Cardinal Puff

Cardinal Puff: Separating the kiddies from the adults...

What you need: A pint glass, full of your favorite barley pop.

The objective: Finish the glass in six tries, and leave no backwash. -The penalty for such will be revealed shortly, read on.

The game: Grab the pint glass with your thumb and forefinger and hoist. "Here's to Cardinal Puff for the first time tonight." Consume that which you can (remember there are five other drinks from the pint ahead, so don't do too much). Tap the glass, once on the bar top, then set it down. With the fore finger of each hand, tap the bar top (alternating left/right), tap the underside of the bar top, then the bar bottom (or table, alternating left/right), tap each thigh top, tap each foot, sit up, then down once. Grab the pint, hoist aloft using thumb, index and forefinger and toast "Here's to Cardinal Puff Puff, for the second time tonight." Consume two times, tap the glass twice on the bar top, and use two fingers and repeat the first step (tap, tap, etc...) On the third try, you will say; "Here's to Cardinal Puff, Puff, Puff, for the third and final time tonight." Hoist the glass using thumb, and three fingers and consume all remaining brew in three separate drinks (making sure there is virtually NONE left in the glass). With three fingers, repeat tapping sequence (three times each, obviously). Upon finishing tapping sequence and sitting sequence, you will grab the glass with an inverted grip and proclaim "Once a Cardinal..." you then invert the glass (mouth down) and set it down on a paper towel or napkin so as to monitor any excess liquid not drank during your 6 drinks. Then you will grab the glass again with an inverted grip and proclaim "always a Cardinal" while inverting the glass to where it is once again upright (mouth up).

IMPORTANT!!!! -There should be no liquid from the glass on the bar from the inverted pint (other than glass condensate), however, if there is.. -Drink! Repeat the whole process again! If there is none, the ruling Judge shall ask the subject; "Are you a Cardinal?" To which the subject shall reply; "You bet your sweet ass I am!" -Any other answer is unacceptable and constitutes repeating the whole process again. If, in future times, you are appraoched and asked "Are you a Cardinal?" The only answer can be; "You bet your sweet ass I am." The person asking the question may then challenge the person by saying; "Prove it." The person MUST prove they are by doing the whole process before you. They in turn, can ask the same of you.

To make the game more challenging, and up the anti... The basic level is Cardinal Puff, accomplished by one pint glass. The following is the rules for advancing in the ranks. :)

• Cardinal - One pint glass
• Bishop - Two pint glasses, the first glass fully consumed on round one, then parts two and three on glass two.
• Arch Bishop - Three pint glasses, one for each part of the game.
• Pope - A pitcher. Here's the kicker. In order to proceed up the ranks, you have to accomplish each step before it at one sitting! So far, I know of only three people that have ever accomplished that feat. Me, I'm stuck at Arch Bishop before I give in.. :)

I guess all that's left to say is.....So, are you a Cardinal?? :)