{"id":332,"date":"2006-05-15T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=332"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:19:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:19:24","slug":"countdown-to-eurovision-3-the-eurovision-drinking-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/05\/countdown-to-eurovision-3-the-eurovision-drinking-game.html","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Eurovision (3): The Eurovision Drinking Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reprinted from last year, with a couple of revisions and additions, it’s the Eurovision Song Contest<\/a> Drinking Game:<\/div>\n

Phase One: The Performances<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Key Change.<\/em><\/strong> Whenever the singers dramatically change key during the final chorus. Additional drink for every successive key change in the same song.<\/div>\n
The Buck’s Fizz.<\/em><\/strong> Whenever a performer sheds a piece of clothing. Finish your drink if the clothing loss is obviously unintentional.<\/div>\n
Is That English?<\/em><\/strong> Whenever someone notices that the singers have switched from their native language into English in an attempt to win more votes. Two drinks if they try to dodge the language issue by intentionally <\/span>singing gibberish.<\/div>\n
The San Remo.<\/em><\/strong> Any occurence of visible armpits and\/or pointing.<\/div>\n
The Fine Cotton.<\/strong><\/em> Any appearance by mercenary singers flown in to represent a foreign country. Two drinks if they’re Irish.
The Cultural Rainbow.<\/strong><\/em> Every time an entrant blatantly rips off last year’s winning performance (i.e. in 2006 expect lots of half-arsed Busby Berkeley kaleidoscopic choreography and people pulling scarves out of each others’ clothing). Finish your drink if last year’s winning country rips itself off.
The Wandering Minstrel.<\/span> Eurovision doesn’t allow backing tapes, so take a drink if one of the performers is pretending to play a musical instrument (or simulacrum thereof) as part of the choreography.<\/div>\n
The TaTu.<\/strong><\/em> Finish your drink if the audience boos (on telly, not in the living room.)
The World Cup.<\/span> Any obvious indication that a country is deliberately trying to lose, to avoid budgetary\/logistical problems of hosting the event next year.<\/div>\n
Don’t Mention The War.<\/strong><\/em> Each time the German entrant sings something about everyone being happy.
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Phase Two: The Voting<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
The Wardrobe Change.<\/em><\/strong> If the female host is wearing a different frock after the songs have finished. Two drinks if the male host has changed his suit.<\/div>\n
The Hurry-Up.<\/strong><\/em> Every time the hosts have to talk over the announcer from each voting country to ask “Can we have your votes please?” (i.e. shut the fuck up already). Finish your drink if the announcer tries to deliver a personal message to a relative watching at home in Murmansk.<\/div>\n
The Gimme.<\/em><\/strong> When Greece gives twelve points to Cyprus.<\/div>\n
The Old Europe.<\/strong><\/em> When the UK gets null points from France.<\/div>\n
The New Europe.<\/em><\/strong> When the Baltic states all vote for each other.<\/div>\n
The Sympathy Vote.<\/strong><\/em> When anything sung in French gets a point and\/or the last country without any points finally gets off the mark. A special toast to any country left with zero points at the end.<\/div>\n
The Sandra Sully.<\/em><\/strong> Each time an announcer fucks up the voting results. Finish your drink if they get so confused they have to start over.
The Sally Field.<\/span> Each time they show contestants backstage during the voting looking genuinely surprised and pleased with themselves when they get the same politically-motivated votes they get every year.<\/div>\n
The Master of Suspense.<\/strong><\/em> Any time an announcer realises that the pause for suspense only works if they announce the twelve points and then the country that has won them, not the other way around<\/em>. (This may not happen.)<\/div>\n
The “Viktor, You Very Unattractive Fellow.”<\/em><\/strong> Two drinks if the hosts speak in rhyme and\/or pretend to flirt with each other. Finish your drink if the flirting is serious.<\/div>\n
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The wildcards<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
The first person who asks why Israel is in it, or why Italy isn’t, finishes their drink.
The first person who asks why Lebanon or Serbia and Montenegro aren’t in it must finish their drink. Everyone else must drink unless they know the answers<\/span>.<\/div>\n
A toast to the first person who expresses dismay when they realise how long the voting is going to take.<\/div>\n
A toast to the person who gets so drunk you have to secretly call a cab and persuade them they ordered it when it arrives.<\/div>\n
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Reprinted from last year, with a couple of revisions and additions, it’s the Eurovision Song Contest Drinking Game: Phase One: The Performances The Key Change. Whenever the singers dramatically change key during the final chorus. Additional drink for every successive key change in the same song. The Buck’s Fizz. Whenever a performer sheds a piece […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}