Making Good on Your Party Foul

Posted by J. Catapano , Oct, 2009 @ 17:41

As the cooler months come, you’re more apt to have your parties indoors. As a result, you’ll still have the beirut [or, beer pong to all you heathens] table set up, but it will be in closer quarters. You’ll have to get creative. Once you are all proud of yourself for the set up you’ve done, you’ll have to deal with the immanent drunken fools who will be playing at your table. This party foul deals specifically with beirut. When you’re playing, it’s almost certain that someone will step on the ping-pong ball. If you’re really thinking ahead, you’ll have a whole bunch at your disposal. But, times is tough, and if you really only have a couple laying around the apartment and it’s either too late to go out and get them, everyone’s too drunk to get behind the wheel, or no one wants to pay up for another set of ping-pong balls, you need to remember your friends over at Lifehacker.

In order to save yourself from being the death of the party, there’s an easy way you can fix your beirut ball. As long as the ball isn’t crushed beyond any and all repair, you simply need to boil yourself a pot of water and throw your plastic ball into the pot for about 10 seconds. I’ve also heard, as Lifehacker points out, that you can also use a lighter to get the dents out, but you might light yourself on fire, so just use the boiling water thing. It should get you out of the doghouse for that party. Plus, you’ll look like a Goddamned scientist. Who doesn’t want that??

I found this little gem via Hack College, which is always a great place to start.

Tags: beer, Beer Pong, beirut, boiling water, Drinking, drinking games, fixing, hack college, Lifehacker, party foul, ping-pong, ping-pong balls, pong, scientist