My tie (not Mai Tai)
 

We had a My tie party where we drew names of other girls from our pledge class and had to talk to their friends/roommates if we didn't know their crush or whatever and went to ask him if he would like to go with her (as if he wouldn't!) and then for one of his ties she wore the tie to the designated place and had to wait for him to approach her asking for his tie back -hence the name My tie. It was lots of fun though. (We had ours on Valentines Day).

Handy Andy Party
 

Here's an idea for a simple inexpensive mixer. We did it last night actually and it was amazing. We called it the Handy Andy, but the Easy Ryder was also used. Rent a Ryder truck (bigger the better) and park it out in the parking lot. Get some couches and other chairs and stuff and put it in the back. Get a stereo and plug it into the house with an extension cord. Then... the most important thing, some liqs. Now it is very simple in theory, and if you close the back door, its not loud at all. Also, if you run out of liqs, get someone sober to drive the truck down to the store. Okay so here are some important things to remember about this part. Couches will move. Things will fall over. But it could have been the coolest thing ever. Don't knock it till you try it.

A few other really fun mixers

Each chapter in the social writes on a piece of paper something they would like to see someone else dresses as (ie tooth fairy) and then each person must draw a costume and come dressed as that- it makes for a LOT of interesting costumes...

Designating a letter such as a B and everyone must come as something starting with a B - bug, banana... you get the drift.

A no cup party where everyone must be inventive and find something other than a cup to drink out of such as a coconut... anything that doesn't serve as a cup but you can functionally drink out of.

*The "MILFS and Poolboys" theme was fun...
*I loved the Day-Glo (when you dress all in white, show up to the frat house and run around throwing paint, water, and shaving cream at each other...dangerous but fun...the bleached blondes have pink hair the next day and everyone has bruises, but it's worth it!)
*A classic: Dirty Old Men and Schoolgirls. The guys look hilarious! Lots of fake facial hair, canes with mirrors on the bottom...good stuff
*Something I didn't go on but would have loved to: KA's Old South. It is such a big deal at my school. The guys wear Confederate uniforms and the girls have huge Southern Belle gowns...the guys go announcing to sorority girls that have been invited and declare them "Dixie Darlings"...they drive up to somewhere in Georgia? Is it SC? I don't know...somewhere south...and go on a riverboat and party on a plantation...

For our pledge party for all the sisters, my pledge class threw a Barbie party. All the sisters came dressed as their favorite Barbie dolls. It was a lot of fun and we got some great pictures out of it!There are also TONS of options for decorations and favors!!!

My favorite was our "Survivor" social, we had two teams and we'd vote off members that we felt couldn't quite cut it. The only problem I saw was that all the challenges were drinking related. It lead to some interesting discoveries by the end of the night though. :eek:

My fav mixer theme is the graffiti mixer. We did one fall 2001--and it was awesome! I still have the shirt. What is a Paddy Murphy party? Sorry, if I am asking a dumb question.

I didn't personally do this mixer theme but one of my friends was pledging sigma kappa and they hooked up with sigma pi and created "sigma assasins." A girl was given the name of a guy and vice versa and a water gun for the week. the object was to "assasinate" the person you were given but be careful not be assisinated yourself. People were prank calling each other, running around campus like mad men... then on that saturday or something, the actual mixer theme was a "James Bond" theme. It sounded like fun.

I like the autograph party... it's cool when everyone just buys the white t-shirts and they turn on black lights.
One mixer idea that never actually got started that might be kinda cute is a Letter Party. The Socials chose a letter of the regular alphabet and everyone has to come to the mixer dressed as something that coordinates with that letter. For example if you pick the letter C, you could be a construction worker, a Count Dracula, Court Jester, etc etc etc.
PJ parties are always fun... we had a few lambda chis find footsie pjs with tweety birds on it in their size. that was funny.

well that sure as hell explains a lot

Could tau+dicroc=papa v ?

tau1819=microc

sorry i don't know who papa v is

white trash bash -- definately a blast every time. some of the costumes people wear are wayyyyyyy too funny.

Graffiti Crush was an awesome party idea. i still look at my shirt and wonder what people were thinking when they wrote stuff. too bad no guys wrote their numbers on my shirt but all the new girls had boobs drawn on their shirts to be funny. it was quite amusing and everyones shirts were cool!