Yeah, I'm still not sure I should have shared that story. It works a little better in person and the humor is more obvious. I ran into someone during a job interview once who went to the same college - I figured it was safe to mention this guy's name since the college was large and this guy couldn't have been in NROTC with him as he was working straight out of college. I forgot about the downsizing that kept me out of scholarship money and got people out with no committment, though. After I realized there was no way I could toss out a fake name because there were only about 20 possible and he would know them all, I fessed up that I'd dated the guy (in high school, so cut me some slack!), he got this OMG look to his eyes (they started bugging out) and said, "he was one crazy mother-sam's-favorite-word." Yeah.... I didn't get that job for many reasons, but it started going downhill there.
But I don't even want to imagine the aim of a tableful of men trying to aim into a magnum bottle while blotto and working blind :P But I might try to get ahold of the story anyway, because, hey! Niven!