I saw that on her site this morning and read it as "golf pros and tennis shoes." Seemed like an ok party to me.
Golf pros and nappy-headed basketball ho's?
What is a tennis ho, anyway? Slutty dress with a tennis racket, or what?
I think all women are "hos" these days. Charming, isn't it?
Tennis ho = tennis dress, no underwear.
Wait, maybe that is just what I hope it is.
IncestFest '07: Bring Your Daughter To Work Party.
4: Steve Inskeep's idea of a joke. Though, in his defense, he picked it up from Yacht Rock.
Priests and Altar Boys, The Resurrection.
Duke Lacrosse Party 2007: This Time, We'll Leave DNA
Were you supposed to reveal his name, Smasher?
Does anyone else remember the little boy in Sleepless in Seattle who referred to women as "hos" and it was supposed to be cute? I couldn't believe that in a movie that was promoted as an updated old-fashioned romantic comedy, someone thought that was even remotely acceptable.
I'm guessing that unfogged had a thread about Slut-O-Ween, didnt it?
I don't know how long 8 will remain unredacted, but I am suddenly impressed with how connected Catherine is.
Furries and Plushies Noncensensual Violationfest!
13, 16: Seriously?
Steve Inskeep, NPR, tennis hos:yacht rock::Imus, talk radio, nappy-headed hos:gangsta rap
I'm disappointed that someone took the opportunity to trash the University!
But, I was pleased to see the VTech bashing.
Chemo Bash '07: Check Your Eyebrows at the Door
Hm, if you really wanted to offend the maximum number of people, you'd have an Enwhitelement party.
Abu Grahaib Naked Pile Up?
Towelheads and Camel Jockeys (no women guests allowed; make sure and hire strippers).
19: Apparently I am humor-proof.
2007 Minutemen Convention: With a real Mexican Piñata!
A local frat got in trouble for a "Bombs over Bagdad" themed party a while back.
My Old Kentucky Home (black guests must dress as slaves; hire all black caterers and servers)
(I suspect this party actually exists somewhere)
how bout...
"Ho-hos And Pantyhose"
"Sloppy Seconds And Sloppier Joes"
"Vegan Taxidermists of Alabama"
It's eerie how good you all are with these off-color themes.
There's the ever-popular Pimps and Hos theme, which also really happens.
Lick Dick's* Scrotum
*Cheney, of course.
My college had to change the "Pimp and Ho" party to the "Red Light Ball". The outraged feminists would always call in a bomb threat, so one year I dressed as an outraged feminist bomber, complete with prop bomb. Image trying that now.
Tsunami pool party: No relatives allowed
ogged is a little too good at this.
Leather 'n Lace Kindergarten Graduation
Cat Fight Tug Of War Party. (nsfw, people)
Holocaust Remembrance Hoedown and Bar-B-Q
Holocaust Remembrance Hoedown and Bar-B-Q
The Auschwitz Smokehouse
Wassail with Diamanda Galas
This is cracking me (and the three other people who get the reference) up.
Haditha Nights!
Charades Category: Battlefield Massacres
Kristallnacht footie pajama party
About a year after I left U of C some students held a "Straight-Thuggin Ghetto Party" in one of the dorms. Appropriately for the school, according to the Maroon, "fewer than 20 students reportedly attended the party."
How is that different from any other party at the UofC?
How is that different from any other party at the UofC?
51: For Halloween a few years back, I proposed the wife and I dress up as the Twin Towers. A bit into the party, I'd disappear into the bathroom and emerge with a plane sticking out of me. Then she'd do the same. Then we'd finish off the melon ball and collapse. For some reason, this idea was promptly shot down.
I'm having trouble coming up with the appropriate party to use it for, but I've found the invitation.
Do yourself a favor and don't read the comments attached to the video in 93.
89 - That would be Thalidomitinis and Bikinis 2007.
97: Probably best not to think too hard about the origin of the video, either.
92. My freshman year in college that was our dorm picture for the yearbook. Trashcan full of kool-aide, The R.A. with sunglasses standing next to it, the rest of us in piles on the ground.
