BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?

Subject: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 08:19 AM

My sweetie is going as a one-night stand, basically wearing one nightstand...

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 11:13 AM

Will be posing as myself. With the porch light off. And the doorbell wired for 220 volts. Do stop by.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 11:13 AM

It seems we're having a hallowe'en party, although it's Limpit who has this idea. I'd be happy to just sit in with the lights off and watch Hugh Jackman movies.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Amergin
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 11:16 AM

I think I may go as some guy who sits in front of a computer and taking phone calls all day.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 11:19 AM

Once I went to work dressed as a hippie (tie-dye, headband, beads etc) and one of the highers-up said Hey, what happened, did you forget it was Halloween?

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 12:03 PM

I will go, as usual, as my favorite fictional character, myself.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: s6k
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 12:10 PM

cherie blair!

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: open mike
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 12:48 PM

for any one who thinks that the candy-grabbing tradition is not conducive to a sharing mentality and would like to do something
a bit more humane on hallowweenn.....thry trick or treat for UNICEF
gathering funds for children who are suffering....for food, medicine,
water systems, education...UNICEF

trick-or-treat for UNICEF

(does anyone know how to make this text be big and orange?)
the United Nations Children's fund has been helping children around the world for nearly 50 years...

big & orange added by
joe clone

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 01:44 PM

forgive me for this, in what has been a decent thread, but I always remember a salty Chicago waitress saying that her boyfriend was invited to a party and couldn't decide between wearing roller skates and going as a pull toy or painting himself red and going as a gas pump. As to "real life", my better half and I try to dress up at least a little for the kids who come for candy; I happen to have a really grotesque troll getup just now that I put together to stage a photograph recently.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Peace
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 02:01 PM

Out.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 08:53 PM

alive ( I hope).

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 06:36 AM

...I would imagine that I will spend Halloween (and most of October) scraping eggs off my front room window. The local feral children and teenagers who dwell in my vicinity seem to think that it's wonderful fun to make a blasted nuisance of themselves every Halloween and mischief night by Chucking eggs, stones, rubbish, vegetables and other such muck at peoples houses. And where are the coppers when you need 'em? Personally I'd like to shoot the bastards! (the children that is!) Anyone else have this problem?

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: dianavan
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 06:57 PM

I'm lucky because I have a daughter that has created many fabulous costumes. This year I have a choice between a clown or a crew member of the starship Enterprise. An easy costume is to wear all black and black boots, too. Stick duct tape to the side of your pants, down your arms from the shoulder, and up the sides of the boots. Carry a space gun and paint your face silver.

Kids here are not so nasty but I still remember my dad's stories about tipping over outhouses when he was young. One year he actually put a vacuum cleaner through a window by our front door and tried to suck the candy from the kids 'loot bags'. My dad was always the funny trickster at Halloween.

d

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 07:02 PM

For nostalgia's sake---showing my years---does anyone recall kids merely walking around hitting each other with socks filled with crumpled chalk (a powder ) to leave chalk marks on them?   

Then a bit later taking a chestnut (nothing to do with Halloween here) tying a string through it and challenging other kids (who have the same set-up) to see who can break the other's chestnut---if you win you get the points.

Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 08:25 PM

I'm going to sit in my living room and impersonate a grumpy old householder while I (required by my Beautiful Wife) wait for trick-or-treaters, who will not come. If we get two or three of them we consider it a big year. The remains of the goodies we will have provided will hang around for months and months. Frankly, I don't know where they go then.

I don't approve of trick or treat. I never heard of the custom when I was a kid in Minnesota, and only heard of it in maybe the late 40s or early 50s, when I was a late adolescent ("teenagers" didn't exist then) or early 20-something. Didn't approve of ritualized extortion then, and don't now.   Bah, humbug!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: GUEST,Kerry
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 08:52 PM

I am going as Herman Munster. With no costume.

JFK

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 09:51 PM

I am going to fashion a costume which combines the best and most marketable features of both George Bush AND John Kerry and then see if I can fool everyone into voting for me on Hallowe'en night.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: leeneia
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 10:17 PM

Bruce Baillie: outsmart those brats. Spray your windows with window cleaner before they throw the eggs. Then the eggs won't be able to cling. I'm sorry you have to put up with this.

