OMG so good!

this is my favorite thing on the internet today. especially: Drink every time Emily Harris laughs heartily at a line not recognizable as humor.

so, so good.

5. Drink every time there's a long pause before a guest answers a question, as the guest waits in vain for an actual question to be asked, then slowly comes to the disheartening realization that this is what passes for a question on Think Out Loud.

6. Drink every time Emily Harris takes a long, long pause after her guest says something she finds to be especially profound.

7. Drink everytime a Mercury writer is a guest!

Drink every time Emily Harris let's a caller deliver an unrelated, semi-coherent rant in an attempt to present a dissenting option on a subject like Dave's Killer Bread.

The show title itself is so smug I want to drink every time I hear it.

i love think out loud, but this is definitely funny.

another could be: drink every time Emily Harris lets out a sympathetic "hmmmm" when a guest or caller reveals something even remotely emotional.

CAUTION: Game may result in severe alcohol poisoning!

8. Drink every time a person over 50 calls in and says something bigoted, and Emily Harris acts as if nothing happened

Also, PRWalters FTW!

Can we do a meetup for this? Like, get a bar to open at 9am tomorrow and we'll all play? And then take naps?

Agreed, jwiffy!

I drink every time Emily Harris sounds like my childhood therapist.

Not just a long pause, drink every time Emily Harris does her "eeeuuuuaaghuueeaaahu" while thinking out loud, looking for the next word in her sentence.

A-FUCKIN-MEN. Join my buddies facebook group
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OPB? Fuck that shit! BBC World Service!

Drink every time they remind you that you can listen again at 9pm, despite that the fact that you are listening at 9pm.

Think Out Loud needs to join the Not Invited Back list. The title should be all you need to know--people *apologize* for thinking out loud.

Is it just me, or is this blog and the snarky comments that follow really sad? I mean, Think Out Loud isn't the greatest show on earth (neither was the Bryant Park Project in my home of New York that was canned a few years ago) but it does attempt to give a voice to our community.

This will be the first weekly news blog that I've commented on since moving here, but a thought came to me last night after reading this: that the weekly newspaper blogs in Portland are like Fox News for hipsters - where you deride things, not out of some corporate-controlled agenda, but through some sort of juvenile jealousy in between work at your part-time job.

In other words, you chumps complain too much...and you're not making the world a better place by doing so. How 'bout "less complaining" for a new years resolution.

oh, and for Alison - good luck. I've seen the career paths of many a "arts editor at the weekly" trajectory...you might want to stop burning bridges, and start practicing the phrase "single or double?"

@zam: It is just you.

To paraphrase zam and someone else:

"I have seen the career paths of many an arts editor at the Mercury destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix..."

I second/third what brorstein and Rich Bachelor say... Drink every time Emily Harris chokes and stumbles over her words, sounding like the coach in this re-dubbed GI Joe PSA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-_Sls1LzMI

Shit, just drinking to that aspect alone might result in alcohol poisoning.