{"id":747,"date":"2008-10-15T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2008\/10\/the-final-presi.html"},"modified":"2008-10-15T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T14:00:34","slug":"the-final-presi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"The Final Presidential Debate Drinking Game (Probably)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with most drinking games is that there&#8217;s a lot of having to manage what drink goes with what action. Really, if you&#8217;re going to actually conduct one of these things, it&#8217;s best to stick to one thing and treat it like a one-line bingo game.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s <em>Sleuth<\/em> column has <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/sleuth\/2008\/10\/sleuths_2nd_official_president.html?hpid=news-col-blogs\">a handydandy checklist<\/a> of keywords and catchphrases that&#8217;s pretty easy to follow. If John McCain decides to go ahead and attack Barack Obama on assorted individual issues, or vice versa, then you should be pretty much guaranteed a rollicking good Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>(For the sake of variety and in the interests of something resembling completion, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.indecision2008.com\/2008\/09\/25\/the-presidential-debate-drinking-game\/\">The Daily Show&#8217;s<\/a> version, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/sexist\/2008\/10\/15\/debate-drinking-game-mixed-sports-metaphor-edition\/\">Washington City Paper&#8217;s<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/boycottoprahsponsors.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/15\/debate-3-thinking-and-drinking-game\/\">a short one<\/a> from the people boycotting Oprah&#8217;s sponsors. Your guess is as good as mine.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be watching the debate at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/dempseys-pub-new-york\">Dempsey&#8217;s Pub<\/a> tonight. Come join me. In fact, come down early if you can; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DSOTrivia.com\/?page_id=129\">I hear there&#8217;s trivia beforehand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update<\/strong>: Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debatedrink.com\/\">DebateDrink.com<\/a> has a downloadable pdf version of their game. Crazy bastards. Anyone else I&#8217;m missing?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with most drinking games is that there&#8217;s a lot of having to manage what drink goes with what action. Really, if you&#8217;re going to actually conduct one of these things, it&#8217;s best to stick to one thing and treat it like a one-line bingo game. The Washington Post&#8217;s Sleuth column has a handydandy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seen-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}