Some of life's greatest offerings come in threes: Bacon, lettuce and tomato. Larry, Curly and Moe. Shotguns, beer and barbecue.

Say what?

Yeah, you're right: The latter trio sounds like the title of a country music song, but it's not. What it is, if you believe the folks at the LivingSocial website, is a fun Saturday in Fuquay-Varina for anyone over 21 years old who wants to meet like-minded individuals.

Michael Seiler, an operations associate with New York-based LivingSocial, said Shootin' & Drinking: Shotguns, Beer & BBQ "has become one of our staple events" since it was started six months ago. "We're always brainstorming and looking for adventures to bring like-minded people together for adventures."

When possible, he said, adventures are combined and turned into an "event." That way, instead of just getting a discount on beer or barbecue or shooting, you can combine them and get a discount on all three and increase your chances of meeting Mr. or Miss Right.

Face it, between guns, beer and barbecue, you've pretty much encompassed the whole of Southern humanity - or at least all that's worth knowing.

Naw, you don't have to love all three, but anyone who doesn't love at least one of those things is probably just passing as a Southerner and may have been sent down here to infiltrate one of our beloved organizations. Ask to see a birth certificate.

According to LivingSocial's website and Seiler, members can get daily discounts for kayaking and whitewater-rafting, restaurants, theaters, bars, massages, shoes, firearm training and body sculpting, among other things.

That's good, because after swilling beer and scarfing copious amounts of barbecue, who wouldn't be in need of some body-sculpting?

LivingSocial's website tells us incorrectly that "When Sir Walter Raleigh settled in the Old North State, he dreamed of a day when common folk could come together in the name of firearms and alcohol."

Don't tell those New Yorkers, but didn't common folks down here pretty much invent coming together in the name of firearms and alcohol?

Beginning June 4, you can do it with strangers on most Saturdays throughout the summer for only $59. The last time I visited the site, 180 people had already paid.

The website notes that "the showdown begins" after participants park at Aviator Brewing in Fuquay-Varina, then are chauffeured in a bus to Drake Landing Sporting Clays.

Seiler said that while you can down your brew and your 'cue at the same time, you can't belly up to the bar and then grab ahold of a shooting iron. Darn.

"The drinking comes after the shooting," he said. "That probably wouldn't be legal" to let beer-soaked patrons fire shotguns, even if they are just shooting at clay pigeons.

Because, face it, after enough beers, everything and everybody may start looking like a clay pigeon.

So grab a brew, some 'cue and a gun. As LivingSocial's website tells us, "it's what (Sir Walter) would've wanted."