LeVar Burton never saw it coming

August 7, 2010 8:44 PM

Modern drinking games are often crafted around movies or television, leaving dry those with literary ambitions. Now you avid readers can get in on the fun! (via)

David Foster Wallace: Drink every time a sentence has three or more conjunctions.

Jane Austen: Drink every time someone plays whist, goes riding, or gets married.

J.D. Salinger: Every time there is a symbol of lost innocence, drink a highball. Then spit it all over someone you love.

Stephenie Meyer: Drink every time someone drinks blood.

posted by Korou (95 comments total)

e.e. cummings: Take a drink any time there are more than ten spaces between two words.


Possible Homer rebuttal.
posted by phunniemee at 8:59 PM on August 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

First, go buy some flowers. Then, if you have time left over, drink.
posted by Artw at 9:02 PM on August 7, 2010

Ayn Rand: Drink every time something is described as "torture"

Seriously, Atlas Shrugged does this at least a dozen times.
posted by Joe Beese at 9:03 PM on August 7, 2010

Ian Fleming: Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel.
posted by Artw at 9:05 PM on August 7, 2010 [5 favorites]

J.R.R. Tolkien: drink every time a character does. Skip the songs and poems.
posted by yhbc at 9:09 PM on August 7, 2010

HP Lovecraft: Drink each time "cyclopean", "gibbous" or "ichor" are used. Upon encountering racism finish the bottle.
posted by Artw at 9:14 PM on August 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

Joe, that's only about once every thousand pages then, if memory serves...

Chandler: drink every time Marlowe takes a punch or an insult.

Hemingway: drink every six word or less sentence.

Faulkner: drink every 50 word or more sentence.

Conan Doyle: drink every time the verb ejaculate is used non-sexually.

Anne Tyler: drink every time there's a scene between family members.

Lovecraft: drink every time something s described as "too" whatever adjective.

Shakespeare: drink every time there's a word that he apparently invented.

Rupert Graves' Claudius books: drink every time a family member is killed by another family member.

Jordan's Conan: drink every time you see the word "thews".

John Le Carre: drink every time an innocent loses.

This is fun!
posted by smoke at 9:19 PM on August 7, 2010 [4 favorites]

Charles Stross: One drink per mention of nuclear device, two drinks per use, three if it's a pluto.
posted by Artw at 9:22 PM on August 7, 2010

Stephen King: drink when the characters realize the most important person in the world is Stephen King.
posted by problemspace at 9:27 PM on August 7, 2010 [3 favorites]

Stephenie Meyer: Drink every time someone drinks blood.

What? This hardly ever happens in her books. Seriously. It's sort of the whole point--vegetarian vampires and all.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 9:31 PM on August 7, 2010

Cormac McCarthy: Drink everytime there isn't a period or comma in the paragraph.
posted by mannequito at 9:31 PM on August 7, 2010 [3 favorites]

Robert Jordan: drink when a man snorts. Drink when a woman sniffs, tugs at her hair, folds her arms under her breasts, calls a man wool-headed or threatens violence on a man. When characters spend over a hundred pages pointlessly bickering that could have been avoided by a five-minute conversation, finish the bottle.
posted by graymouser at 9:33 PM on August 7, 2010 [12 favorites]

Wallace Stevens: drink every time you feel a small sense of elation for not having to look up a word. Who is the smart one now, drunky?
posted by Benjamin Nushmutt at 9:33 PM on August 7, 2010 [7 favorites]

Patrick O'Brian: drink every time food is mentioned. Or drink every time you learn a new word for "rope".
posted by BitterOldPunk at 9:40 PM on August 7, 2010 [3 favorites]

Pynchon: drink when the plot switches time or location within a single sentence.
posted by mannequito at 9:42 PM on August 7, 2010 [3 favorites]

George R. R. Martin: drink every time someone dies. Stop drinking when he finishes the series.

Philip K Dick: drink every time the main character questions his sanity and/or discovers a raven-haired beauty is not what she seems.

Emile Zola: drink every time someone has sex or rapes/is raped.

Ian McEwan: drink every time the upper class protagonist does something emotive, prideful, and wrong. Deduct one drink for every non-menacing working class person that appears in the novel.

