# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/21 "2008-10-05T15:19:51Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > 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. Are you posting from beyond the grave? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/22 "2008-10-05T15:22:50Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > 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_. I don’t even think that Main Street is the most effective metaphor since Main Streets are usually business districts, not residential. I think something like Elm Street might be more appropo. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/23 "2008-10-05T15:26:33Z")
And Phoenix doesn’t even have a Main street, damnit. I wonder if Wasilla does? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/24 "2008-10-05T16:01:41Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I don’t even think that Main Street is the most effective metaphor since Main Streets are usually business districts, not residential. I think something like Elm Street might be more appropo. I’m glad I’m not the only one that hates the “Wall Street/Main Street” metaphor. ---
**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, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/25 "2008-10-05T16:13:25Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I don’t even think that Main Street is the most effective metaphor since Main Streets are usually business districts, not residential. Exactly! That’s the point. Main Street is where folk gather at the General Store and the Soda Shoppe to discuss these things! > [@Cisco](#): > > Are you posting from beyond the grave? Yes. In a slight deviation from the standard text, I am the chain-rattling Ghost of Presidential Elections (not quite) Past, here to warn you of [your future](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/) should you not change your ways, America! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/26 "2008-10-05T16:20:24Z")
Hey, I think Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho would make a fine president. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/27 "2008-10-05T18:18:18Z")
> [@astro](#): > > …how drunk would \*you \*be at the end of the 90 minute debate? Seeing as I don’t drink, I would be shit faced by the end of the debate, but even then I expect that I would be both more articulate and better informed than Palin. Why do American insist on dumbing down politics, electing people with whom they would like to have a beer, rather than electing people with intelligence, knowledge and experience? One hopes that they would have learned from the debacles following their choice of Shrubbery, but now they are putting forth Palin, yet another vacuous ideologue, who appears to be even less suitable? It’s ne way to seek a leader. Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing (mutter, mutter mutter). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/28 "2008-10-05T20:21:46Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Seeing as I don’t drink, I would be shit faced by the end of the debate, but even then I expect that I would be both more articulate and better informed than Palin. > > Why do American insist on dumbing down politics, electing people with whom they would like to have a beer, rather than electing people with intelligence, knowledge and experience? One hopes that they would have learned from the debacles following their choice of Shrubbery, but now they are putting forth Palin, yet another vacuous ideologue, who appears to be even less suitable? It’s ne way to seek a leader. Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing (mutter, mutter mutter). Now I’m thinking it would have been amuch more entertaining debate if each candidate had to do a shot if their opponent spoke a certain word. Maybe “change”. It’s important to know how candidates handle their liquor. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/29 "2008-10-06T01:32:31Z")
Joe Six Pack needs to be on the debate drinking bingo card somewhere. Although I think if you put “change” on there it might kill someone. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/30 "2008-10-06T01:41:39Z")
Not enough shots to cause someone to fail out of 5 colleges in a row, but it’d be enough for a ‘frat party’ night. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/31 "2008-10-06T02:14:23Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Now I’m thinking it would have been amuch more entertaining debate if each candidate had to do a shot if their opponent spoke a certain word. Maybe “change”. It’s important to know how candidates handle their liquor. No way, man. It would be bad for the fetus! (I’m just assuming she’s pregnant again.) ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/32 "2008-10-06T02:16:58Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > 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. Two things: 1. That was vodka spit-take funny. 2. Will you marry me? **Plan B** , it’s not a bad thing to be a maverick. It’s a bad thing to say you are, just for votes, [when you really are no such thing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeYRjYTjdNU&feature=related). Finally, let’s talk drinking. Six shots? Six fucking shots? Hell, that’s not even a warm-up. I can drink a bottle of cheap Pinot and still finish a fifth of vodka or whiskey. I did it this past week and still made an 8:30 meeting with a new client. Pantywaists. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/33 "2008-10-06T17:09:45Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I think something like Elm Street might be more appropo. If I gave any of them more credit for awareness of popular culture, I’d expect them to avoid using that street because of the inevitable “Nightmare” connotations. ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/34 "2008-10-08T04:05:20Z")
What **Captain Carrot** said. You don’t call yourself a _maverick_. Just like you don’t call yourself _cool_. Others decide that. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/35 "2008-10-08T04:16:31Z")
I’m not sure I heard “maverick” once in the debate tonight. Do you think maybe they figured out that it’s not working for them? ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/36 "2008-10-08T04:38:37Z")
Not nearly as drunk as I’d be if I’d done a shot every time McCain said “My friends” tonight. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/37 "2008-10-08T06:13:28Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I think something like Elm Street might be more appropo. Not sure I want my country governed [according to Elm Street values.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Krueger) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/38 "2008-10-08T19:39:01Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing (mutter, mutter mutter). [golf clap] Nobody ever gets it when I say that. Bravo! People keep using this word… > [@](#): > > Maverick > Main Entry: mav·er·ick > Pronunciation: \mav-rik\ > Function: noun > Etymology: Samuel A. Maverick †1870 American pioneer who did not brand his calves > Date: 1867 > 1: an unbranded range animal ; especially : a motherless calf > 2: an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party I do not think it means what they think it does. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422/39 "2008-10-10T17:49:50Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > People keep using this word… > > (Maverick, with definition) > > I do not think it means what they think it does. I think that it’s hilarious that the Republican strategy is to try to convince voters that the Republican nominee repeatedly and consistently goes AGAINST the Republican party. Therefore, you should vote for the anti-Republican, but NOT the Democrat! It’s almost like a third party candidate strategy. Anyway, the drinking game I devised for future Palin interviews/debates/press conferences is: take the transcript from the event, read Palin’s answers, and try to guess what question or topic she is supposed to be addressing. If you get it wrong, you do a double shot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-drank-a-shot-every-time-palin-said-maverick/466422.md?page=1)