104: Not your best work, Ogged.
Fine. Baghdad '05: BYOHead
as for the original party that i was invited to, it's not so ridiculous that stupid party themes like that happen...in COLLEGE. but these folks are my age (26, 27). aren't we past that? please?
Clowns 'n Rapists is my favorite.
Are your favorites, Catherine.
Clowns 'n Rapists is my favorite.
Yeah, but nobody ever comes as the clown.
124: Vivid Video present Jerry Lewdist in "The Day the Clown Came"
Turkish Oil Wrestling Party: A Peak Oil Awareness Fundraiser.
Heaven's Gate Comet Watching Party
Tonight We Mainline in Hell: Hoplites 'n Persians Coke Party.
Jews and Palestinians: Dinner and a Murder Mystery
My co-blogger and I had planned, for a long time, an Old Ladies and Pool Boys party. It didn't matter what your gender; you could come as either one, but old ladies would be directed to stay relatively put and the pool boys would have direct access to the alcohol. Ideally, the pool boys would wear a lot less clothing. We figured this summed up most of the relationships our friends had with one another, in that half of them were bossy and voyeuristic, while the other half were semi-alcoholic exhibitionists.
FrazettaMania!
(The idea in 135 sounds genuinely fun, clever and tasteful. What's it doing on this thread?)
137: Sorry! It wasn't my contribution to the most offensive party idea ever, just a good complex party theme we never got to use. We had like 30 bizarre theme parties, and only a few ideas escaped unexecuted.
I've previously discussed my actual party theme strategy of just picking some event which took place on This Day In History® and claiming to me commemorating it without actually doing anything to so commemorate other than drink.
An acquaintance of mine was planning a party the night Reagan died. It ended up a theme party, though it wasn't advertised as such.
My perversity is low today. All I can do is suggest that Ogged's 9 should be:
Priests & Altar Boys - The Second Coming.
OT, to all the lawyers out there: Don't you love getting handed a complaint, and told to research a procedural point determining when we have to put in an appearance in the case, and finding out that the answer is 'Yesterday'? Luckily, I've only known about this for a day, so it's not my fault.
The question is: which of these themes has the most potential for M-fun?
129: inspired.
133: hilariously funnny.
148: Ouch. Next assignment: how do we fix this without having to admit we screwed up?
This may be my favorite thread of all time.
Bores 'n Sores.
Boy, I could do this all day.
Oh wait, I have.
Well, we didn't screw up much -- we did just get the complaint a couple of days ago. It's the difference between asking for an extension unashamedly and doing the same thing embarrassedly, but it's not as if we're actually likely to end up getting defaulted. And we have a call with the client tomorrow morning, which will probably involve mentioning this in a "Not going to be a real problem" tone.
Those Affirmative Action Bake Sales are pretty offensive.
Priests & Altar Boys - Taking Holey Orders.
Razors and Tasers.
I remember seeing an invite for a Cuban Shoot party -- points awarded per Cuban, broken down by type -- on a neighbor's fridge after the Mariel boatlift. Miami was 1700 miles to the southeast, so I'm guessing no one won.
Preschool Lesbians: Dykes on Trikes.
165: The IRL Gay Rodeo has an event called Chute Dogging. (.)
Ooh, what about those elementary Makeover Parties?
169: Teaching the Lifestyle: Dykes 'n' Tykes.
Ultimate Paintballpalooza, with bullets instead of paintballs
I'd like to host a party where the theme is Angry Idiots. Ideally this would involve two never-before-overlapping sets of friends.
BTW, when do people start having "themed parties" at which people actually participate in whatever the theme is? I thought it would happen in college, or immediately post-college, but now maybe it's supposed to happen 10 years later when people have some money.
177: We threw Broke Slackers parties in college all the time. Great theme.
