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]]> By: man in MTA cap http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12501 man in MTA cap Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:33:44 +0000 http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12501 Just adding to my previous post, it was a lot of fun and a joy to meet everyone! Think a coupla people dropped out and didn't board the train at City Hall. Alex and Devon(not sure if that's the correct spelling of your name), hope to see you next year! Don't worry, things gets easier as you go along! Just adding to my previous post, it was a lot of fun and a joy to meet everyone!
Think a coupla people dropped out and didn’t board the train at City Hall. Alex and Devon(not sure if that’s the correct spelling of your name), hope to see you next year!
Don’t worry, things gets easier as you go along!

]]> By: gillian http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12474 gillian Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:33:50 +0000 http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12474 will be adding more photos from the day here! http://www.flickr.com/photos/glc315/ will be adding more photos from the day here!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glc315/

]]> By: Brother Jason http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12436 Brother Jason Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:03:14 +0000 http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12436 I hope you read Sister Jen's testimonial a few comments above, for she speaks the truth, but I want you to know that all is forgiven. I have Good News to report! A vast majority of those with whom we spoke and to whom we gave <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasoneppink/2188170241/' rel="nofollow">pamphlets</a> re-panted and accepted Pants into their life by the end of the night! It was truly a miracle. Hallelujah! I hope you read Sister Jen’s testimonial a few comments above, for she speaks the truth, but I want you to know that all is forgiven.

I have Good News to report! A vast majority of those with whom we spoke and to whom we gave pamphlets re-panted and accepted Pants into their life by the end of the night! It was truly a miracle. Hallelujah!

]]> By: Alissa http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12432 Alissa Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:40:42 +0000 http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12432 This was my first task as an agent for Improv Everywhere and I had a blast! I only learned of it the night before and late that night I tried on multiple half-outfits to see which looked the most ridiculous sans pants. I settled on a business-woman look with a blazer and collared blue shirt. I also brought a binder to use as a report or portfolio. After exiting the subway pantless and waiting for the next train, I pretended to take notes in the binder. They read like, "I can't believe I'm not wearing pants, I'm crazy, what the f*%K am I doing?" Ah but it was totally worth it. The people I met during No Pants 2k8 were fabulous, and it's unfortunate to hear comments from those who didn't appreciate the joke, or that some pantless participants alienated others by being too aggressive. If anyone is interested, my photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/assila/ Right when I got off the subway the first time, there was a professional camera and a video camera and I can't find those images anywhere. I'll keep looking because as fun as my pictures are, I want to see photos from those first nervous moments! But, if anyone sees them, let me know! Shout out to all of my pantless budies! You know who you are! This was my first task as an agent for Improv Everywhere and I had a blast! I only learned of it the night before and late that night I tried on multiple half-outfits to see which looked the most ridiculous sans pants. I settled on a business-woman look with a blazer and collared blue shirt. I also brought a binder to use as a report or portfolio. After exiting the subway pantless and waiting for the next train, I pretended to take notes in the binder. They read like, “I can’t believe I’m not wearing pants, I’m crazy, what the f*%K am I doing?” Ah but it was totally worth it. The people I met during No Pants 2k8 were fabulous, and it’s unfortunate to hear comments from those who didn’t appreciate the joke, or that some pantless participants alienated others by being too aggressive.

If anyone is interested, my photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/assila/

Right when I got off the subway the first time, there was a professional camera and a video camera and I can’t find those images anywhere. I’ll keep looking because as fun as my pictures are, I want to see photos from those first nervous moments! But, if anyone sees them, let me know!

Shout out to all of my pantless budies! You know who you are!

]]> By: Hyper_koi http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12431 Hyper_koi Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:18:19 +0000 http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12431 i had a lovley time team 3!! on the red line i was in the third car and stuffs some lady asked if i was going thru an initiation. hee heee thanks for all the awesome people who grouped up to go to virgin mega store,staples and barns and noble hahahaha and taking off the pants of strangers too hahaha cant wait for next year! i had a lovley time

team 3!!

on the red line

i was in the third car and stuffs

some lady asked if i was going thru an initiation.

hee heee

thanks for all the awesome people who grouped up to go to virgin mega store,staples and barns and noble

hahahaha

and taking off the pants of strangers too hahaha

cant wait for next year!

