Beer Pong--Slam Dunk!

I should state up front that there is no socially redeeming value to the subject—or content of this blog.

When you view the video below, you will agree—while laughing hysterically.

In fact, if aliens from other planets had only this video with which to judge our species, they would no doubt conclude that not only was there no intelligent life on Earth—but also that it’s a minor miracle that natural selection had not targeted homo sapiens for extinction by now.

Think of college and you will also think of drinking—and more specifically of drinking GAMES. It’s not enough that we consume too much alcohol. We need a sporting platform on which to raise intoxication to a level that combines excessive intake with competition to see who can out-drink everyone else.

The winner—or loser----often has as his or his prize---an appointment praying to the porcelain god “O’Rourke” (pronounced emphatically, of course)

Enter Beer Pong----and its evil cousin, Beer Pong Slam Dunk!

Wikipedia defines “beer pong” (also known as “Beirut”) as a drinking game prevalent on college campuses that involves tossing a ping pong ball into a series of cups containing varying levels of beer. Depending on how the game is set up—and with variations that are as complex as intoxicated logic can allow—success or failure to land balls in the cups will cause participants to consume the beer in the cup.

As if that were not enough, the latest variation involves a finale of the game in which the most visually compelling act in basketball—the SLAM DUNK---is applied to Beer Pong.
This is to say that a participant---usually the most intoxicated---must slam dunk his or her ping pong ball after leaping across the playing surface (usually a table).

What ensues is a fair measure of destruction, personal injury—and hyena-like laughter from anyone who happens to be witnessing the event.

Enjoy:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ZkddHsdpA


Thanks to friend and fellow Ohio State alum Geoffrey Hornbeck, who supplied the video—lamenting the fact that this was NOT a popular game when we were in college. Had it been, it’s likely that neither one of us would be alive today.

Please! No e-mails assailing this blog for being any of the following:

1) In bad taste (it is)
2) Glorifying excessive drinking (it is not)
3) Glorifying destructive behavior (it is not)
4) Glorifying dangerous risk taking (nope)

In fact, I glorify nothing, but I will concede that I laughed like a little girl when I viewed this video of these drunken idiots making fools of themselves! I am ashamed of this fact, but it is a fact nonetheless. If this is offensive to you, I sincerely apologize. If you are a parent about to send your son or daughter off to college, perhaps a family meeting that features compulsory viewing of this video will be a public service.

I’m here to help.

If you’d like my blog in your weekday box, just let me know: tim.moore@citcomm.com