The Swedish Tampon Game
Monday January 17th 2005
Ok, so this will be fun to explain... Ehem. So our resident Swede Magnus, always one to introduce us to new and exotic things, engaged us all in a game that reminded me of Nickeloeon's Double Dare, only it's intended for immature adults hyped up on hops as opposed to immature children hyped up on caffeine. I'm not sure if there's a real name for this game, and if there is I doubt you could pronounce it in English, but from here on out, I'm calling it the Swedish Tampon Game.
- Equipment required (1 of each per contestant)
- shoe string, tampon, beer bottle (filled with water, let's not waste the good stuff shall we?), and a piece of paper and pen, or some other method of marking our "finish lines."
- Setup
- Line beer bottles up on a line, about 5 feet apart. At some arbitrary distance away, form a parallel line made up of the pieces of paper, each with a circle drawn in the center (hint: use the bottom of the beer bottles to do the tracing). Tie tampon to shoe string, and then shoe string to contestant, so that the tampon hangs from behind to about knee-height. Contestants pick a beer bottle, and stand about two feet back from them. The result (from left to right): a line of friends with tampons hanging from their back waists, facing a parellel line of beer bottles full of water, and a third parallel line of paper "finish lines."
- I'm guessing you know where this is heading. . .
- Ready, Set, Go!
- On anybody's mark, contestants must run up to their bottles and squat down with frightening accuracy until the tampon slips into the beer bottle and swells instantly with water. Stand up carefully (with said-swollen-tampon now stuck inside the bottle's long neck) and waddle your way to your finish line. Winner is the first to have their beer bottle standing on top of their traced circle.
And yes, for whatever odd glory it's worth, I won the first round. Jeff took round #2. Why the guys dominated this game, we'll never know.
