October 31, 2005

• What? What do I say to the snotty-nosed, poorly-costumed scavs that will come a knockin on my door tonight? I say "have a cheap lollipop, dear child', but delivered in such a way as to actually mean 'and if one egg comes within an inch of my house or car, by all that dwells in the devil's underpants, I'll show you the meaning of true fear'. However, if you mean now, go on, I'll have the trick. Will you be needing my IP address?
• What? I can't have both?
• Trick. Because tricks are for kids.
• trick
• Always treat. Halloween trick-or-treating excursions are some of the happiest memories of my childhood, and I wouldn't imagine being a turd to kids out on the same mission. But then, I'm in the U.S. here. I have noticed on several messageboards that folks in the U.K. and elsewhere are far less jovial when it comes to trick or treating. Which, in my view, is a shame.
• AaaAaaaaaaarrrrrrrggghhhhhh!!!!!111!!!!!!!
• And we Brits would like to thank the Americans for the concept of Mischief Night. See how well we've taken to that one...
• See, we never made too much mischief in my area. We just dressed up, trick-or-treated, and did our best to scare ourselves to shivers. I think your kids are just meaner than ours. ;) (I'm kidding, kidding...)
• They are not children. They are MONSTERS!!!!
• Jeez, you're supposed to just egg peoples' houses and TP their yards, maybe soap their windows a bit and smash some pumpkins. Leave it to the Brits to take things too far!
• I blame the 24/7 pubs.
• I'm going to leave a floral tribute to all the smashed up cars.
• Mischief Night Fantastic. Hey, who's dressing up? This seems like an appropriate thread to post your pictures. If I can get a decent one of myself from last night I'll put it up.
• Mr. Danger Mrs. Danger Mrs. Danger's mother.
• Time to get the gorilla suit out of the attic.
• Holy shit old nick, nice pictures! Now show some of you guys dressed up.
• Your MIL is teh hot!
• That's so funny I forgot to laugh, q, and by the way, YOUR MOM CALLED AND SHE'S FAT!!!
• > Trick? Or treat? it was demands for "apples or nuts" when i was growing up. now the irish kids are doing the "trick or treat" thing, as the tradition has been backported from the u.s. it's no longer apples or nuts; just handfuls of candy or wanton attacks on your residence. *fondly remembers the time he got sick from eating several kilos of raw peanuts at one sitting* oh yeah, we used to call raw peanuts monkey nuts
• We didn't have a concept of michief night (or Devil's night) where I grew up. Sure, if you didn't hand out candy your punkin got smashed or your house got tp'd, but that was about it. I have some pretty sweet pictures of me as Marie Antoinette (complete with neck wound) which earned me third place at the department party, so I'll post those later today :)
• So I said "what's your costume" And he said "nothing, I'm going in the nude" And I said, "what kind of costume is that" and he said, "I'm going as a hand lotion dispenser" true story!
• The youngun.
• Oh, and we had a total of four trick-or-treaters: three boys together as a pirate, a cowboy (Woody from Toy Story) and a really good ghost; and a teenage girl in sweatpants, pink high heels and facepaint. I forgot to ask what she was, but I think the answer would have been "last-minute effort to score sweets".
• giddyup!
• The new marshal!
• awww...so cute! as a tribute to 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'.....I'm handing out rocks instead of candy.
• I got a rock.
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• Fear grips downtown Winnipeg!!!~!
• Darth-Dog.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!
• Police are still determining whether charges will be laid. Whoops, wrong thread.
• The Word of the Day for October 31 is: lamia • \LAY-mee-uh\ • noun : a female demon : vampire Example sentence: In his latest horror flick, a seductive lamia revengefully preys upon the young men of a suburban town, who, it turns out, were responsible for her brutal death. Did you know? According to Greek mythology, Lamia was a queen of Libya who was beloved by Zeus. When Hera, Zeus's wife, robbed her of her children from this union, Lamia killed every child she could get into her power. Stories were also told of a fiend named Lamia who, in the form of a beautiful woman, seduced young men in order to devour them and who also sucked the blood of children. Such nightmarish legends uncannily compelled poet John Keats, and many other writers before and after him, to write their own tales of Lamia, which still haunt and terrify those souls who dare read them.
• that kid's more than a little bit adorable, tracicle. you must be doing something right.
• So, I went to a party Saturday night as a sculpture of Chakmool, an Aztec god who demands the hearts of human sacrifices to be placed in his ceremonial bowl. My SO went as the artist who created the sculpture. We won "Most Original." I shall post pictures as soon as I have them.
• So, It's 7 o'clock here, and dark for more than an hour, and we've had all of 6 trick-or-treaters. It's beem dwindling every year, but this is the quietest, yet. Maybe old-fashioned Halloween is on its way out?
• 53 here, and none so cute as Number 3!
• All I gotta say is that it's gettin darn hard to pass off a razor bladed apple these days. What's the world coming to?
• Ok, here's me as Marie Antoinette, and my friend Julie as Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction (note the awesome needle in the chest!)
• Argh, sorry meredithea. I was trying to make your pictures work and it didn't. I don't know why.

