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Yahoo.com - Beer Pong is a virtual rendition of the popular college drinking game that requires players to toss Ping-Pong balls across a table and into a cup of beer (if your cup is hit, you drink). The game was designed for the popular Nintendo Wii platform, and its maker had planned to release it as the first game in its new Frat Party Games series. But concerned parents began sending angry letters to JV Games and Nintendo - Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal even got in on the action, sending his own missives to the companies - until JV Games agreed to change the title of the game to Pong Toss and fill its pixelated cups with water. "The controversy isn't entirely surprising. The point of beer pong is to get your friends drunk - and parents and university administrators generally frown on that sort of thing. Last fall, GeorgetownUniversity banned beer pong, specially made beer-pong tables and inordinate numbers of Ping-Pong balls and any other alcohol-related paraphernalia in its on-campus dorms - even in the rooms of students of legal drinking age. Last year, DartmouthCollege banned water pong, the real-world version of Pong Toss, because of the risk of water intoxication - it's no joke, as an H2O overdose can be fatal. "I know that [water pong] seems like a good balance between the Dartmouth drinking culture and just trying to have fun," Kristin Deal, a Dartmouth community director, wrote in an e-mail to students announcing the prohibition. "However, it can be just as dangerous, if not more so." Could this mark the beginning of the end of beer pong? The game does have plenty more critics outside the walls of academia. The town of Belmar, N.J., for example, outlawed outdoor beer pong in 2005 after the city council passed an ordinance declaring that it exposed unconsenting neighbors to "foul language, rowdy and disorderly behavior and to examples of the consumption of alcohol under circumstances that are detrimental."

Shit like this never ceases to amaze me.  Listen if you want to crack down on under age drinking, that’s fine.  And if Dartmouth wants to crack down on excessive water drinking that’s cool to.  But to think that by banning Beirut you’re somehow going to curb college drinking is honestly the most asinine thing I’ve ever heard in my life.   I mean by using that logic college kids shouldn’t be allowed to own quarters, cups, dice, cards, televisions, music, gas grilles or basically anything else in the world that could promote alcohol.    Listen, the bottom line is that kids who want to get fucked up are always going to get fucked up.   The only way to stop it is to get more police out on the street.   Because only a fool would believe that by banning Beirut you’re somehow keeping somebody who wants to drink from drinking.   It doesn’t work in Belmar NJ and it won’t work in dorm rooms across the country.

Cue the Belmar video...