Affirmative Defenses to Icing

Yesterday I wrote about creative drinking, and particularly a new method of inebriation called "Icing."

Well, a bar review classmate who knows my true identity came up to me before class today.  He tends to be rule oriented.  This is the kid who sits in back of class and complains that the volume is too loud and then too quiet.  He gets rid of the water bottle coolers and gets them replaced with filtered direct line water machines right before the water system goes haywire and we can only drink bottled water.  You all know this guy.  Maybe your daughters do too.  He also is rather tech savvy, and should know about this cool comments feature that's all the rave on blogs these days.  Nonetheless, this gave me the prompting for a post, which I appreciate. 

This guy did raise an important issue that he read somewhere.  It turns out that there a peremptory strike for, or an affirmative defense to, this icing thing, and it's this:

When your "bro" tells you that you've been iced and hands you a bottle of the sickeningly sweet somewhat alcoholic substance, if you have a bottle of the "Ice" in your pocket, you can return the favor and your "bro" becomes your "sis" and must drink both bottles.  Thus, my message is caveat iceor - icers beware.

There's another affirmative defense, and it's called "punching."  It has nothing to do with mixing lots of different types of alcohol in a trash can.  It has to do with bending all of your fingers and applying them to your bro's jaw.