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Hogan & Hartson Associates Invited to ‘Pitch a Tent’

A reader sends us this party invitation from Hogan & Hartson’s New York office. Perhaps they should move the happy hour to Atrium XXX.
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For the clueless among you, see the Urban Dictionary.

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:55 PM

That is what I call low budget.

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:56 PM

i think they went for the plaing language interpretation.

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:56 PM

Guys at my high school used to pitch tents all the time. It was no big deal.

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:56 PM

Are these lame posts designed to further bury the AK porn story?
Yes, pitch a tent has a slang, sexual meaning, but it also has a traditional, nonsexual meaning. Kind of like "getting to first base." Who cares?

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:57 PM

I'm pitching one right now... you know, a small NorthFace tent.

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:58 PM

It makes me sad to think of somebody innocently designing this invitation and having it converted into something dirty. It's kind of funny, of course, but it's still a little poignant.

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:59 PM

3:56 -- If indeed you are the repeat poster of those lines. Enough already. You have taken the funny away from Frat Stud.

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:01 PM


Stop hating on Kash, this is a very funny post! How clueless is Hogan to use a double-entendre like this?

Meanwhile, while Kash is taking care of the tents, it leaves Lat free to pursue the AK porn-site story like a rabid dog

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:14 PM

Will the summers get to take home their own pup tents after singing campfire songs around the shredder.

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10 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:17 PM

"Alright campers, we're going to build a fire and have a cookout! Who's got wood? Bet you can't fit the whole weiner in your mouth!"

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:18 PM

Frankly, I think the tagline was used on purpose by someone at Hogan.

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12 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:19 PM

KASH -- WILL YOU GO RUNNING WITH ME?

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:20 PM

This is like the time I threw a cupcake party for my 2nd grader's class. Apparently, that has some awful sexual meaning too, as a few of my friends pointed out. My response: I gotta get back to work, and you know what I meant.

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14 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:20 PM

Heck, my firm is chartering a sailing yacht to take the Summers on a nighttime party cruise to Catalina ... but microwaved smores sound ok too.

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:26 PM

Come to think of it, the marshmallow stick that the girl in the flier is holding does seem kind of phallic.

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:27 PM

I wonder whose tent the little pig tailed blond is going to pitch? Looks like the marshmallow she is holding is already beginning to swell.

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17 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:29 PM

I wish i worked at H&H they get to start drinking at 5:30

18 Posted by IPgeekNYC | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:47 PM

I might get to actually GO to some of our summer events if they would stop having them at 5:30 all the time. The little darlings can wait till 7.

Maybe its to keep attendance (and costs) down deliberately?

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19 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:48 PM

This is a really dumb news story. It's not scandalous, salacious, or interesting in any way. It's just... juvenile... and really dumb.

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20 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:48 PM

This is a really dumb news story. It's not scandalous, salacious, or interesting in any way. It's just... juvenile... and really dumb.

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21 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:50 PM

Why is it TENt? They need to proofread their invitations.

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22 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:51 PM

4:50 - I was just going to make the same comment. Can someone at H&H weigh in? Does "TEN" have some meaning?

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23 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:54 PM

4:50--you need to wake up-
10th anniverary
Atrium TEN
TENt
get it now?

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24 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:54 PM

Look at the invite...it's H&H's TENth anniversary.

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25 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:55 PM

Look at the invite...it's H&H's TENth anniversary. Can anyone tell me what a cupcake party is?

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26 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:55 PM

4:50, 4:51 - Read the caption - NY office 10th anniversary.

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27 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:57 PM

Oooooohhhh, so it wasn't a typo, just a horribly stupid and cheesy attempt to be cool! I get it now. But it doesn't make it any better (in fact, I think it might make it worse).
4:50

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28 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:57 PM

4:50, 4:51 - Read the caption - NY office 10th anniversary.

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29 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:05 PM

What I want to know is, what's with the dumpy blue oil-barrel with "Camp Hogan" on it? Is that supposed to be a rolled up sleeping bag? Are they making summers sleep over in the office???

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30 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:05 PM

dick

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31 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:07 PM

Feeling a little dumb, but not as dumb as the person who decided to throw a "Pitch a TENT Party!"

Respectfully,
4:51

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32 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:14 PM

the blue object is a propane tank.

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33 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:14 PM

the blue object is a propane tank.

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34 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:15 PM

the blue object is a propane tank. thus, no wood required.

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35 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:28 PM

3:56 - Frat Boy

I've come to love you and I crack up as if the world was going to end tomorrow when I read your posts.

Keep up the good work.

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36 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:57 PM

4:55, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cupcake+party

A cupcake party sounds terrible.

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37 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:59 PM

propane tank? it's been a while since I went camping, but don't think so. agree with 5:05(1) - sleeping bag.

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38 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:10 PM

How sad and pathetic would you have to be to throw or attend a cupcake party? I mean, evidently the guys don't know what they're in for, but why not just leave? Or do the sad women also prohibit the guy from leaving? How very very bizarre and seems like something SJP would do...in fact, maybe that's what she had in mind when she bummed a cigarette off Nino!

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39 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:11 PM

How sad and pathetic would you have to be to throw or attend a cupcake party? I mean, evidently the guys don't know what they're in for, but why not just leave? Or do the sad women also prohibit the guy from leaving? How very very bizarre and seems like something SJP would do...in fact, maybe that's what she had in mind when she bummed a cigarette off Nino!

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40 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:14 PM

Guys at my high school used to propagate sexual innuendos via seemingly innocuous verbiage all the time, it was no big deal.

FRAT STUD

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41 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:26 PM

I agree this was intentional. Probably someone in the recruiting office who is planning on leaving soon and is chuckling over in the corner about how he pulled a fast one on everybody. Because otherwise this theme is bizarre and random -- what in the world does the practice of law in NYC have to do with camping? There are tons of more relevant ways to incorporate the world TEN into a theme party.

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42 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:37 PM

Don't keep the barTENder waiting
Please atTENd our drunkfest
Drink early, drink ofTEN

But we still expect you to be atTENtive tomorrow. . .

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43 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:37 PM

i didn't get the TEN thing either at first, probably because they spell it 3 different ways:

10
X
Ten

i thought that really meant conference room X, like before Y. a little consistency would have been nice.

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44 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:40 PM

Sorry, that was too challenging for you, 6:37. Maybe you're too TTT for Hogan.

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45 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 7:17 PM

Goes to show who's working in marketing.

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46 Posted by ExFed | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 7:23 PM

Now I don't feel nearly as bad about asking that associate to toss my salad at lunch yesterday.

47 Posted by Ari Covair | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:40 PM

Just how juvenile is it for a blog to even comment on this invitation, let alone make an item of it. When a partner tells you about the fine pearl necklace he gave his wife, do you fall to the floor laughing? When a coworker asks if there are teabags in the pantry, do you guffaw?

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48 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:01 PM

9:40 - Yes and Yes

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49 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:09 PM

5:28 - What a lame attempt to give yourself props. You are clearly 3:56. We can all see it.

6:14 is the REAL one, duh. He always signs his posts.

Now stop being a biter and find your own original material.

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50 Posted by Justin Timberlake | Permalink Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:39 AM

JT isn't sure the funny can be taken away from FRAT STUD, no matter how much imitators screw it up. It's pure lowest common denominator.

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