Have you ever got back from a night out on the town after a few drinks with the guys, or the girls, and started pounding away on your keyboard... crafting a slurred lustful email, either for that drunken 2AM booty-call with an "ex", or a potentially slanderous email to your boss that you don't particularly care for? Me neither, but if I were to scribe such an ill conceived missive it would be preferable to have a filter, or traffic cop as it were, to stop me from clicking the dreaded and irreversible 'send' button. Well if this scenario describes you, or someone you know, then your wish has been granted.

I'm sure everyone has erroneously sent an email to the wrong person, that is done all the time, even while sober. I'm sure there have been some pretty interesting ones arriving in mail boxes over the last ten years, since the dawn of email communications. Maybe there are some even worth publishing in a book, but I digress.

The classic mistake of Emailing Under the Influence, or EUI as I like to call it, to the prospective love interest that you met earlier in a bar that magically proceeded to improve, in terms of viability, with the more alcohol you consumed, should be avoided at all costs, if you plan to avoid providing the gossip material for the congregation gathered around the water fountain the following morning.

Jon Perlow at Google thinks he has come up with a viable solution with an email sobriety test that could stop you from getting a dreaded EUI.

Perlow feels that by answering a series of short simple math problems the online email program will act as a barrier thus creating a distraction, away from more emotional thoughts and feelings to those more basic problem solving issues and hopefully preventing the ill advised email. If you get the questions wrong the email doesn't go through. My conundrum is that I was never really that good at math, so I maybe at a distinct disadvantage, especially if the questions get into algebra, or quadratic equations.

Either way, think of the service as a prevention of the very dangerous effects of Beer Goggles disorder, or as an online imaginary friend that won't let you make a bad decision by emailing someone while intoxicated.

No word on if there is a cheat sheet.