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Thread #73821 Message #1284434
Posted By: Blissfully Ignorant
29-Sep-04 - 07:22 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: drinking games: through the generations
Subject: RE: Folklore: drinking games: through the generations
My friends and i invented a variaton on the concrete blocks game. It involved walking along the supports on the underside of a steel bridge going out of the village we lived in... No, i don't need to be told how stupid, irresponsible and downright dangerous this was; I found out the hard way when i fell in and had to swim, or more accuratley flail, to the bank and climb out only to be greeted by the derisory laughter of my companions! Don't try this at home, kids!:)
Another, less risky, one was a variation on the alphabet game( where you name a subject, like bands, animals, countries, or something and then have to come up with one beginning with A, then B, etc). If someone failed to come up with an appropriate word, they had to take a shot of whatever alchohol we had to hand, usually something cheap an effective. Which was all rather redundant, as everyone was drinking the whole time anyway, whether they lost or not.
So while here in scotland we certainly don't need an excuse, it's just fun to play sillybuggers once in a while! And the 15-year-old imagination is boundless (Please, no lectures - until you've been to the Scottish rural hellhole that is Ochiltree, you have no right to comment on underage illicit binge drinking :). Most of us turned out all right, and anyway, i don't drink now... it encourages me do incredibly stupid things!)