Andy Ihnatko has posted a drinking game suggestion which has the potential to cause serious liver damage. Here’s the rules, just in case you don’t want to follow the link:
- Every time there’s a moment of silence for Ronald Reagan, you take a drink.
- For every twenty seconds that the moment of silence is awkwardly extended to ensure that every governor or senator with a shot at the 2008 nomination receives a somber close-up on national television, you take another drink.
- Every time a convention speaker claims that s/he can Feel Ronald Reagan’s Presence Among Us Today, you take a drink. Take a bonus drink if the speaker pretends to blink back tears; take a third if the speaker is also male.
- Every time the crowd is challenged to do something “for the Gipper” ? re-elect George W. Bush; support statewide referenda banning same-sex marriage; stop tossing chicken bones into Oklahoma’s seating area (Texas delegates only) ? you take a drink.
- Every time George W. Bush (or one of his designated proxies) attempts to create the impression that he’s Ronald Reagan’s son and not George Sr.’s, you take a drink.
- Every time there’s a video montage that ends with Ronald Reagan in cowboy attire, strolling and/or riding a horse in slow motion across a sweeping prairie in which the sky has been electronically replaced with a seductively rippling American flag, you chug.