From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.elections,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Pres. Debate Drinking Game Rules!
Date: 12 Oct 1992 20:31:17 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

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       The official 1992 Presidential Debate Drinking Game!
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This is version 1.0 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.
 
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.
 
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:
				 
		    A N Y   C A N D I D A T E :
		    ---------------------------
 
Says "family", "values" (double drinks 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".
 
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.
				 
			  C L I N T O N :
			  ---------------
 
Says "conservative", "invest", "trickle-down", "change", "hope",
"supply-side", "fair" (or fairness).
 
Mentions his success as an Arkansas Governor, former presidents
Hoover or Nixon.
 
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 five
drinks.
				 
			     B U S H :
			     ---------
 
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), "cold war".
 
Mentions 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).
				 
			    P E R O T :
			    -----------
 
Says "foreign lobbyist", "special interest".
 
Tells an anecdote.
 
Makes reference to his own physical appearance.
 
Does something (like putting on or taking off) with his glasses.
 
Defines a problem when asked how he would solve it.

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E-Mail me if you can think up any more rules!

Stratocaster
-- 
	   Steve Davis (I'm a student, not a spokesperson!)
      strat@cis.ksu.edu - Kansas State University - Manhattan KS
				   
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