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The furry con-badge drinking game.
15 years ago
General
As part of the setup for registration for Anthrocon, I would print all the pre-registered badges and signup sheets. This was usually a period of several days of feeding badges through printers and checking the finish. Then there'd be a big sorting party where the badges were broken into their various bins by category.
This means that there'd be several days where we'd be looking at the various names people have chosen with nothing else much to do than comment on them. Thus the "furry con-badge drinking game" was born.
I'm writing the rules down here and will endeavor to keep this post (http://wp.crescendo.net/?p=6486) updated with any changes.
Certain overused or fruity name components ended up being declared as drinkable. Much like there are 5 fingers on a sober person's hand, there are 5 categories of fruity name components:
* Animals
* Colors
* Elements
* Seasons
* Celestials
Animals: These are your normal animal names. (IE: fox, dog, tiger, wolf.) This includes cutsey variants (poni, wuffie, etc), mythical animals (unicorn, dragon), and latin variants (canis, vupline)
Colors: What it says: red, green, blue, grey, etc.
Elements: These include classical elements (water,wind,fire,earth), metals (bronze,gold,silver) and jewels (emerald,ruby,etc.)
Seasons: Summer, Winter, Fall, and Spring.
Celestials: Things that fall in sort of a hippy-dippy view of the world. Astronomy (sun,moon,star), Weather (storm,thunder,snow,sky,shadow), and various god variants (angel,demon,god,goddess,anubis,etc)
For each component, there is a penalty of one drink. So for example "SunDragon Pony" would be three drinks. "WinterWolf" would be two. And "Bennie" would be zero.
I'm debating on a variant of adding a half drink for "the."
Most badges do not end up requiring a drink. Almost exactly 75% of the badges would score zero drinks. Of the other 25%, most are single-drinkers.
The record though, currently stands at 4-drinks. Of the 6500 or so unique badge names I've printed, there has been only one 4-drinker: "TigerTabbie/Tigrekat"
That was fun because it was 4 animal references. But it is sort of disqualified because it is two names on one badge.
If you look at single-name badges, the record is 3 drinks. 16 badges (about 0.2%) scored 3:
Blue Heeler SunFire
Cobalt "Foxwolf" Sykes
Cobalt Blue Fox
Emerald Sky Blue
Fennec Wolfox
Foxwolf Firebane
Kitten SunShadow
Kitty BlackRabbit
Silver Dragonwolf
SILVERBLUEDRAGON2
SilverMoonWolf
Skye Bluedeer
Tigeron Starfire
Tippi Blue Snowangel
TygerMoon Foxx
Vulpin the Ponyfox
A 16-way tie is no fun, and the 4-drinker is not really a clear winner. So here is the challenge: If you can prove to me a badge of 5 drinks or more, I will buy you said 5 drinks at the next con I run into you at.
This means that there'd be several days where we'd be looking at the various names people have chosen with nothing else much to do than comment on them. Thus the "furry con-badge drinking game" was born.
I'm writing the rules down here and will endeavor to keep this post (http://wp.crescendo.net/?p=6486) updated with any changes.
Certain overused or fruity name components ended up being declared as drinkable. Much like there are 5 fingers on a sober person's hand, there are 5 categories of fruity name components:
* Animals
* Colors
* Elements
* Seasons
* Celestials
Animals: These are your normal animal names. (IE: fox, dog, tiger, wolf.) This includes cutsey variants (poni, wuffie, etc), mythical animals (unicorn, dragon), and latin variants (canis, vupline)
Colors: What it says: red, green, blue, grey, etc.
Elements: These include classical elements (water,wind,fire,earth), metals (bronze,gold,silver) and jewels (emerald,ruby,etc.)
Seasons: Summer, Winter, Fall, and Spring.
Celestials: Things that fall in sort of a hippy-dippy view of the world. Astronomy (sun,moon,star), Weather (storm,thunder,snow,sky,shadow), and various god variants (angel,demon,god,goddess,anubis,etc)
For each component, there is a penalty of one drink. So for example "SunDragon Pony" would be three drinks. "WinterWolf" would be two. And "Bennie" would be zero.
I'm debating on a variant of adding a half drink for "the."
Most badges do not end up requiring a drink. Almost exactly 75% of the badges would score zero drinks. Of the other 25%, most are single-drinkers.
The record though, currently stands at 4-drinks. Of the 6500 or so unique badge names I've printed, there has been only one 4-drinker: "TigerTabbie/Tigrekat"
That was fun because it was 4 animal references. But it is sort of disqualified because it is two names on one badge.
If you look at single-name badges, the record is 3 drinks. 16 badges (about 0.2%) scored 3:
Blue Heeler SunFire
Cobalt "Foxwolf" Sykes
Cobalt Blue Fox
Emerald Sky Blue
Fennec Wolfox
Foxwolf Firebane
Kitten SunShadow
Kitty BlackRabbit
Silver Dragonwolf
SILVERBLUEDRAGON2
SilverMoonWolf
Skye Bluedeer
Tigeron Starfire
Tippi Blue Snowangel
TygerMoon Foxx
Vulpin the Ponyfox
A 16-way tie is no fun, and the 4-drinker is not really a clear winner. So here is the challenge: If you can prove to me a badge of 5 drinks or more, I will buy you said 5 drinks at the next con I run into you at.
I vote bonus drink for 'deliberate misspelling'. Two bonus drinks if it's a doubled or tripled 'x'.
So ... "Redpaw foxtail, the dragonfolf' would probably score a 6 if this were adopted.
At some point my con crew and I became a little more aware of the Adjective-Noun pattern, and started noticing it everywhere after that.
http://www.crescendo.net/fun/conbadge/
I think I'll update it with this stuff.