# You Guys, Let's Play Hinkey-Pinkey!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-lets-play-hinkey-pinkey/492701>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 11, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-lets-play-hinkey-pinkey/492701 "2009-04-11T00:30:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-lets-play-hinkey-pinkey/492701/201 "2009-04-18T08:16:28Z")

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> [@tr0psn4j](#):
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> You guys haven’t guessed this one yet: An alcoholic beverage from the streets.

I’d guess ‘slum rum’, but the syllables are wrong…

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-lets-play-hinkey-pinkey/492701/202 "2009-05-07T22:09:52Z")

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[Quote=Sternvogel]  
Hinkey-pinkey: Foiler of beer’s schemes  
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> [@pravnik](#):
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> Ale fail?

Not the intended answer-- I’d have written something like “Stout, fall short of the mark!” had I had “Ale, fail!” in mind.

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**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-guys-lets-play-hinkey-pinkey/492701/203 "2009-05-08T18:57:11Z")

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In re: Sternvogel’s “Foiler of beer’s schemes”:

Bock block? Lager slogger?

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