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Any one have any plans yet?

I know it kinda early, but my and the little lady have already gone to Bush gardens "Hollow-scream" event, its kinda fun. We also frequent some of the "Haunted hayrides" in the area..good times. I think i enjoy the "Mom and pop" like events more than the Duff gardens one.

I think this year, ill just wear my costume from last year, as i don't want my girl to get all crazy while making me a new one (Like last year), heh.

Someone took on-call from me so I can enjoy myself.  Halloween is the wedding anniversary but I think the proper gift is a quiet evening.

The boy decided he wants to be Thomas the Tank Engine for Halloween.  Last year he was Mario and I was Luigi.  I'll keep Halloween '06 close to my heart, no matter what happens from here on out.

You at least going to watch a spooky movie? Like, how candy corn is made.

Hmm. I suspect my child will be a ninja this year. The only reason I have for suspecting this is that his costume for the last 6 years (IE: half his life) has been some form of ninja. Teenage Mutant Ninja, Scoprian Ninja, Classic Ninja, Zombie Ninja, some form of Grim Reaper Ninja -- I'm hoping for Pirate Ninja, really.

Taking him to our local city Halloween festival is pretty much it. :)

I suspect I'll answer the door a couple of times and hand out some wee boxes of rock hard raisins that have been hanging around for a year, and then laugh at their disappointed little faces.   At around 8, I'll turn off the outside light and yell abuse at anyone who dares knock on the door.  If anyone who knocks looks older than 12, I'll call the police.  So... pretty much the usual.

When I was a kid, one of the people in our neighborhood was a dentist and he handed out toothbrushes and toothpaste every Halloween.  His house always got TP'd and egged... he never did learn his lesson.

They know better.  (http://www.dark-smilies.de/pics/gruft/gruft037.gif)

 :geezer:

Halloween? It's September, you missed Halloween by about 3 weeks.  It's Chrismas season now, bitch!  Start hauling out those decorations and putting red and green on everything!
Yeah, I only wish I was being sarcastic.  The local stores have a small X-mas section already and some fuckhead one street over had his Christmas lights all over his house and turned on last night.

As to the actual question, the usual.  Taking the kids up to my sister's neighborhood which is about 10x bigger than mine and running around with their cousins.  This year's theme is "tourture Merusk's daughter" because she made a deal with mom last year.  She got to be the Grim Reaper, and this year mom picks her costume.  It's going to be a princess in a frilly pink dress so her brother can be a dragon or a knight.. don't know which yet.

My wife is evil.

I will try to talk the wife into watching They Live, but that's not unusual.

I'll probably buy like 4 bags of candy corn and play TF2 all night. Then yell at kids to "stay off my lawn".

Oh man.. I HATE that.  Yeah there's a couple Christmas ornament shops already opening at our mall... I don't need to see a Christmas tree before Thanksgiving.  I mean there's two big holidays still before December even comes around.

Hellgate: London. Also, the 3 days after that is Hellgate.

I'm going hiking in Red Rocks and the Grand Canyon that weekend, but haven't made plans for Halloween proper.  I don't think I've been home to give out candy for like 10 years... I need to find an excuse to escape!

I'm sure I'll be watching TV and being disappointed that kids don't come around our neighbor for trick-or-treating at all, being forced instead to attend family-safe Fall Carnivals that aren't devil-y in the least.

Fuckers.

Let's all crash Haemish's place dressed as furries.

I do all my shopping during Halloween, im just that odd. (as in, all my nieces and nephews get rats and body parts in the stockings) On year, i found chicken feet lollipops..stocking suffers!

Make sure you let me know how many ahead of time, so I can plan out the number of razor blades to put in the candy.

I'm not an old man!  I'm fun and older teens love me because I smell like pot and peach cobbler! 

Dammit.  (http://www.terranuts.com/forums/images/smilies/angry.gif)

PS  I will also probably be hellgate-ing a bit.

Only part about Halloween is that it's an excuse for girls to dress slutty for the day/weekend.

If I can get a new PC built in time, I'll be Hell-a-gatin'

Q:  Why can't witches have babies?

A:  Because their husbands all have hollow weenies!!!!

HAHAHAHA!

Geez, I make myself laugh!  (http://www.realitybbqforums.com/images/smilies/wicked.gif)

I'd like to get some EQ2 goodies, but the cool stuff is probably all for the cool kids with groups and guilds and whatnot. People have been breaking out their masks, some cool stuff.

