In that strange hinterland between the awesome and the horrific, there will be a Snuggie pub-crawl in Chicago on Saturday April 18th. People in Snuggies – for the uninitiated, blankets with sleeves – will travel from bar to bar, leaving a trail of slaughtered pints in their wake. It’s strictly BYOS, bring-your-own-Snuggie. All hail The Warm Bringer.
Snuggie Pub Crawl [Official Site]
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I can understand doing this in, say, January, but April? That snuggie will be friggen WARM!
@zigziggityzoo: You’ve never experienced a Chicago “spring,” have you?
@zigziggityzoo:
Someone lives in the south! In New England, for example, it doesn’t get warm until late May.
@zigziggityzoo: Just in case none of those other replies tipped you off:
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@zigziggityzoo: I’m pretty sure that, what with the white-hot Fuzzie flames burning within each participant, things will get pretty warm even if they were in the Antarctic.
Isn’t the whole point of a snuggie so you can stay home? They don’t seem like the most practical of garments to wear while walking (or crawling).
@B: Have you not see the commercial where the lovely snuggie adored family is at a sporting event?
@B: The point of the event is abject silliness!
It should be called the Point and Laugh Pub Crawl.
@gqcarrick: Which is what the international media will be doing. Do we really want the rest of the world laughing at us (again)??
@HRHKingFridayXX: If I had money I would fly to Chicago just to point and laugh. I have friends who have snuggies, and I laugh at them every time.
@HRHKingFridayXX:
Personally, I find America’s ability to laugh at itself is refreshing, but YMMV.
CHICAGO, April 18–Eighty hipsters were mistakenly arrested by the Chicago Police this evening in what a city spokesperson called “a case of mistaken identity.” Members of a “Snuggie Pub Crawl” were incorrectly identified as members of an Idaho-based doomsday religious sect known as “? and the End Times.” The Snuggies worn by the pub crawlers bore a striking resemblance to the robe-like garments worn by the cult.
@ekthesy:
The Snuggies worn by the pub crawlers bore a striking resemblance to the robe-like garments worn by the cult.
Except the Snuggies are conveniently open in the back — like a hospital gown.
They should have done this in the style of Guerilla Queer Bar – don’t announce it to the public, just do it.
@larrymac808: That’s what my friends and I do with our Santa Pub Crawl. It happens about the same time every year, and in the same place, but we never announce to the bars that we are coming. It’s much more fun to just do it and see how people react.
OMG, I think I’m in Chicago that weekend!
@Eyebrows McGee: Please take pictures so we can ridicule them for buying a snuggie and paying $7.96 P&H per unit.
@bastion72: Now now, you can buy them at several B&M stores now.
@bastion72: I think that it’ll end up being like the Naked Mile–12 people participating and 200 taking pictures.
@Eyebrows McGee:
Represent, bb!
@Eyebrows McGee: I’d advise camouflage to better blend in. 28 shopping days to go, Eyebrows!
And yes, pictures and live-blogging = heroicness
(Warning: NSFW language, hilarity.)
@Mr. Chip: since when does google inject overlay ads? “Snuggie Blanket – HSN” “blanket with sleeves $9″ “Snuggie(tm) Official Site”
What I don’t get is that snuggies are ridiculously small. It takes two to cover up the average American! I just do not understand it at all.
@maztec: huh? Ours are huge.
@maztec: The snuggie is just a cheap ripoff of the slanket. the slanket is actually the size of a regular blanket with sleeves, and doesnt make you look like a cult member when you wear it.
@Dylan Karvia: Wow, the Slanket does appear to be of superior quality. Hopefully they tag along on snuggie craze (even though they appear to be first) and cash in also.
@Dylan Karvia: Versus the Skankette, that unwholesome yet wildly popular middle-school girl that we all invited to our parties.
I wish I was close, I’d go in a heartbeat!
My husband bought my daughter and I each a snuggie as a joke for Valentine’s Day. I put one in my car and have threatened to put it on at my daughter’s effing cold soccer practice for fun… I didn’t but the look on her face was priceless.
@Charlotte Rae’s Web: I only regret my decision to remain child-free once in a great while. This is one of those times.
