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The
\n bar is packed, the floor is wet, and dozens of glassy-eyed young people
\n are squeezed around tables trying to lob Ping-Pong balls into cups of
\n beer.<\/p>\n
It is the final round of a beer pong championship, sponsored by a maker
\n of portable beer pong tables, and all across the bar, as one team scores
\n points, the other happily guzzles beer.<\/p>\n
"It’s awesome," said Chris Shannon, 22, a senior at Drexel University
\n here. "If you win, you win. If you lose, you drink. There’s no negative."<\/p>\n
Ah, for the days when getting sloppy drunk in a This article, from the New In beer pong, each team stands at the end of a table How the scene has changed. When we were undergrads But those were different times, and games in those days from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bar is packed, the floor is wet, and dozens of glassy-eyed young people are squeezed around tables trying to lob Ping-Pong balls into cups of beer. It is the final round of a beer pong championship, sponsored by a … Continue reading
\n bar full of glassy-eyed young people was "Awesome". Drinking games
\n are apparently
\n back on campus big time. From what little we can remember from those
\n dim, distant days, drinking games were an excuse to get wasted (as though
\n college students even need an excuse), a social icebreaker (unfortunately,
\n when the ice breaks one finds oneself soaking in ice water or ones own
\n urine) and a way to stoke those ever-hungry competitive fires.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n York Times<\/a>, chronicles the
\n current rage for a bar game called "Beer Pong" or, inevitably "Bud Pong",
\n a simpleminded diversion which has spawned an accessory industry including
\n official rules, tables, balls and glasses, as well as shirts, shorts
\n and visors, teams, leagues and championships.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n in front of a triangle of cups partially filled with beer. Players pitch
\n the ball into the other team’s cups. When a player sinks the ball, the
\n other team must chug the beer and remove the cup from the table. When
\n a side runs out of cups, it loses.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n the favorite parlor game around Winthrop House was called Mystery Drug. In
\n Mystery Drug, each of the players gets a paper cup with a psychotropic
\n substance, which they consume. sight unseen. They then spend the
\n next few hours trying to figure out who got the acid, who got the Quaaludes,
\n who
\n got
\n the MDA, reds, mescaline, PCP, etc. Hilarity inevitably ensued.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n didn’t need winners or losers, or fancy equipment, or rules, for that matter. Nowadays, we
\n are sure a good Beer Pong player needs an in-your-face ping pong power
\n dunk to be successful and mystery drug, for us, consists of trying to guess if that pill we just took was our blood pressure, cholesterol or arthritis medication.<\/em><\/p>\n