This article is classified "Real"
Requirements: - Warm weather, or someone who doesn't mind the inside
of their house being destroyed.
- A table and six chairs, in the vicinity of the first
requirement.
- One "Master of Ceremonies."
- Six players, preferably already a little drunk.
- Each player must provide six cans of beer. All beer
cans should be the same sort/brand.
- As many spectators as possible, also all preferably drunk
Procedure: - Each player should remove his/her/its [1] T-shirt,
and tie it in a vague headband fashion around their
forehead.
- Each player then places one can on the table. The MC
selects one can, and shakes it thoroughly. It can also
be passed around the spectators for some "audience
involvement"
- The players sit down, with their foreheads on the table.
the MC places the shaken can down with the others, and
mixes them thoroughly.
- On pronunciation of the appropriate signal [2], the
players grab for a can, quickly hold it to their ear,
and open the ring-pull.
- One player will receive a spray of frothy beer in the
ear, and he must then drink/wear the rest of the can
as quickly as possible. The other players then finish
their beers, ready for the next round.
- Play then continues, with one player less each round.
The winner is the last "alive", and he then walks [3]
away with the rest of the beers [4].
Pit-falls: - [3]
[1] I don't want to be sexist/speciest, but I can't be bothered typing
in "he/she/its" every time. It doesn't scan very well either, and
often comes out sounding like "He shits", which is not particularly
poetic. So, I am just going to use "he" from now on. Sorry.
[2] "Go" is the traditional, albeit unimaginative, choice.
[3] Or more commonly, staggers.
[4] This should be 10 cans, but don't depend on it. Rottomathematics
often apply, which is even more tortuous than Bistromathematics.