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Posted 10 years ago

Slug-o-Cola

"Slug-o-Cola was a brand of Ferengi beverage which contains 43% live algae in every bottle. It is an opaque mint green colored drink, usually served without ice. The primary slogan of Slug-o-Cola had remained unchanged since the 2070s:

"Drink Slug-o-Cola! The slimiest cola in the galaxy!" Listen to the Slug-o-Cola slogan"

In 2374, the chairman of Slug-o-Cola was Ferengi Commerce Authority Commissioner Nilva. That year, Slug-o-Cola had been losing ground to its primary competitor, Eelwasser. Quark, while disguised as Zek's female financial adviser Lumba, suggested to Nilva that he might improve his sales by advertising to females, with a new slogan:

"Drink Slug-o-Cola, and keep your teeth that lovely shade of green." (DS9: 'Profit and Lace')"

- Star Trek Wiki

Posted 10 years ago

The Drunken Moogle

About:

The Drunken Moogle is a blog devoted to what might be the two best things this side of Hyrule: geekiness and booze. Though the generation of geeks who grew up with Mario, Sonic, and Final Fantasy gains new interests, some hobbies never change. We at TDM are dedicated to bringing the evolving nerd the perfect pairing between geek and drinking culture.

The Drunken Moogle was started in October of 2009 by Mitch Hutts. Since its creation, it has gained much popularity in the adult gaming and geek communities. The purpose of the website is to find fun and creativity in the strange mix that is video games and adult beverages. I strive to create and find content that people who grew up with video games in the 1980’s and early 90’s will find nostalgic and entertaining. Most recently, Mitch has become a member of Geek & Sundry, producing a video on the vlogs channel every other week. Critical Hit Cocktails shows viewers how to create a new geek themed cocktail every episode and explains the inspiration behind the drink.

Through the use of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, the website has become much more than the personal blog it started out as. It is now a community of adult gamers who love to mix their passions. I’m proud claim that The Drunken Moogle is the number one website on the internet to look to for the fun pairing of geek and drink culture.

Most recently we’ve made the addition of an online store. The store features products such as custom flasks, glassware, shirts, and more. If you’re interested in having your items sold in the store, please email mitch@thedrunkenmoogle.com.

Achievements and Notable Information:
-Daily high of nearly 90,000 visits and 157,000 pageviews.
-Over 220,000 subscribers on Tumblr
-Nearly 35,000 Facebook fans
-Over 5,000 Twitter followers

Press:

G4’s Attack of the Show
Dorkly Article 1 (One of Dorkly’s most viewed articles), - Dorkly Article 2 - Dorkly Article 3 - Dorkly Article 4
StumbleUpon as a Top Rated site
Destructoid
IGN
Nerdist News/Tokyopop
Kotaku (of the Gawker Media Blogs)
Interviewed on Geekosystem
Featured site on Tumblr’s Gaming Spotlight
Geek & Sundry’s Flog with Felicia Day
The Reporter (Rochester Institute of Technology magazine)
-Speaker at PAX East 2013’s panel Blending Games & Life: Showing Your Passion.
Our drinks are served at a number of different locations around the world, such as Washington’s AFK Tavern, Osaka’s Space Station Bar, and the UK’s Loading Bar. Many more are soon to come!

~The Drunken Moogle Website~

Posted 10 years ago

Drunken Master

"Drunken Master is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Yuen Woo-ping, and starring Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu-tien, and Hwang Jang Lee. The film was a success at the Hong Kong box office, earning two and a half times the amount of Chan's previous film, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, which was also considered a successful film.[1][2] It is an early example of the comedic kung fu style for which Jackie Chan became famous. The film popularised the Zui Quan (醉拳, "drunken fist") fighting movement.

Background:
The film's protagonist Wong Fei-hung was a Chinese martial artist, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and a revolutionary who lived towards the end of the Qing Dynasty. He became a Chinese folk hero and the subject of several Hong Kong television programmes and films. Beggar So, who plays a supporting role in the film, is also another character from Chinese folklore and one of the Ten Tigers of Canton. The Beggar So character is often cast as an associate of Wong Fei-hung or Wong's uncle.

Plot:
The plot centers on a young and mischievous Wong Fei-hung (sometimes dubbed as "Freddie Wong"). Wong runs into a series of troubles. Firstly, he teaches an overbearing assistant martial arts teacher a lesson. Next, he makes advances on a woman to impress his friends, and is soundly thrashed by her older female guardian as a result; his shame is compounded when these two are later revealed to be his visiting aunt and cousin, whom he had not met before. Lastly, he beats up a hooligan who is the son of an influential man in town. His father decides to punish him for his behavior by making him train harder in martial arts.