IME never. I think this is the sort of thing you start doing in college if you're that sort of person. Otherwise, the parties you throw are limited in theme to Beer, Wine, Liquor, or once you have children Cake.
if you're that sort of person
Dammit, I tried to make friends with drama majors, but there's JUST SO FEW OF THEM!
when people have some money
Bradley Martin Ball Theme Party
I went to a "Pimps, Popes, Presleys, and Primates" party where you had to be dressed as a pimp, the pope, Elvis, or a gorilla. (I was a gorilla). Women could substitute hoes for pimps, nuns for popes, and Marilyn Monroes for Elvises. Good times.
The only theme party I've ever been to was a Great Gatsby party, involving a couple special mixed drinks and people wearing pre-50's attire if they had any (about 20% of the girls and 0% of the boys had such attire). Again, I don't see how something like #183 could happen unless the attendees had been out of college for a while and had some income with which to buy the requisite props.
There must be a way of somehow combining 182 with 55.
Arbuckle Macht Frei.
Bring your own Coca-cola, shower shoes.
One Saturday afternoon in college, a bunch of us were well altered on LSD, and sat on the porch of the News Bureau next door to our fraternity, wearing funny hats, drinking tea, and waving to everybody who walked down the street. But that was a little too impromptu to be considered a proper theme party, and not really offensive to anybody. Happy memory, all the same.
One Saturday afternoon in college slacker-dropout-college-equivalent, a bunch of us were well altered on LSD and threw a "white boy dance party," where everybody had to find their inner white boy, dress like it, and dance like it. Given the preconditions, there were some pretty goddamn strange white boys. I found myself inhabiting the character of "Mitch the Junior G Man" quite remarkably thoroughly, but some of the other concepts were even better. We also had a drag party at that house, but the less said about that, the better.
I'm hesitant to say this, but I actually go to a lot of themed parties. People put quite a bit of work into going with the theme, some of them costumes are even mandatory. You really just have to know the right people: highly mixed gay/straight agglomerations of urban nightclub enthusiasts usually do the trick.
It can be kind of exhausting to be out finding outfits and whatnot when all you really want to be doing is getting fucked up and dancing around, but the end result rules.
Although I draw the line at more than a couple outfit changes per party.
Some recent themes: Bollywood, Black Light Fashion Faux Pas, Blizzard of Oz, Cowboys and Indians (it was up in the mountains). Nothing offensive, though, and nothing so gauche as pimps 'n hos or lingerie. There was a party called Night on Cock Mountain, but I was too straight to be invited. I've certainly worn some fantastically embarrassing things at some embarrassing moments in my time.
There's also Santacon, which is less like a party and more like a rioting mob.
All kinds of crazy-ass Alice in Wonderland hats that belonged to one of the women in the group.
You really just have to know the right people: highly mixed gay/straight agglomerations of urban nightclub enthusiasts usually do the trick.
Ooh, just like in Midnight Cowboy. I want a couple of strangers who may or may not be drag queens to hand me a flyer/invitation when I'm sitting in a diner one of these days.
I actually go to a lot of themed parties
You know how banned you are now, right?
I sorta agree with Cryptic Ned; the problem with costume parties with nifty themes is the effort and expense into a costume.
But during undergrad there was a great gangster themed dance, which featured some of the whitest people in the world trying to pretend to be ghetto. My friends and I reinpreted the theme as 30s gangsters and they wore suits and carried around super soakers as tommy guns.
In my defense, Los Angeles is a very strange place, and you do what you must to survive.
The hats seen here would work well.
bollywood can be plenty offensive if you invite that one guy who thinks black-face would be a good idea.
You know the joke about the party where you have to come dressed as an emotion?
No, really. One guy shows up dressed all in blue, and everyone says, "Oh, you must be feeling blue." A woman shows up covered in pink feathers, and everyone says, "Tickled pink!" Then, another guy shows up completely naked except for a bowl of vanilla pudding strapped over his groin. No one gets it. They demand to know what emotion he's dressed as. And he answers...
Close. "I'm fucking disgusted."
We had lots of theme parties, but costumes were banned. The themes were merely to set the mood and encourage people to make out.
203: An excellent joke for the internet.
