Results tagged “beerpong”

Pour One Out for Beer Pong: SLA Comes Down Hard on Sport

Despite a backlog of 3,000 liquor-license applications, the State Liquor Authority has taken the time to come down heavy on the fratastic sport of beer pong. In 2008, the World Beer Pong Tour had asked the SLA to clarify its stance on its events, and the response was typical for those bribe-taking apparatchiks at the Authority: Beer pong is forbidden because state law "prohibits the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages in a manner which does not foster and promote temperance in the consumption." Dude, whoever wrote that sounds like uptight Frank the Tank before finally hitting the beer bong.

RPI Finds H1N1 Source: Beer Pong!

New York City might be immune from the swine flu, but unfortunately that doesn't hold true for the rest of the state. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY have had 21 cases of the virus, and suspect that the culprit may be sharing cups during games like beer pong. So remember kids, stay healthy: play flip cup.

A couple of weeks back, we talked about how you could use Google SMS to find out all sorts of good NYC information using your mobile phone. Google recently bought Dodgeball, our favorite NYC mososo service, which lets you tell your friends where you are. (And yes, we said "mososo"-- that's what the cool-kids huge nerds call mobile social software.) Yesterday, Dodgeball head honcho Dens emailed to let us know about another cool feature:

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