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Name: | young
(ycha@verizon.net)
| | Date: | 9/27/2007 9:29:37 PM | | Subject: | bullmoose rules | | | I like Fuj's rules but I think Nordo BM might be a problem because it will require you to put down your beer or hold the cup/bottle/can in your mouth. at a crowded bar or room, this might be a problem. How about just your right thumb on your lips with your pinky pointed out, sort of like a chug sign or a bullmoose horn being blown? | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | Lefty
(lefty@bullmoosedrinkingclub.com)
| | Date: | 9/27/2007 10:53:45 AM | | Subject: | Bullmoose Rules | | | Fuj,
Thank you for elaborating on your rules question. I have always thought that the military and Bullmooses were a perfect match. Who better than a soldier to be able to stick to the rules. I also want to thank you for some of the most inventive rules I have seen. You are the first to post a rule that really has made me think about adding some rules to our group.
You mention many possibilities so I will take them one at a time:
1. Drinking must be executed with the left hand. The beverage can be held in any hand, but when fluid transfer occurs from drinking vessel to the mouth, only the left. I interpreted your rule that you must always have a beverage in the left hand and fluid transfer could happen with any hand. Is this correct.
Lefty says- first of all thank you for broadening the terminology. I love the use of the word vessel. It all goes back to encouraging drinking. If I am at a party for eight hours, I may only be actively pouring liquid into my mouth for a few hours. With our rules we can be looking for and catching Bullmooses all day rather than just when they are sipping. It is great for were cold days when you would like to switch hands but cannot. You must always have a beer in your left hand.
It also allows for False Moosing (see the site if you don’t know what Fales Moosing is.)
2. Rules we play by: 1. reverse BM - one hour during a party or going out, we become righties
Lefty says- this rule is really fine with me. I assume that you have some sort of mechanism in place to make sure that all Bullmooses are aware of the rule change. It's not for me, but it seems to be in the tradition of encouraging drinking. It may even increase the drinking throwing the participants a curve ball like that. I will designate this rule as acceptable but not official. Lets say that you can do it on foreign soil only.
3. “NORDO BM - when a plane can't talk to any other planes we call him NORDO. Let's say it's too loud at a bar or party and you see someone violate the main rule. Then a Bullmoose face will be made to the violator (thumbs to temples w/ all 8 fingers pointing up).
Lefty says- I love this rule and as soon as I have time I am going to add it to the official rules. If I understand you correctly you can make a Bullmoose call on someone by flashing antlers at them as opposed to actually saving Bullmoose. While I like the spectacle that's careening Bullmoose at someone creates at times, this is still a pretty good rule, and is probably a spectacle itself.
4. Double fisting - same rule primarily as yours.
5. 2 finger rule - if you finish a beer with the wrong hand and you have less than an inch in your 2 finger's worth of beverage (beer only , 1 finger for more potent drinks), you must finish the current beer and finish another one.
Lefty says- this is another inventive rule. In our group several of us will flirt with danger and attempts to hold a beer in our right hand to see if we will get caught, or rather how quickly we will get caught. For us it is fun so we don't really use your rule. But I have to admit it is a pretty good rule.
6. Death Clause - let's say for example someone reaches behind the bar with their right hand, grabs a bottle of jack, and stars swigging. obviously that person could not finish the bottle or else they might die. therefore, the death clause is invoked and from that moment on, the accuser owns the violators life. whenever they go drinking the accuser can buy, at will, that beverage that caused the death clause, and force them to pound the beverage. It seems our clubs have very different rules, but the end state is still the same. Drink! I think I may incorporate some of the rules on your website. Cheers
Lefty says-once again this is a very good rule. Over the years we have had similar situations where somebody got Bullmoosed and they have enlisted the help of their fellow Bullmooses to complete the task. I have rarely seen something walked away from, but as embarrassing as it is to say it has happened. Your rule gives the bullmoose a way out without dying, which is good for the club.
