If you threw a party, the worst thing you could have done was throw the
kind of party where your guests wake up today and call you up to say they had
a nice time. Now you'll be expected to throw another party next year.
What you should have done was throw the kind of party where your guests
wake up several days from now and call their lawyers to find out if they've
been indicted for anything. You want your guests to be so anxious to avoid a
recurrence of your party that they immediately start planning parties of
their own, a year in advance, just to prevent you from having another one.
So next time, make sure your party reaches the correct Festivity Level:
Festivity Level One:
Your guests are chatting amiably with each other, admiring your
Christmas-tree ornaments, singing carols around the upright piano, sipping at
their drinks and nibbling at hors d'oeuvres.
Festivity Level Two:
Your guests are talking loudly - sometimes to each other and sometimes to
nobody at all, rearranging your Christmas-tree ornaments, singing "I
Gotta Be Me" around the upright piano, gulping their drinks and wolfing
down hors d'oeuvres.
Festivity Level Three:
Your guests are arguing violently with inanimate objects, singing "I
Can't Get No Satisfaction," gulping other people's drinks, wolfing down
Christmas-tree ornaments and placing hors d'oeuvres in the upright piano to
see what happens when the little hammers strike.
Festivity Level Four:
Your guests, hors d'oeuvres smeared all over their naked bodies, are
performing a ritual dance around the burning Christmas tree. The piano is
missing.
You want to keep your party somewhere around Level Three, unless you rent
your home and own firearms, in which case you can go to Level Four. The best
way to get to Level Three is eggnog.
Eggnog is a traditional holiday drink invented by the English. Many people
wonder where the word "eggnog" comes from. The first syllable comes
from the English word "egg," meaning, "egg." I don't know
where the "nog" comes from.
To make eggnog, you'll need rum, whiskey, wine, gin and, if they are in
season, eggs. Combine all ingredients in a large, festive bowl. Then induce
your guests to drink this mixture.
If your party is successful, the police will knock on your door, unless
your party is very successful, in which case they will lob tear gas through
your living-room window. As host, your job is to make sure they don't arrest
anybody. Or if they're dead set on arresting someone, your job is to make
sure it isn't you. The best way to do this is to show a lot of respect for
their uniforms and assure them you're not doing anything illegal. Here's how
to handle it:
Police: Good evening. Are you the host?
You: No.
Police: We've been getting complaints about this party.
You: About the drugs?
Police: No.
You: About the guns, then? Is somebody complaining about the guns?
Police: No, the noise.
You: Oh, the noise. Well, that makes sense, because there are no guns or
drugs here. (An enormous explosion is heard in the background.) Or fireworks.
Who's complaining about the noise? The neighbours?
Police: No, the neighbours fled inland hours ago. Most of the recent
complaints have come from Albuquerque. Do you think you could ask the host to
quiet things down?
You: No problem. (At this point, a Volkswagen bug with primitive religious
symbols drawn on the doors emerges from the living room and roars down the
hall, past the police and out the front door onto the lawn, where it smashes
into a tree. Eight guests tumble out onto the grass, moaning.) See? Things
are starting to wind down.
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