Look, let's face it: life is a horrible drawn out haunted hayride to the grave, and we're lucky if we have a handful of good memories at the end when the teenage headless horseman shovels the dirt onto our grave.

In this spirit, I present to you the 1st result* on Flickr for the search "worst party 20XX" for the years 2000-20011:

If you made it this far, I commend you, friends.   Happy 2012.

2000:

 2001:

 2002:
  2003:
2005:

2007:

2008:
2009:
2010:

2011:

*With a few exceptions for when the 1st result was a band photo (barf) or something totally nonsensical.