I predict I'll be sleeping in tomorrow

James and I have discovered the best drinking game EVAH. It involves watching the Discovery Channel's series Extreme Engineering. Here is an approximation of the rules. Take a drink any time:

1. Something's mass, length, weight, or other physical feature is described in terms of some other (often itself fairly inscrutable) measure, e.g., "X is enough to fill the Roman coliseum TWENTY TIMES," "Y is as heavy as TWO THOUSAND SUVs," "Z is as tall as THIRTY EMPIRE STATE BUILDINGS," "enough cable to reach from San Francisco to Kathmandu EIGHT TIMES," "enough for EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD in JAPAN"

2. Someone mentions lasers

3. An imaginary worst case scenario involves a fire in a tunnel

4. Football fields or 747s are used as a measurement unit (subset of rule 1)

5. A painfully awful simile is invoked, e.g., "it grips the earth like Titan's fingers"

6. Anything is described as "the X-est Y in the world," e.g., "the longest tunnel...," "the tallest structure...," "the most advanced test site...," etc. (worth two drinks if they say "in the history of the planet" instead of just "in the world")

7. A painfully awful cliche is invoked, e.g., "the bigger they are, the harder they fall"

8. Someone likens something to a LEGO structure

9. An imaginary worst-case scenario involves an earthquake or a typhoon

10. Cheesy ethnic stereotypes are invoked, e.g., Swedish construction workers referred to eighty times as "Vikings"

11. Someone says "Disaster is averted"

12. An imaginary worst-case scenario involves a last-minute life-saving outcome (worth 2 drinks if they actually refer to this as a "happy ending," and 3 drinks if the "happy ending" involves something being able to proceed through a tunnel).

I'm sure there are more, but I am too fucking drunk to remember right now. The really beautiful and/or scary thing is that you can watch this series via Roku on Netflix, i.e., instant play, one after another, all damn night if you want...or until you run out of alcohol, whichever comes first.