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    Have a MEGA-fondue party, with cool tunes and dim lights for dancing in
    one room, and allow your guests to sample meat fondue with various
    sauces, fresh veggies with tempura batter to dip in before frying in a
    different fondue pot, a third fondue pot for cheese fondue (bread and
    veggies can go in this one), and a fourth for (what else?) chocolate
    fondue!
    
    or have an "inner visions" party......they seem to work pretty well ;)!
    
    -Jody
    

I got invited to a party feature "Pin the Tail on the Quayle", and have been
waiting to try it out ever since.
	Mez

    
    My wife and I held a "blues" party once. We of course played
    the "blues all night or songs with "blue" in the title.
    We changed all the light bulbs to blue and the kicker was that
    we required everyone to dress in all blue. 
    
    As the night went on, and more and more guests arrived, dressed
    in blue, it just got funnier and funnier. And I think the inherent
    silliness of it helped to put people at ease faster than might
    normally happen with people who don't all know each other.
    
    							Hank
    
    ps. Mez, great game title.

    Yeah, but there really aren't any REAL blue foods....
    
    Blue curacao can turn almost any DRINK blue though!
    
    -Jody
    

    Ah, but with imagination a blue menu IS possible.
    
    Blue corn tortilla chips
    Blue curacao margaritas
    Any pale food can be dyed with blue food dye/curacao  
       -- blue poached pears are great
       -- blue lamb is a bit hard on the eyes but tastes fine,
          specially with blueberry-based chutney
       -- cauliflower dyes well but even when blue I think it tastes vile
       -- then there's always bluefish
    Blueberry tarts with blue whipped cream
    Probably possible to make a blue tofu casserole thing
    
       Margaret (Does the word "blue" always look misspelled to you, too?)
    
                                     

Have TOYS!

Really, this isn't incompatible with any other theme.  Adults love kids toys...
put a slinky on the coffee table and super-balls in the sink, and slime on  top
of the TV and lego's in the dining room and pinwheels in the bathroom and
bubbles on the porch. It's *amazing* to see a group of 5 supposedly grown-up
adults totally wrapped up in building the world's largest lego spaceship
together - adults who never knew eachother before then.

Toys work just as well for adults as for kids in letting people get to
know eachother..."Can I play too?"  :-)

D!

RE:              <<< Note 232.6 by TLE::D_CARROLL "Assume nothing" >>>

Great suggestion D!  Hmmm.  Maybe I'll (or we) should have a toy party!

I'll bring my kids toy sack and Charles can bring his whips and chains
and stuff ;-)

Found a great new toys last week.  One is a top that you can write on with
4 crayons included.  When you spin it around you can see what kind of
patterns your drawing made.  Also I picked up a "Laserdisc" top to
replace the hologram top I lost.  This one is even better and you can
see all kinds of shimmering colors that vary depending on what angle
you look at it.  This looks especially cool through a Mr Wizard lens I
also picked up last week (at this neat toy store in Newburyport called
Dragon's nest of something like that (I think)...

john

    And there are some really nifty kaleidoscopes out there - some which
    have beachglass in them, or little marbles or shells or flowers - some
    which have crystals in them cut in all sorts of shapes - and one which
    can hold a "sparkly-filled glass wand" on the end so when you turn it
    the sparkles lazily glide through the pattern.
    
    And then there's kooshes.  And slinkies.  And silly putty.  And
    play-dough.  And those klick-klack executive-toys with the five balls
    on the fishing wire that click back and forth.  And those "wave
    machines" with the blue solution in them that rocks back and forth. 
    And there's lava lamps.  And whizzer tops (I was amazed to see one at
    Doug's house at the Party - I have on in my office too!). ....and of
    cours stuffed animals....and marbles....and crdls (magnetized pieces of
    metal which you can form into sculpted shapes).....
    
    the possibilities are endless!
    
