1 post tagged “drinking games”

My half-brother, Andy Hall, has started a new blog, Daily Life at Leland Stanford, Jr. University, which covers, as he puts it:

My life at Stanford. My interests, such as the Red Sox, the UConn Huskies, and competitive Beirut. Criticisms of many people, places, and things. Food. Movies. Sports. Matters of import to me and possibly others.

Unfortunately on blogspot, not Vox, since he wants to harvest endless AdSense revenue. I haven't had the heart to tell him yet that even blogs with hundreds of thousands of readers don't really make much money from Google ads, which is why many of them are switching to Federated Media.

In any case, he's posted two entries today which may be helpful to the Vox community. The first is a list of the top five places on Stanford campus to play Beirut. If you don't know what Beirut is, or think it's a war-torn city in Lebanon, please consult the wikipedia entry--in fact, even if you do know that Beirut is a drinking game also refered to as "beer pong" read the entry because it's a hoot, including a section on etiquette that would make Emily Post proud:

All participants involved in the first game of the session should help in setting up the table; splitting duties for cup arrangement, water cup filling, and beverage pouring. Correspondingly, the group playing the last game of the session should clean up the table, throw away cups, etc.

The second entry is the inevitable and necesary corollorary to the first, the five worst places, including one hapless fraternity whose shortcomings include:

The tables are about the length of a football field. No one has an advantage because the cups are well outside anyone's good aiming range. As a result games in Kappa Sig take at least twice as long as games on a normal table. Of course, most people don't seem to notice because games rarely seem to get finished. Disappearances, guest shots, and flying debris often compromise the quality of the contest.