Enid Blyton: drink every time the word "gay" is used as a non-sexual descriptor (* for heavy drinkers only). For lighter drinkers, drink every time someone insults George in the Famous Five.

Neal Stephenson: drink every time the plot digresses into a history lecture.

Lionel Shriver: drink every time you find a character unlikable and mean.

Anthony Trollope: drink every time someone's income is directly or indirectly alluded to.
posted by smoke at 9:51 PM on August 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

Anne Rice: drink every time she becomes a Christian, or renounces Christianity.
posted by wv kay in ga at 9:53 PM on August 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

Murakami: drink every time someone gets a handjob. Seriously, what is it about that dude and handjobs?
posted by smoke at 9:57 PM on August 7, 2010 [5 favorites]

Joyce:
- Drink every time there's poetically obscene imagery.
- Pour out a drink for Parnell every time he's mentioned.
- Drink every time you can't tell if Joyce is being sincere or mocking himself.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 10:04 PM on August 7, 2010 [5 favorites]

Oh, please. If you really want to get hammered, drink any time Stephenie Meyer uses the words "molten," "topaz" or "chagrin."
posted by bitter-girl.com at 10:07 PM on August 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

Classic science fiction: Drink every time a person who lives in a far-future society that has FTL travel and ray-guns needs to calculate or investigate something, and so busts out a slide-rule or microfilm viewer.

(Finish beverage whenever all male members of the cast, and NO females, sit around smoking and drinking and discussing the plot. Chug another if an actual "cocktail hour" is mentioned. NOTE that this makes H. Beam Piper's "Fuzzy" stories particularly dangerous.)
posted by dansdata at 10:10 PM on August 7, 2010

Sappho: Drink every time you can't tell if something is hot or disgusting.

You know, most of these are pretty half-assed, but this one is just puzzling. There's not much that's explicitly sexual in Sappho. But this is not just inaccurate; it also kind of smacks of homophobia.

I am disappointed by Jezebel once again. :(
posted by a sourceless light at 10:14 PM on August 7, 2010 [5 favorites]

(I'm rereading 'Foundation' right now. They've already used microfilm once, and I'm still trying to figure out how any planet (read: Terminus) can be considere 'remote' when they've mastered instantaneous intergalactic travel.)
posted by kaibutsu at 10:16 PM on August 7, 2010

Frank Herbert: drink every time someone "tries to swallow in a dry throat."

Stephen King: drink every time someone calls someone else "Sunny Jim."

Robert Heinlein: drink every time the stock professorial character starts in on an extended lecture on some political/sociological/physics issue.

Nicholson Baker: drink every time something actually happens outside of the narrator's internal monologue.

David Markson: drink every time an artist dies old, tired, sick, alone, and/or broke.
posted by Pants McCracky at 10:17 PM on August 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

Korou: Now you avid readers can get in on the fun!

You're buying them TVs?

Oh, nevermind.
posted by paisley henosis at 10:20 PM on August 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

a sourceless light: "I am disappointed by Jezebel once again. :("

Well there's an easy one.

Jezebel and/or Gawker Media: Drink every time you are disappointed.
posted by barnacles at 10:25 PM on August 7, 2010 [13 favorites]

Austen: Drink every time a character says "Oh Mr Darcy". Drink every time you say "Oh Mr Darcy".

Any of the Bronte Sisters: Drink every time a character is willfully masochistic.

Haruki Murakami: Drink when jazz or black cats are mentioned. Drink a triple shot any time there is a cat in a jazz bar.

Neal Stephenson: Drink any time one of his female characters behaves in a completely practical, but utterly unrealistic manner.

Dorothy Sayers: Drink any time that Lord Peter Peter Whimsey makes obscure references to Classical authors (in Latin) or Donne's poetry.
posted by Alice Russel-Wallace at 10:31 PM on August 7, 2010 [7 favorites]

John Irving: Drink any time a bear is mentioned. Or wrestling. Or India.
posted by iconomy at 10:46 PM on August 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

Stephenie Meyer: Drink every time someone drinks blood.

What? This hardly ever happens in her books. Seriously. It's sort of the whole point--vegetarian vampires and all.

