Basket Boy Auction
I had never heard of anything like that until I watched Flipped.
Has anyone?
I just finished watching Flipped for the first time, and the Basket Boy thing reminded me of the Gilmore Girls episode A-Tisket A-Tasket, which basically did the same thing. Except there it was the women who packed a picnic basket and the guys who bid, as a town fundraiser.
shareThat’s what happens in the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma. It’s called a “Box Social”; the young, unmarried women pack the lunches and the bachelors bid on the one made by the girl they want to eat lunch with. It’s an important part of the plot in Oklahoma.
shareI doubt they still do it, woke culture and all, but when I was at Berkeley, one of the fraternities I'd DJ for would host an annual slave auction. As the DJ, I'd get to MC it each year. They'd bring their pledges up one at a time, and girls would bid how many shots they'd do to have the guy as their slave for the night. You'd always end up with a lot of really drunk sorority girls and a bunch of happy pledges. I doubt they do this anymore.
When I'd MC it, each year I'd be sure to say during the auction that I do not condone slavery. Good thing I had the foresight to do so... imagine if a video of me hosting a slave auction popped up in 2021. I'd be cancelled!
Legit LOLd at the first sentence.
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