It’s not about smelling a newborn’s head, watching those first steps, or taking the prom photos. No, it’s all about the constant threat of mortifying embarrassment. This would bring me great joy.
I’m not even sure I’d do this for a FREE snuggie
I own a “blanket with sleeves.” I call it a “robe.”
@catskyfire: The robe falls open over your feet though and can’t tuck under them.
@catskyfire: A robe you wear BACKWARDS, you mean.
@zigziggityzoo: Clearly you are not familiar with Chicago.
@Meg Marco: /me is from Michigan. I know the weather “up here”. Still think it’ll be too warm…
Then again, I wear a T-shirt and shorts as soon as it hits 50.
I still don’t get it. Aren’t snuggies just oversized, loose-fitting pullovers? How are they different from any regular jacket?
@Connie Lee: no. Imagine a blanket you put from your neck to under your toes… but you can’t get your hands out to do things… so it is a blanket with sleeve holes.
Or a super big flannel hospital gown!
@Connie Lee: They’re like what Crocs did for footwear– it’s what you wear once you give up on trying to maintain your self-respect.
@tcolberg: LOL.
I think this event sounds awesome. Can’t wait for pics.
WHY did I move to KC? Nothing cool like this happens in Missouri.
@calquist: Oh yeah. Money.
I think they should combine the Snuggie Pub Crawl with Thrill the World and do surprise Thriller dances dressed in Snuggies.
@WorldHarmony:
This idea gets my full and unwavering support.
Pub Crawl indeed as they’ll all be on their hands and knees after tripping over the bottom of their snuggie.
Especially after downing a few.
@Gtmac: But they’ll be warm when they pass out in the gutter.
@Gtmac: Same thing I was thinking. We have one trying to walk in it is really a challenge.
I imagine it will be not unlike Santacon?
@richcreamerybutter: I’m worried it’ll be more Satyricon.
I am seriously considering doing this. It’s absolutely hilarious. Or at least following them at a discreet distance?
@cozynite: If you do follow….we require pics!!
@StreamOfConsciousness: Well, that goes without saying. I fear, though, that there would be way too many pics. I wonder how many people will trip over themselves by bar two?
The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: Snuggie.
‘Nuff said.
This is just dumb. Aside from the fact that their precious snuggies will be ruined (that fleece will pick up anything and everything), a number of people will probably go up in flames while smoking since that material is about as close as you can get to an oily rag. Also, they will look really, really stupid. When it comes to retarded things people should never wear outside of the home, snuggies are right up there with jelly shoes.
@youbastid: I think that’s the point.
@quagmire0: Yeah, I get that. But it’s not “Looks so dumb it’s funny, ha ha aren’t we ironic.” It just straight up looks dumb.
How do you walk around wearing this if it is open in the back? O_o Are these people naked underneath?
“When: Saturday, April 18th
The date has been changed from March 21st to allow for additional time for our guests to acquire their Snuggiesâ„¢ and for the bars to prepare for our volume”
People are buying Snuggies just for this?? And there will be Snuggies in volume?????
I must be sure to stay away from the city that day.
I bet more people would be into this if they just called it “The WTF? Blanket Pub Crawl.”
The snuggie cult is just getting even creepier…..the worst part is my mom told me she just got her initiation robe a week ago. *Shudders*
Sweet! I just got Cubs tickets for that day so I might have to go point and laugh!
oh my god the world is going to end….i have a feeling if people show up in white snuggies its going to look like a KKK rally and red ones going to look like a pope rally…..
Don’t those damn things just fall off if you try and walk around with them on?
They fail as a blanket and as a robe.
This reeks of a viral marketing scheme.
@HooFoot: That’s what I thought as soon as I read the headline. In order to take part in the pub crawl, you have to buy these cursed things. And any laughs you get out of making fun of a Snuggie while drinking, is not worth giving a company money for something so stupid.
And their goal of forming a cult is cemented.
Time to prepare for the coming great cult war between Snuggie and Scientology.
I’d have to already be pretty hammered to wear a Snuggie on April 18 in Texas. Mid to late April means temps in the 90s. No thanks!