gee... and here i thought it was just a vaguely amusing way to
waste time... =)

here's the brand spanking new version 2.0 of the drinking game.
belated merry christmas 'n' stuff.

send suggestions to dnedblake@cctr.umkc.edu or, if that doesn't
	work, dnedblake@vax1.umkc.edu (dogbert is going byebye
	sometime soon, sadly.  it was an account name before it's
	time, i tell you)

My so-called Life: the Drinking Game
Version 2.0 (revised version after most of a season)

"one drink" is hereby defined as a normal-sized mouthful of
your beverage of choice (beer, zima, mixed drink - whatever)

(although, as the esteemed Virany noted, that zima crap may 
 leave you with that not-so-fresh feeling)

You must take one drink every third time one of these occurs:

angela pulls her hair back behind her ears
graham cooks something
(in the episode "self-esteem") angela kisses jordan or jordan
	kisses angela

You must take one drink every time one of the following occurs:

angela says "rayanne!" 
rayanne is accused of sleeping with someone
-it's true
-she acts surprised that they're upset about it
someone looks at rickie oddly while he's in the women's
	restroom
-he acts like there's something wrong with them for 
	mentioning it
patty says or does something that causes a visible
	or audible reaction of disgust from angela
angela completely misses an obvious clue that brian is
	madly in love with her 
brian does something petty
brian calls angela 'chase'
angela calls brian 'crackow'
anyone calls jordan 'catalano' 
anyone calls sharon 'czerski'
danielle acts like she's starved for attention
jordan acts really nice
jordan acts like a complete prick
jordan's illiteracy is mentioned
-it's an indirect mention, like one of his teachers is
	mentioning that he didn't do his homework
-angela is trying to talk to him about it and he refuses
	to discuss it 
angela uses that disembodied monologue thing, so we hear 
	her thoughts
rayanne's mom makes an appearance (but only the first one, 
	in episodes where she appears more than once)
sharon's mom makes an appearance
sharon's breasts are commented upon 
sharon and angela are snippy to one another
sharon and angela are nice to one another
rayanne is mean to sharon in a friendly, endearing sort 
	of way
one of the main characters walks out of class without 
	explaining to the teacher where they're going
one of the main characters skips class completely
one of the main characters attends a class with one 
	of the other main characters that they aren't
	supposed to be in
angela overreacts to something
(any other episode) angela kisses jordan/jordan kisses 
	angela
one of angela's grandparents put in an appearance
angela's uncle (that's the same guy as graham's brother, 
	by the way) makes an appearance

you must take two drinks every time one of the following  
	happens:

some yutz claims, in alt.fan.teen.starlets, to have/have
	posted/have seen nude graphic files (.gif, .jpg,
	or other) of claire danes 
sharon and rayanne are nice to one another
rayanne calls angela 'angelika' or some other extension 
	of her name
a class is taught by a substitute
a class is taught by it's genuine teacher
brian and rickie have a casual chat about something 
patty is vastly overprotective
any of the characters appear in gym class (long scenes or
	scenes involving more than one character only 
	count once)
lisa wilhoit (danielle) has an obvious growth spurt from
	the last episode you watched
someone's breasts besides sharon's are discussed
angela lays on her bed or the floor of her room, crying
-about jordan
patty suspects angela of doing something horrible and it
	isn't true
patty suspects angela of doing something horrible and it
	is true
patty and/or graham lie to angela and/or danielle
the chases' invisible cat's presence is noted (someone 
	feeding it, etc)
danielle has an utterly classic line (eg. "do we have to 
	keep talking about religion?  it's christmas!")
graham is the comic relief
graham and patty get romantic (use your own best judgement)
any of the adult characters reminisce about their high
	school days
rayanne gets drunk
someone mentions frozen embryos (except the members thereof)
	or it's successor, between names
frozen embryos' drummer and bass player get in a fight
two or more of the characters hug each other
we just miss seeing tino
tino is nice to rayanne, in his invisible way
any member of the audience correctly predicts the next line
	of a new episode
a well-known (more than one audience member can correctly 
	identify it) pop/alternative/whatever song is part 
	of the soundtrack
-two more drinks if that artist/group has appeared in the
	soundtrack before
angela and rickie have a heart-to-heart
sharon plays her clarinet
jordan plays guitar and/or sings
-about his car
brian and sharon have a heart-to-heart
a relative of one of the primary cast members besides 
	angela (the ones who are mentioned in the opening
	credits) who hasn't already been mentioned appears.
the principal appears (the gun episode only counts once)
someone (in the show or the audience) describes graham as 'cute'

you must take three drinks every time one of the following
	happens:

angela kisses jordan/jordan kisses angela
angela decides she's over jordan
angela changes her mind and decides she's not over jordan 
	after all
angela smiles that smile where her whole face lights up like
	a pinball machine when you get a free game
a well-known actor from another series appears in a cameo
both of angela's maternal grandparents appear in an episode
-another drink if they're both there simultaneously.
rickie mentions that he doesn't fit, and is disturbed about 
	it (well, who wouldn't be?)
a similarly well-known non-actor appears in a cameo
angela gets upset because of something mean she's done to
	her mom
rayanne's sexuality is not mentioned/observable for an 
	entire episode
angela must pretend not to be upset about learning something
	new about jordan's previous... umm... (if you don't 
	get this rule, just drink the whole damn bottle.)
angela and patty discuss sex/birth control
angela drives (run away!!!!)
someone else does the disembodied monologue for an episode.
a character's underwear is displayed (except rayanne), 
	whether they're wearing it or not
jordan leans against something and doesn't look like james
	dean doing it

four drinks:

jordan sleeps with someone, and it's not angela
there is no first-person disembodied monologue in the
	episode you're watching
angela sleeps with someone, and it's not jordan
rayanne and brian are linked, sexually, by a non-sexual 
	activity (sleeping together in the school's 
	basement, phone sex, etc)
angela agonizes about *not* having slept with someone, 
	jordan or not
you miss a drink that everyone else took

five drinks:

the actual artist who's playing the song in the soundtrack
	appears in the episode
continuity screws up and one of the characters gets a sudden
	change of clothing, a prop suddenly teleports, or 
	other obvious continuity screwups
you feel like finishing off your drink.  

you must chug everything within reach if one of the     
	following happens:

angela sleeps with jordan
rayanne sleeps with jordan
rickie sleeps with jordan
angela gets drunk
rickie sleeps with anyone, for that matter
danielle walks in on graham and patty (or angela and jordan)
	while they're making "the beast with two backs" as
	shakespeare put it
brian fails a class
sharon sleeps with anyone (sorry.  the "like constantly" 
	line doesn't count.)
just generally any character who isn't married has sex,
	except rayanne.  and married characters count if
	they aren't having sex with who they're married to
brian decides he's over angela and takes up with someone 
	else (and doesn't dump them by the midpoint of 
	the episode)
brian decides he's over angela and takes up with rickie
rayanne refuses to sleep with a reasonably attractive 
	male character who wants to sleep with her
a character from thirtysomething makes a cameo appearance
	as their character from thirtysomething
any reference is made to the warner brothers cartoon 
	"animaniacs" 
there is a crossover episode with any of the "star trek"
	series
someone finds a story based on characters from MSCL in one
	of the erotica groups
the internet is mentioned during an episode
you're sick of this stupid game and just wanna get lit like
	a goddamn candle