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A funeral for freedom, celebrated by getting too drunk to remember the eulogy.
means A celebration held for a man shortly before his wedding, traditionally with his male friends, often marked by heavy drinking and rowdy behavior.
from Bachelor traces back through Old French 'bacheler' to Medieval Latin 'baccalarius,' originally meaning a young knight too junior to raise his own banner, later a young man unmarried and unattached. The party itself is a newer tradition — the custom of a pre-wedding send-off for the groom is often traced to a 1800s dinner reportedly thrown by a Spartan-admiring British prince for his officers, though the broader idea of men marking a friend's last days of freedom likely has murkier, more scattered roots than any single tidy origin story suggests.
- origin
- Ancient Sparta held farewell dinners for soldiers, not grooms
- vegas economy
- bachelor parties generate over 200 million dollars yearly there
- irony
- best man often isn't married himself
- rule one
- what happens there is mostly just brunch regret