{"id":1759,"date":"2004-06-11T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2004-06-11T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T13:44:13","slug":"drink-one-for-the-gipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Drink one for the Gipper!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Ihnatko has posted a drinking game suggestion<\/a> which has the potential to cause serious liver damage. Here’s the rules, just in case you don’t want to follow the link:<\/p>\n

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  1. Every time there’s a moment of silence for Ronald Reagan, you take a drink.<\/li>\n
  2. 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.<\/li>\n
  3. 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.\n
  4. 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.<\/li>\n
  5. 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.<\/li>\n
  6. 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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n


    \nI’ve got a couple suggestions for alternate rules. Of course, you’re probably not going to get as intoxicated if you follow them… Think of it as a Ronald Reagan drinking game for teetotalers.<\/p>\n

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    1. If the words ‘Air Traffic Controllers’ and ‘Reagan’ are spoken within two minutes of each other, take a drink<\/li>\n
    2. If the words ‘Deficit’ and ‘Reagan’ are spoken within five minutes, take a drink<\/li>\n
    3. If Reagan’s first wife, or if his kids from his first marriage are there or are mentioned, take a drink<\/li>\n
    4. If they mention his support for the Apartheid regime in South Africa, drink<\/li>\n
    5. Any mention of Augusto Pinochet or Ferdinand Marcos is worth a drink<\/li>\n
    6. If they show any footage of Reagan laying a wreath in Bitburg Cemetary, take a drink<\/li>\n
    7. If anyone mentions the civilians that were killed by Contra rebels, drink<\/li>\n
    8. If someone points out that Al Quaeda and the Taliban have their roots in Reagan’s CIA-trained Mujahedeen, take a drink<\/li>\n
    9. If Donald Rumsfeld reminisces about how Reagan sent him to cozy up to Saddam Hussein, chug your drink<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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