The Auld Dubliner Irish Pub filled an 8-foot-tall glass with 430 gallons of Guinness stout on Saturday, trying to getting into the Guinness Book of World Records (via Orange County Register)
:O
I…. I can’t speak…
GUH WANT.
The rules are very simple, and involve which hand you may use to drink.
1. You can hold your drink with either hand, but may only drink from it with your non-dominant hand. If any other Buffalo players spot you drinking with your dominant hand, they call Buffalo on you and you must finish your drink as quickly as possible. If you hesitate to finish your drink, the other players will usually proceed to make a ruckus chanting “Buffalo!” and banging on the table until you finish.[
2. If you call a false Buffalo on somebody (call Buffalo when they are actually drinking with the proper hand), you are obligated to finish your own drink. Special care must be made when drinking with left-handed Buffalos because of this rule.
3. Once you begin playing Buffalo, you are playing it for the rest of your life.Nobody needs to declare that the game is on. At least in principle, if rarely actually done, if you spot a complete stranger drinking with what you think to be their dominant hand, and you call Buffalo on them, they will either be confused or immediately know that they have transgressed the rules in the presence of another Buffalo player and are obligated to finish their drink or return a false Buffalo, if applicable. There exist many variations of the rules and many Buffalo clubs exist, all over the world.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Drink Logger
Track your BAC through texting. This would have been awesome to have last night.
New Gmail Mail Goggles
When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?
By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you’re most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it’s active in the General settings.
This is possibly the greatest idea Google has EVER HAD.
These red wine glasses are designed around the seven deadly sins. So interesting. You can see the rest here.
Presidential Debate Drinking Game
If LINGO isn’t quite your thing, maybe you should play the PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE DRINKING GAME tonight instead. Take a drink whenever one of the following occurs:
+ John McCain actually shows up (2 drinks).
+ A candidate mentions Hillary Clinton.
+ Anyone says anything about Blackwater.
+ Obama calls McCain a maverick.
+ McCain calls himself a maverick.
+ McCain calls Sarah Palin a maverick (2 drinks).
+ Anyone mentions pitbulls or lipstick.
+ A candidate gaffes uproariously (use your own discretion).
+ The newscaster of your choice calls Obama a “rockstar”.
+ Anyone says anything about Palin being a “heartbeat away” from the presidency (2 drinks if McCain himself says it).
+ McCain talks about his days as a POW.
+ Anyone mentions alternate energy sources.
+ Offshore or ANWR drilling is discussed at length (2 drinks if the other candidate starts giving the one talking dirty looks).
+ McCain mentions Fannie Mar or Freddie Mac within the first ten minutes (3 drinks).
+ Either candidate drinks bottled water (1 drink every time they take a drink - bonus points if you raise your bottle to the candidate and cheer like a viking).
+ Either of the Clintons make an appearance (chug!).
The Large Hadron Collider Drinking Game
The rules are simple. Take a drink of your favorite beverage whenever one of the following occurs:
+ A proton crosses the border between Switzerland and France.
+ A magnet quench in a superconducting magnet causes all the liquid helium to boil away.
+ A Higgs boson is detected (2 drinks).
+ Scientists learn the secrets of the universe and go insane (2 drinks).
+ A miniature black hole forms (2 drinks if it absorbs Switzerland).
+ Strange matter is created (weird, unusual or eccentric matter doesn’t count).
+ A petabyte of data is generated.
+ Someone sings the chorus of the LHC Rap.
+ The Super Proton Synchrotron reaches 300 gigavolts (2 drinks if it hits 400 GeV).
+ The Compact Muon Solenoid finds something that completely alters our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.
+ Flight 19 suddenly appears over Geneva.
+ Particle superpartners are found to have natural supersymmetry.
+ An intern confuses muons with gluons.
+ The experiment goes awry and someone ends up with superpowers.
+ Aliens show up and make us turn off the LHC before we implode reality.
+ Scientists go back in time (2 drinks if they create a paradox).
+ Someone says “Big Bang.”
+ Particles crash into each other (2 drinks if there are Batman-tyle visual sound effects, like “Pow!” and “Zap!” when it happens; feel free to construct your own).
+ Someone says, “What’s a hadron?”
+ Scientists access another dimension (2 drinks if that dimension is occupied entirely by Donna Summer impersonators; 3 drinks if denizens of said dimension eat the scientists; note that these two conditions are not mutually exclusive).
+ Someone on TV questions the amount of money spent to build the LHC.
+ Someone on TV worries that the LHC will destroy the world.
+ The world ends (drink whatever you have left).
+ Scientists prove string theory (3 drinks because we’ll all pretty much have to take their word for it).
+ Someone uses the term “beam pipe” in a pickup line.
Drunken physics.
This made my day.
For the first three years of college I was a physics major. this story is when everyone else majoring in physics started to hate me…well, the ones who didn’t ALREADY hate me b/c i was a girl, hated me after this.
There was some fraternity decathalon on a monday morning, that i like TOTALLY had to attend, which meant i would be drinking…a lot, while running around town and campus. The whole thing was done around 3 when i realized “eff, you have lab in 30 minutes” I then proceed to run to lab, drunk, b/c at least i would be there right? it made sense at the time. I arrive and one kid asks me if i am ok, i kind of slur back at him that i am fine and then it slowly starts to spread through the class that alexis is drunk. commencement of pointing and staring begin.
Turns out it is a pendulum lab, hooray! we have to see if the pendulum’s cycle is dependent on weight or length and to what degree, sounds amazing…the room is spinning? everyone is fastening there apparatuses to the table perpendicularly, that seems complicated and involves standing. i will sit on the ground! and have my apparatus come straight out of the table! then i won’t have to stand! i can do more than one at a time! then i can get my work done faster!
Professor comes up to me “so Alexis, what are you doing over here? everyone else seems to be doing it the other way?”
“Well, this way I can measure different weights at the same time w/ the same length of pendulum, and I am closer to the ground so I feel more stable with just the one clamp then I do with multiple clamps like other students were using” (PLEASE buy it!)
The Professor announces “Everyone, I want you to look over here and see what alexis is doing, you all need to be thinking more outside the box, this is what labs are about, if you could just think more like alexis, you will REALLY be getting the most out of your education”
After the professor is done talking, another student throws some gum at me and tells me i smell like beer.
Good day.