Exactly. They never get to drink, so neither do you. (Subtext: Because they're proper mormons. And you should be too.)
posted by Caduceus at 10:53 PM on August 7, 2010 [15 favorites]

Dances With Wolves: Drink every time something symbolizes rebirth. Consider whether your drunkenness symbolizes rebirth. Pass out. Wake up, reborn and hungover.
posted by karminai at 10:55 PM on August 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

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posted by mlis at 11:06 PM on August 7, 2010

Terry Brooks:
-Drink every time someone does something "wordlessly". (Do a shot if they are nodding wordlessly. Do another if this is shortly after another character's death.)
-Drink every time the word "maw" is used.
-Take a drink for every red-haired female romantic lead who is described as "wilful" and/or "fiery-haired". At least one shot every time she "brushes back her fiery hair" and demonstrates her emotional strength. Double if she wears soft boots that scuff on the cobblestones.
posted by punchdrunkhistory at 11:09 PM on August 7, 2010

Actually, I haven't read Brooks in a long time. If you do a shot every time someone nods wordlessly, you are going to be very, very drunk.
posted by punchdrunkhistory at 11:13 PM on August 7, 2010

It's sort of the whole point--vegetarian vampires and all.

Don't they drink animal blood?
posted by cmgonzalez at 11:27 PM on August 7, 2010

LeVar Burton never saw it coming

LeVar Burton is no Gordon Freeman.
posted by Artw at 11:31 PM on August 7, 2010

O'Henry: Take a drink every time you meet a pugilist. Have another when you run into a policeman named Donahue.

Saki: Have one (if you dare) whenever the drinks tray comes round. Take a very small sip (you'll still get very drunk) every time you meet a maiden aunt.

P.G. Wodehouse: Drink whenever somebody says "this dashed thing." Have another when you read "a jolly good fellow." Then join AA.
posted by woodblock100 at 11:40 PM on August 7, 2010

Atlas Shrugged - Sip every time someone asks "Who is John Galt?"
- Chug every time Dagny throws someone out of her office
- Drain the bottle when Galt begins his hundred page+ oratory. You're going to need it.
posted by yellowbinder at 11:41 PM on August 7, 2010 [4 favorites]

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. One shot per god-infused bug.
posted by Beardman at 11:50 PM on August 7, 2010

Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel. One shot per "No, no, a thousand times no!"
posted by Beardman at 11:51 PM on August 7, 2010

One of the best things about smoking cigarettes is sitting down with a good noir or period piece and chain smoking along with the characters. A lot of authors tend to harp on the scent of tobacco and smoking while reading can really elevate the experience.
posted by cyphill at 12:06 AM on August 8, 2010

Raw Spirit by Iain Banks - try and drink everything he does. Take your time.
posted by Artw at 12:07 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Jack Kirby - Drink until your perspective is as all over the place as his is.
posted by Artw at 12:09 AM on August 8, 2010

Artw: You'd best not be talking smack about Kirby.

And as long as we're bringing comics into this, Watchmen: Drink every time you recognize something that was stolen and done much much worse in other comics.
posted by Grimgrin at 12:16 AM on August 8, 2010 [3 favorites]

Hey, Kirby is awesome, but check out one of those mega-foreshortened panels and tell me it isn't lind of like drunk-o-vision.
posted by Artw at 12:17 AM on August 8, 2010

Also your Watchmen suggestion would lead to inevitable death.
posted by Artw at 12:17 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

kaibutsu: "… and I'm still trying to figure out how any planet (read: Terminus) can be considere 'remote' when they've mastered instantaneous intergalactic travel."

IIRC, it's heavily implied (and maybe even mentioned, though I think that happens in the later books / Asimov's wider mythos) that they don't have 'instantaneous travel' - hyperspace is hard to navigate, with a fair degree of uncertainty particularly when travelling through the crowded galactic centre & denser parts of the spiral arms, due to difficulty in calculating the exact hyperspatial distortions from mass in 'real' space. As a result, they have to make many short jumps with long periods (days?) of recalculation in between.

