The Dickens Drinking Game

Today thousands of undergraduates and those pining for the undergraduate days started drinking in the wee hours of the morning. Now, twelve or so hours later, our neighborhood is a little louder than I would like. I have found that it is useless to combat such thorough debauchery, so I am taking to that old adage "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." With some inspiration from the English (and really, any moderately competent English(wo)man would drink the stoutest Iowa Greek Tailgater under the table) I have developed what I am tentatively calling The Dickens Drinking Game.

Required Items:

One bottle of Gin
One bottle of Wine
One bottle of Ale (preferably one of those large 1 liter Euro bottles)
One Charles Dickens novel, my research shows that Little Dorrit is an excellent example, though I'm sure any of his multi-volume works would do.

Rule:

Set up the opened bottles on the table in front or next to you.
Read your selected Dickens novel.
Whenever you come across the words "gin," "wine," or "ale" you take a sip from the respective bottle.

How the Game Ends:

This largely depends on the player(s). One could drink until the bottles are empty. One could drink until they throw up or pass out. Or, less likely, one could drink until the novel is finished. The important thing is to capture the feel of mid nineteenth-century English drinking habits while boning up on your Victorian novels.

Cheers,
Dorf