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Before You Watch Tonight's Debate ...

It's time for a little levity: Before you watch tonight's debate, check out the "completely made up" recreation of Sen. Joe Biden's rehearsals with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm ... and blogger Corey Richardson's Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game:

The following words or phrases from Joe Biden are worth ONE SHOT:

-Literally

-I know

-Experience

-Kitchen Table

-Scranton

The following words or phrases from Sarah Palin are worth ONE SHOT:

-Wasilla

-Thanks but no thanks

-Reform

-Maverick

-Shake things up

The follwing words or phrases from Joe Biden are worth TWO SHOTS:

-My friend John McCain

-Amtrak

-My wife, Jill

-Any mispronunciation of Barack Obama's name

-Any slight or slur against an ethnic group

The follwing words and phrases from Sarah Palin are worth TWO SHOTS:

-Hockey Mom

-Joe Six-Pack

-Snowmobile Racing

-Any reference to a Supreme Court case that isn't Roe v. Wade

-Anytime she says, "Well ya'know Gwen" before not answering a question

The following words or phrase from EITHER CANDIDATE is an all drink for ONE SHOT:

-Middle Class

-Tax Cut

-Bailout Bill (which is also my new DJ name)

-Special Needs Children

-Main Street

Now, for the capper...

ONE UNMEASURED GUZZLE STRAIGHT FROM THE BOTTLE:

-If Joe Biden cries

-If Sarah Palin talks about humans and dinosaurs coexisting on Earth

Read the rest on Vexed In The City.

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