Comments on: Plunging Plutonic Depths

Question: Plunging Plutonic Depths

einekleine — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:12:01 -0800

Can anyone think of any suitable food, drink and games for a party/wake themed around the loss of Pluto's planetary status?

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:29:23 -0800

Sherbet UFOs. Mmmmm.

Aside from those, any spherical food product could double as a small planetoid (meatballs, scotch eggs...).

By: effigy

effigy — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:33:12 -0800

cook 8 large meatballs and a 9th smaller one. Consume the larger meatballs and leave the 9th. Surround it with bay leaves or other decorations on a nice platter in the middle of the table.

Then drink shots of your favorite hard liquor while standing over it, and pour a little out over the 9th meatball.

By: whatzit

whatzit — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:41:25 -0800

effigy (how appropriate here) - that's a great idea but we all know that not all planets are made of meat. Some are much more gaseous, and could be represented by a giant nacho-ball. Another would be a big cheeseball.

Dessert would be Mars Bars, clearly.

By: Sprout the Vulgarian

Sprout the Vulgarian — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:54:01 -0800

Round food is key, I think. Especially if you can make round ice cubes.

For beer, Harpoon's "UFO" (Un-Filtered Offering) Hefeweizen is available in Mass. and a few other states.

For party decor, you could get pictures of Mickey's dog Pluto, and put a big red X over him and make stickers out of it and put it on all the cups. An alternative would be a picture of Goofy, with a caption that just says "YTMND!"

For a game, get a poster-size photo of Pluto, a blindfold, and a bunch of strips of paper that say "PLANET" and "NOT A PLANET". Play Pin-The-Label-On-Pluto.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:54:11 -0800

Get paper plates or cups with Disney's Pluto on them?

By: ed\26h

ed\26h — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:59:18 -0800

Make a Christmas-style pudding and hide a silver coin in it somewhere.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:03:13 -0800

a Pluto shapped Pinata, and bust it open.

By: cobaltnine

cobaltnine — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:03:45 -0800

You will be playing Styx records, right? Maybe get away with Acheron, too...

A round pinata - you'd have to make it yourself, but round's the easiest shape anyway. Maybe fill it with those clear mints, since it's an icey rock.

By: bilabial

bilabial — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:54:02 -0800

I vote for things that are very small and/or very cold. Nothing in particular comes to mind, but whatever other things you choose might lead you to small cold things. It sounds like an awesome party from the suggestions that have arrived so far.

By: samsarah

samsarah — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:58:23 -0800

I vote for things that are very small and/or very cold.

Dippin' Dots, the ice cream of the future?

By: leapingsheep

leapingsheep — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:07:15 -0800

Nine pizzas, served by your mother.

By: Sara Anne

Sara Anne — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:23:23 -0800

A big dirty ball of ice, perhaps the world easiest ice sculpture.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:42:55 -0800

Food - rotten eggs. Drink - individual fifths of Jack Daniels.

Drink the JD, then throw the empty bottles and rotten eggs at NASA while blasting "Pluto" by 2 Skinnee J's at the top volume.

By: unknowncommand

unknowncommand — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:09:47 -0800

Bake sugar cookies and frost them to look like Pluto. Eat them all, every last one. Weep.

By: printchick

printchick — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:45:44 -0800

Pluto-shaped bean bags? And you could toss them into coffee cans representative of a black hole of new knowledge?

By: sdn

sdn — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:47:10 -0800

eat pomegranates!

By: apple scruff

apple scruff — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:34:16 -0800

Have a contest to see who can come up with the best mnemonic for MVEMJSUN.

By: lunalaguna

lunalaguna — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:45:08 -0800

It isn't Pluto-specific, but a friend and I had a spaced-themed party (Spacelebration) a couple of years ago. We bought astronaut ice cream and made Tang mimosas.

By: Coda

Coda — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:33:45 -0800

Sno cones! Blue ones!