Horror Flicks
 

And I was going to guess that you went to Rushmore.

Gift Help
 

Gifts for new dog owners! Jeez - guess that's my excuse to register - think I can score some crystal and new Manolo Blahniks? - As SATC aptly demonstrated, I've ponied up thousands for showers/weddings etc. The new dog is my turn to recoup! I may even throw a shower with goofy dog games just to torture those whose showers I have attended.

I've used that strategy. Unfortunately, my cellar is now brimming with 486 unopened bottles of Charles Shaw cab, representing a total appraised value of $972 and leaving no room for the Châteauneuf du Pape and Brunello di Montalcino I'm hoping my new, classier friends will bring me.

This Christmas, everybody on the FB is getting a bottle of Charles Shaw from me. From the heart.

Just Chillin' at the Ole Folks Home
 

And yet this guy managed to get himself invited to at least one co-worker's wedding.

Gift Help
 

While amusing, that was non-responsive. However, I think that you should require all guests to come as their favorite breed of dog. Or, even better (and crueler) you could assign them breeds. That bitchy sister-in-law? Mexican hairless.

I'm much in favor of my friends having pets rather than children.

Yeah, but if you cellar 'em for a few years, you'll be drinking wine fit for a king and/or sitting on a gold mine.

The Restaurant
 

I couldn't figure out why the waitress and Rocco thought he was so cute. He's going to grow up to be the guy who sits at the bar throwing out lame lines but never gets laid.

Was Jason Giambi at that table too or was he at another one?

The table of black ladies cracked me up but I was surprised Rocco or Laurent didn't get upset they were monopolizing the waiter for so long.

Considering how long people were waiting for food there, I'd be pissed if I were waiting for food and my waitron was sitting at another table.

Denigrate me, baby
 

Eli: I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum.
Royal: Me too, me too.

Let's shag ass.

Gift Help
 

As they are friends of yours, I'm inclined to agree.

Just Chillin' at the Ole Folks Home
 

Yeah, well it was a small enough place that we thought it would be rude to invite some people and not everyone, so he was on the list of everyone else. And there was no way he was going to pass up on free food and booze. I knew he was tacky, but had no idea how tacky. Turns out as I find out later that he had been giving old wedding presents out as Christmas/birthday presents to people. How he got anyone to marry him is still a mystery.

Gift Help
 

Sorry - although I live in No. VA - have no idea as to spa in Richmond area and no idea anywhere to get a doogie gift basket - But I will go with your party suggestions.

Gift Help
 

http://www.allnaturaldogtreats.com/s...iftbasket.html
(Spree: Dog Treats)

Gift Help
 

Honey, you ARE a pet, and presumably all your friends are animals as well. None of you should have children. Bitch.

Jesus Kills but SUVs Crush Better
 

I have an alibi.

I couldn't have been running down a crowd in New Jersey when I was busy running down my boyfriend in San Antonio.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/825...e_runover.html

Jesus Kills but SUVs Crush Better
 

So if the culprit was the girlfriend, could the woman the victim was seen with earlier in the evening have been his wife?

Anne
Those family trees are so confusing in Texas.

Wait a minute. Am I the only person on the face of the earth who believes that guests should not bring anything? I must be the only one who goes out and stocks the bar, gets beer, makes all of the appetizers and cooks all of the food when I have a party. Even for a silly little Super Bowl party. I even gave away hockey tickets as a door prize for one party that I hosted. Have I been wrong all of these years? Is my husband right about this one?:eek:
Maybe this is why I don't like having parties...

Jesus Kills but SUVs Crush Better
 

Ahh, the SUV is the weapon of choice for running down boyfriends. That's what he gets for dating someone so young (and obviously unstable).

You should do what everyone else does. I nearly always see people bring wine to a dinner (unless it's obviously not really a dinner, but a recruiting event or something) but don't see hard liquor brought as often. However, I bring hard liquor to friends who have me over a lot but who don't come to my house much (their house is more fun, damn rich bastards) because I drink a lot of theirs.

If your guests don't show up with liquor, you have to supply it yourself, you poor thing.

If so, then I am wrong too. I haven't given away hockey tickets, but I do purchase and prepare plenty of food and drink for my guests. Still, people bring stuff and I end up with all this extra alcohol. The extra food is my fault.

Anne
I like having parties. Especially when all the groups mix and mingle. I wonder how my real friends would take to the FB crowd. Maybe I'll leave the laptop running during the next gathering.

No, it is my fault. For whatever reason (probably my bitch mother) I always thought that it was wrong for people to bring food or beverage to your house when you throw a party (although she also told me to never go to the home of another empty handed -- what the fuck do I about this obvious conflict?). My husband makes it clear to his friends not to bring anything so they don't -- no wink wink we will just bring something. My hubby thinks that by being this way I am unfair to my guests who may want to contribute to the party. Now I don't know what to do because the FBers seem to be on his side with this one.

I think it's meant more as a gift than a "I brought this for all of us to drink right now" thing. Although the booze usually gets consumed immediately. I frequently have enough booze/wine to go around no matter what. Even when I insist on people not bringing anything, people still show up with something. Doesn't bother me at all.

Edited to add that you're not wrong: you should be prepared; and you should never attend a party empty-handed. Quite the paradox, eh?

No. Entirely reasonable. I've just come to realize that guests these days insist on bringing alcohol. I think its pennance for all the free liquor mooching they did up through law school. Realizing my friends are going to bring a bunch of beer, I now adjust the amount I get to be enough to get things started.

That is my philosophy too. I don't think a party is syonymous with byo stuff. That is why I don't host too many parties, unless I am co-hosting with many roommates and they do all the hostessy type work.

