Beerpong or Beirut?

[Vykromond]

Beirut sounds like a place in the middle east.

Yes.

[NaiLed]

hahah

how did it earn the name "beirut" anyway?

edit: the game, not the city

[Money]

ive never heard of this gay shit?

[DoTheFandango]

hahah

how did it earn the name "beirut" anyway?

edit: the game, not the city

The name "Beirut" is said to derive from an allusion to the civil war in Lebanon in the 1980s in which mortar shells were lobbed at Beirut, the country's capital city. Calling the game Beirut is believed to have originated at Lehigh University or Bucknell University

Source: Wikipedia.org, strangely under the name Beer Pong.

It's a Northeastern thing I guess. Though no one in CT uses it.

[Hero*]

Tippy Cup (or Flippy Cup, I've heard it both ways) stomps on beer pong.

yeah tru, an awesome game. right up there with beer pong for me anyways.

[Zeebu]

in college there was a place in town called the dawghouse

every thursday tehyd have flippycup tournaments... good stuff you come in wiht your team and run the tables

on thursdays they also had a special on beer 5 dollars cover 45 cent pitchers

good stuff

[Cylor]

You know what's fun also? Just drinking.

[Sleepy Weasel]

A few things.

1. Zeus, bring beerpong to Europe, you will be a hero. Trust me. If you're hurting for a table try using an old door

2. When I went to college in Upstate NY a lot of people called it Beirut. Back in Pittsburgh if you say Beirut you will get nothing but blank stares. Call it beer pong, it's more universal. And I've never seen anyone play that variation with paddles, so let's just pretend that doesn't exist. Good.

3. If your motive is to get a bunch of men drunk so you can hopefully hook up and end up in bed with one of them then by all means refer to Flip Cup as "Flippy Cup" or "Tippy Cup"

4. I live in PA and I've never heard anyone ask for a yuengling by asking for a lager, although if you did I think everyone would understand you, as we've all heard of that lager=yuengling thing. We just don't do it in Western PA at least.

5. Be sure to have an extra cup with water to rinse off the pingpong balls between throws. Notice the extra cup on the far left in Jerome's pic.