A party at a place? That doesn't sound crazy to me. It's just a cover charge.
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Jesse - Jan 12, 2011 8:44:22 am PST #16468 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Jan 12, 2011 8:45:28 am PST #16469 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
At college we'd have (and go to) parties where people were charged for the beer cup. (Maybe $2?) The goal was to make just enough to pay for the half-barrels.
javachik - Jan 12, 2011 8:45:43 am PST #16470 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I assumed she coined the term herself. It sounded made-up. It's libel! But with blood!
I had never heard the term, and I can totally see the ignorant bitch using it thinking it was a "more worser xeleventy!!!!!!" version of "libel".
Hil R. - Jan 12, 2011 8:47:10 am PST #16471 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, if the party is at a club or a bar or something, I can see paying a cover charge. It would be weird (to me) for a party at a house, though.
Zenkitty - Jan 12, 2011 8:47:42 am PST #16472 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
A party at a place? That doesn't sound crazy to me. It's just a cover charge.
A cover charge at a venue is understandable. I was thinking of a party as held at someone's home or clubhouse or someplace private. I've never heard the term "pay party" before.
javachik - Jan 12, 2011 8:49:45 am PST #16473 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I had a pay party for New Years at my house! Only I was the only one paying. Oh, wait, that doesn't count.
Steph L. - Jan 12, 2011 8:49:55 am PST #16474 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I would like to point out that most mentally ill people, schizophrenics included, don't hurt or kill people.
People with mental illness are VASTLY more likely to be the victims of violence than to be the perpetrators of it. So all of the defensive rhetoric coming from the right about "he wasn't moticially motivated; he was CRAZY" pisses me off for reasons beyond just their denial of responsibility for contributing to a sociopolitical climate in which it's acceptable to suggest killing people they don't like who were elected to Congress.
This is going to tar mentally ill people with a very wide brush, and it's completely wrong.
Daisy Jane - Jan 12, 2011 8:52:24 am PST #16475 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Yeah, if the party is at a club or a bar or something, I can see paying a cover charge. It would be weird (to me) for a party at a house, though.
True story- my friend's (the male half of the newly pregnant couple mentioned earlier) first in-laws threw his and his first wife's reception at a venue with a cover. They (my friend and his then-wife) were mortified.
brenda m - Jan 12, 2011 8:54:35 am PST #16476 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
These are not common? Maybe it's a regional/black/age thing, but I've been aware of them for a while. Never cared to go to one, though. And certainly not this one.
They were pretty common when I was younger, like college age to mid-twenties. I wouldn't raise a brow at it then, but if it was people my age that would different.
Daisy Jane - Jan 12, 2011 8:56:09 am PST #16477 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
As long as we're talking about ignorant bloviators, this came up elsewhere: Glenn Beck is Prothero [link]