General facts, frequently asked questions and
information
- Site usage
- What do I need for optimal viewing of this site?
- Where should I start?
- Can I use material from this site?
- How can I send the Drunken editor a private comment or question?
- What happens to the poems that I submit?
- How can I become a great Bad Drunken Bar Poet?
- I'm drunk and bored! What do you most recommend I do?
- There are poems everywhere. How can I control the way I view the poems?
- Site Facts
- Submitting your own drunken bar poetry
- General Questions and Answers
- Isn't it bad to promote drunkenness?
- Why promote drunkenness?
- Isn't it unsafe getting toasted and writing bad poetry?
- Will you link to my great drunken related site?
- May I link to your site?
- How often will there be new stuff here?
- What new features do you have planned?
- This site is disgusting and appalling! How can I complain and voice my opinion?
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Where should I start?
I recommend that you start by reading a few poems
by the original bad drunken bar poet featured on the home
page here, and then read some of the brilliant, poetic masterpieces
featured on our Visitor
submitted back drunken POEM page to get a feel for the style of
drunken poetry. Of course, our dynamic poll page, "the web's most Raw
Honest polls," is quickly becoming an internet phenomenon. This feature,
on the Raw Hones Poll page even provides
you with a personal vote tracking chart. In the last week alone, more
than 25000 votes have been placed. Then explorer some of the other cool
features of the site like the drunk en_editor's
crazy "eye" theory, our, the state-of-the-art Drunken
Beerbook (guestbook). Then, go out to a bar alone tonight and get
drunk. When you feel the inspiration hit, ask for a pile of bar napkins
and a cheap pen and go to work on your own poetic masterpieces then
use our drunken poem submission form
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Can I use material from this site?
All material on this site is copyrighted material
to be borrowed or used ONLY with the explicit consent of Bad Drunken
Bar Poetry. If you have a question about using our content your may
write us using our drunken question form. Of course we would love for
you to place a cool link on your site so people can find us. You go
to the drunken inserts page to copy
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How can I send the Drunken editor a private comment
or question?
We have a quick question form that you can use
to privately submit any questions or comments you might have. Here is
a link to the Drunken Question Form.
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What happens to the poems that I submit?
Once you submit a poem using the Drunken
Poem Submission Form, our drunken editor will review the poem to
see if it meets Bad Drunken Bar Poetry standards (read
our criteria here). If your poem is acceptable it will be added
to the list of other drunken masterpieces and people will be able to
enjoy your bad poems. Bad Drunken Bar poetry reserves the right to use
all submitted poems for the purpose of display, advertisement, entertainment,
commercial products and whatever else it might drunkenly come up with.
Your may read our poem submission
agreement for complete legal information.
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How can I become a great Bad Drunken Bar Poet?
Unlike most other skills that one might acquire,
it is possible to become an outstanding Bad Drunken Bar Poet overnight
although the truly great drunken poem doesn't usually occur everyday.
We recommend taking a look at our Bad Drunken
Bar Poetry 151 course. This will break down the art of bad drunken
bar poetry for you.
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I'm drunk and bored! What do you most recommend
I do?
We recommend you first read our visitor submitted
unique hangover remedies and perhaps submit your own if you have
one. This way you can be better equipped to deal with tomorrow's hangover.
Next you could go to our drunken search page
and not only read the crazy searches that others have done but you can
type in your own outrageous word and see what poems are displayed. When
you think you are ready to leave this site, you should visit our
drunken links for drunken poets page. Here we have a list of the
Internet's most amusing websites - hand picked to be most effective
for drunken boredom.
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There are poems everywhere. How can I control
the way I view the poems?
There is a lot of content spread about this website.
Hopefully part of the drunken fun will be finding it. If you are looking
for particular information you may want to use the site-wide
drunken search engine. Type in your key words to that and a list
of related content will be assembled for you. There is also a drunken
poem search you can use if you are just interested in finding poems.
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Bad drunken Bar Poetry
Site Facts
Why did you make this site?
The drunken editor compiled this site from years
worth of wrinkled napkins with drunken bar poems scribbled on them.
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What features or contents have recently been
added to the site??
As explained in the answer following this one, stuff is posted right away and while in development so you'll see new content pop-up daily.
What's New
- Features have been added to both the poll page and the pickup line page which allow you to view your past vote history, and to track polls and pickup-lines that you have voted on or submitted.
- The general information page had been updated and debugged.
- Many new poll questions added
- Brand new real-time chat page has been created.
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How is this site's development and design philosophy
unique and why is stuff changing right before my eyes?
The BDBP team have a unique approach to design
and development. The Drunken_editor believes in creating community by
including visitors in the design process. Good things come from experimentation.
So, don't be surprised if you see something change, or a new feature
pop up - right in front of your eyes, because most development is posted
as its in progress. On the same note - don't be surprised if you run
into a page that has yet to be spell-checked.
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Is this a blog site?
