Every four years, YU holds its Chag Hasemikhah ceremony, celebrating their newly minted musmakhim. Some of you have seen the ads in the various papers, but many if not most have had the pleasure of avoiding every possible one.
I've been to two of these things before, and the best description I can give is that it's a college graduation, but with all the speeches being given by Rabbis. To put things in perspective, the most memorable moment from the first one I went to was R. Tendler's chair collapsing on stage during Ya'akov Ne'eman's speech.1
Due to the mitzvah of kibbud av va'em I will be attending the upcoming one on Sunday as this is my "hag hasemikha class" and just having my klaf isn't good enough for some people.
At any rate, as a public service to those who find themselves in the position of being stuck in one of these things, Avraham and I got together and made our own drinking game to make the day a little more leibedik.2
