# How to throw a party! - A 12-step MMP

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** mmp\
**Created:** [February 18, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-throw-a-party-a-12-step-mmp/438071 "2008-02-18T05:39:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-throw-a-party-a-12-step-mmp/438071/561 "2008-02-25T03:07:40Z")

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I worked, I did laundry, I drank beer. More tales in the new MMP.

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**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-throw-a-party-a-12-step-mmp/438071/562 "2008-02-25T03:11:29Z")

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Nietzsche?

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-throw-a-party-a-12-step-mmp/438071/563 "2008-02-25T03:33:47Z")

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well now this is de riggeur

> [@](#):
>
> Immanuel Kant was a real pissant  
> Who was very rarely stable.
> 
> Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar  
> Who could think you under the table.
> 
> David Hume could out-consume  
> Schopenhauer and Hegel
> 
> And Wittgenstein was a beery swine  
> Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
> 
> There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya  
> 'Bout the raising of the wrist.  
> Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
> 
> John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,  
> On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
> 
> Plato, they say, could stick it away–  
> Half a crate of whisky every day.
> 
> Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.  
> Hobbes was fond of his dram,
> 
> And René Descartes was a drunken fart.  
> ‘I drink, therefore I am.’
> 
> Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,  
> A lovely little thinker,  
> But a bugger when he’s pissed.

and  
[this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTtS8WXEXVs) goes with it

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