(Myself, I always wondered why they didn't jump well out of the galactic plane as quickly as possible, across, then back in…)

You could base a drinking game around Asimov's well-rounded and believable female characters, but you'd be drier than the man himself…

(I'm gonna re-read a 'Lucky Starr' novel and take a swig each time Bigman is patronised by someone, with a double if it's by Lucky himself. Don't think I'll be going to uni tomorrow…)
posted by Pinback at 12:30 AM on August 8, 2010

Stephen Donaldson: Drink any time the word "clench" or derivative thereof appears in the First Chronicles.

This is actually a thing.
posted by Justinian at 12:44 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Neal Stephenson: Drink any time one of his female characters behaves in a completely practical, but utterly unrealistic manner.


Cite please. That's a Heinlein trope, and I'm hard pressed to think of a female Stephenson Character (other than Nell or YT) that was protaganistic enough to rate. YT was never a pragmatist and Nell only acted upon the instructions of the book.
posted by sourwookie at 12:45 AM on August 8, 2010

Jack Kirby: drink until you see the kneecaps and the heads.
posted by sourwookie at 12:47 AM on August 8, 2010

Heinlein: Drink every time a hot, wealthy character meets a hot wealthy character of the opposite sex and they find themselves on the run with a sassy computer/AI and they use resources stashed to get by (even in other dimensions) and one of them runs into an old teacher that was prepared for such an eventuality.
posted by sourwookie at 1:03 AM on August 8, 2010 [3 favorites]

Artw: There are two kinds of drinking games. The ones that you play seriously and get mildly inebriated, and the ones that are thinly veiled excuses to seek total oblivion as quickly as possible.

I'd add for Heinlein's later work: Take a drink every time a main character does something or is described in a way that reveals them to be a thinly disguised wish fulfillment fantasy for the author.
posted by Grimgrin at 1:24 AM on August 8, 2010 [5 favorites]

Tom Clancy: Drink every time someone smokes a cigar, and smoke a cigar every time someone drinks.

(Doubles if they smoke or drink in their office.)
posted by The Shiny Thing at 1:35 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Bah! Drinking games only slow me down.
posted by The Lurkers Support Me in Email at 1:45 AM on August 8, 2010

Stephen Donaldson: Drink any time the word "clench" or derivative thereof appears in the First Chronicles.

This is actually a thing.

Stephen Donaldson: Drink until Thomas Covenant becomes an interesting or sympathetic protagonist.
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:57 AM on August 8, 2010 [3 favorites]

Each time Bukowski takes a drink, take one too.

*fucked after ten pages*
posted by turgid dahlia at 2:20 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Neal Stephenson: Drink any time one of his female characters behaves in a completely practical, but utterly unrealistic manner.

Cite please. That's a Heinlein trope, and I'm hard pressed to think of a female Stephenson Character (other than Nell or YT) that was protaganistic enough to rate. YT was never a pragmatist and Nell only acted upon the instructions of the book.

Sourwookie: I'm thinking specifically of America "Amy" Shaftoe (though I was counting YT too). In particular where on page 581 (Arrow Books, 2000 edition), Amy speaks with Randy regarding the idea of them hooking up:

"It's not even clear to me that you and I constitute a potential couple. But you have started acting towards me in a way that indicates some interest in that direction, so you have certain obligations." Amy has now started to get pissed off and begun to move around the yard. The Shaftoe boys eye her warily from across their steaming oatmeal bowls, ready to spring into action and wrestle her to the ground if she should fly out of control. "It would be just... totally ... unacceptable for you to make those kind of representations to me and then jet off and cuddle with your California sweetheart without coming to me first and going through certain formalities, which would be awkward but which I would hope you would be man enough to endure. Right?"

DRINK!

Now I love talking shop as much as the next scientist, and I have been known to utter sentences that contain a large proportion of multi-syllabic words. But as a woman, I must protest: WHO TALKS LIKE THAT!?!? Don't get me wrong, I think Stephenson's characterisation of women is quite charming. That being said, the day I say to Mr. Russel-Wallace "you must go through certain formalities, which would be awkward but which I would hope you would be man enough to endure"... that day would also herald the flying of pigs and a crystalline hell.
posted by Alice Russel-Wallace at 2:53 AM on August 8, 2010 [4 favorites]

Ursula Le Guin: Drink everytime you have to check a pronoun for gender.

