Shilly-Shally Drinking Game.

Shilly-Shally Drinking Game.

Introduction: 

Dr. Wetbrain constantly adds words to people talking to him too slowly. Welcome to his world of playing with Shilly-shally.

    Dr. Wetbrain

Merrian-Webster Dictionary defines ‘Shilly-Shally” as an Adverb.

1) in an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner.

2) to show hesitation or lack of decisiveness.

3) to waste time.

 

This is a quick, be on the ball, witty drinking game which you can play anywhere, anytime. To begin, you and your drinking friends must be beside a television, radio (maybe not a car radio while drinking and driving), smart phone, laptop or computer to be able to play this drinking game.

 

Play: 

Step 1

As mentioned previously this game can be played anywhere, anytime where someone is talking. Whether this speaking voice is funneled through a radio, new favorite television show, smart phone, a new movie, recorded lecture (not seen), or a group of friends where only one person is talking.

Notice how ‘new’ was noted on a few of these ‘voice’ speaking examples. An important moral component to this game is that we do not want previously watched cheating. Why cheat on simple fun drinking games anyways. Do not have to worry about a radio announcer, their speech will be always new.

  Step 2

Let us try some examples.

Example 1

Movie –

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Brad Pitt. “I will always (er)….”. Right at that ‘er’ moment everyone playing must guess what his next word or phrase will be before he does say what is written for him on the script. You only have a few seconds to guess.

Guess examples:

– try

– be there

– love you

– kill kittens

– etc.

Example 2

Radio announcer. “Tragedy has hit the town of Cynthia. The culprits were in a ‘ummm’.” Right at that ‘ummm’ moment everyone must guess what his next word or phrase will be.

Guess examples:

– car

– truck

– frenzy

– tiff

– sexual rampage

– etc.

 

Step 3

The first right answer from the participants gets to appoint a drink, and how much to drink to whoever he chooses.

Sort of an addictive game. Pretty soon you find yourself filling-in with people’s hesitating speech everywhere.

Conclusion:

A way to look at this game is like when someone stutters you always want to verbally fill in the word he is trying to say before he finishes.

Have fun. Cheers!

History Of Pirates And Rum.

History Of Pirates and Rum.

    “Arr Ye Matie!”

“Are you drunk Wetbrain? What the hell was that?” Harold had to ask.

“I just finished watching the first ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie Harold. So, you know I had to find out about the true history of pirates and rum.”

Harold just rolled his eyes and spoke. “OK give it to me.”

In the 16th and 17th centuries London was overcrowded with plenty of unemployment and plenty of very poor citizens. The ordinary poor seamen said ‘F**K You’ English government we will make money! Pirates were born. Let the plundering begin!

Rum in the Golden Age of Pirates, which was between 1650 to 1720, was used as currency in those days. So, at the beginning the Pirates would sail around the Mediterranean Sea in large sailing ships equipped with cannons plundering Spanish ships which had treasure, gold and barrels of Rum. Plenty of barrels of rum. The Pirates never used the rum to sell. They just drank it all.

Then when the Americas was discovered thanks to Christopher Columbus, piracy continued during the American Revolution and Napoleon wars. The Pirates attacked American merchant vessels about 1775 to 1800 for the booty of treasure and of course Rum.

Pirates today are mostly Somalian renegades sailing on old fishing boats with no sails or cannons and not tackling the huge merchant ships. But rich looking yachts are the right sized targets to plunder. Hopefully the yacht will have rum.

Rum in the earlier Pirate days was always in barrels and every Pirate had a tin cup. The oldest bottled rum was recently found. 59 bottles of 1780 Barbados Dark Rum was discovered at the Harewood Estate. Unfortunately, only 23 bottles were suitable for sale or drinking. One of these bottles of rum sold for $30,000 to a collector from Switzerland.

The Golden Age of Pirates produced some famous figures such as…

Captain Kidd

Blackbeard (Edward Teach)

Henry Morgan

Calico Jack

Anne Bonny

Through the ages of piracy there are 4 types of Pirates.

1)  Corsairs – Plundered on the Mediterranean Sea from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

2)  Buccaneers – From the Caribbean Island sailed under the skull and crossbones and pillaged Spanish treasure ships in the 17th century.

3)  Privateers – The civil war in the early 1800s between Great Britain with Anglo-American against the Caribbean Privateers with Republics of Pirates were brutal battles. Serious cannons were shot at each other during that war. Unfortunately, the British won.

4)  Somalian Pirates Todays Pirates which are not as glamorized as the Pirates of the past. Still pillaging to this day.

“Very cool dramatic history of Pirates and rum, what did you think Harold?”

Harold replied. “Arr Ye Matie”.