<p>Patient, I would never do such a thing! I am insulted that you think that I lack integrity. Anyone who wants to cheat his or her way into the perfect party will have to get help from yemayo13!</p>
<p>I have resisted posting on this thread because the whole secret party terminology “thing” has me all bolloxed. Is canasta edgy? Can bowling parties ever be passionate? It appears that elite padcoms have their pipeline of party GC’s that know the code where up is down and down is up. </p>
<p>I can’t for the life me understand why any party that claims to value diversity would hide behind secret codes that serve only to deny party admission to rural party goers. We don’t have all the fancy table coverings and utensils, your so called “forks” and “spoons”, that city folks have. And we may eat our peas smashed on the back of our knife but we are “artsy” and can bring a lot to a party if given a fair chance at attendance.</p>
<p>At a state party here locally rural folk were engaged in a passionate philosophical argument that would never be bettered at one of your elite parties. The argument started over the proper methodology to neuter a bull calf and ended hours later with a spirited comparison of John Stuart Mill and Lorena Bobbitt. “Brilliant” is not a strong enough a word to convey the power of that messge.</p>
<p>Without paid party consultants and with one pgc per county, we do just fine on objective party testing. We do admit to using “Ten Real Parties” but few of us have access to the classroom party instruction available in the city. If we knew the secret words we’d do just fine on the rest of the application ,too. If artsy is what you wanted in a party applicant , you should have made that clear in the "Prospective Partiers " section of the website. For those of you who doubt rural partiers can compete, just let me ask you this -have you ever heard of whittlin’ and whistlin’ ? Nuff said.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, curmudgeon! Although SBmom’s party is very selective, she values diversity. You can be the whittlin’ and whistlin’ partier there! Apply soon, because otherwise you’ll miss out.</p>
<p>BTW, excellent stats!</p>
<p>Yemaya–absolutely, my apologies! I was getting you mixed up with your evil twin–what’s his name? So sorry. Maybe you could EDIT the essay and HELP PREP. Shame on me.</p>
<p>Exactly, patient. I would be happy to read over the essay, write a rec, and give tips to optimizerdad (and other newbies). My evil twin, yemayo13, is who you were thinking of. Earlier in the thread he posted under my username to make me look bad because he did not want me to get into my first-choice party! :mad:</p>
<p>YAY!!! This is my 27th post on CC today. My post count has skyrocketed to 4.25!</p>
<p>Congratulations, curmudgeon!</p>
<p>We are pleased to award you the coveted Redneck Honors Scholarship. This half-tuition grant goes annually to only a select few who exhibit qualities of edginess, passion and team spirit in their party endeavors . We discerned these qualities instantly upon reading your cogent analysis and recounting of your party experiences, which we here at padcom refer to as that “down home horse puckey” essay (aka post #202 ).</p>
<p>You should be most proud of this accomplishment and we want you to know that you were a very close contender for the Distinguished Redneck Honors Scholarship, which is a full-tuition grant. However, that award went to a
competitive, diligent, well-rounded, popular, goal oriented pre-med athlete who is first in her class.</p>
<p>Please signify your acceptance of this award by signing below and withdrawing your application to any other parties more competitive than ours. You are welcome to continue soliciting party acceptances to any of the lesser parties.</p>
<p>Now just a sec: is my party lesser or greater? dig, where’s that ranking list you promised?</p>
<p>If there is a list of prestige parties, surely the top honor belongs to the post-Oscar Vanity Fair bash? Anyone applied there? Kinshasha perhaps?</p>
<p>Naturally, private parties carry more prestige than, say, parish picnics. Private parties giving away loads of free designer puckey–those would be my dream parties! </p>
<p>Sigh. </p>
<p>Sure wish I had the stats for those parties!</p>
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<p>Cold. Just plain cold. Funny, but cold. LOL. Hey, I figured I was an easy parody target, standing out as I tend to do in my red plaid pants. I wanted to blunt the inevitable attack.</p>
