So, per my last post: Having found a sufficiently interesting drinking game, Mena, Krissy, & I decided to have a wild night of watching Project Runway & drinking Pomegranate cosmos.
Fearing that the drinking game as written might leave all of us a bit too drunk for a work night, Mena thought of a nice twist: after eliminating all of the no-longer-relevant prompts, we printed out the remaining ones in enlarged type, cut them up, and put them into a bag (a Jay McCarroll bag, no less!), then selected one by one our individual prompts, thus dividing up about 40 prompts between the three of us.
Some prompts, of course—e.g., Tim says, "Make it work"—are better than others. We each ended up with about 12, half of which turned out to be relevant in this week's episode.
Mena's ready!
Having selected the prompts, we headed to the television with a pitcher (yes, a pitcher!) of pomegranate cosmos & three glasses [2].
About 20 minutes later, the pizza arrived!
Some notes on the game:
- A good prompt that we didn't have, and which you should include in your PR drinking game, if & when you decide to play it: Tim says, "Gather round, everyone."
- It's surprising how mentally exhausting it is to play a drinking game! We were fiercely concentrating for the entire episode, watching out for both our own & one another's prompts. It was a real team effort.
- One of the prompts I had was A designer's sketch is shown. This turned out to be surprisingly popular, because there's a segment of the show where they basically show every fucking designer's sketch, like four times each! That was a fun part of the show, for me.
- Another popular one: Tim looks concerned. When doesn't Tim look concerned?
- As a bonus, we saw a commercial for the new season of Blow Out. I'm so excited!
Drinking games are so fun!
[1] See this. Thanks to Mena & Krissy for the title!
[2] Mena decided that tumblers would be better than martini glasses, since the latter tend to be fairly easily spillable, & really not right for a drinking game.
Have you guys watched Project Catwalk, the UK version, at all? It's been pretty excellent so far--plenty of drama and plenty of liquoring opportunities. For example: every time Liz Hurley's dress is far too low cut for a woman of her age, take a drink.
You'll be unconscious before the design brief is even revealed!
Posted by: Brian W | February 17, 2006 at 08:36 PM
We haven't! I've got an episode downloading now. It certainly sounds like another drinking game is in order, soon. :)
Posted by: btrott | February 18, 2006 at 11:20 PM
Oh, don't listen to Brian. Liz is timeless.
What would really put a person under the table is drinking every time Renato goes on about how doggone great he is. And, well, in those first episodes, every time Sushino pulls out his bloody Karl Lagerfeld-wannabe fan.
Posted by: matt | February 19, 2006 at 09:18 PM
And by all means - invite the lush in the office! Did someone say "drinking game?"
Posted by: Byrne Reese | February 22, 2006 at 01:28 AM