Bad Drunken Bar Poetry isn't a blog
site per-say. The content on this site is carefully adjudicated to insure
that it is consistent with the theme and standards of the site. Also
this website, more of an application, has a host of other amusements
besides poem submissions. Bad Drunken Bar Poetry is a specific art form
with specific parameters involved. That said, the origins of this site
might make it one of the first blog like sites. Our original website
featured submitted poems and works of the drunken editor that had a
blog feel to it. I believe blogs were not even around at that time (mid
1990's). View the original
version of Bad Drunken Bar Poetry to see.
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Who is on your staff?
Our staff shares your love for Bad Drunken Bar
Poetry. The drunken editor is committed to showcasing the best drunken
bar poetry around.
What technologies does this site use?
This site uses professional grade methods behind
its pages. Some components are more experimental and less cross-browser
compatible than others. To see an example of a more experimental page,
visit the incredible, state-of-the-art 3D drunken
beerbook. On the server side this site uses ASP
(active server pages) and ASP.Net.
Data is stored on several Access databases until at some point if a
SQL server is required. ASP is used to not only communicate with the
databases but also works in concert with client side JavaScript. The
two exchange information that allows custom rendering of page components
in order to tailor make your browsing experience. This site has a ton
of DHTML (Dynamic
HTML) that uses HTML,
Cascading Style Sheets,
and JavaScript
to facilitate user interaction, for validation, active rendering, special
effects and drunken experiments. The search engines use a new technique
that the drunken poet invented and will not be disclosed at this time.
The drunken beerbook also relies on a few
techniques invented by the drunken poet and is the first publicly tested
application of an incredibly drunken approach that will be barfed onto
the Internet this year.
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Poem submission
How do I submit my own drunken bar poetry to
be displayed here?
We have a very quick and easy poetry
submission form set up that even a total drunk can figure out. Once
you submit a poem using the Drunken
Poem Submission Form, our drunken editor will review the poem to
see if it meets Bad Drunken Bar Poetry standards (read
our criteria here). If your poem is acceptable it will be added
to the list of other drunken masterpieces and people will be able to
enjoy your bad poems.
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How is it decided which poems will be chosen
or featured for display on this website?
What can or will you do with my poem after I
submit it?
General Questions and Answers
Isn't it bad to promote drunkenness?
I don't know. I don't care how much you drink
and people handle alcohol differently. I do care about bad drunken poems
written on bar napkins and drinking tends to inspire those. I will say
that I am against drinking and driving and any other activity
while drinking that might harm another. The drunken editor
never drives to the bars he writes in! Regarding legal issues please
read our Legal notice and
disclaimers.
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Why promote drunkenness?
Drunkenness makes people more honest and expose
more even if they don't know it. Good artists spend lifetimes developing
the ability to communicate honestly and directly. Art is honesty. Everybody
has something beautiful to express because the honest experience of
an individuals thoughts, emotions and mind are beautiful. So, Bad Drunken
Bar Poetry is a method to make beautiful artists of us all. To expose
the beauty of an individuals everyday reality, to shed light on feelings
that we all have but are usually to safe or restricted to approach -
even most so-called professional 'poets' and artists don't achieve real
honesty with us. So, go forth and wear your hearts on your sleeves an
spill beer on your shirt. Give us your drunken thoughts, your Bad Drunken
Bar poems! Legal notice and
disclaimers
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Isn't it unsafe getting toasted and writing bad
poetry?
Only if you try to balance as many objects on
the bar table as you see around you, one on top of the other like the
drunken poet often does. Otherwise, its very cathartic, and probably
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Will you link to my great drunken related site?
I will definitely check your site out and will
link to it if it is relevant and worthwhile. I am very care in keeping
the content and links on this site consistent with the sites theme and
standards. I want people to know when they come here that they will
not click on a link that will take them to a bunch of advertisements,
or worse, to some boring damn academic poetry website. You may submit
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May I link to your site?
Yes we would love you to, and appreciate very
much your help with getting the word out about this site. If you don't
mind, we would prefer you use our custom link logo. You may the short
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How often will there be new stuff here?
The drunken poet will be developing often, and
because much of this site is comprised of user submitted content there
may be additions at anytime. As far as poems by
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What new features do you have planned?
- Create your own drink interactive application and contest
- BDBP t-shirts
- Voting on submitted poems using categories of
- (a) drunkenness
- (b) honesty
- (C) brevity
- (d) degree of amusement
- (e) badness
- Send a barf feature
This site is disgusting and appalling! How can
I complain and voice my opinion?
Well you are in luck because we offer many ways
for you to yelp your disgust about our poetry. Many ways to tell us
how your boring English Department poetry is so much better. You may
instantly post comments on our state-of-the-art 3D
beerbook (guestbook). You may submit
a poem that you wrote that is so much better and I may use it as
example of how not to write Bad Drunken Bar Poetry. You also can submit
a comment to the drunken editor by using the drunken
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