Philip Kendall - The Hunter Rouse Drinking Game
2001/07/06: This page is officially "Instructional Material",
according to the Fluids
Lab at the University of
Iowa.
2001/04/05: Hmmm... somebody
apparently thinks this page is serious!
2000/09/29: This page (at its old URL) featured in the 29 September
2000 edition of NTKnow!
(Thanks to Matthew Bloch
for the plug).
This page is probably only relevant if you are going to watch the
Fluid Mechanics
videos made by Hunter Rouse at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic
Research, part of the University
of Iowa.
(I was introduced to these fantastic videos during the Part II
Physics lectures at the University of Cambridge on Fluid
Dynamics, given by Professor Mark
Warner.)
These rules were made up by Simon Clay, Dan Hatton, Matthew Whelan
and myself.
One finger fines
- Hunter Rouse appears (if with formula(e), 3 fingers).
- A cool camera angle is used.
- Hunter reads from a prompt card.
- A coloured liquid is used.
- Hunter says `viscosity'.
- Hunter wipes chalk from his hands.
Two finger fines
- Something breaks.
- A fluid is so viscous you can't tell that it's not a solid.
- A person wearing swimwear appears.
- The tape has been stretched.
- Hunter attempts to look relaxed.
Three finger fines
- A lecturer (other than Professor Warner)
turns up.
- Hunter uses the `presidental address' style.
- Hunter says `solarity'.
- You don't understand what Hunter is going on about.
- Hunter is sitting down.
- You notice some irritating background music.
Four finger fines
- Something goes in an unexpected direction.
- A cheesy `Geoffrey Boycott' line drawing is used.
- Hunter writes on the blackboard.
- Hunter uses an entirely ridiculous physical model.
- Dodgy `Wizard of Oz' style music is used.
- Boaties appear.
- Hunter makes a joke.
- A piece of technology can be used to date the film.
- Footage of a discontinued product line is used.
- Hunter suddenly ages 10 years and starts wearing glasses.
- You have seen a section of the film in lectures.
Special fines
- A piece of stock footage is re-used for the nth time: (n+1) fingers.
- Hunter demonstrates his cane technique: 1
pint.
- `When we speak of heavy oils and light oils': 1 pint.
- You spot an analogy with string theory: 2
pints.
- You are sitting next to a really sad bloke who spots an analogy
with string theory: 5 fingers.
Please send any more rules to me.