[QUOTE=Santo Rugger]
You’re not going to remember. You were too hammered the night you met. :smack:
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Oh, it would be so much easier if I could just write it off like that, but I’ve never managed to have that excuse.
[QUOTE=taxi78cab]
You can come to my house for a party any time! I’m certainly not going to complain about the person who cleans up for me! (Especially if you’ve transitioned into someone who cleans up after the party. That’s the best person to have around.)
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Thank you! Yes, I pride myself on being very party-worthy. I’m not much for interesting conversation or crazy hijinks, but I’m clean! 
[QUOTE=SmartAleq]
Then there’s the guy who brings a sixer of PBR and figures that entitles him to a random case of the GOOD beer everybody else brought. :rolleyes: It never fails, that crap sixer will still be there when he leaves and he always takes it with him. I’m never sure whether to be happy or pissed about that…
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That is a direct violation of the 86 rules of drinking. See #34.
[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
That is a direct violation of the 86 rules of drinking. See #34.
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Ooh, also Rule #73! Double douchebag points, then!
[QUOTE=don’t ask]
How did the thread go this far without someone mentioning the majesty of the statue shown to the right?
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“QUIT WHINING, YOU BIG BABIES!”
I laughed until I was literally in tears before I sent this picture to a few friends who found it.. not nearly as funny as I did. 
What picture?
[QUOTE=don’t ask]
How did the thread go this far without someone mentioning the majesty of the statue shown to the right?
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That statue is part of a large installation in Frogner Park here in Oslo. That’s right - we’ve got a whole park full of statues of similar awesomeness. You may express your admiration now.
[QUOTE=Malthus]
The worst is the couple who come and have an ugly domestic fight during the party - and neither will leave.
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Or even better - when they’re hosting the party, and they demand that everyone else stay regardless of the fight.
[QUOTE=flodnak]
That statue is part of a large installation in Frogner Park here in Oslo. That’s right - we’ve got a whole park full of statues of similar awesomeness. You may express your admiration now.
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Wha… Is this even in the correct thread?
ok good–I’m not the only one totally confused
[QUOTE=muldoonthief]
Or even better - when they’re hosting the party, and they demand that everyone else stay regardless of the fight.
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True, but that belongs on the list of “8 thinks you can do to ruin your own party”. 
[QUOTE=flodnak]
That statue is part of a large installation in Frogner Park here in Oslo. That’s right - we’ve got a whole park full of statues of similar awesomeness. You may express your admiration now.
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Did we mention Weird Non Sequitur Guy?
[QUOTE=Hampshire]
#??? - The OneUpper
No matter what the topic on hand is whenever someone shares a story the guy has to one-up it.
“I once almost drown in my neighbors pool.”
“Oh that’s nothing, I was stuck at the bottom of a lake for a half hour.”
“I drove my friends Corvette going 140mph.”
“Oh that’s nothing. My cousin has a Ferrari that I got up to 180.”
“I saw a dudes car with 30 speakers and 10 amps.”
“Aw, that’s nothing. I saw one with 50 speakers and 30 amps.”
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I knew a women who was this combined with a #5. Whatever bad happened to someone, she had to one upped it with her tale of woe. One party we were talking about a friend whose three year old son had been the victim of a murder/suicide by his father. Her response?
That’s not as bad as what happened to me. I had to buy both my parents.
Everyone had a WTF? look on their faces. I finally said “You are supposed to bury your parents. You are not suppose to bury your children.”
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
That’s not as bad as what happened to me. I had to buy both my parents.
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That surely depends on how much they cost. 
[sorry]
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Number 10- The “No matter what the topic of the conversation it happened to me and I’m an expert on it” guest (particularly bad when it’s a theater major.)
Number 11: The guest who responds to good natured ribbing (often by their partner) with a thoroughly nasty evil unfunny cutting comment that you all have to just awkwardly chuckle and pretend was somewhere between a joke and something that never happened (and you all know is going to be major conversation when he leaves).
Number 12: The ones who won’t take the hint to leave. Even when the hint is “I’m going to be now, goodnight.”
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Oh, yes. #10 is the entire Straight Dope Message Board, btw (said with love). I’ve been #11, sadly, but had #11 happen to me as well.
#12s should be hanged in the nearest closet. Nothing will make you NOT invited next time more quickly than to not leave when the party is OVER.
[QUOTE=SmartAleq]
Did we mention Weird Non Sequitur Guy?
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Too funny–I don’t see anything that remotely resembles an installation.
Hampshire! We have one of those in our local circle of friends. She drives me INSANE at parties. I love her dearly, she’s a good friend, but lawrd almighty, the one upmanship is enough to drive anyone around the bend. She’s also obsessed with her cleavage and will gladly shove it in everyone’s face and talk about it, at length. You’d think the guys would like that, but combined with the upmanship? It’s really, really REALLY old now.
Morose skinny guy who sits alone on the bottom of the stairs nursing a Pernod and a clove cigarette in the vain hope that this will make him look aloof yet sensitive and thus enigmatic, and that this strategy will get him laid.
[QUOTE=OpalCat]
I have a friend who is #9: Mr. Oh Look, You Have A Guitar. I like the guy a lot, mind you, and he’s pretty good at playing guitar, but when we have a bunch of people over I generally want to be social and talking to people, and when you have one guy sitting in the middle of the living room playing the guitar, nobody feels comfortable talking over him and the whole evening turns into Bored People Listen To Guitar Guy. Or at best, a couple of people having isolated conversations on the periphery.
(edited: I think next time we have people over, I’ll put the guitar in the bedroom ahead of time “so it doesn’t get damaged” and see if that does the trick.)
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THANK YOU! I HATE GUITAR GUY!
(It’s the way we all have to sit round pretending we’re enjoying this self-indulgent cauterwauling, and even thinking we have to tap our goddamn feet so we don’t look like a damn square, when in actual fact our look of raptuous attention is masking a deep homicidal tendency to take the guitar and hit Guitar Guy over the head with it.
What? Did I say that out loud? )
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
As someone who hates housework, I have to admit that I have two friends who are #8s and I ALWAYS invite them. The only time it annoys me, strangely, is when I’m at a party at their homes- you’re handed a drink and a napkin, pick up the drink and take a sip, start to put it back on the napkin and find the napkin is gone.
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My mom was like that, except it was coffee cups (my parents didn’t do booze parties). She’d serve people coffee, and then the instant they finished it she’d whisk the cup away to the kitchen sink. So if they wanted another cup they’d need a new one. 4-5 adults at the gettogether, and by the end of the night there were 20+ dirty coffee cups in the sink.
There was a list going around the Internet of “Signs You’ve Grown Up”. One said, “‘I’m never going to drink that much again!’ becomes ‘I just can’t drink like I used to.’”
[QUOTE=Scissorjack]
Morose skinny guy who sits alone on the bottom of the stairs nursing a Pernod and a clove cigarette in the vain hope that this will make him look aloof yet sensitive and thus enigmatic, and that this strategy will get him laid.
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He was my roommate back in the '70s.