Buffalo!
When you hear that word, you had better be holding a beer
in your left hand, or you may be chugging it down! The primary drinking game of the Pilsner Open is based on a
rather easy concept, but there are a few rules that you need to abide by to
keep from finishing your beer a lot earlier than you expected:
- If someone is
touching, holding or, of course, drinking alcohol with the right hand and
someone calls BUFFALO! during the act,
then that person shall chug-a-lug their drink.
- The only exception
to the above rule is when you are “double fisting”. However, in that case you must only
ever drink from the beverage in your left hand. If you drink from the beverage in your right hand while
double fisting, you can be buffaloed.
- If you call
someone on a buffalo and you are mistaken, you can be called on a “false
buffalo”. If it is determined that
you have called a false buffalo, then you must chug-a-lug your drink as
though you have been buffaloed yourself (the person you false buffaloed
does not have to drink).
- If you think you
have been false buffaloed and the buffaloer does not agree with you, you
can appeal the buffalo to a committee.
Choose three Pilsner members in the vicinity and state your case. If your argument is taken as correct,
then the other person has committed a false buffalo. If your argument is not taken as
correct, you are now “double buffaloed!” and have to chug-a-lug two
beers. Would you like to appeal
again?
- Buffaloes, to be
true, should be consumed in one go.
However, the executive committee understands that some of you are
not the men that the rest of us are, so we will allow a three-gulp finish,
taking no more than one minute to complete the buffalo. Failure to adhere to this more than
generous time constraint will result in the assessment of another buffalo,
and so on. Finishing a buffalo in
within the allotted time is a pride thing. Those who choose to not adhere to the spirit of the buffalo
will immediately lose respect among the other members and risk their
membership in future Pilsner Opens.
- Other than
drinking Molson products, buffalo is the primary focus of the Pilsner
Tour, far ahead of golf. Learn the
rules and you will be rewarded with the pleasure of watching others
downing their drinks. Fail to
learn (and apply) the rules and you will not only be a constant source of
amusement for the other members, but soon you will be lying in a gutter
wondering where you mommy is!
Doug showing perfect Buffalo form!
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