I probably would've bawled anyway
So sad for Prop 8. I am starting a grassroots effort to abide by the Amendment and interpret it as marriage between one man and one woman...thereby outlawing divorce and remarriage
Posted by: seth | November 08, 2008 at 12:58 AM