Ship of Fools: Circus: *hic!* The SoF Drinking Game

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Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

Alrighty now, boys and girls, grab your cider, GIN, and real ale and let's cook up some rules.
Remember: the point of a drinking game isn't to stay sober. To start, pick a thread and . . .
1 drink
mousethief posts something
Someone includes a link in their post
Something is quoted from above—1 drink for each nested quote block
Someone references the Great Gator (pour a little out first, then drink)
Any of the following terms are mentioned: asshat, hellion, H&A's, fuckwit, tat, "swimming in/crossing the X."

2 drinks
Someone screws up their code
Someone posts a broken link
Host or Admin warning
Someone does something they've been called to Hell for
Any of the following: rusted farm implement, fluffy bunny, 10 C's, "high/low on the candle."

3 drinks
Someone issues a Hell Call
A host mentions the broken code/link
Any mention of GIN

Finish your drink
You get called to Hell
Someone gets planked

Other suggestions—and which thread should we try first?

[ 28. September 2011, 21:26: Message edited by: Chorister ]

Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on :

[Hostly_clown_makeup]

I know that you guys know this already, but just to make sure: Please, please don't make work for the other hosts by doing anything stupid on the other boards in relation to this thread. Thanks.

[/Hostly_clown_makeup]

That said, I would choose penal substitutionary atonement but I worry that the ten pages worth of catching up I'd have to do would leave me under the table.

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

*takes two drinks*

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

I'm out of gin...

Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :

Come over to my house, I just bought a fresh bottle...

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

Okay, I'm kinda scared of wading into the infamous PSA thread—it exemplifies why I sometimes steer clear of Purg—but, looking over it, I'm reminded of a few rules I forgot . . .

1 drink
Obvious British Spelling dipthongs (œ, Œ, æ, Æ)
"As was said above," or something like it.
"We don't do that in our church," OSLI
"That's not what that means!" OSLI
Bible verse cited
Crosspost
Two Shippies with the same avatar post within 4 posts of one another

2 drinks
"I'm not exactly clear on the concept . . .," OSLI
Accusation of deadhorsery
"We've discussed this before," OSL
Obvious not getting it.
Non-Bible nonfiction cited
Potshot taken at some denomination/political group

3 drinks
10 C's violation; will probably result in a 2-drink host warning later.
Party X accuses Party Y of not getting it
Party Y gets miffed at Party X's accusation (wow, I'm having flashbacks to a few bad threads now)
Work of fiction cited—yes, even in the Heavenly book threads

Finish your drink
Can't transport booze across borders—H/A moves the thread to another board
"Is this STILL going?"—after 100 posts/2 pages, finish your drink, get a new one.

I'm pretty sure PSA would turn most anyone's liver into foi gras within three pages.

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Imaginary Friend:
That said, I would choose penal substitutionary atonement but I worry that the ten pages worth of catching up I'd have to do would leave me under the table.

No - you fail to see that, with PSA, the Lord Jesus will drink your gin on your behalf.

Posted by TomOfTarsus (# 3053) on :

leo:

As they say elsewhere, you win the internet! [Killing me]

Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on :

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
No - you fail to see that, with PSA, the Lord Jesus will drink your gin on your behalf.

Let's get Jesus rat-arsed!!

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

I believe the disciples were criticised for playing this game on the Day of Pentecost.

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Imaginary Friend:

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
No - you fail to see that, with PSA, the Lord Jesus will drink your gin on your behalf.
Let's get Jesus rat-arsed!!

Preferably at Cana, in Galillee.

Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :

quote:
Originally posted by leo:

quote:
Originally posted by Imaginary Friend:
That said, I would choose penal substitutionary atonement but I worry that the ten pages worth of catching up I'd have to do would leave me under the table.
No - you fail to see that, with PSA, the Lord Jesus will drink your gin on your behalf.

Does that mean I can get drunk on his liver? That's like betting with the house's money.

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

This might be too hard for GIN drinkers like you to understand,* but, under PSA, you never enter into a state of drunkenness at all! Jesus got hungover for your liver, and so, once you put your trust and booze in Him, you will be in a state of grace, saved from all ravages of the bottle. Even a child could tell you that.

*Actually, if you were playing this game with bottles of GIN, I think Spot Goes to the Farm would be too hard to understand halfway through the first page of PSA.

Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :

You guys are seriously weird.

I like you.

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

New Rules:

1 drink

Any time a non-animated smilie is used.

2 Drinks

Any time an animated smilie is used

Drain your glass

Any time [Projectile]

is used

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

Surely that's:

1 drink when two-legged avatar posts
2 drinks when four-legged avatar posts
drain glass when an extra-terrestrial being posts.

Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
You guys are seriously weird.

I like you.

Public displays of affection have got to be worth at least two drinks. [Smile]

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Surely that's:

1 drink when two-legged avatar posts
2 drinks when four-legged avatar posts
drain glass when an extra-terrestrial being posts.

Grab all your booze and run when the tiger avatar shows up

[codefix]

[ 24. July 2011, 02:54: Message edited by: AristonAstuanax ]

Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on :

Two drinks for a code fuck-up. [Big Grin]

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
I believe the disciples were criticised for playing this game on the Day of Pentecost.

But only because it was only nine o'clock in the morning.

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Imaginary Friend:
Two drinks for a code fuck-up.

I was just setting you up, of course!

2 drinks
Shipmate plays the "that was supposed to be funny, how could you not see that" card to cover their ass when they get busted.

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
... Drain your glass any time is used

I should be all right as long as no-one mentions Marmite ... [Eek!]

