Edward 40 Hands-January 20, 2005

It was a typical Friday night and everyone was exhausted from the work week. Steve, Drew, Maria, her work friends and I went out for a drink in Midtown. We had a few laughs and many drinks! We needed some grub, so we went and had gyros. It was at this fine food establishment Steve convinced Drew, Maria and her friend Kyla to come over and play Edward 40 Hands under the tent. I knew we were in for trouble.

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Those who have never played Edward 40 Hands, these are the materials:

-2 40 oz bottle of your favorite malt liquor per person
-tape, usually duct tape or strong packing tape

You're probably asking: Why do you need tape?

The answer is you tape a 40 oz bottle of beer to each of your hands. Instead of "hands" you have "40's" (like Edward "scissor" hands, hence the name of the game).

The purpose of the drinking game is to drink all 80 oz. of delicious malt liquor before removing the tape.

The major obstacles of the game: weak blatters and light-weights. If you have either you're in for an interesting experience....(fighting urges to pee and having the ability to puke and rally)

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Now that everyone knew what they were getting into, and a quick stop at the 40's store and we were good to go.

Unfortunately, no one had a camera to capture the evening, but hopefully you get the idea based on this stick-figure drawing.

This is Drew, Steve and Chris with their 40's taped to their hands.

To entertain ourselves while drinking we played a game of Charades. It was funny watching everyone act out a person, place or thing with 2 40's taped to their hands...there a little beer spillage. And, I have to admit, the guys were pretty good. I think it's fair to say they beat the girls.

I was impressed with everyone's performance: Drew and Chris didn't pee once! Job well done.

Steve, on the other hand, overcame the 2 obstacles mentioned above! Props to Steve.

Hope all had fun!

I definitely recommend this game to anyone who wants get wasted.