December 18, 2004
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We always have a New Year’s Eve party. This year, we are not going to be home on New Year’s Eve, but we did not see that as a reason not to have the party, so we had it last night.
Our parties are pretty tame. Everyone starts out drinking wine or beer, but after the first or second drink, everyone switches to coke. We sit around eating and talking and there’s always a lot of laughing. We also play games. Last night we played Catch Phrase. As we were getting ready to play, we started to discuss the party games that were popular in the 60′s. You know the ones I am talking about; those intellectually stimulating games that involved activities like passing a lifesaver from person to person on toothpicks held in the players’ mouths or passing an orange held under the chin from person to person. The object of either game was to cause the players to do strange contortions to hold onto the object they were trying to pass. They were definitely not for those who were easily embarrassed!
The discussion brought to mind another party game that I played 20 years ago on a cruise ship. It was a rather interesting version of musical chairs called musical men. The basic premise of the two games is the same. The players walk around a set of “objects” as music plays. There is one less of the “objects” than there are of the players. When the music stops, the players must take possession of one of the “objects.” The unlucky player who does not get one is eliminated, one “object” is removed, and play continues until only 2 players and one “object” are left. In the case of musical men, all of the players are women and all of the “objects” are men. When the music stops, the goal is to grab more of one of the men than any other woman does.
That’s me in the white jumpsuit in the center there, grabbing that man in the light blue shirt. I had never seen that man before and thankfully have not seen him since. My husband is fond of telling people that towards the end of the game, the men looked “absolutely terrified” because the women really were diving at them rather viciously. I can’t remember if I won or not, but I know I came darned close.
Nobody at the party last night wanted to play musical men. I can’t understand why. It’s really a pretty good game!
Comments (19)
That sounds like a great game! Musical men!
I just love the mental image of the terrified men and the diving women!
Sounds like great fun playing party games . Its a shame that party games are not played very much even at children parties
Great picture and story.
Shoot, they were afraid of losing their husband to you!!!! You are one cute little chick in that picture so I bet the guy was tickled you got him!!! One good thing about your party is that no one had to recover the next day..good for you!
What a great game! That’s a cool idea to have an early new year’s party, too.
I could just see contorting now in my body condition.
Muscial men, you women should be ashamed of yourself! You’d not tolerate musical women I bet. lol
great photos and looks like a fun party.
You are right those games enjoyed the feast days . I imagine the men terrified towards the end of the game by the women grasping them in shooting . The poor men !
You are beautiful on the picture Nancy and the musical man don’ t look terrified but amused .
I wish you a merry Christmas to you both Nancy .
Love
Michel
Hey Nancy!
Just stopping by super quick! Thanks so much for your kind words!!!
That is a beautiful picture!! Thanks for sharing it here!!
(((Love & Hugs))))
Shara
Great picture, and that does sound like a fun party game, but mix that with strip poker and it would get REAL interesting.
ryc: Yes dogs sure can be gross! And I sympathize with you still having to grade. I too hate grading. Students always feel like they deserve a higher grade then you have given them. Even if they have never shown up all semester! And I always feel bad when they don’t get the grade they want. Well, hope the grading isn’t too bad.
laughing and playing games… the perfect party
Bloody hell, your parties are wild, I prefer parties where a group of usdrink wine and discuss French philosophers, but then guess I am a boring nerd!
Musical men…hmmmmm…could be lots of variations on that game.
The picture is a hoot, and you are beautiful in it. Hope you had a great Christmas. Judy
ryc: Thanks for the good Christmas wishes! I did indeed have a happy Christmas despite everything. It was nice to see and spend time with my family. Hope your Christmas was also merry!
Man grabbing sounds right up my alley! lol Looks like you all were having fun.
Happy New Year!!
I once played a version of that game that no man would play for a second round. It was musical chairs on the beach but the men were sitting in the chairs and the women were wearing bikinis. It was a LOT of fun for the women and v embarrassing for the poor dic sorry dears.
Happy New Year to you
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Happy New Year!!!
(((Hugs))
Shara