Dora Said:

What activities should be involved in a Mad Hatter Tea party?

We Answered:

•Play lawn croquet: with hedgehog plush toys as balls, or perhaps hedgehogs painted on the balls. Attach colored and stuffed socks to the end of the mallets and sew on eyes, to represent flamingos, or use a plush flamingo. Create large cardboard playing cards for the arches.

•Play chess. You can do this on a normal sized chessboard, or you can make a huge chessboard in your garden and have your guests play the pieces!

•Play "pin the grin on the Cheshire Cat"

•Do the Caucus race. Make your guests run around in a circle, and when you shout 'stop' the last one to sit down/run to the middle is out. Or make a caucus version of the game musical chairs, where you remove one of the chairs each round and people have to find a chair to sit on when the music (the caucus race song from the Disney movie) stops.

•Buy some basic top hats and let your guests decorate them

•Hide a small golden key or a White Rabbit plush and have your guests find it

•Do a quiz with trivia questions based on the Alice stories

•Play games with a 'Contrariwise' theme: make people name stickers, where you write their names on backwards. Everyone must call everyone else by their backwards name, or risk a forfeit. You could invent a game where names must be called, or you could just have this going on throughout the party. Also, you could ask people questions and they must give the opposite answer. Or, say the answer, but backwards. For most of these games, some kind of time pressure is essential to make it more difficult and to make people make mistakes and have to do forfeits. The more adult the party, the more adult the questions. 'Have you ever done xyz?' would be interesting if people have to say the opposite. It becomes more like a truth or dare game then.

•Make a game of Clean Cup: have guests assemble at table. They fill their plates with food and make their tea (or other drink) as they like for a certain amount of time. When the time is over, say "Clean cup. Clean cup. Move down. Move down." The guests move to the next place and put more food on the plate and change the tea however they wish. This goes on and on until everyone returns to their own place setting. Now, everyone must eat and drink what the others have put. Prizes can be awarded to the most weird concoction.

•Make teams, put a bucket (or large teapot) with tea on one side and an empty one on the other side of a course. Your guests have to fill a teacup, run to the other side (with the cup in their hands, or balancing them on their heads...), and empty the cup there. The team that has filled the bucket first wins.

•Have an "I'm late!" potato sack race, in which everyone has to hop to the finish like the White Rabbit.

Laura Said:

How desperate are Dems getting that their best argument for their own victory is hoping for a Tea Party split?

We Answered:

That will not happen. Republican will come together in the end. We always do.

The Tea Party may look like a collection of nuts holding signs and causing trouble for us, but they are doing exactly what we want them to do.

Mickey Mouse is not running the show like over in Commie Land. We know what we are doing.The Tea Party is sponsored and insprired by our own people like Dick Armey and the fine people at Freedom Works.

As soon as we get the Democrats out of the way we will be through with this collection of working class riff raff who have served us so well.
Most of this Tea Party crowd we have on the streets are nothing more than a ragtag collection of retired welders who didn't even finish high school but we thank them.

There will be a little something in their envelope on payday. A Pink Slip when we send their sorry little jobs to Mexico and cut off their Social Security.

Susan Said:

Is the tea party just really far right Republicans or are they attempting to become a 3rd party?

We Answered:

I think until we get back on track in the USA we will have the Tea Party around. Whether it or not it will be an official party or not I am not sure.

Michele Said:

Who's sick and tired of the Tea Party, the Coffee Party, the radical right and left, can we start a Beer Party?

We Answered:

Sounds like a good idea to me. We can get enthusiastic about that idea.
B.E.E.R.: Best Ever Energy Resource!
I know I get energetic when the volume of beer under my belt hits the correct level of stimulation.
It is always followed by a crash, but then, that sounds like the false economies we endure.