    -Jody
    

    
    I've got a whole box full of Transformers (you know, the little
    vehicles that turn into robots and stuff) and Legos and slotless race
    cars with headlights that light up and kalaidascopes and other random
    toys...I've always been amazed at how quickly my living room floor can
    turn into a playroom for adults :-)
    
    					/Rita
    
    

Re: .7

	"I'll bring my kids toy sack and Charles can bring his whips and
	chains and stuff ;-)"

;-) yourself you pervert. :-)

I have LOTS of "other" toys as anyone who's seen my office will attest. From
where I'm sitting I see:

	Large rubber ball (kickball size)
	Silly bowler hat
	ping-pong paddles
	squeak pickle
	roller skates
	many stuffed toys (dino, pteri, two parrots, ladybug, frog, ...)
	two diffraction gratings - reflecting and transmitting (make rainbows!)
	wire puzzle (LARGE wire - more like steel rods)
	kokeshi doll
	radio controlled porsche
	Vegimal's fantasy butterfly (reversible stuffed toy - caterpillar/b'fly)
	about 100 polydrons (four colors)
	three containers of bubble liquid
	bubble trumpet
	Pustefix Bubble Bear
	High Hopping Hoomdorm
	Floomdorm
	Six slinkies of various sizes
	Various wind up toys
	kite and string
	whistles
	various small rubber and plastic animals
	flying penguini
	glow in the dark squid

		and

	a rubber chicken hanging from the ceiling by a noose

And this is just what I have at WORK. :-) Come by my office and play some time.

	-- Charles


	

    Re .2
    
    Dear, dear, dear.  I can hardly bring myself to ask?
    
    aq
    

    in re .10
    
    *MY*!

RE:  Charles.  Excuse me sir.  Your taste in toys in more varied than
I thought.  My most humble apologies...



I HAVE MORE TOYS THAN YOU DO.  ;-P

john

    Ahem, boys, boys...   Charles, John, yes you two.
    
    Stop squabbling over which of you has more toys in the office and
    acknowledge my office as the Digital branch of "Toys R Us"
    
    Although I admit I don't have a stuffed toy that metamorphoses from
    butterfly to caterpiller and back again. Sounds neat!  But I do have a
    wind up Robby the Robot.  Ditched the TMNTs a while ago for becomming
    too common.
    
       :^)    :^)     :^)     :^)    Margaret
    

    
    Myself I don't have to many toys in the office, though paperclips
    and old printer magnets are fun.  I do keep one toy with me at all
    times, it's a rather versatile, portable, compact, forward and 
    backward compatable with childhood, and doesn't need batteries. 
    	
    	My imagination, I never leave my mind without it!
    	
    a-

    	RE: 232.14
    
    	I'm not very fond of snakes. Margaret and I are working
    	on the same project. Every time I walk into her office
    	I am confronted with the large, curled (rubber) snake
    	lying on the floor of her cube.
    
    	Now, I understand how the autonomic nervous system
    	works, and mine works fine.
    
    	Scott

    
    
    >	Is that because you don't share your transformers on first dates ?
    
    Nope, it's because I only share my transformers in groups ;-)
    
    (I'll do better next time, honest!)
    
    
    _In_the_doghouse_with_eagles :-(
    
    					/R
    
    

    
    i used to think i had a lot of toys in my office.
    
    currently can see one bottle of bubble solution (my Pustefix bear is on 
    loan to lil sis....she went to a dead show, needed it); flat cat,
    two darts guns and a pellet gun to shot it with; practice cactus;
    various buttons on my wall; foam rock; candy dish; kite; pente;
    and various pictures/clippings that people tend to find amusing.
    
    not to mention a couple of toys that digital was kind enough to
    provide:  Whiteboards!
    
    one of the first things that i look for when i attend a party is the
    toys.  i am usually a little let down if none are in view.
    
    getting back to party themes........
    
    how difficult is it to have a tie-dye party?  in terms of cleaning up
    afterwards and such....i have always wanted to have one, and have seen
    the dyes in places like CVS, but i'm afraid of making a mess and having
    a major cleanup on my hands.....a lot of people that i have mentioned
    the idea to have loved it, though....
    
    

    re .19
    
    If you're thinking of having a tie-dye party during the summer, set up
    the dye vats on a table outside, with lots of newspaper.
    
    I was always relegated to the porch when I use the dyes, since my mother 
    wasn't crazy about having a tie-dyed house!
    
    Judi