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This Saturday marks New York City-based Improv Everywhere's 8th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride - part prank, part social experiment where participants gather to ride the subway, sans pants, with straight faces. People from around the globe have been encouraged to organize their own pants-free public transportation ride and lucky for us, it's on. The fun starts at the Granville CTA Red line station (1119 West Granville Avenue) this Saturday at High Noon.
THE RULES: "You can wear socks, shoes, boots, coats, gloves, shirts and hats - just no pants. (No thongs or G strings cause we want to surprise and not offend.) You pretend like you don't know any of the other pants-less riders. You should act like it's perfectly normal to have been waiting for the subway without your pants! Dress as you wish but try to keep in mind that the goal is to act as if you forgot your pants."
Note: The New York City No Pants! Subway Ride rules state not to bring cameras, as they will have photographers on site. We assume this is true for Chicago.
The first No Pants ride took place in New York City in 2002 with seven participants. Last year, it had 900 participants in New York, and another 1,000 or so in nine additional cities around the world, including Chicago. This year, No Pants rides are scheduled in several U.S. cities including L.A., Portland, Denver, Boston and internationally in Sydney, Vienna, Lisbon, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Adelaide. See you there, with our serious underpants faces on.
For more information on the Chicago ride check out the official Chicago No Pants! Subway Ride facebook page and for photos, videos and information on past events, visit Improv Everywhere's website. Improv Everywhere is also the group that brought us last year's fantastic MP3 Experiment.
Photo via Improv Everywhere's Facebook Page.
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oh my god i love stuff like this.
oh my god i love stuff like this.
oh sure, on sat it's improv, but the other 364 days a year when i do it, it's "indecent" or "disgusting" or i get "arrested..."
They should change their name to Talentless Everywhere.
Ha. Speaking of pants-less...today there was a news story about a guy who fell off his ski chair lift and his ski got caught in the chair.
His pants got caught too and so he's dangling, upside down on the lift with his bare ass for all to see.
His son was sitting beside him. I don't know how long he was hanging there, but I've got to question why anyone would take pics and then publish them for national broadcast. How humiliating!
At least these pants-less train riders are doing it by choice, and they get to keep their skivvies on...not hanging upside down dangling your twig and berries for all to see.
I know what's been on those seats.
Count me out of your little improv...
Carefully prescribed and controlled wackiness! Expression of excitement, within reason! And all of it carefully documented so everyone participating can re-experience the event on their portable media devices!
Christ kids, have a fucking orgy. At least that would be fun for the onlookers.
Chicagoist readers take note! People are having fun somewhere! time to snark about it!
Yeah, that photo looks like a hoot!
"Remember that time we got on the train? And took our pants off? And sat there reading? Yeah, good times... good times...
Uhm, Helloooooooo what's the point of this?
Let me guess. Some wanna be frat boy improv dork who lives in Lincoln park wants to get laid and figures this is a good way to put himself "out there" with minimal risk of his getting rejected. Maybe this would be o.k. in a city that wasn't so midwesternly red eye shallowly stupid in the first place, like the NYC, but that's all we need are drunk frat boys with a legitimate excuse to expose themselves to women and girls on the train abetted by bimbos who are just trying to "fit in"
Grow the F*ck up yo, Israel just shelled a U.N. school. I dig comedy but take yer frat boy sh*t and shove it up yer Momus' onos!
Spook over and out!
I don't understand why they do this in the winter. It'd cold enough WITH pants on.
Everyone here is so negative. I won't be participating, because I like to wear pants in January, but their event back in October was definitely the most fun I've ever had in Lincoln Park (the park or the neighborhood).
Ironic... Today (January 10) marks a full moon. Take that any way you wish including double entendres.