If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would be to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be be expected to throw another party next year. What you should do is throw the kind of party where your guest wake up several days from now and call their lawyers to find out if they've been indicted for anything. You want your guests to be so anxious to avoid a recurrence of your party that they immediately start planning parties of their own, a year in advance, just to prevent you from having another one ... If your party is successful, the police will knock on your door, unless your party is very successful in which case they will lob tear gas through your living room window. As host, your job is to make sure that they don't arrest anybody. Or if they're dead set on arresting someone, your job is to make sure it isn't you ...

If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would

be to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call

you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be be expected to throw

another party next year.



What you should do is throw the kind of party where your guest wake up

several days from now and call their lawyers to find out if they've

been indicted for anything. You want your guests to be so anxious to

avoid a recurrence of your party that they immediately start planning

parties of their own, a year in advance, just to prevent you from

having another one ...



If your party is successful, the police will knock on your door, unless

your party is very successful in which case they will lob tear gas

through your living room window. As host, your job is to make sure

that they don't arrest anybody. Or if they're dead set on arresting

someone, your job is to make sure it isn't you ...



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