From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Presidential Debate Drinking Game 1.1
Date: 13 Oct 1992 12:04:49 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
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       The official 1992 Presidential Debate Drinking Game!
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This is version 1.1 of the 1992 Presidential Debate Drinking Game,
written by strat@cis.ksu.edu (Steve Davis).  You may reprint it as
long as you give the author credit.  The author also wishes to
thank thf2@midway.uchicago.edu, and gbh@matt.ksu.ksu.edu for
additional rules.  If you have any ideas for additional rules, send
them to strat@cis.ksu.edu!

For the uninitiated: In a drinking game, the object is to get
drunk.  But the object is also to remain sober longer than everyone
else playing.  But the object is also to get drunk as fast as you
can.

A drink is:

* 1 shot (1 to 1.5 ounces) of anything more alcoholic than 20
  proof.  If you're new to drinking games or new to alcohol, don't
  even try doing shots!  Most players will count one shot of a
  high-alcohol content beverage as the two or more drinks required in
  some of these cases.

* One "gulp" of a cereal malt beverage (beer), or any drink less
  than ten percent alcohol by volume.  You can count someone's gulps
  by watching their Adam's Apple move.

* You may have to drink a whole beverage.  If you are drinking
  beer, finish off the can or bottle.  If you're drinking shooters,
  take two!

There are only a few short rules:

*  No puking!
*  Pee before the game starts!
*  If one person notices that everyone should be drinking, but no
   one drinks, he can make everyone else take two drinks.

You drink whenever one of the following events occurs:
				 
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		    A N Y   C A N D I D A T E :
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Says "family", "values" (whole beverage if it's "family values"),
"baby" (double drinks if it's "crack baby" or "AIDS baby"),
"McCarthy" (double drinks if it's Bush), "inhale", "the press",
"jobs".

Goes for more than two sentences without showing both hands.

Mentions their family (double drinks if it's their wife, triple if
it's their children).

Double drinks if any candidate mentions any other candidate's
family.
				 
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			  C L I N T O N :
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Says "conservative", "invest", "trickle-down", "change", "hope",
"supply-side", "fair" (or fairness).

Mentions his success as an Arkansas Governor, any former president,
his home town.

Makes an anecdote about some person he met on the campaign trail,
giving the place and time but no name.  Double drinks if this
person has a life threatening disease.

Brings up a statistic out of the air.

The first person to notice if Clinton touches his hair for any
reason can make everyone else playing the drinking game take a
whole beverage.
		 
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			     B U S H :
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Says "liberal", "tax and spend" (or spend-and-tax), "prudent", "not
going to do it" (any variation), "trust", "we are the United States
of America" (or any variation thereof), "commander in chief",
"children", "sleep" (triple drinks if children and sleep are
mentioned together).

Mentions the cold war, Dukakis and Mondale (double drinks if in the
same sentence), America's victory in the Gulf War, Panama, his
status as a war veteran, congressional scandals, the "new
congress", former president Truman.

Touches his nose for any reason (double drinks if he's talking
about drugs).
 
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			    P E R O T :
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Says "foreign lobbyist", "special interest", "action", "plan",
"ninety days", "four trillion", "perks".

Tells a folksy anecdote.

Mentions his own physical appearance, the electronic town hall.

Chuckles audibly when Bush says something stupid.

Defines a problem when asked how he would solve it.
				 
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	   Steve Davis (I'm a student, not a spokesperson!)
      strat@cis.ksu.edu - Kansas State University - Manhattan KS
				   
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