It's the holidays, what could be more fun than kicking back with your programming relatives, a few drinks and the Stack Overflow podcast? Don't answer that, instead suggest rules for the Stack Overflow drinking game!
One rule per answer, the top votes will make the game. I'll kick it off with this one:
Drink every time Jeff or Joel is interrupted by the other person.
Update: putting this question into wiki mode as requested in the comments.
Whenever, after a 10 minute comment by Joel, Jeff leaves 3 seconds of dead air and then says, "Yeah."
Whenever Joel mentions Excel and VBA.
Whenever Atwood says "actually"... Drink!
Whenever Joel forgets about the dedicated phone number of the podcast.
OR
Whenever Joel talks while a user question is playing.
Whenever Joel causes his computer to produce an alert sound, causing a brief confused pause.
Whenever Joel describes an original, brilliant, sophisticated way to improve Stack Overflow, and Jeff explains how that feature has been implemented and usable on the site for several days.
When Joel or Jeff says the podcast is only listened to by 4 or less people.
When Jeff uses the word "right" at the end of a sentence, right?
When Jeff misuses the word literally :)
Whenever Jeff chuckles, realizing he's about to say something that might piss people off.
Whenever Jeff disses PHP.
Whenever Joel and Jeff argue about the importance of knowing how to program in C
Whenever Jeff laughs at his own comments. A double drink if he laughs mid-sentence.
When, during the next Stack Overflow podcast, Jeff Atwood criticizes this question as a diversion to the site and a poor practice during programming.
Then Joel reminds him that drinking is fun. :)
Whenever Joel says they're going long, I'll have to edit this.
Or
Just every time you hear 'Fog Creek' - bonus drink when it's about their new office. *(:=
Whenever Joel and Jeff trash TDD but have zero experience in it.
Whenever Joel says something Jeff thinks is stupid or boring but doesn't want to offend Joel, Jeff says "Cool. That's really cool."
Whenever Jeff prefixes some term with "quote-unquote". I can picture him doing the air quotes thing with his hands.
Whenever Jeff says "postmortem," talks about C, talks about Steve Yegge, or especially when Jeff uses the word "pathology." As well, when Joel talks about psychology (yes, most of us have taken Psych 101). That's pretty much it. :)
Whenever Jeff makes some huge error about computer science, but excuses it by saying he 'doesn't know math'
When Jeff mispronounces something.
