This morning, while listening to MPR, a reporter used the word "accolades" in a sentence like this*:
"Although the program has received many accolades, they mean nothing to the 1.5 spetillion homeless still on the streets" (*note, not a direct quote. I had to make it up, since I was not really paying attention to the story)
And I started thinking, does "accolades" have a more subtle meaning than I thought? I thought it just meant an award or an acknowledgement, but every time I hear it somewhere (usually on pubilc radio) it's always hedged by a "but" or a "however".
So after discussing it with the Dude, we decided that the word does not have a negative connotation at all, but he suggested that it would make a good drinking game to listen and see if MPR ever used "accolades" in a positive way.
No one would ever get drunk playing that game.
Other boring drinking games:
- American Idol: Only drink when Seacrest is funny or when he flirts with the girls
- Grey's Anatomy: Only drink when you are completely surprised by a plot twist.
Only drink when the characters are beleiveable
- Desperate Housewives: Only drink when Teri Hatcher isn't acting stooopid
- The Today Show: Only drink when Ann Curry (sp?) is in a good mood
Got any more?
April 10, 2006
Contenders for the most boring drinking game ever
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In honor of my new Monday night guilty pleasure: Drink whenever someone on the Apprentice uses a complete sentence that actually makes sense.
How about when some mystery, any mystery is solved on Lost? Love the show, but there are more loose ends than ...umm...all the untied shoes in an elementary school?
Drink when a Simpsons comes on that you HAVEN'T seen in the last month.
Drink to excess on any night when there is not a show on a Network channel that doesn't involve dead people or wacky legal wranglings.
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