Terry Pratchett: Take a shot for every slug of hooch that Vimes skips, and a double for every mention of scumble, preferably out of a metal shot glass.
posted by Jilder at 2:53 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Metafilter: Take a drink every time someone writes "Metafilter: ..."
posted by Vindaloo at 4:31 AM on August 8, 2010 [4 favorites]

E.E. "Doc" Smith: Drink every time a ship goes "inert" or "free". Drink every time a "semi-solid pencil of energy lances from an ultra-refractory throat".
posted by Splunge at 5:06 AM on August 8, 2010

Metafilter: drink every time someone uses "This" as a complete sentence.
posted by availablelight at 6:15 AM on August 8, 2010

Beckett: Drink until you can't drink any more, then drink some more.
posted by DaDaDaDave at 6:38 AM on August 8, 2010

Raymond Carver: drink every time a protagonist drinks.
posted by werkzeuger at 6:52 AM on August 8, 2010

P. G. Wodehouse: Drink every time someone plans to steal something: jewelry, silver cow creamer, pig.

Connie Willis: Drink every time one of her characters has trouble getting in touch with another character.

Charles Dickens: Drink every time someone has a silly name: Newman Noggs, Mrs. Jellyby, Noddy Boffin, Mr M’Choakumchild.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 7:11 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Spider Robinson: Drink every time someone refers to Irish coffee by a teeth-grindingly annoying nickname. Drink every time a character proposes becoming telepathic out of the blue as a deus ex machina solution to the problem of the story.

Finish the bottle if you go more than a page without a pun.

Finish the bottle and break it over your own head if you go more than two pages without seeing Robinson's Mary Sue character.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 8:06 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

I'm reading The Magicians right now, so I can say

"Have a drink every time Harry Potter is awkwardly mentioned. Drink everything Janet is an epic bitch. Drink every time Alice gets her Dues Ex machinae on. Drink every time Penny does something stupid but somehow adorable cause he's trying. Drink every time Josh drops his bizarre sex baggage and you wonder if the author was intending to make him a closet case or what?"
posted by The Whelk at 8:25 AM on August 8, 2010 [2 favorites]

Metafilter: Take a drink every time someone writes "Metafilter: ..."
posted by Vindaloo

Metafilter: drink every time someone uses "This" as a complete sentence.
posted by availablelight


Metafilter: THIS!
posted by liza at 8:25 AM on August 8, 2010 [4 favorites]

This misses the game aspect unless employed at a book club, for which I would suggest that everyone drink when a participant says "I didn't get," "my favorite," "didn't you hate," "kind of a metaphor," "didn't finish," "this dip," or "can't keep it in his pants."
posted by Clyde Mnestra at 9:00 AM on August 8, 2010 [2 favorites]

I thought book clubs were thinly veiled boozes-ups to begin with?
posted by The Whelk at 9:01 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Pinter: Every pause. (Twice in the long ones)
posted by Trochanter at 9:12 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Nice one, Smoke: George R. R. Martin: drink every time someone dies. Stop drinking when he finishes the series.

Not so much a game as a sure-fire method to achieve cirrhosis of the liver.
posted by fartknocker at 9:15 AM on August 8, 2010

J.K. Rowling:

One drink every time Malfoy sneers.

One drink every time Snape sneers.
posted by Bonzai at 9:18 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (English Translation): Drink every time Lisbeth has "a crooked smile" a "half smile" or smiles from one corner of her mouth.
posted by haplesschild at 9:31 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Warren Ellis: Drink every time somebody does something edgy.
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:51 AM on August 8, 2010

But as a woman, I must protest: WHO TALKS LIKE THAT!?!?

I didn't find it odd because she's the daughter of a possibly-crazy Vietnam vet (who was the son of a definitely-crazy WWII vet) with two crazy honor-bound brothers who are all part of a pretty rigidly-structured traditional-values Tennessee Southern family. I also got the feeling that she had adequacy issues behind the strong front she presented in regards to how Randy viewed her, so she might have been hamming it up a bit.
posted by Evilspork at 10:12 AM on August 8, 2010

I don't even know if he has been translated to English, but with Jose Agustin if you drink whatever the protagonist is drinking and you smoke whatever the protagonist is smoking, you will have a lot of fun and finish the novel almost in real time.

