On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:55:51 GMT, "gs" wrote:


DPRK rhetoric can be had here http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
if you don't mind using the 'net.


Now that everyone can catch VOK on the net, there is no reason to not
play that famous drinking game: "Great Leader"

Every time one hears the phrase "Great Leader" one has to down a shot
or glass of beer. Of course, about halfway through the hour-long
broadcast most everbody is flat out on the floor with their tongues
hanging out and Xs over their eyes. Playing this game one never hears
the scheduled anti-American Imperialists rant in the last 15 minutes.

For a real Jonestown ecperience also include the phrases "Legendary
Great Man" and "Unrivaled Great Man" and "Peerless Leader."

An excellent idea, but as you point out, the frequency of "winning"
phrases will kill most people.

This can be done with other broadcasters, for money!

Take for example my favorite preacher, Pastor John Lewis.

You start with a list of stock words, phrases, and topics. Make the
number of items in the list evenly divisible by the number of players.

Accord each item a point value based on its likelihood of occurrence.
More likely to occur == fewer points; less likely == more points. For
example, we might use something like this:

A. "cock-eyed reprobate" (1 point)
B. "you're gowin' ta hell, boah!" (1 point)
C. "faggot maggot" (3 points)
D. "civil magistrate" (5 points)
E. "raghead" (3 points)
F. "sodomite" (1 point)
G. "muddered bebbies" (2 points)
H. "mother-in-law" (2 points)

and so on.

Now before the broadcast begins, each player chooses in turn a term
for their list. All the terms get distributed this way. The players
are "betting" their choices will occur often in the 1 hour diatribe.

While listening to the broadcast, players keep a running tally of the
points they get for each instance where Pastor John employs their
terms. At the end of the broadcast, winner pockets the stakes.

To keep it interesting, you should also list separately some odd and
unlikely topics or words. These count as "liabilities." If your
liability (or one of them) occurs, then you lose all points won so far
and restart from 0. This keeps it interesting until the end of the
broadcast: even if one guy has 3 times the points everyone else has,
he could see them all wiped out if Pastor John's ramble brings up one
of his liabilities. Some examples might be:

a. space aliens
b. Jean-Paul Sartre
c. cold fusion
d. loch ness monster.

The point, naturally, is that these topics are highly unlikely to turn
up. But you never know. Pastor John has an opinion on every topic. You
might be enjoying a 100 point lead with 2 minutes left in the
broadcast but then -- inexplicably -- Pastor John launches into a rant
about UFOs and your points evaporate.

Plenty of fun to be had by all! You can make it a drinking game too,
if you like (just don't use "reprobate" or "sodomite" or you'll all be
in the hospital after 30 minutes). You can also adapt the idea to
other shows: Alex Jones, Brother Stair, Harold Camping -- anyone with
a half-dozen obsessions they can't shake.


--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

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Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)