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The Snuggie pub crawl is coming

Posted by Geeky Swedes on April 20th, 2009

This Friday get ready for a pub crawl with a twist: everyone must wear a Snuggie (or a Slanket or any other blanket with sleeves.)

One night Sheena Kalso went out in Fremont with her Snuggie on (pictured right) and the idea for the Snuggie Pub Crawl was born. Right now she’s estimating about 75 will be there, but with the attention it’s been getting, there could be many more Snuggie-wearing drinkers on Friday. The event has been mentioned on Seattle Metropolitan’s website, Q13, KOMO TV and KING TV. Folks are meeting at the Ballard Loft at 7 p.m. The first 50 “Snuggie Crawlers” who bring 3 or more cans of food for Northwest Harvest will get a free drink. You can RSVP here. (Thanks Katie for the email!)

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  • Robert
    Ease up folks. It's really just the same as the Red Hat ladies--people having fun picturing themselves as hip and witty when they manifestly are not. You enjoy your own delusions, let them enjoy theirs.
  • Sweet Rose
    Exactly Robert. I happen to think the idea is idiotic but then I think hanging in bars is also idiotic so I will do neither and it’s no skin off my nose.
  • Uproar
    I feel bad for the bartenders -- They are going to have to put up with a bunch of drunken nerds that think they are sooooo hilarious <rolling their eyes>.

    The Snuggie was so 6 months ago -- Get over it! It's NOT funny anymore.
  • ballard sucka#2
    yeah i'm sure the bartenders are going to be pissed about all the extra green in their tip-jars too.

    hey everybody look! another kill-joy!
  • Happy
    Happy people.

    I might cut holes in a blanket to be among them.

    Happy, happy.
  • For Sven
    Sven--

    Another nail in Ballard's coffin? Because of a snuggie pub crawl?

    Old Ballard needs more to talk about than "the good old days".

    have you ever thought it's your grumpy "old school ways" that might be one of the nails in Ballard's coffin? Maybe there's a reason people like you are disappearing and things are changing. Thinning of the herd, if you will.
  • Jennifer
    Isnt a Snuggie just a bathrobe worn backward?
  • Stupid Hippie
    How can people wear Snuggies for fun while people sleep under bridges in the cold?
  • jules
    you put one arm in , and then the other....
  • boardbrown
    I can't believe there are 36 comments about this!
  • Sweet Rose
    HA boardbrown! It does seem all day posters can get into a lather over almost anything.
  • chopper_74
    ...thanks for your contribution ;-)
  • Bill
    how is drinking in a bar less or more fun than with a snuggie? why not just leave them at home? or, conversely, wear funny hats? it seems arbitrary.
  • chopper_74
    Bill, you may look great in a snuggie...relax ;-) ..and yes, arbitrary...
  • Sven
    Another nail in the buried coffin of Ballard.
  • chopper_74
    can't resist...yeah, still at work ;-0
    Why is this the death of Ballard? Sounds like a strong and vibrant community...
  • Trix
    Sounds like a lot of fun, actually. Any excuse for a Pub crawl. At 4 '10 a Snuggie would swallow me up, but I wish them well against the easily annoyed masses.
  • OK, I don't do pub crawls these days, but this is hilarious. My image is sloppy drunk Telley-Tubbies sloshing highballs and hooting !

