CarrieMpls said:

hear that 9s? so whatcha wearing, anyway?

XxAxX said:

Me?

Why this of course...

Polka leads to sexual depravity, S&M and bondage

2the9s said:

I love the accordian. My mother plays, you know. Someday I'll get that accordian.

excellent! i'll be wearing this! erm, the lady half, not the gent:

LordEvil said:

Here's hoping!

CarrieMpls said:

one minute you're living the life of a conservative suburbanite the next you're buying latex for your dog

LordEvil said:

I'm sitting at home and feeling yucky and being sad.

I'm afraid that your night only sounds moderately more appealing to me.

Report back!

Virus scan finished!

I'm clean as a whistle!

Well??

How was it?

Within 20 minutes of arrival, I was invited to polka with a little old grey-haired man who was at least a foot shorter than me. I declined. Not enough beer yet.
Unfortunately, that was my only invitation of the evening! None of my friends actually wanted to polka!! They just came for the beer!
And within about an hour of arriving it turned into some kind of frat party.
Overall it was ok, but I only give it a 5 out of 10.

harrumph.

2the9s said:

Or so you say!

CarrieMpls said:

I would have polka'd with ya!

And DAMN straight guys for not asking you!

Besides the old geezer. But you turned him down. Cruely. Did you actually say "Sorry, not enough beer yet" in his face? Somehow I hope you did. It is SO going to be my new turn down line...

i'm sorry that your night was kind of a bust but at least your outfit sounded like it looked good.

so, um, were your jeans bootcut, straight leg, or tapered to the ankle?

JasmineFire said:

Post the pcitures, damnit!

CarrieMpls said:

Oh, yeah?!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Your sig is cryptically annoying.

2the9s said:

HEY! Muse, The Gambler used to be my sig!!!!

HamsterHuey said:

Goodness no. I just shyly smiled and said no, but thank you! He was an adorable old man. My friend said he'd seen him there before, asking all the ladies to dance. It made me sad for him. Going out alone, just wanting a partner to polka with.

But some of the older couples there were hardcore! They had matching outfits and everything. After 10pm, though, all the college-y kids started pouring in, and then everyone's just slamming their big mugs of beer and yelling and carrying on and we were in the back so I couldn't see the dance floor anymore and, well, yeah it wasn't so much fun after that.

JasmineFire said:

tapered to the ankle.

scififilmnerd said:

Yeah!!

but what about the stuff you were supposed to sniff?

Stax said:

oh, I sniffed it.

It's this weird tobacco snuff that's got a menthol effect or something. They put it on this little wooden board and the milkmaid (cocktail waitress) counts to 3 (in german) and she thumps the board with this lever thing that makes a knocking noise and I guess makes it travel up your nose more or something?
In any case, it's really weird! The menthol makes you feel like you're inhaling Vicks. Pulls you out of a tipsy haze for a minute or two. though.

So... you think that Prince ever did the Polka?


There is a genre of Mexican music (Norteña I believe) that uses a a Polka beat.
I don't like it, but it's pretty popular.

CarrieMpls said:

actually, that sounds kind of fun.

Was this at Nye's?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Gasthof's. Though I hear there's good polka at Nye's on occasion also.

CarrieMpls said:

If I took the time to read, I would see that you already said that. Haven't polkaed at either one, but our arts programming department at the U of MN took John Waters to Nye's several years back. He loved it.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Oh, I bet he would! It's so camp almost.
There was a time Nye's was really quite popular with the hipster crowd. I always wanted to go when the lady was doing the piano karaoke, but somehow never made it.