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Old 09-21-2006, 10:33 AM   #5
Sundae
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The best work party I went to had a Wild West theme. Yes it had a free bar, but there was some magic X ingredient that night that made everything work.

As with all parties at that company there was a Christmas Party Planning Committee (which I was on, natch) and although we had a reasonable budget, more was done by ingenuity and hard work than by throwing cash at it.

We made personalised "WANTED" invites using existing staff photos (from ID) slipped into brown card wallets to look like they were behind bars. We copied a game from a popular breakfast show at the time - can't remember it at all! but it involved balloons. And there was a prize for the best department floorshow - only 4 entries but one was the Directors which of course went down very well.

Each department took a theme (ours was Bar Room Tarts - another dept came in their underwear!) and we also hired a bucking bronco.

During the meal, western themed songs were played - some from musicals, some country & western - and half the guests ended up standing on their chairs for a rousing rendition of Oklahoma by the end of the meal.

Then we had a normal disco.

You may not be able to use any of those ideas, but blimey I had fun remembering that night!
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