'The Imbible' is ultimate drinking games guide for college generation
Alyssa Webb
Issue date: 10/28/08 Section: Features
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Sitting around on a Friday night reading the newest Stephen King novel just doesn't happen once you break the threshold of your first fall semester. Keggers, graffiti parties and maybe even a Roman inspired toga party become your new lights at the end of the tunnel each week.
From Kings to Beer Pong, everyone has their idea of "house rules," varying from campus to campus and sometimes varying from frat house to frat house. Quarrel no longer, adamant party-goers, Alex Bash has you covered.
Bash has created an extensive compilation of some of the most prominent to most obscure drinking games to ever be played by stressed college students called "The Imbible," a book he dedicates to his abused liver. Littered with clever anecdotes and ridiculous puns, the ultimate drinking guide is one you won't want to put down.
In his introduction, he lays out his 20 key lessons to abide by while drinking, including the lesson that you will never catch a squirrel, regardless of how fun it sounds, so you should stick to ducks. If only we had Alex Bash in our lives sooner.
Starting at the logical point of classic games, Bash finally puts to end the debate that has boggled drinkers' minds for decades: what are the real rules in Kings? Not only does he tackle that dilemma, but offers another, dirtier version with rated R rules. The harshest? If you pick up a 10, be prepared to surrender your cell phone and each of the other players can send one text message to anyone in your phone. Yikes.
Bash also offers us a history lesson in the origins of beer pong, created in 2300 BC. Yes, God created beer and thus beer pong.
Card games do not go untouched. Games that have been in college repertoire since the beginning of time, like "A**hole" and "Bullsh*t", are covered as well as some lesser known games such as "Drown the Clown" and "Sunset."
Perhaps not as popular, but still just as effective, are dice games. Games like "Beer Die" and the appropriately titled "Dice" which involves an extensive list of when/who/what to drink when each combination comes up.
On to the greatly popular coin games, and no, "Quarters" is not the only one. "Speed Quarters," "Rim Job," and "Nickels" can all be new additions to your drinking game arsenal. Use your imagination and think of the possibilities.
Gaining new ground in the realm of drinking are movie games. For maximum silliness achieved by drinking, follow Bash's recipe for disaster while watching "Beerfest" or "Super Troopers," and assume your position in the bathroom.
All these rules and games are too much for any heavy social drinker to remember on his or her own, so let's have a toast to Bash for doing the dirty work for us and having a hand in turning this generation of college students into full blown lushes. Cheers!
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