Post #153190 by woofmutt on Fri, Apr 15, 2005 8:42 PM

It's too obvious but good: "Blue Hawaii" and Blue Hawaiis. (Hawaiians? Do you pluralize a drink name?)

Elvis flicks are really good looking and fun to watch with a group. "Blue Hawaii" is crammed full of scenery, sets, and Aloha wear that'll make you drool all over the screen. And the music's great!

The Blue Hawaii is easy to make (ingredients from bottles and cans) and one of the more approachable Tiki drinks for the Ordinary as it's sweet, coconutty, and blue. People love blue drinks and rarely get them. They go "Wow!" when they see a blue drink, then they say "It's blue!" Then they tell the cow orkers at the offfice on Monday who all get jealous and want to be your friend.

"Blue Hawaii" is right smack dab from the era of inauthentic representation of other cultures so when it comes to food anything Asian would go. Or you could do a mock/light luau...Easy Kalua pork recipes here:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=894&forum=1

Here's what our experts at Woofmutt Livin' suggest for an easy shindig: Blue Hawaiis, an "Island Punch" (anything fruity and full of fruit pieces, have a bottle of rum for those who wanna spike it), and quality Chinese take out arranged/dumped nicely onto your own dishes. Make up an invite on the compumachiner and write it like it's 1961 (Along the lines of "An exotic Polynesian evening of tropical cocktails and Oriental delicacies..."). Talk up the Technicolor feature you will be presenting...("The musical lu-WOW of the year!" says the trailer.

If yah don't like Elvis yer beyond help. It's that simple.

Here's the text and voiceover from the trailer, it's swell:

Text: The gateway to the South Pacific opens wide for Elvis Presley and you in the biggest, brightest, most beautiful musical production of the year...Hal Wallis' Blue Hawaii.

VO: Blue Hawaii! With Elvis as your personal guide to America's exotic Eden, our Polynesian paradise...Elvis brings you the vacation of your life as he hits the beach with the most luscious armful of delight on the island. Yes, the most gorgeous wahines on Waikiki are taking lessons from Elvis when he gets a job guiding gals with more than scenery on their minds!