What I learned at the pillow fight

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Last night's pillowfight (which would have been much bigger had the County not threatened arrest at the original location).

1. If you go to a pillow fight wearing any part of your office drag, the young people will call you a "businessman" and will gang up on you and beat the shit out of you. I had ditched my jacket and my tie, but still I was a "businessman" (which I'm not - I'm merely a downtrodden salaryman) and had to be gang attacked.

2. If you go to a pillow fight with any gray hair on your head, the young people will call you "old guy" and will yell, "Get the old guy!" and they will gang up on you and beat the shit out of you with their pillows.

3. If you are a teenage boy wearing a banana costume, an eleven year old girl will yell, "Get the banana!" and will lead the charge of late teenagers and early twenty-somethings and they will beat the shit out of you with their pillows.

4. I am probably too old for any more mass pillow fights, but this was fun.

[lizziegrace]

1. only in Portland

:)

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2. Yeah, no kidding. Maybe Baltimore, Austin, or Tucson too, though.

Here's a piece of one from last year, where they actually had it in the announced location:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_RK2nVAA0w&mode=related&search=

[lizziegrace]

5. Really?

Wow. My parents have been trying to convince me to move out there. (They moved out to Portland 15 years ago and refuse to consider moving back east.) Sounds like an interesting place. :)

[swag]

7. I like it fine. Pillow fights, zombie walks, roller derby, good music,

restaurants, beer, wine.

Come on out!

[lizziegrace]

10. I'll definitely be out to visit sometime

My parents are in their early 70's and won't be travelling east much longer.

I just can't take the plunge to move out there yet. I haven't given up on having a life here. :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. As in A Clockwork Orange, organize a team of "old peole" to "get the youth!"

That'll show'em! :-)

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4. Great thinking. Fortunately, a revenge plan is already in place:

The youth will be paying my Social Security.

No wonder they clobbered me so hard.

[BarenakedLady]

6. Oh that looks like fun!

:D

[billyskank]

12. I challenge you

Choose your pillow.

[bridgit]

8. "Get the banana!"

:rofl: :thumbsup:

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9. Yeah, great line.

That 11 year-old girl was my friend's daughter Katie, who somehow became a mob leader to people 5 - 10 years older than her.

[Susang]

11. I am so fucking jealous

If we tried something like that here, invariably someone would drive into the crowd and kill us all. Or something along those lines. ;-)

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14. Oh, my stars!

Goodness no!

[Dragonbreathp9d]

13. fuck pigs

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15. The Crucifucks couldn't have said it better.

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16. These aren't the best pics, but

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17. This girl's pics better capture the mayhem

[bridgit]

18. Good Grief!! Mayhem? It's quite nearly a donnybrook!!

:wow:

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19. More thoughts on pillow fighting and aging.

As George Takei once said of receptive anal sex, pillow fighting is a young person's game.