Dear LORD, Erin! Sorry.
Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Feb 28, 2005 4:25:56 pm PST #2762 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
amych - Feb 28, 2005 4:26:10 pm PST #2763 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Showers are evil. I'm sure of this.
sarameg - Feb 28, 2005 4:26:16 pm PST #2764 of 10002
Erin, bake 3 graduated in size cake rounds. Stack the rounds. Or a bund cake with a skinny hole. Find an old barbie. Stab barbie through center. Slather in frosting. Including barbie unless you have a nice shirt for her. Hey, use draggees!
amych - Feb 28, 2005 4:26:58 pm PST #2765 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Bwah, sara! Dragée pasties, perhaps?
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2005 4:29:07 pm PST #2766 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Erin, that's horrible.
It seems some people work at showers, to make it horrible for the bride or the attendees or both.
My favourite shower involve margaritas and gay porn. My second favourite involved the bride to be picking up a random stranger in the bar and making out with him.
Jesse - Feb 28, 2005 4:31:39 pm PST #2767 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The one I'm going to Saturday will be just fine. At a restaurant, some unobtrusive and voluntary games, no big whoop.
sarameg - Feb 28, 2005 4:34:44 pm PST #2768 of 10002
I swear, if I were to ever find myself in the position of having a shower thrown for me, I would NOT have it set up by my local friends. Because their version of "fun" showers make me run screaming. All that prevents me at theirs is that they are having fun. I did draw the line at the sex toy tupperware thing. Um, no. I have an overactive imagination. I don't need fodder that is going to leave me screaming and fetal. Friends + anything specific to sex does that.
Strix - Feb 28, 2005 4:35:04 pm PST #2769 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Thanks, sarameg!
If the damn shower weren't parent/family inclusive, I would make it a goddamn Bondage Barbie. Maybe I can get away with tasteful dragee nipples...
See, I didn't peg the Bride as a Bridezilla. But all these kooky, fun ideas are kind of a pain in the ass when they're not presented as an option.
FWIW, the shower I'm planning for a dear friend in July involves a multiculti range of male strippers, porn and lots and lots of pitchers of margaritas. And tequila shots in cute kitty glasses.
The bride loves bizarre-looking kitty-cat art, and the theme of the shower is "Pussy Control."
EDIT: Ok, bachelorette party. But I'll do the more formal shower, too, and it'll be all kinds of fun.
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2005 4:37:53 pm PST #2770 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ok, bachelorette party. But I'll do the more formal shower, too, and it'll be all kinds of fun.
D'oh! I was thinking of bachelorette parties, too.
The favourite shower involved replacing the stock of whips that the bride to be's mother had just tossed out.
Strix - Feb 28, 2005 4:41:30 pm PST #2771 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, NO! ita, that's too funny!
I threw a formal shower where one of the games was stolen right from B.org...the "What's your porn name?" game. The bride's father came out (he's from out of town, so had to stay, was amazed and delighted at the amount of good food and wine to be had at a bridal shower -- "THAT'S why women have these!")
He solemnly announced, this solid Midwestern dad with the walrus mustache and comfortable paunch, that his porn name was "Fluffy Eagle."
People were PEEING laughing. It was great. He wandered back into the kitchen, smiling, for more cream puffs.