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Beer Pong Games Are Set To Rally After The Previous Session's Selloff
Posted by Keith Hahn, Aug 29, 2007, 8:49am
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Posted by OldSchoolPong , Aug 29, 2007 9:34AM
What the fck are these people doing?
Back in my day we used paddles and played on real pingpong tables. We put 4 cups on the corners. I've seen the pyramid in the middle of the table...but using your hands? On a mini-table?
Its an outrage.
And what about blow pong? Anything but using your hands.
Posted by joe , Aug 29, 2007 9:40AM
OSP,
Get with the program Grandpa!!!
Posted by harvey , Aug 29, 2007 9:58AM
what bar is this? so familiar.. i was probably there for someones birthday where i got a bracelet and all i could drink for $20... but like most of those nights, the details are blurry. anyone?
Posted by Zbignew , Aug 29, 2007 9:59AM
Shelly Banjo? Are you sure that WSJ wasn't channeling the Onion?
Also, Big Money = $1000?
Maybe if you live in Darfur.
Posted by , Aug 29, 2007 10:04AM
Joe,
LOL, And now my liver hurts.
Thanks alot!
OSP
Posted by MG , Aug 29, 2007 10:10AM
I don't know what game they were playing, but they've totally taken the pong out of beer pong. No paddles? That might as well be darts. Actually, it reminds me of when I was about 10 years old and the town fair had a booth for kids to toss ping pong balls into gold fish bowls to win the fish (which inevitably dies before you got home.)
I also didn't see any beer getting drunk there. The point of the game isn't just to get a ping pong ball into the solo cup, it's to make your opponent chug that beer!
I just don't get these kids today. They probably allow "spinning" in foozball too.
Posted by Blake , Aug 29, 2007 10:19AM
Those guys were terrible. I didn't see anyone sink a single ball. Also, paddles? Who the hell plays with paddles?
Posted by , Aug 29, 2007 11:11AM
jesus fuck you people, the only real game is beirut, none of this pong or beer pong stuff.
Posted by BeruitIsNotPong , Aug 29, 2007 11:21AM
the problem is that the game pictured is beruit. Beer Pong is played as OSP said. Both are quality games and have their place in beerfest.
Posted by Southern Comfort , Aug 29, 2007 11:33AM
I really like the "hooded" upong outfitters logo - now that brings it home - homey -
Posted by , Aug 29, 2007 11:55AM
Correct - they're playing Beirut.
Pong is with paddles...Ping Pong anyone? Do you throw a ball when you play Ping Pong? Pong on Atari? Come on now
Posted by kigol , Aug 29, 2007 11:56AM
Playing with paddles is great if you grew up playing "Pong" on Calecovision. Consequently, this generation doesn't know much about ping pong given the popularity of extreme sports etc. I would be more than happy to whoop some ass in either version however.
I know The Big Easy on 96th has quite a bit of Beruit but it has been 2 years or so since I was there.
Posted by Lee D , Aug 29, 2007 12:01PM
Up here in the frozen tundra of the Great White North, the game at our ΔKE house, as well as others, was Quarters.
Same principle, but you try to bounce a quarter off the table into your opponents glass.
Good times.
Posted by JD , Aug 29, 2007 2:32PM
Now you know why America is losing its economic status in the world.