I would very much like to go to one of your parties though.

Bringing a perishable food item to someone else's party is absolutely insulting, unless you are asked to do so, in which case the party is pot-luck (i.e., appropriate for church suppers, but you can't really claim to have "hosted" the party or expect hospitality in return). If someone other than an immediate family member showed up on my doorstep holding so much as a bag of chips, I'd be mortified. Mortified!

However, your guests are not supposed to arrive empty-handed. They're supposed to bring a hostess gift. Often, this takes the form of a bottle of wine or liquor. Unfortunately, some have taken this tradition to mean that the host is supposed to pour that bottle during the course of the evening --- not so.

To avoid the whole "shall we open their nice bottle of red when halibut is on the menu?" discussion, the Grinch family's preferred hostess gift is a bouquet of flowers. It's both traditional and slightly out-of-the-ordinary (for California, at least). It smacks of thoughtfulness, which is what a gift is supposed to do. The trick is not to make any comments about where it should be placed --- you can't expect your hosts to change their centerpiece just because you blew $14 at Safeway's floral section.

Atticus and DS will break in on this one soon and side with you. To me it seems kind of like a formality thing -- the more informal the gathering, the more likely/acceptable it is for people to bring stuff. Generally if people are having a fairly formal dinner party, I don't bring anything (unless of course they need to borrow dishes or something ;)). If it's a somewhat last-minute get-together I will ask what I can bring but generally take what people say at face value.

Edited to say: See! There's Atticus just as predicted.

It's up to each individual party goer to decide if he or she would like to bring a gift to the party, but there's no reason a hostess should refuse gifts out of hand. Alcohol is often an easy gift to bring to a party, especially if the guest anticipates that lots of alcohol will be consumed.

You've never thrown a party at your house where say, you made the burgers and someone else brought the potato salad and someone else brought a watermelon and someone else brought the beer?

Being a good host and guest
 

I feel better now. Thank you. I guess the problem is that hubby's profession puts us in the position of being the wealthiest people that his friends at work know. Let's just say that after years of service the hubby makes less per year than my paralegal and his department is the highest paid in the area. Most of the guys he works with have numerous children (cops and firemen, what is with that breeding thing? Is it a fear of death and need to procreate?) and stay at home wives so they could never throw an "all inclusive" party like we can. I guess people in lower income brackets are just used to combining resources. Beats me. I will continue, with the apparent blessing of the FB, to do it my way.:D

Nice one, Jack. Too bad I'm blurring your eyes with that double vision.

str8

Absolutely -- it's a gift, and you should not expect the host to use the gift that night, rather than saving it.

But people don't necessarily recognize this, and it can be awkward -- like if I make dinner for people, and choose a really special (expensive/unusual/complementary) bottle of wine, and they bring a perfectly good but not as special bottle that I would prefer to set aside.

Fortunately, like many problems, this one can be resolved simply by drinking more.

Being a good host and guest
 

In that milieu, that could be interpreted as being patronizing. Unless your hubby is their boss. I'm not saying you are being patronizing, I'm saying some picky bitchy pissy mean people might take it upon themselves to be insulted by your hospitality, and the avenue for that in this case would be by characterizing it as "patronizing." Or maybe some synonym of patronizing.

I partly just wanted to say milieu again, especially since I already looked up how to spell it.

Wedding Question
 

My freshman year intro micro economics textbook. Now when people call me lazy, I can just counter that I value my leisure time more highly than most and am making rational labor/leisure tradeoffs that get me to my highest indifference curve. Then they walk away so I can go back to watching the World Series of Poker.

str8

Yes. The host should be free to save the gift for re-gifting to the woman from her husband's office who invited them to her wedding.

Wedding Question
 

Speaking of, how were the strippers and blow?

Public Service Announcement
 

Speaking of milieu, I just wanted to remind all the boastful denizens of our fine forum that next week is the time to show the rest of the world your wonderful, ahem, Racks.

Anonymously, of course.

not7yS

Being a good host and guest
 

it is not patronizing for TF to provide for her guests. any of them who think of TF as the stuck up rich lawyer will anyway. plus, we should assume that people have friends ltl, just because you and i have driven everyone away doesn't mean the others don't have solid friendships. she should still do that which she feels is right. My god, you've probably already made her feel uncomfortable about this. so TF keep buying when you have a party- its not patronizing especially bwecause you guys just drink beer. any one could buy a keg when they have a party; it is not a rich/middle clas issue.

Public Service Announcement
 

As a nice Jewish boy, I think that I'm getting a taste of how the rest of the world feels as December 25th creeps closer, far too slowly.

Public Service Announcement
 

And Leagl will know how it feels to belong to a family that opens presents on Christmas Eve.

Public Service Announcement
 

Do we have any idea of how many pictures have been submitted? 'Cause I want to see some nudity.

Being a good host and guest
 

As I said, I am not saying she is patronizing I'm just saying that some ungrateful guests might ungraciously view her as being patronizing. Sometimes we don't realize how other people might view our behavior, particularly if we think we are behaving "correctly."
It is my goal to make other people feel as bad as possible at all times. Good to know I'm achieving it. Acheiving. Achieving. Whatever.
I'm assuming you are a cheap-ass who lives in the same city and you just want to get invited to her house for free food and liquor.
Hold the phone -- they provide beer only? That's one sucky party. People think they are patronizing AND cheap. What a combo.

Need I even say, ;).

Honky, is a slur?
 

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Trifling, from you. Like there isn't better?

swamp kike
dago wop
guerro
stupid roundeye
etc
etc