well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ...
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Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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=head1 NAME
London.pm - The Drinking Game
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Someone on rec.arts.sf.written (rasfw) suggested a rasfw drinking game,
of course being the sensible group it is I think they were only jesting.
However back at London.pm we don't joke about drinking so I felt it
was time to create what the mailing list (and indeed world has been
waiting for) - London.pm - THE DRINKING GAME.
This is a first draft so commentary is of course welcome.
=head1 VERSION
$Revision: 1.2 $
=head1 YOU WILL NEED
=head2 MANDATORY
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=item A nice steady stream of London.pm messages.
=item A lot of alchohol
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=head2 OPTIONAL
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=item A Blood Mary Cocktail
=item A glass of Saki
=back
=head1 THREAD BASED CONSEQUENCES
These are thread based, that is to say they are based around threads,
not messages. Consequences based around messages are in the next
section, which is entitled Message Based Consequences.
=head2 Take a gulp if a thread starts as or mutates into .....
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=item A discussion about films.
=item A disorganised planning session about travel or some event.
Take an extra gulp if the Heretics chip in about how good the Anchor is, or how evil
the 1st falling on a thursday is.
=item Another initiative is created (Such as perl-cert, european conferences,
rewrite matts scripts etc.)
=item A discussion starts about some OTT XML-ish object orientated mutagenic
approximating distributed module concept.
=item A new t-shirt logo suggestion is debated.
Gulp again if people mutter about Randal later on in the thread.
=item A thread starts up about pubs in london.
=item London.pmers en masse decide to descend on another mailing list or chatboard.
=head1 MESSAGE BASED CONSEQUENCES
These are message based yadda yadda yadda.
=head2 Take a sip if .....
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=item The camel is mentioned
Take another sip if taking it out of the zoo or slicing it up is also
mentioned.
=item gnat makes a comment related to sex.
=item dha makes a comment related to Dr Who.
=item Anyone reminds Dave Cantrell about the time he stocked up on rice and tins of
spam for nuclear winter that would follow the Y2K bug.
=item Dave Cross snatches a bit of Sci-Fi trivia from the huge archives of his mind.
=item The subject of a mail message still bears some relevance.
=item Someone states that Willow or Buffy is better looking than the other.
=item One of the usual suspects posts a one liner.
=item A Uk resident but Non-londoner (inside M25) posts.
=item Leon posts the weekly summary.
=item Someone slags off selena sol, matt wright, or some other 31337 script kiddy
programmers.
=item PONY PONY PONY PONY PONY - ok you get the drift of this one.
=back
=head2 Take two sips if ......
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=item Someone states that another BtVS is better than the Buffster and Willow.
=item A non-UK resident but a european posts.
=item Someone posts a link to a London.pm'er spotted in the wild, e.g. DJ talks about
Jabber somewhere.
=head2 Take three sips if .....
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=item A non-European but currently resident on Eart posts.
=back
=head2 Down the drink if .....
=over 4
=item Someone not currently resident on the planet earth posts
=item A London.pm'er gets married.
=back
=head1 OTHER
=over 4
=item Batch reply mode (i.e. someone catches up on their email and sends arround 10
replies all in one batch).
For this take a large amount of liquid in your mouth and swallow it in
loud gulps once for each message.
=item Dim sum is suggested.
For this one drink Saki!
=item Someone posts the day after a london.pm social about how hungover they are.
Down a bloody mary.
=item Someone posts they just lost there job at a dot com.
You should also hum that buggle tune played on army bases (i can't
remember the name)
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=head1 ORIGINAL AUTHOR
Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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