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1. Put your name in the bowl and we pull the names out randomly. When you hear your name, you must sign up on the list.

2. If you are called first you can sign up anywhere you like. If you are called last, you are in luck, because you get "Lucky Lottery Slot #11." If you are called second to last, you are out of luck.

3. No cheating. Do not get up before your name is called, don't sign up a bunch of your friends, and if your name is in the bowl more than one time you will go last.

4. If you are on the reserve list, your time will be cut to four minutes and we'll take as many as we can until 2:30 am.

RULES OF SHOW & TELL

1. No chit-chatting. If there is not a microphone in front of your face it is not your turn to talk. If you need to have a conversation, please step outside.

2. You have seven minutes of time on our beautiful stage. When the alarm goes off, kindly remove yourself from the stage or the audience will lynch you.

3. No heckling.

4. Do not single out any audience member and bother them in any way.

5. If you are caught doing any of these bad things, you will be forced to stand in the corner with your pants down for the following three acts. That's 21 minutes of shame.

6. If you are caught talking too much in the back, you will be forced to play "The Gross Drink Game," wherein Moonshine will mix the grossest thing he can think of and you will be forced to drink it.

GAMES

1. Word of the day - when you hear the word, scream.

2. Jeffsploitation - what will Jeff do for a dollar?

3. Weekly themed writing conest - winner is automatically entered into the beer chugging contest.

4. Beer chugging contest - winner gets one half of one beer.

5. Beerwalk - like musical chairs/cakewalk, but with beer.

Bob Holman is a poet, multimedia producer, poetry activist and performance poetry professor who lives in New York City.

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