Last time I did this, I fell asleep on the chair at the bottom of one page, woke up and smoked a joint. I turned the page and he describes the protagonist blacking out and waking up to a joint.
posted by dirty lies at 10:31 AM on August 8, 2010 [3 favorites]

Drink to the Chirpsithra!
posted by infini at 10:44 AM on August 8, 2010

Favourite to guessing the author ;p
posted by infini at 10:57 AM on August 8, 2010

But the Draco's drinks are so pricey!
posted by agentofselection at 11:16 AM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

What do you expect with the overhead required to maintain preferences for a hundred species, have you any idea what the price for meatjuice is these days?
posted by infini at 11:50 AM on August 8, 2010

Beckett: Drink until you can't drink any more, then drink some more.

*muses on whether Beckett had Viking forbears... drinks*
posted by infini at 11:53 AM on August 8, 2010

Miles Davis' autobiography: drink every time he uses the word 'motherfucker.'
posted by box at 12:24 PM on August 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Hunter S. Thompson: Take a shot of wild turkey every time you see the words "savage" or "atavistic." Swig from your can of bud every time an exclamation point is used.
posted by thescientificmethhead at 12:59 PM on August 8, 2010

drink to every star that starts to shine in the Night
posted by infini at 1:13 PM on August 8, 2010

Every time somewhere a dog barked.
posted by mochapickle at 4:31 PM on August 8, 2010

Actually "every time an exclamation point is used" would go well with Kurt Vonnegut, too.

Terry Pratchett: Drink every time sheer force of personality resolves a plotline. Which is why I love him so much.

THE MAGICIANS: Drink every time the lead feels like his life is pointless.

Tom Robbins: Drain the bottle every time anal sex just has to be had.
posted by PsychoTherapist at 4:59 PM on August 8, 2010

Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

Drink every time a character drinks. Keep a stomach pump handy.
posted by Rarebit Fiend at 5:04 PM on August 8, 2010

Dan Brown: Drink. Just drink.
posted by Skeptic at 1:33 AM on August 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

The Painted Veil: Drink every time Kitty cries.
posted by Cantdosleepy at 1:55 AM on August 9, 2010

Jack Kerouac: Drink every time the words "beat" or "saint" are used. Double for "beat saint."
posted by grapefruitmoon at 7:15 AM on August 9, 2010

Oh! The title is a Reading Rainbow joke!

I was wondering what the fuck Geordi La Forge had to do with getting drunk.
posted by paisley henosis at 10:02 AM on August 9, 2010

Graham Green: Drink every time the protagonist meets a foreigner in an exotic place, every time someone struggles with Catholicism, every time someone orders a cocktail. Two drinks if the drinking company includes a diplomat or a diplomat's family.

Samuel Beckett: Drink every time you could insert "Nothing to be done." after the last sentence you read without anything looking amiss.

Robert E. Howard: One drink on each mention of sinews of steel, supple body or lithe movements. Two drinks every time Conan gets injured and immediately dispatches an opponent.
posted by ersatz at 12:16 PM on August 9, 2010

...don't forget a shot for every lean sinued lithe nubile maiden Conan drags around to the back
posted by infini at 12:27 PM on August 9, 2010

The Eye of Argon drinking game
posted by Artw at 12:28 PM on August 9, 2010

noooo wayyyyy..... thats sooo coool dude ;p but really
posted by infini at 12:44 PM on August 9, 2010

The Jane Austen drinking game.

1. inadequate dowery
2. small dogs
3. first one to call a womanly skill is safe, next time it is shown, the others have to drink (ex: piano forte).
4. woman looses her countenance (2 drinks)
5. retention of countenance (3 drinks)
6. spontaneous equestrianism
7. falling in love (1 shot)
8. esteem and/or regard
9. womanly skill plus failure to observe rank is a double count--which means the last person to take their pinky off their drink has to chug
posted by Pockets at 8:22 PM on August 9, 2010 [2 favorites]