Boston party theme!

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<p>You know what else I associate with Boston, although it’s gone national in the past 20 years? Armenian string cheese, with a few caraway seeds. That was an exotic treat I would sometimes get when I visited there.</p>

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<p>Roadrunner!!! love that song. Actually, H and I might have one of the largest collections of Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers outside of New England.</p>

<p>(Oh-ohhh, New England.)</p>

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<p>You can eat grinders and drink frappes. I agree on the ice cream - though that seems to be a thing all over New England.</p>

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<p>Get some Narragansett beer (it’s still available…had some a few months ago)
Ken’s salad dressing.
Everybody talk in Boston accent all night.
Get in a fight.
Every once in a while, yell out “Sulli!” or “Murph!!”
Sign that says, “Please leave sneakers and shoes at door.”
Get some of those Boston hot dog buns that are sort of square if you look at them from the end. <a href=“http://www.mapleandmore.com/html/mapleandmore_com_features_new_.html[/url]”>http://www.mapleandmore.com/html/mapleandmore_com_features_new_.html&lt;/a&gt;
Call hamburgers “hamburgs.”</p>

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<p>I agree anyone who is going to live in Boston has to be introduced to the Charlie MTA song! I learned the words soon after moving there on a crowded T train after a Red Sox game - the entire car was belting out the song. Very funny. But why did his wife throw him a sandwich but not enough money to pay the fare?</p>

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<p>It was supposedly written for a political campaign to lower T fares back in the 40’s and then changed around by the Kingston Trio. So it was supposed to be funny and grabby, not accurate. Like political ads today are fabrications.</p>

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<p>It makes me extremely happy that the declining-balance public transportation cards in Boston are called Charlie Cards. :)</p>

<p>Pennants/banners from all the local universities would make great decor.</p>

<p>They do serve Harvard beets in Harvard dining halls without a hint of irony.</p>

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<p>You have forgotten the very best ice cream ever–Toscaninis in Central Square. The New York Times said it was the best ice cream in the world.</p>

<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.tosci.com%5DToscanini%C2%92s%5B/url”>http://www.tosci.com]Toscanini’s[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>from Sweet Baby James
“The first of December was covered with snow…so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston…”</p>

<p>James Taylor, after leaving NC, has made his home all over different parts of Mass. Now lives in Western Mass. I know he spent some time in McClean Hospital in Cambridge…don’t know if he ever actually lived in Boston…</p>

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<p>That’s a Rhode Island company/brewery. Being a sponsor of the Red Sox doesn’t make it Boston, just makes it New England. Get some Fenway Franks and wash it down with Boston Beer Company products (Sam Adams).</p>

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<p>I’d say that Dunkin Donuts is a Boston company. It was started somewhat southwest of Boston (don’t remember the town) but it has grown considerably.</p>

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<p>Theme song from St Elsewhere.</p>

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<p>To further give the party that Massachusetts je ne sais quoi, you should tax all the guests.</p>

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<p>I DID forget Toscanini’s Ice Cream! And Rancatore’s & Christina’s! (there are a lot of great places for ice-cream in the Boston area). Also, Upper Crust Pizza, if it wasn’t mentioned before.</p>

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<p>BPsaid: “To further give the party that Massachusetts je ne sais quoi, you should tax all the guests.”</p>

<p>riiiiight . … that’s about 20 years too old . . . Masasachusetts is in the middle of the pack taxation-wise . . . but I get the drift</p>

<p>how about hire your cousin’s friend’s nephew to do the catering and then after he doesn’t show up you can pay him anyway?</p>

<p>lots of good suggestions here</p>

<p>party favors: might be kind of expensive, but Charlie cards?</p>

<p>and if the Sox are playing, make sure the game is on :-)</p>

<p>and even if they don’t immediately get “Charlie on the MTA” they will note your event well because they will have heard it first at your party</p>

<p>another song: Kenny Chesney’s “She’s From Boston”</p>

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<p>I think Augustana’s beautiful song [url=<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLluvXi5nOs]“Boston”[/url"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLluvXi5nOs]"Boston”[/url</a>] is particularly appropriate.</p>

<p>*She said I think I’ll go to Boston…
I think I’ll start a new life,
I think I’ll start it over, where no one knows my name,
I’ll get out of California, I’m tired of the weather,
I think I’ll get a lover and fly him out to Spain…
I think I’ll go to Boston,
I think that I’m just tired
I think I need a new town, to leave this all behind…
I think I need a sunrise, I’m tired of the sunset,
I hear it’s nice in the Summer, some snow would be nice… oh yeah,</p>

<p>Boston… where no one knows my name… yeah*</p>

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<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>

<p>Nice and appropriate.</p>

<p>And just for fun yo’ … Tea Partay … chocolate lab out …</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU2He2BIc0[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU2He2BIc0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I was thinking about this thread, and remembered a long car trip we took a month before my daughter left for college in Chicago. We came up with 6-7 hours of Chicago-identified music to play from various family members’ iPods and discs: Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Kanye West, Common, Koko Taylor, Ike Reilly, The Reputation, Liz Phair.</p>

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<p>Not sure if anybody else said this, but he thing about Charlie on the MTA was that there were routes on which you paid a certain amount to get on , and then a certain amount to get off if you went past a certain point. He didn’t have the money to get off, so he was on there forever.</p>