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Name: | Mitchell
(mitchellkoch@mac.com )
| | Date: | 9/27/2007 10:51:57 AM | | Subject: | Bullmoose Rules | | | Lefty, I am a member of a rather large military contingent (pilots) of the bmc and the basic rule we use is drinking must be executed with the left hand. The beverage can be held in any hand, but when fluid transfer occurs from drinking vessel to the mouth, only the left. I interpreted your rule that you must always have a beverage in the left hand and fluid transfer could happen with any hand. Is this correct. Rules we play by: 1. reverse BM - one hour during a party or going out, we become righties 2. NORDO BM - when a plane can't talk to any other planes we call him NORDO. Let's say it's too loud at a bar or party and you see someone violate the main rule. Then a bullmoose face will be made to the violator (thumbs to temples w/ all 8 fingers pointing up). 3. Double fisting - same rule primarily as yours. 4. 2 finger rule - if you finish a beer with the wrong hand and you have less than 2 finger's worth of beverage (beer only , 1 finger for more potent drinks), you must finish the current beer and finish another one. 5. death clause - let's say for example someone reaches behind the bar with their right hand, grabs a bottle of jack, and stars swigging. obviously that person could not finish the bottle or else they might die. therefore, the death clause is invoked and from that moment on, the accuser owns the violators life. whenever they go drinking the accuser can buy, at will, that beverage that caused the death clause, and force them to pound the beverage. It seems our clubs have very different rules, but the end state is still the same. Drink! I think I may incorporate some of the rules on your website. Cheers, Fuj (my callsign) | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | Lefty
(lefty@bullmoosedrinkingclub.com)
| | Date: | 9/27/2007 10:46:32 AM | | Subject: | Bullmoose Rules | | | Mitchell, Thank you for taking the time to write. I am not really sure what your question is. The website explains that it is ok for a Bullmoose to have a beer in his right hand if he also has one in his left. Is that what you are talking about? You say in your email that after six years as a member you "have yet witness any of the rules that are written on your website." I assume that you were just speaking figuratively. For example, I assume that your group drinks out of their left hands. I love to get emails questioning the rules. I always assume that there is a possibility that after 13 years as a Bullmoose I may have misstated or written the rules improperly. I would be more than happy to address your question if you can help me understand it. Your email has inspired me to go and grab a beer, so thanks for that. Lefty | | | Post Reply | | |
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Name: | Mitchell
(mitchellkoch@mac.com)
| | Date: | 9/27/2007 10:44:34 AM | | Subject: | Bullmoose rules | | | Lefty, As a member of the BMC for the last 6 years, I have yet witness any of the rules that are written on your website. With that said, I just need some clarification. A Bullmoose is in violation if they are caught holding a beer in their right hand? Bullmoose forever | | | Post Reply | | |
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Name: | Mort's Ram
(@b4timme@yahoomail.com)
| | Date: | 7/15/2007 9:18:47 PM | | Subject: | initiation | | | There is one critical rule that was not mentioned on the home page. When you are first let into the prestigous Bull Moose club you are required to make up a song right there on the spot and sing it to everyone. This rule has gone on for several generations of Bull Moosers in the Pacific Northwest chapter. | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | Mike
(mike_sansoucy@yahoo.com)
| | Date: | 12/20/2006 8:20:23 PM | | Subject: | Thanks. | | | Thanks for clarification on some of the rules. I was inducted about a year ago and I found your site while conducting research on the rules. I am from the Massachusetts chapter. I will direct those whom initiated me to your site such that they can also enjoy it. Jeff, Rob, Matt, in your honor I just chugged three frigging blue moons... dang that is not a chugging beer.... shite. Thanks. | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | Brock
(brockrb@hotmail.com)
| | Date: | 12/6/2006 5:22:59 PM | | Subject: | Bullmoosing Tips/Tricks | | | One that I've found that works quite well, especially when they're not paying attention, is done when you're getting a beer for a fellow member. When giving them said beer, approach them so that when you give them their beer you're giving to their right hand. Most instinctively grab with that one. Sometimes I give them a few seconds to switch to their left if I'm feeling nice.
Another variation is to hand it to them when they already have something in their left hand. | | | Post Reply | | |
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Name: | Matt S
(mvsuhocki@optonline.net)
| | Date: | 11/3/2006 11:52:02 AM | | Subject: | Rutgers v. Louisville | | | Here's an email Josh. Who's coming with me? Tailgating and bars this Thursday night. My dumbass friend didn't get tix in time and I'm not paying $300 per so we are tailgating and going out in NB afterwards. If RU wins I am going to Knight Club and buying some pitchers! If not I will be more downtown...
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Name: | Matt S
(mvsuhocki@optonline.net)
| | Date: | 11/3/2006 11:51:53 AM | | Subject: | Rutgers v. Louisville | | | Here's an email Josh. Who's coming with me? Tailgating and bars this Thursday night. My dumbass friend didn't get tix in time and I'm not paying $300 per so we are tailgating and going out in NB afterwards. If RU wins I am going to Knight Club and buying some pitchers! If not I will be more downtown...
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