June 11, 2005

• Happy Birthday meredithea!
• ouch Happy birthday!
• would you say you have a plethora of pinata links?
• Adult pinatas! Fill it with little liquor bottles and condoms... good times. Happy Birfday!
• Yes, El Guapo, I would say that I have a plethora of pinata links! Thanks! I love my birthday!
• Here's the punch recipe we're using for the party: Mint Julep Punch 1 liter burbon fresh mint 2 liters lemon lime soda 46 oz pinapple juice (steep mint in burbon overnight, then combine ingredients) I think this punch, plus the bat we're using to bust the pinata, will be a champion combination.
• Happy Birthday meredithea! Hope you have fun. Many years ago my housemates and I decided to make a pinata for a birthday party. We blew up balloons, made flour and water paste, used strips of newspaper. It was really fun. Problem was the balloon died before the paper mache was set, so the pinata looked like a raisin. And we only had acrylic paint, so it was a big technicolor raisin. Plus it was late August in the midwestern US. Very humid. We couldn't break the damn thing. Finally, after moving it inside because of a thunderstorm, the birthday boy stood on it and beat it repeatedly with a baseball bat. It exploded. All over the living room. We kept finding candy and bits of paper mache for months.
• I think this punch, plus the bat we're using to bust the pinata, will be a champion combination. Ouch. Just don't fill the bats with napalm, and it'll all be good. Seriously, try to use one of those bats with a thick, soft wrapping, because if a blindfolded, agressive kid with a hard bat can be quite deadly, imagine an adult with a tankful of punch. At a nephew's birthday party, a kid's grip on a broom stick failed and instead of finally creaking the dinosaur piñata, it flew away to the neighbour's patio and smashed a window.
• Hey, your b-day piñata looks like Puff. I suppose there are some other adult-themed fillings you could use that aren't as breakable as little liquor bottles. Have a happy one!
• If you can't make it to meredithea's b-day party Hippo birdy two ewes... Hippo birdy two ewes... I've got a virtual piñata...
• This upsets me, this post. I had an idea to make and market George W. Bush pinatas -- and it turned out somebody else was already marketing 'em. (Kind of like an earlier idea, on which I was also beaten to the punch, of manufacturing GWB talking action figures, which would say various Bush malapropisms.) Alas. Meanwhile: Happy birthday, meredithea!
• HawthornWingo, I was considering the Jesus Pinata market but it seems that Mel Gibson already beat me to it.
• I made a pacman and ghost combo piñata set for my 11 grade spanish class. They won "best in class", woohoo! Crap I wish I had a picture to share!
• I've been to an adult pinata party that had condoms in the pinata along with the candy. Theater people: what can you say? But it was a lot of fun to try to break it up. I wonder where you put up the pinata when you live in an urban area with no grass? I don't think I've ever done one indoors and I shudder to think about some of the people I know loose with something useful for pinata-breaking indoors. Especially when they've had a few servings of mint julep punch. and happy birthday, meridithea!
• Thanks everyone! The pinata was killed without a hitch (ie, no one got their head broken). We played with the pinata in the alley behind my house. I don't have a tree branch low enough to hang the pinata from, so I got my tallest friend to hold one end of a broom and we tied the pinata to the other end. Realizing the danger inherent in this (and in the punch), everyone was pretty tentative when they hit the pinata. After the pinata lost, my friend was fine but the plastic broom handle was toast :) My friend Jamie and I (who were sharing the birthday party since our b-days are very close together) filled the pinata with toys from Big Lots (if you don't have one of these, Big Lots gets all of the stuff that didn't sell when it was at the regular store. When they want to get rid of it, they give it to Big Lots. Cheap, weird goodness ensues.). We had stretchy robots, little cars, candy, balloons, and those toys that look like a pill or a coin but turn into a towel or something when you drop them in water. The toys went over big :)
• Happy belated birthday, meredithea. Geminis rule!!!
• From me, too. Coincidentally, we were out of town for my nephew's third birthday, and he had a Spider-Man pinata. The highlight was when his dad was allowed the final deathblow. Candy shot at bullet speed toward the crowd, and a jawbreaker struck one of the parents on the bridge of the nose. She went down like a sack of hammers. Soooo funny.
• I don't know what this candy is that came out of immlass' pinata, but it's very very chewy and kinda tastes like lotion...
• I love wendell!
• Alas. Canadian children of my generation did not do well with pinatas. We did not have what it took, being taught not to push and shove, an insurmountable handicap in these festivities.
• Aaah, bees- the salt-encrusted wasp nest that cruel Maritimers use for such purposes at their narsty parties probably disinclined you towards whacking, too.
• Only met a wasps' nest once, when I was ten. Once was more than enough, tick. I don't wish at this time and stone cold sober to boot to discuss whacking or other abuse of my person.
• Oh! and PY... I was picturing the plastic little liquor bottles they use 'round these parts. I imagine they could take a beatin' without leakin' No broken glass in MY bourbon, s'il vous plait.
• I used to tell my kids: BEHAVE, or I'll wack your pinata.
• Would you say there is a plethora of pinatas?