Happy Couple Beating Day

This is an anti-Valentine's Day party at its finest. It has been my most successful party by far, though that could be attributed to the fact that I live in an area full of single people.

Here are the things I did to make this happen, and the things I suggest to you:

• Have two posters. On one poster, have a female stick figure, and on the other poster, have a male stick figure. Place targets on the stick figures...I doubt you need help figuring out where they need to go ;) Place the posters on the walls, and have nerf guns or slingshot monkeys available for shooting.
• Put funny things on the walls, like comics that make fun of Valentine's Day, or protest signs. Example: "Myth: Cupid helps people fall in love. Fact: Arrows kill. Stop the violence."
• Have a word search full of cynicism. Include "love" in the word list, but not in the search. This way, everyone will spend all their time searching for love, but they'll never find it.
• Get a large-ish foam poster board, and carefully attach paint-filled water balloons to it. (I suggest using thumb tacks to attach the balloons to ensure they stay put. Dilute the paint with water so the paint lasts longer.) Have some darts that party-attenders can throw at the balloons. 
• Make or buy a heart-shaped pinata. Fill it with candy, because candy is divine. Then beat up that heart until there's nothing left and eat the candy.
• Play kissing rugby. This is a violent game that is not romantic in any way. People walked away from this bruised and bleeding.  "Kissing rugby is an aggressive sport where rug burns are as common as kissing. It's played with a large group of boys and girls. Each boy gets a number assigned to him and the girls are assigned letters. Everyone makes a circle with boys on one side, girls on the other. Someone gets in the middle and calls out a number and a letter (i.e. D--5) and then "D" and "5" enter the circle and attack the member of the opposite sex. If a girl is in the middle to start then the boy "5" attacks her while the girl "D" attacks "5." A point is scored when either "D" or "5" lands a kiss anywhere on the face (ears count) of the other person. Whoever is kissed has to remain in the middle, call out a number and a letter, and avoid getting kissed in the next round." (I took that description from this website. They explained it better than I could).
• Have gingerbread men or sugar cookies cut into human shape. Provide items your guests could use to decorate the cookies. The purpose of the sugar cookies is to provide a type of voodoo doll. Turn toothpicks into swords and let your guests stab out their aggression on their exes.
• Make sure you have some angry, hate-type music playing the background. Use artists like Linkin Park, Flyleaf, Paramore, and other such bands. Check out the song "Hate (I Really Don't Like You)" by Plain White T's. P!nk has some great songs, too. Most artists have some sort of angry song. Find them, make your play list, and wreak havoc.
• The way you light the party can completely change the mood. My roommate and I painted some lightbulbs and added flames to them for a nifty effect.
• Our group also went to the campus library and played Capture the Flag (which was hard because you have to quiet and sneaky or you're kicked out). It was great, and you can always include that sort of thing in your party, too, even though it isn't entirely relevant to the anti-Valentine's theme.

The above ideas worked for me. People were talking about that party for a long time. It was, well...epic.