Banana splits macro otm, they were better than pretty much any other band in the last 40+ years.
― Moodles, Monday, 9 September 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
I know, or at least think I know, what a Tupperware party is; just baffled what it's doing in a litany of racy things YOUR MOM did before Dad.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 September 2013 12:22 (ten years ago) link
lol, nudge, wink, etc.
― zingon grammar (Treeship), Monday, 9 September 2013 12:23 (ten years ago) link
box fresh
― he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up (NotEnough), Monday, 9 September 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
I only know what a Tupperware Party is in the literal sense of Tupperware previously being a product sold by individuals, like Avon, and people had parties to try to sell Tupperware to other people but if there is some other sexy meaning, I am unaware, and I have no idea how that would suggest your mother had an exciting life prior to meeting your father (and apparently trading in all that excitement for a lifetime of domestic drudgery) unless they are saying it was some kind of lesbian thing.
― carl agatha, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:10 (ten years ago) link
I thought it was implying a wife swap sort of thing.
― zingon grammar (Treeship), Monday, 9 September 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link
they are probably conflating it with suburban mom sex toy parties.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
which is a thing i only know about from t.v.
did i use the word conflating correctly in that sentence?
― scott seward, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
Yes you did.
― carl agatha, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
Also that's what I was thinking, too, but having been to one of those sex toy parties, let me tell you they are not actually that sexy.
It's not a thing I would cite when explaining to my child that I had a crazy, independent life before Jeff yolked me into patriarchal slavery and made me stop drinking Canadian Club.
― carl agatha, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
Key parties? Are they thinking of key parties?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
yeah i have heard of them as key parties -- everyone puts their keys into a bowl, you pull one, that's the person you make it with that night, you might smoke some acapulco gold and listen to todd rundgren and then maybe retire to one of the rooms upstairs to see if you can manage to get it on with this man/woman who is someone else's spouse.
no idea what tupperware parties have to do with that?
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 9 September 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
note: i asked my mom about key parties once when i was a kid because i think i had seen it in a movie or something and that's the description she gave me, only i added the acapulco gold + todd rundgren. the rest is what she told me.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 9 September 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
maybe the keys are in a tupperware bowl
― is space noise (mh), Monday, 9 September 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
http://static.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/MjAxMy1lYjZlZjQ2MmIyZmM3YWY1.png
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 September 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
maybe in the 80s they changed the name to tupperware parties?
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 9 September 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
the ice storm. famous for that. i'm pretty sure my parent's suburban 70's connecticut potlucks weren't as steamy. though they did hang out with lots of unitarians, so you never know.
i actually remember that ice storm. from the ice storm book/movie. i was there, man.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
tupperware parties were just tupperware parties! in the old days someone had to come to your house to sell you plastic bowls. very primitive society.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
i wouldn't mind reading/seeing/hearing some firsthand recollections of 70s key partieshow old would those people be now?
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
i love the ice storm
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
xp 115-120
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
my hometown newspaper on the ice storm:
http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Region-remembers-ice-storm-of-73-97594.php
― scott seward, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Don't see any action happening with Rundgren on the box. Lightfoot, maybe.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
i remember coming home at night and we had this loooooong steep driveway and it was just covered with sheets of ice and i had a big red stuffed mouse toy and i rode my mouse down the driveway. kinda fucked up its fur. the world looked so amazing.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
how old would those people be now?
Old enough to where you'd regret hearing about them?
I saw a sky blue Plymouth Reliant K parked on the street with VIETNAM VETERAN plates. Seems like yesterday those guys were a bunch of Jeff Lebowskis, and now they're all more like these Lawrence Tierney type guys.
You know you're getting older when old people start getting younger.
― pplains, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
I would never regret hearing about them! I love it when old people talk about their wild days.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Honestly, there are sooooooo many better 70s choices for getting it on than Rundgren or Lightfoot that I pity anyone who had to give it a whirl with those two. It's part of what makes those stories painful and poignant. How awkward!
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
xp http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/60712616205/what-was-the-happiest-moment-of-your-life
― sleepingbag, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
"Key parties" just sound so sleazy. I don't think I would want to hear any details. I just imagine polyester and orange and avocado and those round metal fireplaces in the center of the living room surrounded by people's parents boning each other next to the hi-fi.
― carl agatha, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
I hear you, and I was being half-facetious about that.
But, this goes along with what I said in the last sentence of my previous post. It was one thing to be so far removed from the generation that came of age in the late 30s, hearing about juke joints and prohibition ending and going dancing to the big bands.
But with this generation right above ours, where I've been exposed to their shenanigans all my life, hearing from some grandma about how she had her pussy ate out on a water bed by a strange neighbor while an 8-track of Three Dog Night blared from the living room hi-fi ain't high on my list right now.
― pplains, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
my brother and sister and i ready for ice.
https://sphotos-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/268718_10150738504840298_3545626_n.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
my mom says that some of the people in her chicago north shore suburb were into "wife-swapping," I hope not my grandparents though.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
awesome scott
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
jfc pplains
― carl agatha, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Funny how they never husband-swap, not even on the TV show.
― pplains, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Was talking to a dude last week about how he accidentally took his friends to a swinger party once. None of them knew it was going to be, and the atmosphere was pretty chill but there were definitely people kind of wandering off to bedrooms.
I guess that's the thing with key parties, did people have an idea of whose keys they were grabbing? Seems like it couldn't have been random.
― is space noise (mh), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I'm still curious. I don't care how sleazy or avocado it is. I want to hear! My parents were total squares, but not far removed from people who weren't. I don't want details, just recollections.
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
I've met a few swingers or people claimed to be swingers. Seems like they're always either kind of homely boring types or really neurotic in my experience.
― is space noise (mh), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
I don't think it's about swinging or key parties. women spending time together without men present used to be inherently suspicious activity. the most benign explanation is that they were having lesbian sex, thus the innuendo.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
disappointing, but probably accurate
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
that's going to be the title of my textbook about the real history of 20th century america.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
key parties sound suspiciously like something that didnt actually happen
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
that's another reason why getting some first hand stories would be illuminating!
― no fomo (La Lechera), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
i was reading a 70's paperback the other day that was just transcripts from a feminist awareness group. suburban-types. its a pretty sad book. the stories are really sad.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
the first and last time i heard about key parties was the ice storm.
does that periodical you collected have any references to such parties, LL?
― is space noise (mh), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link
Key party[edit source | editbeta]"Key party" redirects here. For the cryptographic identification event, see Key signing party.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
NPR's Fresh Air @nprfreshair 17mTODAY: Jonathan Lethem's politically radical family, growing up on a commune, + Grandma's sex life inspired his new novel Dissident Gardens.
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 September 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link