Last month, various Christian groups, mostly Evangelical, got their burlap undies in a twist over a Budweiser advertising campaign.
"The Anheuser-Busch Company says it is pulling the plug on its promotion of a drinking game called 'Bud Pong.' However, a Harvard researcher is predicting the game will continue to wield damaging influence among college students."
"Bud Pong, a game distributed by beer wholesalers to bars in 18 U.S. states, is played by bouncing ping pong balls into cups, with players taking a drink if they lose a point. Anheuser-Busch claims the game is supposed to be played with water — not beer. And now, since the New York Times has reported that many players are filling the cups with beer instead of water, the company has announced that it is ending the promotion."
Both are full of crap. "Bud Pong" is really beer pong and it's probably been around as long as beer and ping pong have. Budweiser didn't invent it and isn't some new social evil that'll ruin college students for life. Bud knew damn well that folks would put something stronger than water in the cups, and Evangelicals should have visited Google before announcing the Next Big Disaster in Liberal Education™. Oh, and a big "Duh!" goes to the Harvard researcher for predicting that a game that's been played for several generations will continue to be popular. What a bunch of ass hats.
Funky Dung
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my bigger grievance would be that you don't bounce the ball. You have to loft it. Bouncing is lame.
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Posted 18 Nov 2005 at 4:05 pm ¶IIRC, every game of beer pong I've ever played involved bouncing.
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Posted 18 Nov 2005 at 4:38 pm ¶then you played wussy beer pong. there is no bouncing in real beer pong.
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Posted 18 Nov 2005 at 4:44 pm ¶Either that or my memory sucks.
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Posted 18 Nov 2005 at 4:46 pm ¶or you were too drunk to remember if there was bouncing or not
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Posted 18 Nov 2005 at 4:54 pm ¶you are all hosers, eh! beer pong is like…. uh, what was i saying?
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Posted 18 Nov 2005 at 7:16 pm ¶huh, asshats. that's funny.
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Posted 18 Nov 2005 at 7:19 pm ¶The irrational hatred of alcohol is probably the thing I dislike most about the Evangelicals. That and the heresy. But probably the booze-hating mostÂ…
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Posted 19 Nov 2005 at 1:58 am ¶You definitely toss the ball into the cups. Bouncing is for losers.
By the way, nice use of "asshat." It's one of my favorite disses, but people give me a funny look when I use it.
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Posted 19 Nov 2005 at 11:00 am ¶It's becoming one of my favorites as well, but I use it seldomly for fear of overusing it.
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Posted 19 Nov 2005 at 3:32 pm ¶Of course you have to bounce the ball. There would be no point to playing it on a ping pong table otherwise. Anyone who does not bounce the ball needs to take the word "pong" out of the game they are playing.
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Posted 20 Nov 2005 at 3:50 pm ¶true. Beer Pong is not the proper name.
It's Beirut.
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Posted 20 Nov 2005 at 7:29 pm ¶By your logic, Sean, football should have a different name because the ball spends far more time touchings hands than feet.
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Posted 20 Nov 2005 at 10:03 pm ¶I'm sure people wouldn't get drunk so easily if we ended the advertisement of alcohol and set up the rules to favor higher quality, lower quantity beers over lower quality, higher quantity beers.
dlw
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Posted 21 Nov 2005 at 3:25 pm ¶Lets rename football The Holy Roman Empire, and then we can call soccer foolball.
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Posted 21 Nov 2005 at 10:59 pm ¶ROFL!! I love this post & the comments. Bud Pong??? Next thing you know, they'll be saying they invented the Internet.
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