]]> By: Agent BlueLeopard http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12429 Agent BlueLeopard Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:46:48 +0000 http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12429 Just wanted to add a little bit to my tale. Saturday night after the event I ended up doing a very brief phone-in interview about participating in No Pants 2k8 on The Hooter & Greenway Show (an internet radio show out of Buffalo, NY). I wanted to link to the audio archive of it, but they haven't uploaded it yet... Just wanted to add a little bit to my tale.
Saturday night after the event I ended up doing a very brief phone-in interview about participating in No Pants 2k8 on The Hooter & Greenway Show (an internet radio show out of Buffalo, NY). I wanted to link to the audio archive of it, but they haven’t uploaded it yet…

]]> By: Jen Loves Pants http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12428 Jen Loves Pants Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:46:12 +0000 http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12428 As one of the ProPants "I HEART PANTS" folks, I was shocked at the reception we got from most of you pantsless folks. We hoped to provide you with something unexpected and hopefully hilarious to giggle about and you jeered us, aggressively. When you react so strongly and negatively to our joke on you, one mirroring exactly the joke you have been so pleased to play on the rest of the city, maybe that means you should stop for a moment, come down from the pantsless high, and remember that it’s supposed to be fun.. for everyone. Many of you interacted with us one on one, were nice, obviously playing along with the joke, and we loved you. On the other hand, some of you forced passersby to remove their clothing by forming circles and aggressively chanting at them. You physically restrained my preacher friend to tear his pants off. You assaulted someone at an ImprovEverywhere event, No Pantsers. This is not just someone taking a joke too seriously – you laid hands on someone and forcibly removed their clothing. What happened to the happy-go-lucky folks from MP3 experiments and other pranks? Several people criticized and questioned all of No Pants based on your behavior, calling you chanters the most negative part of their experience. You drove people away from this event by belligerently forcing participation in an event that is 100% voluntary. ProPants will be back next year, to provide entertainment for you, and to add something new to No Pants that only you, the people who actually get out and attend, get to enjoy. Leave the antagonism at home, enjoy the joke, and we’ll see you at No Pants 2k9! As one of the ProPants “I HEART PANTS” folks, I was shocked at the reception we got from most of you pantsless folks.

We hoped to provide you with something unexpected and hopefully hilarious to giggle about and you jeered us, aggressively. When you react so strongly and negatively to our joke on you, one mirroring exactly the joke you have been so pleased to play on the rest of the city, maybe that means you should stop for a moment, come down from the pantsless high, and remember that it’s supposed to be fun.. for everyone.

Many of you interacted with us one on one, were nice, obviously playing along with the joke, and we loved you. On the other hand, some of you forced passersby to remove their clothing by forming circles and aggressively chanting at them. You physically restrained my preacher friend to tear his pants off. You assaulted someone at an ImprovEverywhere event, No Pantsers. This is not just someone taking a joke too seriously – you laid hands on someone and forcibly removed their clothing. What happened to the happy-go-lucky folks from MP3 experiments and other pranks?

Several people criticized and questioned all of No Pants based on your behavior, calling you chanters the most negative part of their experience. You drove people away from this event by belligerently forcing participation in an event that is 100% voluntary.

ProPants will be back next year, to provide entertainment for you, and to add something new to No Pants that only you, the people who actually get out and attend, get to enjoy.

Leave the antagonism at home, enjoy the joke, and we’ll see you at No Pants 2k9!

]]> By: Kira http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12418 Kira Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:15:30 +0000 http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/12/no-pants-2k8-nyc-reports/#comment-12418 Thanks to everyone for the amazing memories. Everything was great! Key moments: Gathering on the subway prior to de-pantsing and meeting friends (Raffy, Jed)who continued to stay-pantless w/me for the rest of the night. Having a women rant to us about how the "MTA and the government were behind this atrocity" Seeing a pantless peer pretending to sleep on the subway. Random foreigners take pictures of us with their cellphone cameras. Having a cop ask my friend why she had no pants on. To almost causing an accident when a cabby saw 6 pantless people crossing the street To getting random people take off their pants at Union Square and Crocodile Lounge. To having pizza grease all over me and my undies at Crocodile Lounge. Thanks for all the new friends( you know who you are-Jason, Eric,Lindsey, etc!) See you next year. Thanks to everyone for the amazing memories. Everything was great!
Key moments:
Gathering on the subway prior to de-pantsing and meeting friends (Raffy, Jed)who continued to stay-pantless w/me for the rest of the night.
Having a women rant to us about how the “MTA and the government were behind this atrocity”
Seeing a pantless peer pretending to sleep on the subway.
Random foreigners take pictures of us with their cellphone cameras.
Having a cop ask my friend why she had no pants on.
To almost causing an accident when a cabby saw 6 pantless people crossing the street
To getting random people take off their pants at Union Square and Crocodile Lounge.
To having pizza grease all over me and my undies at Crocodile Lounge.
Thanks for all the new friends( you know who you are-Jason, Eric,Lindsey, etc!)
See you next year.

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