Announcing This Week’s Theme: Bachelor Parties
Published by Joel April 16th, 2007 in Announcements. Share ThisAt no point is a man more sure he’s ready to commit to a lifetime with one woman than when he’s buried neck deep in the crotch of a stripper so filled with cocaine her vagina looks like a snow drift. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard, having never been to a bachelor party worth its weight in antibiotics. Instead, bachelor parties are often somber affairs, informal burials of boyhoods, or pathetically drunken hugfests. Could there be a bachelor party out there that lives up to the legends?
This week we’ll be looking at the full spectrum of the bachelor party experience, handily guided by David Boyer, whose new book “Bachelor Party Confidential: A Real-Life Peek Behind The Closed-Door Tradition” is about to pop like a ping-pong ball from the splayed doors of book stores everywhere. (And is shipping from Amazon.) Be sure to send in your tips, questions, and most importantly most profound, embarrassing, or sappy tales of the last free day of your life.
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12 Responses to “Announcing This Week’s Theme: Bachelor Parties”
- 1 Pingback on Apr 16th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
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Great title. My friend is getting married this summer and it looks like me and another guy will end up being in charge of the bachelor party.
I will be reading eagerly for tips and for ideas for what kind of party to throw.
Also, I have been told by the bride (and the groom) in no uncertain terms that there should be no strippers. Is that kosher? Can the bride dictate the party terms?
I don’t think the bride should be allowed to dictate the party terms, no. But, if those throwing the party like/respect her, her wishes could be taken into consideration, even if they’re ultimately discarded. But, since the groom also expressed the same wishes, seems like case closed. I mean, the party is allegedly for him, right?
To me, it’s less about sex, and more about getting into trouble and having a really good story to tell at the end of the night. It’s an excuse to get your friends off their sedentary asses to intentionally misbehave. And if you need to hire somebody to get yourself into trouble, you probably also need to hire somebody to have fun. Which is lame.
At the end of the day, the people I already know are a thousand times more debauched than anybody we could hire. I’m counting on that still being the case by October.
Also, what Xtine says is very true. A lot of people plan these parties around humiliating their friend, or using it as an excuse to scratch their own kinky itches. I hate it when people force the person to do shit they don’t like. Whether it’s a veil and a penis straw, or being taken to a strip club on acid, where you are taken on stage and the strippers line up to tear your underwear off when you’re wearing a leather thong. That’s just not a nice thing to do to anybody.
And THAT’S why women aren’t allowed.
It’s all about plausible deniability. I gave my best man a list of guys I knew, and he did the rest - I just knew the date.
If you’re close enough with your friend to get him to throw your bachelor party, presumably you’re close enough that he knows your limits, and he’s friend enough to not stretch those limits TOO far.
But he should also be friend enough to stretch them a little…
That’s ridiculous. I’ve thrown better bachelor parties for my male friends than any guy I know. Ask Alex!
It’s true, I had an awesome bachelor party. Best part was how the whole thing was a total shock and surprise to me; Kat pulled it out of her ass in the last minute, made dozens of calls and damned near everyone showed up.
I’ll never forget how it felt when I was overcome with happiness at how everyone turned out for this, and then looked around, wondering where one absent friend - who lived in the residence - was not there. I had barely uttered, “where’s Miss Susie?” (different Susie), when alla the sudden I was put in a chair and the lights were dimmed, and out she came, all dolled up like Christmas, and gave me a sweet, sexy striptease in front of everyone. Definitely PG-13, but being that she was a dear old friend (at whose bachelorette party *I* had actually danced some years prior!) it was all the more special and bedazzling.
The best bachelor party is one where your pals really come through and make you feel special and adored, and send you off to your wedding with all the support in the world; I’m sure that had they not liked my bride as much it may well have been a truly lurid and vulgar display, but this was classy and considerate of both her interests and mine.
I haven’t seen that tape in a long time, Kat. I hope it was recovered…
I have thrown four bachelor parties and if you don’t do what they want or go somewhere they don’t want to go they won’t have fun. You have to listen to the groom. If he wants naked women, get naked women, if he doesn’t don’t bother.
I’ve got the tape! I couldn’t find your wedding tape in his crap, but I did find the one from the bachelor party.
I probably won’t be getting them, however the only reason the groom has told me no is because he knows the bride will be upset. She is also my friend and I don’t really want to make her upset.
Also the groom has told me the quality of the strippers in his hometown might not be very high.
Reading some of today’s posts, I see I have a lot more work to do to try and plan this event in a town I have never been.
Great topic!
My Fiance and I had a six hour fight yesterday over his bachelor party. It started at breakfast with his family when his perverted father started talking about his bachelor party and what great ideas he has.
I don’t think the whole thing is necessary, he does. I find the whole thing a bit archaic and a silly tradition. I don’t plan on having a bachelorette. I think drinking out of a penis straw and wearing a silly veil has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I feel bad for those girls when I see them at bars.
He agreed to not have one, but then I felt like I was taking something important away from him.
Then we tried to compromise by saying, ok party, no strippers. But then I feel like his friends are going to be all pissed off about it.
I feel like I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place here.