If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Would have been a great weekend for a Murder Party (OT)
It was sunny here on Saturday and partly cloudy on Sunday. Gloomy on Monday
and downright rainy and stormy on Halloween. Would have been a great night for a Murder Party! Or even a great weekend for the same. To me, the trend of bell bottom jeans, hip huggers and daisy dukes, tie-dyed t-shirts, tube tops and smock tops... they look like costumes, don't they? Clogs and wedges and platform shoes. Costumes of an era now come back to haunt us. So why not Murder Parties? Nothing wrong with a good murder party Where you can dress up in character and also serve and eat good food. If you have the money you can rent a boat or an old mansion to stage the scene, but who do you know can do that without charging admission?! Think of the old game "Clue". No, this isn't Colonel Mustard in the Study with a Wrench. There doesn't need to be a butler and he didn't have to do it. My brother and I staged a Murder Party back in the 1980's. The premise was simple: we'd all just returned from the funeral of an old college chum and one of us murdered him, but he was my fiance! [In reality we made a lot of nice hot appetizers like buffalo chicken wings and potato skins and we had chips, various dips, vegetables and fruit and lots of beer and liquor available.] We were all supposed to be rehashing this fictitious characters' life after his funeral and trying to figure out who killed him. We all suspected one of us in the room had killed him, but why? We were each given "clues" to leave laying around. [I spent hours trying to get the stain on the note I had to drop without being caught look like old, dried blood... my only real experience with oil paints (and John was proud of the way I mixed them to achieve the shade when I told him about it.] Anyway, the person "leading" the game doesn't know the outcome, either, but he or she serves as a sort of director of the plot as things move along. And they are just as equally surprised as everyone else when the final information in each persons packet is revealed and you find out who the murderer is! A Murder Party can be great fun. Something to consider for *next* Halloween. But the only costumes required are those of the characters... sorry, you won't see Wolfman or Dracula or SpongeBob Squarepants. This is for adults and while they may be dressed in period character it's nothing too outlandish, if you get my meaning. There are a number of Murder Party hosting kits available online, some free, some not. But there's no need to wait for Halloween. As I recall, we did this party well before October around 1988. We had a blast! Good food, good fun, good times had by all. Except for the guy who didn't read his script and announced he thought he was the murderer when he wasn't. That guy turned out to be my (today) Internal Medicine doctor. I do not remind him of how he flubbed our 'Murder Party' Jill |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Would have been a great weekend for a Murder Party (OT)
jmcquown wrote: It was sunny here on Saturday and partly cloudy on Sunday. Gloomy on Monday and downright rainy and stormy on Halloween. Would have been a great night for a Murder Party! Or even a great weekend for the same. To me, the trend of bell bottom jeans, hip huggers and daisy dukes, tie-dyed t-shirts, tube tops and smock tops... they look like costumes, don't they? Clogs and wedges and platform shoes. Costumes of an era now come back to haunt us. So why not Murder Parties? Nothing wrong with a good murder party Where you can dress up in character and also serve and eat good food. If you have the money you can rent a boat or an old mansion to stage the scene, but who do you know can do that without charging admission?! Think of the old game "Clue". No, this isn't Colonel Mustard in the Study with a Wrench. There doesn't need to be a butler and he didn't have to do it. My brother and I staged a Murder Party back in the 1980's. The premise was simple: we'd all just returned from the funeral of an old college chum and one of us murdered him, but he was my fiance! [In reality we made a lot of nice hot appetizers like buffalo chicken wings and potato skins and we had chips, various dips, vegetables and fruit and lots of beer and liquor available.] We were all supposed to be rehashing this fictitious characters' life after his funeral and trying to figure out who killed him. We all suspected one of us in the room had killed him, but why? We were each given "clues" to leave laying around. [I spent hours trying to get the stain on the note I had to drop without being caught look like old, dried blood... my only real experience with oil paints (and John was proud of the way I mixed them to achieve the shade when I told him about it.] Anyway, the person "leading" the game doesn't know the outcome, either, but he or she serves as a sort of director of the plot as things move along. And they are just as equally surprised as everyone else when the final information in each persons packet is revealed and you find out who the murderer is! A Murder Party can be great fun. Something to consider for *next* Halloween. But the only costumes required are those of the characters... sorry, you won't see Wolfman or Dracula or SpongeBob Squarepants. This is for adults and while they may be dressed in period character it's nothing too outlandish, if you get my meaning. There are a number of Murder Party hosting kits available online, some free, some not. But there's no need to wait for Halloween. As I recall, we did this party well before October around 1988. We had a blast! Good food, good fun, good times had by all. Except for the guy who didn't read his script and announced he thought he was the murderer when he wasn't. That guy turned out to be my (today) Internal Medicine doctor. I do not remind him of how he flubbed our 'Murder Party' Jill There's a Victorian bed & breakfast here that stages a "murder party" every weekend. Rather like a living Clue game. You are provided with robes, and they come in the night and tell you someone has been murdered. Everyone goes to the study and tries to figure out who dun it. :-) Sherry |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Would have been a great weekend for a Murder Party (OT)
|
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Would have been a great weekend for a Murder Party (OT)
That does sound like fun!
