Sorry it's in music. What sort of nonsense do you carry out while at the bar? I'm not talking "billiards" or "darts" or "pinball", I'm talking fun and games.

I have come up with a new game that I intend on implementing the next time I go to Karaoke.

I'm gonna make sure that I or a friend picks a guitar heavy song, then when our turn is up one of us will sing and the other will pay air guitar.

To make it even more entertaining, when the guitar solo hit, the singer will take a few steps back and the air-guitarist will step forward and jam the f**k out. (I will be sure to get really into it.)

When I'm at the bar, I will be found sitting somewhere with either a beer or a caesar in my hand.

I will often be found in the midst of a very animated (depends on how long we've been there for) discussion about rocks.

It might not sound like fun and games to you non-rock people, but it is to us.


In other nonsense, we'd play little games such as we'd have to get someone to say a certain line, from a movie or something....

Before you ask for your chosen tune, ask the karaoke button monkey if he has the following tunes:

Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions
d**k Dale - Misirlou
Jean Michel Jarre - Tubular Bells
Frank Zappa & TMOI - Peaches En Regalia
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross

See if he twigs.

I don't get it.

Try and find the lyrics to any of those songs...

Another entertaining game I've invented is called "Stump the DJ".

It sounds like a prank on the DJ to your friends, but it's really a prank on them.

Here's how it works:

Announce to your friends that you should all play "stump the DJ" and explain the game as follows "we make up a band, completely fake band, and request songs from them."

Then start brainstorming band names with them. After a little while you will want to throw in a real but not overly well known band. If they recognize the band and tell you it's a real band just be like "no way, really?" or something like that, and continue naming fake names before throwing another real one in at them.

Eventually, hopefully, you will have found one they've never heard of. Once this happens, announce that you've decided that you're going to do it and that one band that they didn't recognize is going to be the one and name a song, then walk off to the DJ and request a song from that band (hopefully the DJ has it).

Later, the DJ will announce the song and your friends will be completely shocked for a few seconds before they realise what happened. This next part is very important: Act shocked. During their stunned silence, be sure to say something like "No way!" or "Can you believe this s**t?!"

Then they can laugh in embarassment when the bulbs go off in their heads, and you can mock them for the rest of the night.

Some bands to use (followed by a 'hit' song):

Soul Coughing - Super Bonbon (I've used this one)
Sponge - Molly
Blur - Song #2 -or- Beetlebum
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Portishead - Glory Box -or- Sour Times
The Verve Pipe - Photograph
Local H - Bound for the Floor
Fountains of Wayne - Sink to the Bottom
Zwan - Lyric ("like swan, but with a z")
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground



Enjoy.

Heh.

Here's a few. (Keep in kind we're on stage when we do this..)

Pick an imaginary spot on the ceiling and squint at it for a while. You'll notice everyone looking up trying to see if they can spot what you're squinting at.

Mini-skirt limbo. (you'd be amazed how many attention whores there are out there.)

I have a few female friends who come out with Horsefeathers. When they drive separate and walk in late, I stop the show and say "Yay! The stripper's here!" on the mic.

I like to play a ancient Irish bar game call "drunkin fight" or the time honored "can i piss on your leg before you notice". On special family get togethers we play a game call "Punch a Relative in the face" always a good time. If i'm on a date I play "try not to pass out before or during sex." but i rarely get to play that.