This is a great question because I just had this issue come up recently and we had a fairly creative solution. If you are fortunate enough to be near a fridge you can grab the egg carton from the fridge (nearly everyones fridge has an egg carton in it)  and cut the individual egg holders out. This isn’t exactly your average shot size, but it is close and everyone will get roughly the same amount in each of their shots. Don’t forget to take the eggs that were in the carton and put them in a bowl or something to place back in the fridge so they don’t go to waste.

If you’re not near a fridge you can also make shot glasses out of aluminum foil, medicine bottles (rinse them out good first), old 35MM film containers, and even apples.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Hey you reading this, I told you to put the eggs back in the fridge!

If you are reading this after a night of absolute debauchery, then good for you. Not that I condone senseless, beer guzzling, OMG-I-Can’t-Believe-I-Did-That-With-Steve nights, but hey, that will make me a hypocrite.

I’m here to introduce myself as another person with a passion for all things related to beer and it’s hot cousin, liquor. What you can expect from me is to stick around and provide the inebriated readers with loads of juicy tidbits on the latest and greatest beers, beers to buy when you’re on a hotdog and ramen noodles budget, which bars, especially ones in Orlando, FL (where I reside) that have the best specials and so on and so forth. I will even post my most embarrassing and unforgettable (well I forgot, but my friends didn’t) stories of nights that I can’t make up even if I tried.

And for the ladies out there, you are not forgotten. I will have stuff for you too. Being a fellow woman (roar), I know that a lot of us don’t partake in the barley and hops much because, as a beautiful and smart young woman told me today, we don’t know which ones are good. That’s where Lucy Scribe comes into play. You don’t have to look like a prude with your wine coolers or Smirnoff Ice when you’re hanging out with your guy friends. I can teach you how to drink like a man and be a lady. Unlike the lady just below this sentence…

Uh, well what can I say?

Practical jokes? Don’t you think we should be a little more mature than that?

Me either.

Drunks are an easy target for tomfoolery. When you have a lot of people drinking together, pranks and practial jokes are bound to happen. Particularly toward the end of the night when the marathon drinkers start getting bored and the lightweights are passing out.

There’s always the magic-marker prank. Dude drinks too much, dude passes out, dude wakes up with a penis drawn on his face. The key is to get creative with that marker. Think classy, not childish. Genitalia’s funny, but it’s been done.

At college keg parties, we used to wait until the end of the night when the keg was kicked. Whichever roommate fell asleep first had the empty keg delivered to their bed, which was often sticky and smelly with cheap beer residue.

Yes, it seems the majority of drunk pranking is perpetrated on sleeping people. Aside from magic marker and empty kegs, a popular stunt is balancing as many items on the mark’s head as possible without tipping it over. Sort of a makeshift version of Jenga using a human as the base. If they wake up while you’re placing your object, you lose! The objective is to balance the largest object as high as possible.

Then there’s shaving. Not for the faint of heart, removing hair from a mark’s body can infuriate them which can pose a health risk to you. This is when it’s time to evaluate the size of your mark and any kung fu skills he may possess. Eyebrows are a popular target; they take weeks to grow back and will make everyone who sees them do a double-take. Hair is another story altogether. You can do a lot with a pair of clippers, just know what you’re getting into.

Sleeping people and water never seem to get along. There’s something about waking up wet that is both frightening and repulsive.

Another popular college prank involves placing beer bottles under each leg of the mark’s bed. At some point in the night the bed will shift and the bed will come crashing down a good eight inches, sending beer bottles flying. He’ll never know who did it.

I’m not even going to get into pranks involving feces. It’s your funeral!

We have a beer mooching situation on our hands and it needs to be addressed. One of the biggest concerns here seems to be “feelings.” We don’t want to hurt our friend’s feelings. Well, my mooched friends, you should be crying yourselves to sleep at night because beer mooching is not cool.

Don’t get me wrong, everyone deserves a good mooch sometimes; but some friends reach their mooch quota quick and action must be taken. Never picking up the bar tab is like drinking directly from your friend’s pitcher of life.

So what do you do with you friend-turned-freeloader? They mooch because they can and they’re taking advantage of your good nature. It’ s not just about saying ‘no’ or dropping your friend altogether (which is certainly an option) but about turning the tables. Turn the mooch-ee into the mooch-er. “Forget” your wallet. Receive an “emergency” phone call. Or pull the waitress aside and tell her to split the tab. Learn to be sneaky, underhanded and self-centered… then you can truly harness the power of the mooch.

Next time: Learn how to be a successful moocher!

Beerlover asked, ” Did you see this article by Malcolm Gluck? He calls beer drinkers a bunch of losers!”

I did in fact read the article and for those who did not, Malcom Gluck in a post on guardian.co.uk had this to say, “Well, beer is only drunk by losers and sadsacks, unsexy people who care nothing for their minds or their bodies.”

As for what I think about Malcolm Gluck? I say,  “Guess what you can <su…> do with that wine bottle buddy.

For someone like you who has been writing about wine for 25 years, including a 16-year tenure as the Guardian’s wine correspondent, and  who is the author of 36 books about wine you would think you would have known that sadsacks is technically two words.I mean if your going to alienate a group of people who ‘care nothing for their’ minds you better make sure your article is at least grammatically correct, and contains no spelling mistakes.”

FYI folks I clearly claim to be a drunk, and in no way should I be judged on my grammar or spelling. LOL.

“what’s a good way to disperse of a strong hang-over?”

This is a question that people have been asking since alcohol was first invented, and the truth is this question has many answers because for each person it can be different.

First it might help to know the cause of a hangover. Alcohol contains ethanol which can cause dehydration this dehydration promotes headaches, fatigue, and an overall feeling of blah. Because alcohol depleats your body of fluids you should aviod coffee and anything that has caffiene the next morning as this also can promote your dehydration.

A by product of fermentation is congeners which give drinks their unique tastes, aromas, and colors. Unfortunely these lovely cogeners also have a side effect of increasing the effects of a hangover. The more cogeners consumed the more likely you are to have a hangover and the effects of the hangover are apt to be worse. Dark liquers have a tendency to have more cogeners than lighter liquers.

Okay so the best cure for a hangover is obviously prevention. Eat a nice heavy meal if you plan to go out drinking this always helps. Drink plenty of fluids the day you plan to drink. Some theories believe if you have more vitamin b-12 in your system this will help prevent a hangover.

What personally helps me with a hangover is a big bottle of gatoraid, two Aleve, and a greasy meal. That always works for me. Maybe some of our readers have some cures for a hangover that work for them. We would sure love to hear them.