There's this rumor....

[penguindance]

 

[Axeltheswede]

rumor

Your scenario was played out in a movie called "The Ice Storm" with Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Pretty good movie too.

We seem to be recycling old movie and television plots lately. Either everything old is new again, or our creative juices need a refill.

There might be one angle unexplored in the swapping scene. How about the husband of a cheating wife hooking up with the wife of a cheating husband. They share the pain of adultery. The conflict is obvious, do they comfort each other and become exactly what they both despise?

 

[Chicklet]

OOooh Axel, I love your irony!

Stranger, I like the idea, and I have never seen the movie mentioned above.

If you feel like writing it, go ahead!

Chicklet

 

[Guest]

Is this an urban legend? I've heard of this scenario as well, but I've never seen that movie.

At any rate, I'm sure our twisted minds could think up a better "story" than the movie's story line.

 

[Axeltheswede]

rumor

There was a bit more to the movie than the "key party". That was used as a device to show the kind of random copulation the characters were into.

A better story was the cuckold husband hooking up with the cheated on wife. Fewer characters. Some group stories tend to be overpopulated.

 

[Guest]

... then at the end of the night they would draw keys.
Who ever got your key, you went back to the hotel with for the night ...

Just out of interest, if the keys are truly randomly drawn, does anyone realise how often at least one woman will draw the man she came with?

(PS And more importantly, how do you prevent that happening without anyone being able to choose their bedmate?)

 

[Axeltheswede]

rumor

In the lame movie no one but me has seen, they used the husband's car keys. Since a wife would probably recognize her spouse's key chain, she could throw it back in the bowl.

Anyone interested in actually writing this story?

Maybe focusing the action on the most reluctant wife matched with a reluctant husband would generate some interest and conflict. Just an idea.

 

[Guest]

Re: rumor

... Since a wife would probably recognize her spouse's key chain, she could throw it back in the bowl ...

Not if she were the last to draw.

Anyway, throwing back keys you recognise introduces an element of choice of partner.

 

[Dr. B Evil]

If that wheelchair is a rockin'...!

WooHOOOOOOO, Go Gramma! Go Gramma! Go Gramma!

 

[Dr. B Evil]

The Ice Storm

Ever see the movie The Ice Storm?

It's about the swinging '70's and stars Sigourney "YumYum" Weaver as a wife who likes to bed strangers.

At one party the couples toss the keys in the dish and voila!

 

[Guest]

Re: The Ice Storm

Ever see the movie The Ice Storm?

It's about the swinging '70's and stars Sigourney "YumYum" Weaver as a wife who likes to bed strangers.

At one party the couples toss the keys in the dish and voila!

Read the second post here.

 

[Axeltheswede]

rumor

Thank God. Someone beside me saw this movie. I was beginning to think I was flashing back to the "mushroom episode".

Do we have the rules worked out for this key swap yet?

I will write it, Charm, if I can include you in the story. You're the one supervising the key swap.

 

[Guest]

Re: rumor

You're the one supervising the key swap.

That's about the only bit of an orgy I can handle these days. <tugs at grey virtual beard>

Here are the answers:
1 Approximately two out of every three parties it happens that someone gets their own. (Anyone interested in proof, PM me.)

2 To avoid both problems there need to be more than five or six couples. You have two hats (buckets, dustbins, whatever) marked A and B, (or ...) and when a couple arrives his keys are put in one receptacle and she is given a ticket with the other letter (or ...). Alternate, or roughly alternate, sets of keys are thrown in alternate orifices. End of problem. Mrs. Delightful cannot get Mr. Delightful's keys, nor can she throw back the keys of Mr. Horrible because she recognises them.

One other piece of gratuitous advice, and yes it is a quotation, "There are other orders of march than anterior, interior, posterior".

Now the real letdown, I knew the maths because the problem came up at a language club in Brussels thirty years ago over the Christmas party when every member attending brought one low value present and each was given one to take home. (Boring I know, but that is life.)

Let us all know when you post the story.

BTW To add realism to your story, as some of you know, my real name is Somerset Waugh.

 

[MsLinnet]

Re: Re: The Ice Storm

Read the second post here.

Yes was watching it last night, late night movies (How sad) it was sad how the boy died but the film it self has got plenty of potential for a great series of stories from all points of view. Don’t you think?
Linnet
good idea Tiggs

 

[Axeltheswede]

C'mon

Charm, sweetie baby cookie honey, love ya, but you're blowing major smoke up my ass. Somerset Waugh, indeed. And my real name is Evelyn Maugham, nice to meet cha.

 

[Chicklet]

Somerset Waugh is an AWSOME NAME!

<writes it down in "possible baby names" folder for future use>

 

[Quasimodem]

I've always thought that blowing smoke up someone's ass would be exhausting.

Distasteful, too, depending upon the ass in question.

But a whole key up in smoke? That's wasteful.

 

[Axeltheswede]

Up the ass

Probably exhausting, yes. One of my fellow Drill Instructors, a long time ago, used to threaten recruits with "I'm going to pound sand up your ass" for many infractions. I always thought that would be truly exhausting. By comparison, blowing smoke is easy.

I don't understand your "a whole key up in smoke". Explain that one, will you?

 

[Chicklet]

Re: Up the ass

"I'm going to pound sand up your ass"

<Chicklet hides under large rock>

 

[Tatewaki]

Re: Up the ass

Probably exhausting, yes. One of my fellow Drill Instructors, a long time ago, used to threaten recruits with "I'm going to pound sand up your ass" for many infractions. I always thought that would be truly exhausting. By comparison, blowing smoke is easy.

I don't understand your "a whole key up in smoke". Explain that one, will you?

Sounds like he's talking about blowing a kilo of MaryJane.

-T

 

[Chicklet]

mari-ji-juana is bad, m'kay?

 

[Tatewaki]

mari-ji-juana is bad, m'kay?

I don't know about that. The grass really is greener on the West Coast.

... or so I've heard!

-T

 

[Axeltheswede]

way far afield

I got the grass reference. Just couldn't figure why the "whole key".

Yes, Chicklet, dem sagebrush cigarettes is bad, sooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Next time I see one, I'm going to tell him too.

Still waiting to hear from Charm about his nom de BS.

And the DI with the sand pounding - when asked how he would accomplish the feat, he claimed a ball-peen hammer would do nicely.......Ouch!!!

Grass is greener west of the west coast. Aloha.

 

[Guest]

Re: C'mon

... you're blowing major smoke up my ass.

Certainly I smoke, a pipe as it happens. Why would I blow smoke from beneath your donkey?

And my real name is Evelyn Maugham, nice to meet cha.

Likewise.

... Still waiting to hear from Charm about his nom de BS ...

Timezone problems, I suspect, plus an evening out.

Oh, and that should be "nom de merde" if you want to be consistent.

 

[Axeltheswede]

feeling vindicated

Touche, Charm.

Just glad I don't have to eat my shorts.