Maybe its just me, but i cant believe you typed the first sentence (and its true)...and then the second one is what you will be doing (in light of the first).

Heh..

maybe you should find one of those girls, in costume, to come play with you at least?, maybe?

BTW, this is one of my most favorite hallo-days. I have a friend on the west cost thay goes all out and converts his entire 2 car garage, and about 80% of his yard into a fright house...Fun time man, fun times.

Answer: Married.

5 years ago, Halloween reeked of awesomeness. Now, it's all about letting the wife give out candy to the little kids so she coo at their costumes.

I retract my previous statements.

RIP brother, RIP.

(I'm teasing you BTW)

Thankfully, my girl is all about the holiday like me, and we enjoy the dress up. Maybe you should make an exception this year, and go out! Nothing like sitting in a highfalutin restaurant in some upscale, but undead costumes..they technically cant complain, as your outfit adheres to the dress code =)

Well, in hindsight it does look awfully strange to comment about slutty costumes and then immediately follow-up with the fact that I'm not going out to view said costumes.

Correct. But i believe according to the by laws of marriage, that its just fine if its your wife in said costume... But i'm not married, so take that for what its worth.

We typically dress up, and goto the trellis , and order its finest desert, "Death by chocolate". See the theme?

Fuck.

Halloween is huge in SF/Bay Area, also sometimes we travel down to SB for craziness.  But this year I get no time off, its on a fucking wednesday and HG:L launches and goddamnit no way I can let all you fuckers be 20 levels higher before I've even played it...

Fuck.

I love Halloween.  Definitely my favorite holiday of the year.

I go all out.  Costumes, decorations, parties.  Go to every haunted house/hayride type thing that I can.  Watch all the classic horror movies. 

(And of course, Hellgate.)

That is because you are young and pretty and still filled with hope and cutiness. 

A friend of mine throws a huge bash every year, each one better than the last. he goes way over the top, spends tons of cash on decorations... it's his favorite holiday. Costumes required. He's got 3 or 4 prizes, but this year's grand prize in the costume contest is a middle of the line hd-dvd player and 5 or 6 movies. Needless to say, competition is fierce.

I'm going to do what I do every year.

Nothing.


Sorry, I'm un-fun. I can't get myself to care; I have work that day anyway, and end-month is hell on Banking.

Halloween is always pretty cool with my family. I think we will just be hitting up all the haunted houses int he local area then driving out to the big haunted house in the farming area. I am also going to buy some more of the horror movies I have been wanting to own so the boy can see them, then probably start working on the boys Halloween costume about mid October. This year is an easy one, my son is going to be Terry Bogard from the Fatal Fury/King of Fighters games. Much easier than the last years, he was Cobra Commander a couple years back and I really had to put some work into that costume. Close to the 31s we do the pumpkins, we usually do 2, then we will finish it all off with the usual trick or treating thing. We have already decorated and everything.

I hate Halloween with a passion so I will just sit around and start thinking about what I will cook for my favorite holiday: Thanksgiving.

Probably moving to Seattle in the U.S. OF A!  So, yeah moving hell.

Considering Halloween always falls right around Georgia-Florida football weekend, I'm usually either in a football party, preparing for a football party, and/or are generally too hungover from said party to care.

As I tell my fiancee: I'm not dead, I'm monogamous. Because I am committed to her doesn't mean every other female on the planet suddenly became ugly.

Back when I was a partygoer, I had one costume every year. People actually looked forward to it, it was a tradition. Of course, the 'costume' part was almost nothing:

(http://www.thelaughingstock.co.uk/acatalog/chop-suey.GIF)

It was the amazingly not-pc character acting that made it. And beer.

That would so totally work with your current beard.

Oh, my wife and I have the same agreement. She constantly watches me watch a girl go by and loudly comments 'I'm RIGHT here!'  I just don't do things like Halloween pubs crawls, etc. anymore where slutty costumes abound.

And I really really want to play Hellgate:London

Welcome. Don't worry, you should see the sun within 6 months of moving here.

Exactly, which is why it's so imperitive to look; the wife will still be standing there, but whomever you're looking at is going on by.  If you don't look you'll miss out.

It appears I'll be in California for a wedding. If I were here, I'd just be playing games in my office, muttering dire imprecations against the goddman kids on my lawn.

RIGH NEVER LOOKS AT PRETTY GIRLS WALKING BY.  NEVER!