Bugger. I've just used an animated smilie. Cheers!

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

quote:
Marvin the Martian: New Rules:

1 drink

Any time a non-animated smilie is used.

2 Drinks

Any time an animated smilie is used

Drain your glass

Any time is used

Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :

What are the rules for if the smilie is quoted from someone else's post? Do they still count or does it have to be a new smilie?

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

If in doubt—whichever interpretation of a rule or set of rules leads to more drinking is to be chosen.

Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on :

Okay, the tat thread in Eccles has to be worth a keg or two. Anyone want to take on that beast?

Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :

ok - although this only works for low-church players...

Two drinks any time you see a word you don't understand without looking it up in the dictionary.

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Imaginary Friend:
Two drinks for a code fuck-up.

Another two drinks for the words "fuck" or "cunt" used outside Hell.

And one drink for the word "rhododendron". Just because.

Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Imaginary Friend:
Okay, the tat thread in Eccles has to be worth a keg or two.

Which one? [Confused]

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

The Harrowing of Hell

Whenever Hell experiences an "enthusiastic" pruning, all players must down both their current drinks and their next one.

The next drinks must be of the same volume and alcoholic content as the current ones were when poured (so if you poured half a pint of whisky last time, it sucks to be you).

Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :

"I thought this was a Christian website" (or words to that effect):

Naively by an Apprentice--1 drink.
Cynically by a Shipmate--2 drinks.

Complaints that the Death Pool or other Circus thread is in bad taste--1 drink.

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Imaginary Friend:

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
No - you fail to see that, with PSA, the Lord Jesus will drink your gin on your behalf.
Let's get Jesus rat-arsed!!

That explains his blood alcohol level on Sunday mornings! (Sunday mornings!)

So how many drinks is it for blasphemy? [Two face]

Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Spike:

quote:
Originally posted by Imaginary Friend:
Okay, the tat thread in Eccles has to be worth a keg or two.
Which one?

I suspect IF refers to "The Tatler," the general questions thread about all variety of liturgical accoutrements (currently hiding on page two, if you're curious).

quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
ok - although this only works for low-church players...
Two drinks any time you see a word you don't understand without looking it up in the dictionary.

That will result in a lot of people getting sh*t-faced in a hurry, so in the interest of the game and of public safety, I suggest a more measured approach. Something like this:

Take 1 drink every time somebody makes a snide remark about cassock-albs. Come to think of it, that one will in fact get you drunk pretty quickly.

Take 2 drinks whenever someone responds to a perfectly reasonable, short-answer question (like "What's a zuchetto?") with an arcane, multi-paragraph essay tracing the origin of said tat item back to The Fathers, or The Reformation or The Whatever. If reading it actually makes your eyes glaze over, go ahead and take three.

Drain your glass whenever someone attempts to cross the streams between The Tatler and Eccles Altimeter threads by cross-matching a particular tat item with a category of churchmanship, e.g., "fiddlebacks are strictly Anglo-Catholic" or "evangelicals never wear chasubles." Same if someone mentions wearing a stole with a Geneva gown.

If someone mentions Percy Dearmer, throw your glass against the wall and drink out of the bottle.

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

Um, who's Percy Dearmer?

And the pastors at the church I went to growing up always wore stoles with their Geneva gowns. Does this mean I get to drink on Sundays now?

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

If you admit to not knowing who Percy Dearmer is, drink one Bombay Sapphire.

If you are a host who admits to not knowing who Percy Dearmer is, drink two Bombay Sapphires.

If you are an Eccles Host who doesn't know who Percy Dearmer is, you've not been doing your job properly. Drink the whole bottle.

The answer to 'Who is Percy Dearmer?' will be magically revealed as soon as the bottle of Gin is drained.

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

One drink for every post asking to change Dead Horses in The Styx
two drinks for a post by a host
three drinks for a request for a name change

This one is a bit predictable though ...

Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on :

Yeah. The answers to most of life's pressing questions are to be found at the bottom of a bottle. C'est la vie.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

Spoiler Alert!

quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
If you admit to not knowing who Percy Dearmer is, drink one Bombay Sapphire.

If you are a host who admits to not knowing who Percy Dearmer is, drink two Bombay Sapphires.

If you are an Eccles Host who doesn't know who Percy Dearmer is, you've not been doing your job properly. Drink the whole bottle.

The answer to 'Who is Percy Dearmer?' will be magically revealed as soon as the bottle of Gin is drained.

If you know that Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams were two of the original anthologists of the Oxford Book of Carols but can't name the third, take a large [pink] GIN.

Posted by luluxiu (# 16542) on :

Although this only applies to two cups of low-church player ... any time you see one you do not understand do not see it in the dictionary words....

Posted by Full Circle (# 15398) on :

One Drink: When you learn something new (to savour the thought)
Two Drinks: When you laugh out loud (to enhance the merriment)
Drain your glass: When you post (to provide courage as you await the response)

Posted by Divine Outlaw Dwarf (# 2252) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
I'm out of gin...

takes three drinks.

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

One drink Custom avatars and titles
Two drinks No title or avatar
Shipname is entirely lowercase
Three drinks Confusing two Shipmates with the same (lack of) avatar/"similar" names
Discovering that someone who you thought had a custom avatar didn't
Confusing a Shipmate's gender

[ 24. July 2011, 02:59: Message edited by: AristonAstuanax ]

Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :

One drink when someone refers to the United States as “the colonies.” Two drinks if that reference is followed by a [Two face]

.

Two drinks when someone posts a comment on the Association Football, American Football, or Rugby Football thread which suggests that a different code is the only “real” football.

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