Beer pong redux

05Sep07

After my last post on beer pong – and, Dear Reader, it has been my solitary post on the topic until now, as beer pong does not exactly rise to what Margaret Mead would call “the highest things they know” that city dwellers should seek and develop – I received an email, a lengthy one, a [...]

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“Beer pong”

31Aug07

The Wall Street Journal, which I normally find very helpful in its digestion of the day’s news, had an article on beer pong that unhelpfully compared it to a “cross between ping pong and beer chugging.”
Have they forgotten the game of quarters, long practiced in both frat houses and bars?
No mention of this is certainly a [...]

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Seeing

01May07

Did I tell you that I was homeless for an afternoon?
Not really, mind you.
It was during my senior year of college and I had a rented room in a house with 13 other undergrad and graduate students, but for a sociology experiment I dressed as a homeless man and went out on to Hillsborough Street [...]

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Heid’s of Liverpool

28Apr07

I found this helpful advice on a blog called ishbadiddle (http://triptronix.net/ishbadiddle/):
“I’m having trouble getting my ketchup out of the bottle in a timely manner. Do you have any suggestions?”
“First, make sure the cap is on tight. Then, holding the bottle upside-down, vigorously shake it from side-to-side, so that the top of the bottle describes an [...]

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