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Alright, who played a debate drinking game?
If I didn't have to get up early when I get home, I might have been tempted 
I know a friend of mine was planning to take a shot for every reference to Palin or Biden or any running mate. She was also planning on a shot for every time McCain said, "my friends."
I got a few giddy texts from her throughout the night.
Made me LOL. At work.
Re: Alright, who played a debate drinking game?
We thought about it, but if we played that drinking game, we wouldn't have been very drunk by the end of the debate (sadly).
We just drank. It was fun.
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
Yeah, I drank so that I wouldn't throw things at the television.
We should set rules for a drinking game for the VP debate (Bridge to Nowhere, thanks but no thanks, etc.) and all play it!?
Our drinking game was...extensive. I am not in a state to say anything further, in spite of how interesting I found the debate.
Although can I say I found it somewhat...interesting...that the "foreign policy" debate did not include a single mention of China or India. I mean, I won't complain about them not talking about Africa...because I get that I'm the only person in the damn world who cares about security/poverty issues there, but China?? Nothing? Seriously?
DH and I read the rules of the Wonkette drinking game, but didn't participate - we just drank when it felt right
Here are the rules - and I warn - they're offensive. And yet hilarious.
Coward McCain Will (Maybe?) Show Up Tonight, So Here?s Your Debate Drinking Game!
RULES & DEREGULATIONS: ?Drink? means a hit off your beer or wine, or a shot of spirits ? unless we specify what you are to drink. If you lack the specified spirit, just have two gulps of whatever you?ve got in your hand ? unless it?s a penis in your hand. Save that for later: We are in a crisis. You may substitute whatever pills ? except vitamins ? or smoke your marijuana or whatever when the Game requires you to consume a specific pill. Generics are acceptable only if you can afford the name brand. ?Thrift? is the new style for those with Health Care! (Or a good Rx dealer.)
Whenever John McCain says ?My Friends?:
Two drinks (or one shot), poke the breast of the person to your right and smile creepily.
When Barack Obama shakes his head with dignity:
Shake your own head with dignity, take the beverage from the person to your left, and tell them to go get you a new drink because you are not going to get AIDS from their backwash/lipstick.
When you see the black abyss of Jim Lehrer?s lifeless eyes, which are lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll?s eyes ?.
Cross yourself, tell everybody you didn?t know you were a Catholic, and chase a shot of whisky with a gulp of red wine.
When Lehrer first says that while he knows this was supposed to be a debate about Foreign Policy ?.
Chug your entire beer or drain your glass and pour a shot for immediate consumption when he completes this with something along the lines of:
?But an extraordinary situation has developed within our financial system, something both of you know from your trip to the White House yesterday ?.?
LIGHTNING ROUND:
When McCain says anything about his family:
Angrily drink half a beer or half a glass of wine and call your host a ***.
When Obama stutters about some foreign-policy trick question probably about Israel:
Get on your knees, look to the East, and do a shot.
When McCain makes his first reference to being a prisoner of war:
Everybody get in a box and take a Vicodin.
At McCain?s second reference to being a POW:
Two shots, punch the person next to you in the biceps, demand a confession.
Third POW reference:
Five-and-a-half shots.
PRESCRIPTION FOR (GREATEST) DEPRESSION:
When McCain tries to articulate his non-existent economic policy and/or bailout plan:
Fight your friends for change under the couch cushions, pass around a joint because who can afford fancy store-bought booze anymore?
When Obama acknowledges that the financial crisis may limit the amount of Hope and Change his administration can afford:
Immediately finish off the best bottle of liquor in the house, because who the hell is ever going to see that again.
When McCain is unable to remember either the number of mansions, number of cars or number of millions he (and Cindy) own:
One Ambien, chased with one shot, followed with Metamucil dumped in a gin & tonic.
McCain actually has a muppet (probably Beaker) pop up next to him and do the talking:
Everybody do three lines of coke, take off your clothes and GET IN THE TANK.
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.