<p>(Editorial aside: I honestly cannot believe I missed this thread for 10 stinking pages. I really need to get a bell or whistle alarm set up so when something priceless like this gets started-I’m a “first responder”. All the good parts were taken and I had to play “Ernie”, again. Someday I want to be “Chip” or maybe that son with the cute wife who still got to live at home.)</p>
<p>(Further Editorial aside: For Yemaya13 and Yemayo13-the above was a Dennis Miller-type reference to a sixties TV show which was used by me to pander a sense of comradeship with the “elite” party posters as my merit award although greatly appreciated is not sufficient to attend my first choice party. It contains no Sphinxian geriatric riddle you need to decipher. And watch your post count. You are dangling dangerously close to a precipice from which there is no return.)</p>
<p>(Futher- nother-aside thingy-Oh forget it: I get nothing extra from the PADCOM’s for using the founder of Utilitarianism and Lorena Bobbitt in the same sentence? I thought- at least the Trustees , and I was hoping for the summer party stipend and maybe a cheap ipod as I’ve recently been reminded of some really cool music and I’m pretty stoked.)</p>
<p>thnx, c-mudg. i thot it ws a sfinxan gertic rddl 2 dcifr. o, 60’s, sfinxn, no dfferns</p>
<p>(For curmudgeon-the above was a teenager-type reference to IM, which is used on computers, which you are using now to read this message [they are kind of like typewriters, not that I have ever seen one of those ancient tools] which was used by me to connect with my generationn of partygoers. It contains no alien riddle you need to decipher.)</p>
<p>BTW, I have already reached the precipice. The site has gone from learning about colleges to hanging out with old rednecks. Can I get community service for this? :D</p>
<p>BTW, curmudgeon: I have 175 posts in the parents’ forum, 111 of which are in the cafe. I have 488 posts. About 35.86% of my posts are from the parents forum! About 63.43% of those are in the parents’ cafe!</p>
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<p>But you have to “frame” it correctly. You will, of course,list it on the “extracurriculars, hobbies, outside interests” grid on your app. When you fill in 70 hrs. per week, it will no longer look embarrassing. Now we just need a name for your contribution to senior citizenry.</p>
<p>Anyone? I do think the judicious use of the term “golden-agers” would help.</p>
<p>YESSSS!!!
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<p>LOL, jmmom! Am I really on that much?!?! It is more like 40 hours a week! I would never stretch the truth on my party apps!</p>
<p>Y, dear…think carefully about how you frame your ECs. After all, the point of your young life is to get into HIP parties. Correct? </p>
<p>The question is: will the adcom at HIP be impressed that you are hanging out with old rednecks for 70+ hours a week? I mean, it’s fine for Chuck E Cheese type parties…and some political fundrasiers-- but for HIP? I’m not so sure…</p>
<p>Curmudgeon - As Red Green would say to Ernie, “If they can’t find ya handsome, make sure they find ya handy.”</p>
<p>Noticed this thread had fallen to page 2. Since it’s where I go for my daily shot of endorphin/comic relief, am a little worried to see it go.</p>
<p>Should I [ul][<em>]consult a doctor?[</em>]get a life?[li]resurrect it whenever it starts to languish?[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Digmedia - where are you when we need you?</p>
<p>I’m still waiting to compile a ranking system. Right now, I have ranks #1-#98 open, but have already assigned 99 and 100:</p>
<h1>99 - Yemaya’s Online Bash</h1>
<h1>100 - Chuck E. Cheese</h1>
<p>-digi</p>
<p>I still want to know when all the parties are going to be! This whole thread seems like a tease to me. You all are promoting the heck out of your parties but you don’t seem willing to let us know whether we are actually going to be invited to the party or have to go to some lesser party close to home. It’s rather annoying, especially when it is now clear that you are willing to give preference to some red neck from the south over a wealthier more upscale west coast partier like myself. I am a firm believer in party affirmitive action — but only when it doesn’t hurt MY chances.</p>