So then he passed away some time ago and you've just been posting with his account to keep up appearances?

edit:  Do you keep a bit of the brain in the freezer so you can have a nibble on anniversaries and such?

Night before Halloween, yearly party at my buddies place. Day of, sleep it off. Wake up, wait for the midnight release of Hellgate and quite possibly never return to society again. Oh and I always watch that shitty Halloween movie every year on TBS. The one where the kids put on the masks and watch a commercial and it turns their heads into snakes etc. It's so cheesy it's beautiful.

Silver Shamrock. Fear it.

Same.  I'm going to watch Event Horizon and play Hellgate.  I'll probably eat candy too.

Just bought a Darth Maul costume for my son. I was tempted to buy one for myself as well.

The day before Halloween I will go with a friend and maybe the rest of my tabletop games group to a haunted house thingie.
Halloween itself I may dress up as I have half a costume right now and go to my cousin's massively boring but nicely decorated Halloween party for an hour or two.
(i'm starting a DONT WASTE MONEY DUMBASS lifestyle which limits how much i permit myself to spend per month on useless but generally entertaining stuff.  Videogames and silly Halloween things are in this category.)
Nobody ever comes to my house for candy and being on a diet since December  (Its working well though it makes me crankier than normal..) means its for the best I don't even buy any lest it be eaten in a matter of hours and whatnot...

I will then come home and probably play Galactic Assault, Dawn of War, Links 2003, or another video/computer game to be determined while listening to MSNBC.   I may watch South Park/Mythbusters on DVR later in the night depending on new episode availability. 

Edit: And it is on Wednesday so I may go play Warhammer 40K beforehand too.  Itll give me an excuse to show up at my cousin's party later and leave earlier if its dead like last time.  And a reason to not finish my costume till next year.  My sword, gauntlets, amulet, and makeup should be fine till next year. I haven't been able to find a proper plasma pistol type weapon for my outfit anyways, and my airsoft guns aren't usable with my gauntlets..

So I guess I'm going to a costume party. I need a white kung-fu gi, white contacts, and a rice farmer hat. Help a brutha out.

Avoid Everett. And Kent. Mostly Kent. I'm so glad I don't live in Kent.

I envy you guys with Halloween being a holiday. Here in the UK its the night I make sure I leave work early to avoid gangs of teenagers who use it as an excuse to commit, what the police put as "anti social behaviour".

Hmm Kent. That's usually where I have to sleep when I make it up there. Not bad or anything, but there isn't much to do there.

In the US, that's what happens the night before Halloween.  Well, at least more than usual.  Mischief Night.  Of course, I consider well fed kids begging for food to be sort of strange, too.  At least in the UK, they go straight for the wallet.  Much smarter! Penny for the guy?

Apparently, I'm going to my wife's Mardi Gras organization's dance/social/party/whatever. 

Need costume idea.

I'm conflicted. I can go to a party that will likely have hot cowgirls and she-devils at it, but that means I need a costume.

So?! Get one then.

I plan on killing teenagers down by the lake... and you?

This obviously means you go as a cowboy or man-devil. There's a commercial on TV where these four guys go to a halloween party as an exact companion to four girls. I'm sure it's on youtube someplace.

Che or Gold Lamé Elvis (with Fat Elvis Shades) can win over all the she-devils and cowgirls you want.

Go as a virgin.  The girls will be cooing and fawning all over you.

I had a friend one time go as a doctor/nurse duo. He dressed his own legs as tights and his torso as a doctor's lab coat deal and had a doll bent over in front of him all night.


Absolutely hilarious.

(http://www.anniescostumes.com/ri8244.jpg)

(http://www.mardigrasoutlet.com/_images/products/nutbolt-300.jpg)

(http://www.geckotales.com/dog-costume-alligator.jpg)

Halloween is the day after my kitty has his manhood destroyed so whether or not we turn off all the front lights and ignore any knocking depend on him.  If we do answer the door, we'll be handing out my usual goody bags for a couple of hours.

(http://www.austinfolkhouse.com/images/unromantic/candy-cigarettes.jpg)
(http://image.orientaltrading.com/otcimg/83_129.jpg)

(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T56DTBN0L._AA240_.jpg)

See my post above. That's all you really need. And maybe some improv chops.

Ah shit, I didn't see that. That's funny. Where do I get one?


Don't need to improv. I AM Asian. Which would make it even funnier.  :-D

Three words... EPIC FAIL GUY!