Wong's father arranges for Beggar So to train his son in martial arts. Beggar So has a reputation for crippling his students during training so Wong flees from home in an attempt to escape his punishment. Penniless, he stops at a restaurant and tries to con a fellow patron into offering him a free meal. As he was about to leave after his meal, he discovers that the man is actually the owner of the restaurant. He fights with the owner's lackeys in an attempt to escape. An old drunkard nearby is drawn into the fight and helps him escape. The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So, the Drunken Master. (Beggar So is known in some versions of the film as Sam Seed, So Hi or Su Hua-chi)

Beggar So forces Wong into his brutal and rigorous training programme. Wong flees again to avoid the torturous training and runs into the notorious killer Yan Ti San (known in some versions as Thunderfoot or Thunderleg) by accident. Yan is known for his "Devil's Kick", a swift and deadly kicking style which has never been defeated. Wong provokes and challenges him to a fight and is soundly defeated and humiliated. He makes his way back to Beggar So and decides to commit himself to the Drunken Master's training program.

The training resumes and soon Wong learns Beggar So's secret style of martial arts, a form of Drunken Boxing called "The Eight Drunken Immortals", named after the eight xian that the fighting style references. Wong masters seven of the eight styles with the exception of Drunken Miss Ho's as he feels that her style of fighting is too feminine.

Meanwhile, Yan Ti San is contracted by a business rival to kill Wong's father. Wong's father fights with Yan and is defeated and injured by him. Wong and Beggar So arrive on the scene on time and Wong continues the fight with Yan. Beggar So promises not to interfere in the fight. Wong employs the new skill he learnt and outmatches Yan's kicking style. Yan then resorts to his secret technique, the Devil's Shadowless Hand, which Wong is unable to defeat. Wong confesses that he did not master the last style so Beggar So tells him to combine the seven styles and create his own version of the last style. Wong follows the instruction and discovers his own unique style of Drunken Boxing, which he eventually uses to defeat Yan and become the new Drunken Master.

Fight scenes and martial arts:
A number of notable fights are featured in the film, almost all of them with strong elements of comedy - from the game of Keep Away with Wong Kei-ying's cocky, but incompetent, assistant kung fu instructor, to the novel "head-fu" fighting style used by one of his opponents. The film features the Hung Ga system of fighting, which was historically practiced by Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying, both of whom are major characters in the film. The animal styles of Snake, Crane, and Tiger performed in the film are derived wholly from the Hung Ga system and bear only a tangential relationship to the Fujian White Crane, Lama Pai (Tibetan White Crane), Black Tiger, and Snake systems of kung fu. Monkey style kung fu, popular in Southern Chinese martial arts performances, is also shown briefly.

Numerous systems of kung fu include "Drunken Boxing" forms (e.g. Choi Lei Fut and Drunken Monkey), and the Taoist Eight Immortals are popular staples of Chinese culture and art. However, the "Eight Drunken Immortals" forms depicted in this film are likely the creation of director and choreographer Yuen Woo-ping and based on routines found in other systems.

The primary villain in Drunken Master is played by Hwang Jang Lee, a Korean martial artist specialising in Taekwondo and known for his high-flying kicks, which are prominently displayed in the film. The systems of "Devil's Kick" and "Devil's Shadowless Hands" employed by Thunderleg are entirely fictitious.

Influence on popular culture:
In the Dragon Ball series, when the first tournament is held, Kame-Sen'nin is disguised as "Jackie Chun" and he tries to use a Drunken Fist technique on Son Goku. Author Akira Toriyama said that Drunken Master was one of his major inspirations for the Dragon Ball series.

The PlayStation game Jackie Chan Stuntmaster includes a bonus level in which he wears his traditional Drunken Master dress and drinks wine while fighting. He even gives the Drunken Punch as his charge punch throughout the game.

In popular PC online game Guild Wars, there is a stance-skill called "Drunken Master" which temporarily increases movement and attack speed. This effect is doubled if character is drunk.

In The King of Fighters series, the character Chin Gentsai was modeled after Su Hua Chi.

Jamaican musicians Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and The Revolutionaries recorded a reggae song called Drunken Master which was released in 1981 by Island on an album called Sly and Robbie Present Taxi.

In the Naruto series, one of the characters 'Rock Lee' is seen performing similar fighting styles after consuming alcohol. Known as the 'Drunken Fist' in the series' Japanese version and the 'Loopy Fist' in the English.

The Tekken video game series features a character named Lei Wu Long, a Hong Kong detective based on Jackie Chan's Police Story films. While the character was originally nicknamed Supercop after the film Police Story 3: Supercop Lei Wu Long uses 5 to 6+ stances which have all of Jackie Chan's signature film movies. Initially in the series it focused on the Snake style he created for Snake in The Eagles Shadow. In Street Fighter X Tekken released in 2012, Lei Wulong's "Ultimate Stance" is "Drunken Fist" based on his performance in the 1978 original and the 1994 sequel.

UK Dubstep artist FuntCase used speech samples taken from the film for his song 'Half drunk.'" (WikipediA)