In my neighborhood, the number of trick or treaters depends entirely on the weather. If it is 30F, there will be very few. If it is 70F, we could have 50 or 60. They are quite young (age 2 to 12) and there are always parents or teenage siblings along to supervise. I enjoy it; we both do.

I believe my neighbors are going to invite me to their party, and I plan to make a witch's costume (the original little black dress) and a black hat with orange flowers on it.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Polly Squeezebox
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 10:10 AM

Skyclad - the thought's enough to frighten anybody who knows me!

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 11:08 AM

I'm going to be home. Home from the Getaway and packing for a trip to Dutch Harbor, Alaska on November 1st. 3 weeks in the Aleutian Islands is VERY scary.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 11:10 AM

Celebrating he end of one year and the beginning of another. I'll b dressed the saem as the rest of the Coven...in simple back robes.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Once Famous
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 05:01 PM

Sorry, not interested in celebrating a pagan holiday that is about morbidity and death.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 05:03 PM

Where there is death there is rebirth...th old year ends and the new year begins.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 05:30 PM

I think I'll just be myself and scare the crap out of everyone.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 11:40 AM

Put a red sheet over me, paint my head white and fill my mouth with custard. I going to be a boil. Wish you hadn't asked?;-)

I could of course just carry a young lady about on my back.

"Who are you?"

"A turtle."

"Who's that on your back?"

"Me shell..."

I'll get my coat.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Sooz
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 12:23 PM

Avoiding festivities at an Eileen McGann concert (where she will be supported by our very own Strollin' Johnny!)

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 12:49 PM

But martin, what else can you DO about morbidity and death, other than have fun at its expense? Remember - life is a floor show! (Saw a bumber sticker somewhere taht said: life is short, laugh at it!)

Hmm - I like the boil idea best, I think, reminds me of John Belushi being a zit...

I need more ideas, though! I am going to copy somebody shamelessly since I can't think of anything myself.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 05:44 PM

My mother, in her irresponsible youth, went for the 'Rocky Horror Show' approach and got chucked out of a pub, much to the dissapointment of several male punter i suspect.......

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 05:48 PM

You are a Pagan's Pagan, Martin. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:12 PM

Paganism is FUN -- and so is masking.

Our Mardi Gras krewe is already trying to decide on our group costume; we'll be parading very early this year, on the evening of January 22. (Our parade, Krewe du Vieux, is the first of the season, two-and-a-half weeks before Mardi Gras Day -- which falls on about the earliest possible date this year). We're putting too much energy into the pressing need for January's outfits to worry too much about October 31.

Halloween is more-or-less an afterthought here in New Orleans, where we have another, much bigger, holiday that features costuming. The easiest thing to do is just to wear the previous February's Fat Tuesday garb.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: GUEST,BIG ANDY
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:16 PM

DRUNK YOU FOOL

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 06:31 PM

Very busy. Last year I had over 100 Trick or Treaters. Word has gotten out that I give "Good Candy" and coins.
Plus I decorate the front yard to attract them. WHEEEEEE! I love Halloween!

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Bert
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 08:27 PM

Way ta go SINSMELUV!

I don't even know WHERE I'll be yet, but Halloween is the start of the holiday season and we'll be sure to try to start it with a bang.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Tam the Bam (Nutter)
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:11 AM

I will be disaguised as a human being, On Halloween, I'll be in the house, with the lights out and when they come to the door I'll won't be answering it because I don't believe in Halloween, I remember when you went to the door and you had to do a party peice, but now when you open the door, the 'young ones' shove the bag in your face and expect you to fill it up, no way. they all can sod off and leave me in peace.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 10:58 AM

I'm going to be in my new house. I'm going to bake apple tart. I might dress up. I might have a party, but I haven't bought any furniture yet, so I might just light some turnip lanterns and sit on the floor.

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: GUEST,Matthew Hopkins WFG
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 11:10 AM

I'll be on the Queens highway doing the work of the Lord.
Burn 'em.
Burn 'em all.
Tis Whitchery

Subject: RE: BS: What are you going to be for Halloween?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 01:58 PM

So call me a space cowboy, so call me the gangster of love.