# If you drank a shot every time Palin said "maverick" .... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422 "2008-10-04T06:45:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/1 "2008-10-04T06:45:05Z")
…how drunk would \*you \*be at the end of the 90 minute debate? ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/2 "2008-10-04T06:50:13Z")
> [@astro](#): > > …how drunk would \*you \*be at the end of the 90 minute debate? Depends on how well you can handle nine shots… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/3 "2008-10-04T06:53:01Z")
She only said it[six times](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/02/vp-debate-word-count-maverick-taxes-middle-class/), so…lightly buzzed. 😃 If I also drank the nine times Biden said it, then yeah, I’d probably be pretty messed up. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/4 "2008-10-04T18:49:09Z")
My Palin Drinking Card had “Mayor”, “Governor” and “You Betcha!” They took me to the hospital for alcoholic poisoning after 30 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/5 "2008-10-04T18:58:34Z")
> [@The\_Shroud](#): > > She only said it[six times](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/02/vp-debate-word-count-maverick-taxes-middle-class/), so…lightly buzzed. 😃 Lush! I’d be hugging my worst enemy and telling everybody in the room I love them after six shots. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/6 "2008-10-04T20:49:17Z")
What if we also added in “Main Street”? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/7 "2008-10-04T21:01:16Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > What if we also added in “Main Street”? Uhhhg, the single most annoying catchphrase of this election season. I wonder if these candidates still think they’re clever when they say _blah blah blah_ WALL \*street, but blah blah blah \* MAIN _street_. ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/8 "2008-10-04T21:10:50Z")
“Energy” would’ve killed me. “Nuculer” about killed me, and I wasn’t even drinking to it. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/9 "2008-10-04T21:14:11Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Lush! I’d be hugging my worst enemy and telling everybody in the room I love them after six shots. Really? I’m no heavy drinker but six shots of 80 proof liquor would get me pretty buzzed but nowhere near that far gone. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/10 "2008-10-04T21:21:50Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Lush! I’d be hugging my worst enemy and telling everybody in the room I love them after six shots. Me too. I’m kind of a lightweight, though…I weigh in at all of 100 lbs. Six shots over the course of ninety minutes would be wearing my bad idea jeans. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/11 "2008-10-04T21:21:54Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Really? I’m no heavy drinker but six shots of 80 proof liquor would get me pretty buzzed but nowhere near that far gone. How much do you weigh? I don’t know that I’ve ever set out to do six shots (not to say I haven’t, heh, I just can’t think of a time), but I’m comparing it to about six beers. I’m pretty shitty after six beers. Hell, I have a little buzz after two. I’m not a teenager anymore! I weigh 185. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/12 "2008-10-04T21:22:24Z")
Rookies. Six shots will get me smiling and even feeling a little social, but I will probably still hate you. ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/13 "2008-10-04T21:43:19Z")
You say this like it’s a bad thing. I thought everyone agrees that everything’s totally messed up. I’m OK with someone selling themselves as a maverick. Or we could go with someone who emphasizes 35 years in Washington and no motive to change 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/14 "2008-10-04T22:00:59Z")
> [@Plan\_B](#): > > You say this like it’s a bad thing. I thought everyone agrees that everything’s totally messed up. I’m OK with someone selling themselves as a maverick. If you have to keep saying you’re a maverick, you probably aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/15 "2008-10-04T22:14:01Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > How much do you weigh? I don’t know that I’ve ever set out to do six shots (not to say I haven’t, heh, I just can’t think of a time), but I’m comparing it to about six beers. I’m pretty shitty after six beers. Hell, I have a little buzz after two. I’m not a teenager anymore! I weigh 185. 250 currently, but I weighed less than you as recently as last summer (don’t ask) and my tolerance is about the same now as it was then. I’m also 26 – 27 in January – so I don’t think it’s my youthful metabolism helping me, either. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/16 "2008-10-04T22:28:58Z")
Don’t bet on it. I’m 27. Shit changes, son. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/17 "2008-10-04T23:12:49Z")
Okay, I made the attempt. I can’t remember most of it.I had a lot of beer in front of me and then the beer was gone and I was on the floor with a huge mess surrounding me. Pailin? Judging by the state of my house you owe me at least 10,000 for the cleaning fees alone and I don’t even know what the rehab fee will come to. ---
**Author:** ![Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/18 "2008-10-04T23:25:49Z")
…I’d still think she was repugnant. Maybe after the presidential debates. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/19 "2008-10-04T23:54:26Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Me too. I’m kind of a lightweight, though…I weigh in at all of 100 lbs. Six shots over the course of ninety minutes would be wearing my bad idea jeans. Bad idea for whom?😉 ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/20 "2008-10-05T15:00:41Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I’m also 26 – 27 in January – so I don’t think it’s my youthful metabolism helping me, either. _Points and laughs at **Aesiron** , from my perch a decade later._ You know, it had already been a long and boozy week for me, so out of both fatigue, and genuine concern for my poor overworked liver, I decided to watch the debate sober. The third “maverick” inside the first fifteen minutes or so sent me running for the vodka. I didn’t have a system, I just drank every time she said something that didn’t answer the question, didn’t make sense, was an obvious distortion, or sounded like she should be either wearing a Ms. Wasilla sash or chewing gum and taking my breakfast order. And every time she winked, I did a double. So, \*soooo \*drunk. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422.md?page=2)