Green means go for it
Hey, creativity counts. The New York Times today includes the University of Arkansas in a feature on the latest in college theme parties from around the country. Fayetteville's entry: The Stoplight Party.
Students wear green, yellow or red, depending on their relationship status. Green means “single,” red means “taken,” and yellow is somewhere in between.
“Yellow to me is if you’ve been on a couple dates and you haven’t had the big talk to settle everything,” says Patrick Bowen, a junior at the University of Arkansas. His fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, throws a stoplight party (pictured at left) every September attended by about 750 people. Three-quarters of the guests show up in green.
“Guys in green don’t waste much time,” he says, “talking to a lady in red.”
Also popular at: Scripps College, Wake Forest University and the University of Arizona
I should have noted originally that this is tame stuff by comparison with the main article that accompanied this sidebar. It's about regular "naked parties" at several Ivy League schools.
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"Green means "single," red
means "taken," and yellow is
somewhere in between."
We had something similar in my college days. It was called streaking and helped you tell the guys from the girls.
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January 7, 2007 07:40 AM
Good one, Spirit. I was at the Ole Miss game a few years ago when the latest streaker made an appearance.
Wish there had been some kind of similar code when I prowled Dickson Street back in the Dark Ages. It would have saved me several beer treats in fruitless ventures.
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January 7, 2007 10:05 AM
Art students and figure models long ago discovered a similar kind of reality in drawing classes. The only moments of embarrassment typically occur a few minutes before class on the first day when everybody has private thoughts about being "teased" by some kind of stripper.
The bottom line is that it's all in the eye of the beholder. The person who thinks unclean thoughts will see only filth.
--Suum Cuique.
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January 7, 2007 12:18 PM
"Green means "single," red
means "taken," and yellow is
somewhere in between."
If this idea spreads into the local communities, does this mean people like my wife and I will have to start wearing black? Black would signify that I can't and she won't.
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January 7, 2007 05:56 PM
DBI, this reminded me of that great unsolved mystery - which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Well, which came first?
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January 7, 2007 10:48 PM