  And here's a picture of my horrid neck wound (which my friend Julie helped me apply), because there's no point in being a pre-guillotine Marie. Sorry they're so big... I don't know how to size them down! If someone tells me, I'll be better in the future!

• Okay, I officially made it worse.
• We had approximately eight thousand children beg candy from us tonight, which caught us by surprise. I think we ran out of treats by 9:00 pm, which has never happened before. Apparently there was a huge party at the school down the street and the little monsters on the way there (and on the way home) just rang every doorbell. They're still coming up the walk now, even though we put a sign on the gate stating there was no more candy to be had.
• coppermac! rad!
• Radish? Radiator? Radio-controlled helicopter?
• Must be time to implement a remedial reading class at the school. :)
• Thanks for trying to help, tracicle! The pictures posted up all normal sized on my own website, but for some reason they're a ginormous here. Obviously, they're haunted.
• We stayed out for a bit. Missed em all. Pfft! More sweets for me! Woo Ha Ha Ha Haaaa!
• For what it's worth, meredithea's pictures worked for me, without egregious ginourmity. I did have to right click/view image, then hit the back button to see the first one. (Love the costumes, I am so stealing the Uma Thurman one!) This year I went as "that scary, cranky lady who wears too much black and plays strange music, who probably put razor blades in the candy, so we better not stop at her house".
• I went as post suicide Hunter S. Thompson, and believe me, the pills really helped the magnificent headache. Trick. Because tricks are for kids. Where do you live, Vietnam? I thought tricks were for ho's.
• Silly rabbit.
• I stopped at the mall downtown on my way home from work yesterday, and there were kids trick-or-treating in the mall. WTF? It was a nice evening. Go outside, fer chrissake. That's just lazy, IMO.
• We didn't get many ToT-ers last night, mainly b/c it rained much of the evening. However, the dark gods were kind to my abominable offspring, as just after dinner the rain slackened enough to allow me and my diminuitive Batman to circle the neighborhood and hit all the houses that were handing out treats. He made quite a haul, too, mostly b/c the people were trying to get rid of their candy and were tossing out fistfuls of the stuff (the rain kept most of the little goblins at home). Incidentally, here's another possible difference between the US and UK versions--in our neck of the woods, at least, a homeowner can opt out of the festivities by leaving his or her porchlight off. Even if other lights are on, if the porch light is off, you don't go ringing the bell. My son and I only hit the houses with porch lights on, and while I felt more people should have been participating, I don't think anyone in the area got TPed or egged for leaving the lights off. There may have been one or two home invasions and murders by masked machete-wielding zombie kill-machines, but I think that was largely unrelated to whether they were handing out candy or not. If the pattern holds true, that has more to do with whether you're engaging in premarital sex. MMWZKMs hate that shit.
• If you give a masked machete-wielding zombie kill-machine a Zagnut, he will leave you alone and instead go after your boss. FACT!
• I want to see Marie Antoinnettee!
• Okay, I got to your blog and it worked the third time I clicked on the link. Lovely!
• Thanks! (I was terribly pleased with the neck wound... at heart, I think I'm a 12 year old boy.) Sorry the pictures are being so darn fiddly. I blame the blogger program that puts up pictures. I should just go for a sensible flickr account or something.
• Nice job, meredithea!
• Trick or treat?
• Trick or treat? Wonder if any of the kids were wearing monkey or dog costumes...
• At least it was a small, and presumbably smelly, bag... /waves to coppermac