# Aiken's Drinking Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aikens-drinking-game/633295>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aikens-drinking-game/633295 "2012-08-31T18:46:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aikens-drinking-game/633295/1 "2012-08-31T18:46:02Z")

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So there’s a tizzy between Aiken and John Rich, b/c of comments Clay tweeted about the RNC.

[http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749\_162-57502399-10391698/rnc-battle-brews-between-clay-aiken-and-john-rich/](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57502399-10391698/rnc-battle-brews-between-clay-aiken-and-john-rich/)

Something about Clay having a drinking game and drinking only when he sees a black person.

I was describing it to the SO that came out of his Cave of Coding for a rest. He said “A Black person at the RNC? That sounds like the best drinking game in the world for an AA meeting!”

Kinda a (I’m not going to say dark) humor. I laughed hard.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aikens-drinking-game/633295/2 "2012-08-31T20:32:44Z")

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Moved Cafe Society --\> MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aikens-drinking-game/633295/3 "2012-08-31T20:35:40Z")

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Thank you! I keep messing it up!  
I’m not much of a rule breaker!

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aikens-drinking-game/633295/4 "2012-08-31T20:43:13Z")

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It’s racist to point out how few black people were at the RNC? Maybe Rich doesn’t know that the point of drinking games is to get drunk.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aikens-drinking-game/633295/5 "2012-08-31T22:08:12Z")

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> [@BrassyPhrase](#):
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> Thank you! I keep messing it up!  
> I’m not much of a rule breaker!

And you didn’t break any here. A forum change is pretty much a nonevent.