Thursday, April 5, 2012

Putting A Spin On The Funny T-Shirts Party

By Barry Whitman


I was at a party earlier this month, having a great time, and drinking a few beers. It was sometime in the middle of the evening when a buddy of mine started telling me about another party he went to that the host was calling a "funny t-shirts party"...or something close enough to that so it doesn't make a difference. It could have been called a "Wacky-Wacky Zoom-Boom Party" for all I care. I just know it sounded fun, and I had to figure out what I had to do to get one organized amongst my own social circle.

The only real requirement is that everyone has to wear funny t-shirts. The real kicker is that Everyone is given a green card and a red card at the beginning of the party. You can use the green card to demand that someone trade shirts with you, at which time you have to surrender your green card to the person whom you are swapping with. If that person wants to keep their shirt, they can use the red card to block the swap...but they have to surrender it to the person who just tried to use their green card on them. If you follow what I just wrote at all, you'll understand that the balance of green cards and red cards will get way off kilter at some point in the night.

The moment when the whole social dynamic of the party gets flipped upside down is when all the beautiful folks at the party run out of red cards and the t-shirt swapping starts taking place. The very second that people realize that they can watch gorgeous people take their shirts off, the green cards start flying everywhere. Watching fat people trying to squeeze into small shirts is also pretty hilarious, too.

Greasing the social wheels with some strong drink never hurts either. Some people just won't do something so socially outgoing without a few shots of whiskey first. Have you noticed how some of the most demure girls will happily flash complete strangers when they have two or three cocktails? Well, that's the kind of environment you need to provide in order to facilitate people taking their funny t-shirts off in a crowded room.

The whole funny t-shirts party-swap idea is all in good fun, however. No one has any intention of taking advantage of drunk girls. The idea is to have a laugh at some hilarious shirts, and to loosen up enough to get a room full of half naked young people. The real trick to the party, of course, is to make certain none of your ugly friends get an invitation.




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