Eurovision Party (aka Terry Wogan appreciation night)

Predictably, last night was made from pure unrefined win, thanks in part to the marvelously random entries, and the crazy Finnish presenters, but mostly due to dear Terry. Credits also go out to the subtitles guy who was clearly playing the same drinking game as we were - he could barely type towards the end.

I think we need to print out the drinking rules, having researched the full format of the event next year, because last night was a bit..dynamic. Here's mostly what we drank to though:

• Terry Wogan being sarcastic.


• Terry Wogan mocking the hosts.


• Terry Wogan mocking an entry/entrant.


• Terry Wogan making us laugh.


• For every new nipple seen.


• The word 'love' appearing in a song (in any language we knew it)


• If we didn't know the word for love in a language, we picked a random word from that song to represent love, since subtitles weren't translated this year.


• Extra drinking if the word 'love' wasn't in a song once.


• Every time a song changed language (thanks Romania, though they weren't the worst culprits, as you might have thought. Worst was the entry that just had one word in the native tongue, in the chorus, and was otherwise in English. Something about Maria).

We were unable to use the 'nil point' drinking game this year, as they've stopped doing it like that. I'm not sure if there were any rules for drinking by the scoring part though, I was pretty well gone by then, not surprisingly, given the above drinking rules.

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Edit: Just remembered these two drinking rules:

• Everyone picks a country during the scoring round...
  
  • 1-7 points - one drink
  • 8-10 points - two drinks
  • 12 points - three drinks
  • Your country wins - finish your drink
  • Your country loses - finish your drink
• Every time the subtitle guy made a spelling mistake (this one hurt towards the end)

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I do vaguely remember still being able to beat everyone at Guitar Hero though, and also drinking lager funneled through a traffic cone, whilst lying on the patio. And don't get me started on the TMNT discussion (mainly because I'm not entirely sure what it was we found so enthralling to debate). Good times.

So, here's counting down to next year. I love you Terry.

Addition: Forgot to make a list of things I loved about last night, other than Terry Wogan:

• Homosexual innuendo throughout the UK entry.


• "My bad ass spinning for you", from the Russian girls.


• The Serbian lesbians.


• Timmy Mallet.


• Santa playing chess.


• Most random prop on stage yet...a bus stop.


• 'Talk to the hand' girl.


• The 'Eurovision Fan' who happened to be sitting in the front row and wearing a tiara.


• The entire Georgian army on stage at once.