    Now, I sure hope that no-one notifies our Good Friends at Dept. of Homeland Security that an organized group of people will be systematically visiting certian locations while wearing large, loose-fitting overgarments that could conceal WMDs. Just sayin'
  • Millipeed
    I hope it's not 70 degrees out, that will make for a pretty ripe event.
  • noeffect
    Stupid, I hate when people think they are being funny and force feeding it on the rest of the world. You wanna have a blanket party invite them over for a bbq don't drag your stupidity out and make the population have to deal with it. And FYI it is against WA state liquor laws to give away free booze so what the loft is doing is illegal, and they should know better since the WSLCB has been raiding all over ballard ave lately.
  • chopper_74
    ok, technically you are correct. A bar cannot advertise, or sell alcohol for less than they paid for it. Comping is totally legal, provided that it is not advertised to the general public. I comp alcohol daily, with blessings from WSLCB, but I follow their rules, completely. (No over-served frat boys, underage service or 'happy hours')
    And, I can't tell you who I am ;-)
  • noeffect
    Uh yeah go with that no such thing as a comp except on your birthday in WA state. Even if the food/service sucks ,you can comp the meal portion but not the drinks.
  • chopper_74
    ok, learn the rules, before ya spout ok?
    Still not true or accurate.
    I have to know, and abide by, their rules.
    (which change all the time)
    It was a mistake to put the loft on the hook about the food for booze thing.
    Hopefully, the WSLCB will consider the source of the info...I like the loft.
  • noeffect
    you win i no nothing I haven't been doing this for over 20 years and I didnt just pay over $2000.00 for a liquor license vs yor $35.00 for a server permit.
  • chopper_74
    lol...you think I have a server permit? lol thank you...really
    yeah, I'll jump ahead, the loft, or 'spokespeople' for the loft have really not done a good thing with the WSLCB rules, tho, they intended to do a good thing, IE: support the food bank.
    Again, I hope that the WSLCB looks beyond this issue, towards the 'greater good'.
    Psst...don't advertise free 'anything' that is taxed...
  • gts206
    Wow with your attitude I can certainly see why you were drawn to a career in the hospitality industry. I'd love to hang out at your place.
  • noeffect
    I hope the Loft realizes that the WSLCB because of their need to justify their jobs while the gov is slashing budgets is looking for stuff like this. The have started enforcing arcane laws that they haven't enforced in years. That is why they have been ramping up enforcment in mine and other bar owners opinions. They shouldn't be advertising that they are violating the law. Now if the bartender happens to be paying for those drinks out of their pocket that is another story.
  • ballardsuck#3
    Wow. I bet you get invited to alot of parties.
  • PDXBallardite
    FANTASTIC!
  • Weazel'sGurl
    Can i cut slits in the armpits of my boyfriend Weazel's snuggie, he overheats and farts. Snuggie would be like a gas bag.
  • I hope they get the numbers that they need to fend off the inevitable derision of the other bar patrons. 30 people dressed in snuggies = kind of freakishly awesome. 7 people dressed in snuggies = know where the exits are.
  • Ernie_98107
    LOL

    Definitely if you're going to go out partying looking like a monk there is safety in numbers.....
  • Winter Activity?
    If it makes them happy, more power to them. I always thought bars should have more people dressed up in costumes. However, shouldn't this be more of a winter thing? Isn't the Jazz fest this weekend? It's not going to be so easy to bar hop with all the covers?
  • chopper_74
    Slight correction. One cover, for all the venues on the jazz walk. I can't speak to the rest.
    The badge will be easy to spot draped over a snuggie...welcome all ;-)
  • me
    Sounds fun, but in the interest of accuracy, she's not the first.
    http://tinyurl.com/dzde2y
  • Nancylu
    I recently saw snuggies on sale at Bartells. Just a hop, skip and a jump away from The Loft.

    It's people having fun. Good for them. Hasn't this past winter been craptastic enough?
  • Mymble
    It sounds FUN-FUN-FUN!! I don't own a "Snuggie" but it sounds like I should! Why is this a Spring event?? Looks like warm Winter wear or do Snuggie's come in light weight material too?
  • chopper_74
    A snuggie, and a hot buttered rum...Mmmm....yeah, let's get snuggies by this fall ;-)
  • Captain Ballard
    Drinking and a blanket. A Ballard tradition since 1905. What could be better.
  • chopper_74
    Have fun, be safe!
  • The Norwegian
    I guess some have to find yet another reason to drink? After all, even Homer Simpson says it's the cause and cure to all problems. Maybe we can get together and form a new mayonaise club next! Maybe some of us have the same peanut butter in our cupboards? I feel a meeting coming up. Some peoples kids..........
  • brown
    Peanut butter makes a great shelf stable high protein food donation.
  • JD
    Jeez people. Can you be any more uptight?

    Some people want to be goofy, have some fun, socialize and even get food donated in the process.

    Get on prozac, get your anger out in a kickboxing class, or get some new batteries ;) but CHILL OUT.

    Hope the pub crawlers have fun. i'd rather be sitting next to you at a pub than the bitter people that sometimes post on here. (can't you just hear their snarls?)
  • Starbucks Arson. Please read
    Looks like a lot of fun :)
  • MktStTwkr
    They should end the crawl over at Bergen Park and hand out their snuggies to the residents.
  • gooner
    i am with you lazy. donating food and having fun... why all the wet blankets??err snuggies.

    if i didn't have plans, and if i HAD a suggie, i would join for sure. .
  • liz
    I'm down with anything that inspires a pub crawl. And that Snuggie looks super comfy! I wish I had one - I'd totally join up.
  • lazy
    wow! such naysayers.

    sounds like they're donating food and having fun.

    AND, they do so while being cozy. so what's the problem?
  • Bill
    That's just sad. And lame.
  • zeke you!
    No offense to Sheena intended, but this is pretty dumb. And it sounds a little hippie. Which makes it even more dumb.
  • chopper_74
    she sounds like my second wife ;-0...lol
  • Sawyer
    Absolutely stupid. Who started this crazy cult?
  • You know how in movies about the future everyone wears the same thing? same color? unisex? This is how it begins....
    </sarcasm>
  • chopper_74
    as long as we aren't all wearing 'hoodies'...count me in ;-)
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