Dranks for... skanks?

February 24, 2016 8:29 AM

Can you help me come up with a name for my Cocktail club?

Thanks to you awesome DIY bar suggestions last month, my girlfriends and I have decided to have a monthly cocktail club!

What should we name ourselves? There are 4 of us, all women.

posted by Dressed to Kill to Food & Drink (26 answers total)

Livin' bebidas locas ;)
posted by Halo in reverse at 8:40 AM on February 24, 2016 [10 favorites]

The Fug Girls of Go Fug Yourself have a faux drinking club with celebrities that they call Drinks With Broads. They generally bring it up when talking about celebs who seem like they'd be boozy and entertaining but also smart and experienced and have a 50-50 chance of either joining you in your bullshit or calling you on it, whichever seems appropriate at the time.

I have always wanted to establish Drinks With Broads in my own life.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:47 AM on February 24, 2016 [3 favorites]

Best answer: I thought the usual name for such groups was "book club."

Any good puns based on shared interests or meeting locations?

In Paired Judgment (if pairing food with drinks)

No Occasion (obscure Cervantes reference "I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion")

The Bacchanal Bunch (plus then you can sometimes expand it to Bacchanal Brunch!)
posted by Wretch729 at 9:15 AM on February 24, 2016 [7 favorites]

These are all bad, but why not: old timey "skank" + Gollum vibe - Foxes on the Rockses? Old timey "skank" + mature lady vibe - The Hot Toddies? Maybe you're meeting for High Tea? I don't know, sounds fun though :)
posted by cotton dress sock at 9:23 AM on February 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

Toddies for Hotties!

No that's terrible. Hrmmmm

The Tipple Trust (and then you can have roles and someone gets to be treasurer of the tipple trust)
posted by Mizu at 9:25 AM on February 24, 2016

I knew of a gent's lunch club called the Yardarm Club. Because, when the sun crosses the yardarm, nautically, it's noon, which means you can have a drink. So there's an option if you're doing this at lunch (why not?).
posted by beagle at 9:32 AM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

The Shirley Temples? I'd like an email every month that started with "Hey, Shirleys..."
posted by harperpitt at 9:43 AM on February 24, 2016 [3 favorites]

Best answer: The Neo-Temperance Movement

Shtifacedbook (which should totally be a thing)

Galcoholics Eponymous
posted by It's Never Lurgi at 9:50 AM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

The Cavern Club.
posted by biffa at 9:50 AM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Previously
posted by experiencing a significant gravitas shortfall at 9:52 AM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

Best answer: The Cocktail Coursers

because 'courses' are historic slang for periods and you're meeting monthly and I'll get my coat...
posted by AFII at 9:54 AM on February 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

League of Women Drinkers
The 19 & 21 Society [the amendments giving women the vote and ending prohibition]
Women's Anti-Temperance Union
Group Therapy
Girl Scouts
posted by melissasaurus at 9:55 AM on February 24, 2016 [3 favorites]

I can't speak to how active they are now, but there was at one point a group called the Ladies United for the Preservation for Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC) and they did chapters.
posted by librarianamy at 9:58 AM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

I actually really like "Dranks for Skanks" even though you were joking.
posted by sister nunchaku of love and mercy at 10:27 AM on February 24, 2016 [5 favorites]

The Tipsy Chicks (although I'm sure you imbibe responsibly)
Spirited Resistance
Good Mixers
Minxes with Drinkses
Ice Queens
Sippin' Sisters

A all-female drinking quartet I know call themselves the Coven, and another - who specialise in green drinks with occasional cigars - call themselves the Green Genies
posted by Devonian at 11:00 AM on February 24, 2016 [5 favorites]

Best answer: Street Sweeper Cocktail Club (as a riff on the band's name)

The Daughters of the Inebriation (or just DOI)

Magdalenebriates

Pride and Gin 'n' Juice

League of Extraordinary Women Drinkers (all credit going to melissasurus)

J-La-C and the Drunky Bunch (this one makes me laugh a lot for some reason)

The Drinkinators

Cocktail Fight - as in "I'm going to the Cocktail Fights tonight"

Twisted Sista's

The Drank Tank
posted by quin at 11:03 AM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

Ladies Who Lush
posted by Room 641-A at 11:58 AM on February 24, 2016 [4 favorites]

Best answer: Ladies Who Lush

In that spirit, Luscious Lushes
posted by notbuddha at 12:06 PM on February 24, 2016 [3 favorites]

Best answer: I like devinoan's Ice Queens suggestion quite a bit. You can say "kweeens!" like Ilana on Broad City. Or how about Thirsty Broads or Thirsty B's?
Bottoms Up (why is this suddenly dirty sounding?)
Cheersleaders
Diva Cups - ha ha this is gross, but it's cracking me up. Okay, how about just Diva Drinks?
posted by areaperson at 12:08 PM on February 24, 2016 [3 favorites]

The Hoochy Mamas (a play on "hooch" and "hoochie"). Best I got today, sorry.
posted by davidvanb at 12:38 PM on February 24, 2016

Best answer: Honestly I love the idea of calling it a "book club" with a wink.
posted by radioamy at 12:46 PM on February 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

Best answer: from synonyms for drunk

buttered peaches
the intemperate movement
lashed and lathered
las mamadas / mamas mamadas
manky skankies (you said it first)
pretty little palintoshed ladies
squiffy paralytics
the sauces
the tiddley winks
tired and emotional
whole yotta love
posted by andrewcooke at 12:58 PM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

Booker's Club? (Brand of bourbon)
posted by marmIrite? at 1:02 PM on February 24, 2016

Response by poster: You all do not disappoint! Thank you!!
posted by Dressed to Kill at 1:43 PM on February 24, 2016

Coming in late ... along the lines of Book Club, I like Board Meeting as in "oohh, sorry, I can't make it to the tchotchke volunteer collection activity, I have a Board Meeting"
posted by RoadScholar at 2:49 PM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]

Unclean Livers Club
posted by belau at 3:42 PM on February 24, 2016 [2 favorites]