1. Guy Fawkes Mask
2. Pair of white sweatpants and matching white sweatshirt
3. Roll of black electrical tape
4.FAIL!

I'd rather join my son in wearing a Thomas the Tank Engine costume.

It only occured to me yesterday that I have to come up with an anniversary gift, so I'm totally ignoring the whole begging-for-candy thing as of today.

When is zee anniversary?

October 31.

(http://www.funforalltoys.com/products/novelty_candy/candy_necklace/cndyncklc1.jpg)

2 birds, 1 stone. Done.

If you go that route at least splurge for a Ring Pop (http://www.topps.com/Confectionery/RingPop/RP_products.html)

Buy her this beach watch.  It's pink and looks like candy has fish!  AND IT'S PINK!

(http://www.perfumeguys.com/images/products/largeimage/pgsgs22252lg.jpg)

PINK!

Local comic book shop is sponsoring a zombie dance at a club in downtown Orlando.  For $5, you show up at the comic shop beforehand and they turn  you into a zombie, then get you into the club sans cover & line.

Wife hates pink.  Anyway, after a discussion we agreed that I would let her sleep as an anniversary present.

A day at a luxury spa would be awfully nice in lieu of pink diamond beach watches. 

You'd think so, but that means she would not be able to keep an eye on me.  I might start enjoying myself or worse, deviating from the Timetable for Galactic Conquest.

Since it's that time of the year, I just want to post this little sound clip from John Carpenter's The Thing. This seems to be a close enough thread for it. I get creeped out every time I hear this.

Poor Doggies (http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/data/movies/sounds/thscmons.wav)

This thread still needs more Hellgate: London. Fo'rizzles mah nizzles.

The Innertubes tell me that Ratchet & Clank is released on Oct 30, which means I might be able to get it on Oct 31.  Also, Hellgate, I might be able to get that on Nov 1.

Update: Went to party, it appeared sucky, older out of shape women in catwoman outfits with horrible New Jersey accents.

Was getting ready to leave, then 4 mid-20s girls came in:

Sexy nurse
Sexy army person
Sexy border patrol person (seriously)
Sex I don't know what, Lillith from Darkstalkers almost

Playing beer pong with sexy busty nurse was a good time...drat the ball fell on the floor again.

So yeah, going was the right move.

Went to a party yesterday, my costume was a homeless flasher with a massive fake penis that raised on its own and shot silly string (made it my self and it was a motherbitch), so I had lots of chicks beating me off all night.

So it was like any other day ( :rimshot: ).

I went to a fancy-dress ball on Saturday dressed as Harpo Marx.  My best Halloween costume yet.  If I can find a bicycle horn by Wednesday I'm going to go trick or treating with it.

You're too old to beg candy from strangers.  If you came to my door, I'd call the police.

I skipped a Halloween party, tried to hook up with an ex boss, and hit a brick wall instead.

Hmm, trying to go out on a date with an ex-boss certainly qualifies as a 'scary night out'. Pity it didn't work out.

You know your holloween party is great when it ends up on 4chan.

That was a shock.

One of the reasons I played like shit on sunday is that I was still recovering :)

I am every dentist's wet dream and am going in to get my teeth cleaned Wednesday morning. Then I'm getting acupuncture that I don't need from my friend Shinichi so he can bill some dollars to my insurance provider (he's a licensed practitioner, not just some dude with needles). An acupuncturist can always find something wrong with your chi, so that's technically not fraud, right? Besides, I'm pretty sure I have way too much yang. I have teeth marks on my tongue, and my BM is all ill. I probably do need acupuncture, come to think of it.

It must be halloween here since the ground is now covered in SNOW.

I love snow =(

I fear i will never see it again =(

The last decade or so we either get zero snow or massive ice storms that paralyze the state.

I'll probably take my daughter to the zoo or some kind of school function. And cry a little that I no longer get to enjoy Halloween the right way. With alcohol and loose women if I had my choice.

A friend of mine went at an at-st last weekend during the Halloween party, I thought you guys might get a kick out of the pictures.

http://flickr.com/photos/sol9001/sets/72157602334782733/

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2272/1798854940_1e162243e0.jpg?v=0)

Was that like a party.....without beer or something? How does a person have fun wearing that?

Apparently there was beer. 

Or bad sushi.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2298/1798542022_c9c2f3b4a1.jpg)

God I'm glad that when I was doing stupid crap as a teenager everyone wasn't armed with a camera phone.