Joy "jmcquown" wrote in message ... It was sunny here on Saturday and partly cloudy on Sunday. Gloomy on Monday and downright rainy and stormy on Halloween. Would have been a great night for a Murder Party! Or even a great weekend for the same. To me, the trend of bell bottom jeans, hip huggers and daisy dukes, tie-dyed t-shirts, tube tops and smock tops... they look like costumes, don't they? Clogs and wedges and platform shoes. Costumes of an era now come back to haunt us. So why not Murder Parties? Nothing wrong with a good murder party Where you can dress up in character and also serve and eat good food. If you have the money you can rent a boat or an old mansion to stage the scene, but who do you know can do that without charging admission?! Think of the old game "Clue". No, this isn't Colonel Mustard in the Study with a Wrench. There doesn't need to be a butler and he didn't have to do it. My brother and I staged a Murder Party back in the 1980's. The premise was simple: we'd all just returned from the funeral of an old college chum and one of us murdered him, but he was my fiance! [In reality we made a lot of nice hot appetizers like buffalo chicken wings and potato skins and we had chips, various dips, vegetables and fruit and lots of beer and liquor available.] We were all supposed to be rehashing this fictitious characters' life after his funeral and trying to figure out who killed him. We all suspected one of us in the room had killed him, but why? We were each given "clues" to leave laying around. [I spent hours trying to get the stain on the note I had to drop without being caught look like old, dried blood... my only real experience with oil paints (and John was proud of the way I mixed them to achieve the shade when I told him about it.] Anyway, the person "leading" the game doesn't know the outcome, either, but he or she serves as a sort of director of the plot as things move along. And they are just as equally surprised as everyone else when the final information in each persons packet is revealed and you find out who the murderer is! A Murder Party can be great fun. Something to consider for *next* Halloween. But the only costumes required are those of the characters... sorry, you won't see Wolfman or Dracula or SpongeBob Squarepants. This is for adults and while they may be dressed in period character it's nothing too outlandish, if you get my meaning. There are a number of Murder Party hosting kits available online, some free, some not. But there's no need to wait for Halloween. As I recall, we did this party well before October around 1988. We had a blast! Good food, good fun, good times had by all. Except for the guy who didn't read his script and announced he thought he was the murderer when he wasn't. That guy turned out to be my (today) Internal Medicine doctor. I do not remind him of how he flubbed our 'Murder Party' Jill |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
I'm Back, Murder Most Feline | Mathew Kagis | Cat anecdotes | 10 | April 1st 05 08:09 AM |
OT Great Quotes by Great Women | Holly | Cat anecdotes | 4 | February 11th 05 09:33 PM |
A Great Day | Toni&Nate | Cat health & behaviour | 3 | January 7th 05 12:38 AM |
Halloween party II | William Hamblen | Cat anecdotes | 17 | November 11th 04 11:07 PM |
Back from a long weekend (and a long post!) | Ginger-lyn Summer | Cat anecdotes | 10 | June 30th 04 09:29 PM |