It really only made an entrance when he walked in and was broken back out for the costume contest. It's not something you really wear around the party.

I'd love to see some of the stupid crap I did in pictures now. Keyword definitely being: some

If one more fucker knocks on my cube door and asks why I didn't dress up for Halloween, I am going on a killing spree. I get up before the fucking sun does- do you really think I have the time or inclination to don some elaborate costume just to go to work?

They are lucky I manage to bath and dress myself, for fuck's sake.

So, where is your costume?


(I have been asking people this all day at work  :-) )


Thats really great stuff! He should have taken a video of the movement..


And for everyone in this thread.

heh, mine too. Happy Anniversary.

You have a door?

I did not wear a costume for work.  People don't do silly shit around here.  Well, not that kind of silly shit, rather it's Big Business Silly Shit.

My wife had said, after I asked her what to get her for the anniversary, that she only wanted to sleep.  This has been done and will be done again before the week ends, but this morning she asked me if I got her a card.  That would be a "no".  Even worse, today she sends me a someecard.  Good thing I don't care about constantly being in trouble.

Awesome, same to you.  Also Andrew Bub, the GamerDad over at gamerdad.com; in fact he and I were both married on Oct 31, 1998.  To separate people.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/mrmrmrj/JoshFlintstone.jpg)

What are you?

A rubble?

What am I? Old apparently. Fred Flintstone ring a bell?

It's funnier if you just ask "What're you supposed to be?"

(http://glasgow.invocas.com/ext/kitty.jpg)

Is she a totem pole? or a cat with a wee girl conjoined twin?

Her eyes are telling me to kill....

That's fairly common.

It's the excuse I'll be using at the inquest.

Every time I see Lil' Zoddie, I smile so big I hurt my face!  :heart:

A new Halloween fashion SWAT. (http://www.somethingawful.com/d/fashion-swat/hel-looks-swat.php)

That article got me in trouble... I was laughing so loud that people outside my office came in to see if I was ok. 


PRICELESS!

Thanks, I appreciate it.  I even included my wifes hands so that Calantus has something to imagine the next time I mention I had a handjob.

(http://www.indietorrents.com/bitbucket/pic_11936009173448.jpg)

(http://www.catzeyes93.com/images/tf2costumes/adnpryde/1768439495_0f9b31c3f7.jpg)

(not me)

 :inluv: :inluv: :inluv:

I am a big Dita Von Teese fan though.

Page 11 was all gold.

Hmm, I thought that was a Halloween SWAT, that's why I posted it here, but it isn't.  I guess it doesn't really make any sense, oh well.

There are a couple of old Halloween ones here. (http://www.somethingawful.com/d/fashion-swat/index.php)

Ok, having experienced Halloween with a kid (who was old enough, 3,  to know what was going on and enjoy himself) my passionate hatred of Halloween has lessened to a degree.

I think he inherited my logical mind as he couldn't figure out why we would go out to get candy when we had a big huge bowl of it right in our house. It proved quite a conundrum for him.  Either that or he inherited my laziness.

It wasn't a conundrum for my three-year-old since he loves getting stuff.  His phrase for the evening: "Happy Halloween!  Smell my feet!"  I love it that he can say these things and people laugh instead of get angry.

Anybody else find blue M&Ms really strange?

I had a friend in high school who only ate the blue ones.  He was a strange guy.

Page 11 on the SWAT made my day.

Also that TF2 group? Money.

I found light brown M&Ms strange. Then they killed them off. A few years later, before they brought them back, I found a single, random one in a bag.

I still have it in a corked testube.

I thought a rib was going to burst out of my chest and puncture my monitor so I couldn't continue reading. That exchange is fucking gold.

(http://www.digitalmurph.com/images/katrina_costume.jpg)

One of my favorite parts of Halloween is the SI Photo spread of the NFL Cheerleaders in their costumes.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0710/nfl.cheerleaders.week8/content.1.html

Damn, those are some flabby cheerleaders.  I have better abs than most of them and I'm in my 40's.   I guess they're hoping that their breast implants take attention away from their mid-section. 

Flabby??? If they are flabby, then apparently I am a closet chubby chaser.

#lies

Fuck Yes. Hell, I'd probably be in the federal pen for life. I say the 'thank god I was a kid before cell phones/cameras' all the damned time. I led that kind of youth, it was fun.
Easy one. "I'm a serial killer."

Shiz looks like my dad in the 70s.