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Halloween - Tricks, treats, and opinions.

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  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I need to be dead for Halloween this year - very cheaply. We're the morgue at work this year, 3 of us are the doctors, 3 are dead. I need an awesome cause of death (must be cheap and allow cubicle work). Any ideas?

    Edit: Despite my slutty name, I am male (just the victim of tails in a name change thread)

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  • EstelleEstelle Registered User new member
    edited October 2008
    I think you'll find it's the Pagan New Year. It's about as standard and old a calendar custom as there is.

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  • ScalfinScalfin __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2008
    I need to be dead for Halloween this year - very cheaply. We're the morgue at work this year, 3 of us are the doctors, 3 are dead. I need an awesome cause of death (must be cheap and allow cubicle work). Any ideas?

    Edit: Despite my slutty name, I am male (just the victim of tails in a name change thread)

    Do you want it professional like, or will an auto "accident" do?

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  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
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    This baby took me 4 hours to carve. I give you...Skelvis.


    We did a bunch of great pumpkins this year:
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    Frank the Bunny (He had eyebrows at one point, but they broke off.)
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    Edward Scissorhands
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    The "Head" Cheerleader & Boo
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    Cheshire Cat, Wario, Corpse Bride, and Barack Obama


    Anyone else carve some awesome pumpkins?

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  • GungHoGungHo Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    redfield85 wrote: »
    So, I just started watching Frankenstein (the one with DeNiro). Any good?
    No

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  • ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    TehSpectre wrote: »
    Punkins026.jpg

    This baby took me 4 hours to carve. I give you...Skelvis.


    We did a bunch of great pumpkins this year:
    Punkins023.jpg
    Frank the Bunny (He had eyebrows at one point, but they broke off.)
    Punkins022.jpg
    Edward Scissorhands
    Punkins020.jpg
    The "Head" Cheerleader & Boo
    Punkins017.jpg
    Cheshire Cat, Wario, Corpse Bride, and Barack Obama


    Anyone else carve some awesome pumpkins?

    Holy shit, those are awesome. Sadly I haven't done anything good yet, just the basics.

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  • redfield85redfield85 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Spoilers for this weeks The Office episode (and what I want to be for halloween).
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi9_oqiklW4&eurl=http://www.officetally.com/employee-transfer-promos?cp=all

    I can't decide on if I want to be Dave or a three hole punch version of me. Also, I can't wait for this episode.

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  • templewulftemplewulf The Team Chump USARegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    If anyone at the parties you go to is remotely politically aware and you need a fast costume (still looking, Medo?), you could always go as a mugged John McCain supporter:
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  • mrflippymrflippy Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I'm still trying to decide whether I should wear my pirate costume to work.

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  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
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  • real_pochaccoreal_pochacco Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    templewulf wrote: »
    If anyone at the parties you go to is remotely politically aware and you need a fast costume (still looking, Medo?), you could always go as a mugged John McCain supporter:
    uhh.jpg

    haha oh god that is a hilarious costume idea.

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  • ScalfinScalfin __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2008
    If I planned ahead farther and thought of it on time, I would have so gone as Franken Stein:
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  • Matt_SMatt_S Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Trick or Treat, everybody.

    "Night of the Living Dead" is up on hulu, if anyone is interested. Just do a search for it and you ought to find it.

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  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    The remake, or the original?

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  • Matt_SMatt_S Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
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  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    While I like the original, the remake is superior.

    However, if you have not seen the original Night of the Living Dead, you need to see it at least once.

    Great, great flick.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I need to be dead for Halloween this year - very cheaply. We're the morgue at work this year, 3 of us are the doctors, 3 are dead. I need an awesome cause of death (must be cheap and allow cubicle work). Any ideas?

    Edit: Despite my slutty name, I am male (just the victim of tails in a name change thread)

    Impalement? Get a household object, cut it in half, and then attach one half to your shirt and cover in blood.

    An old keyboard could look pretty cool.

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  • DraXXXenDraXXXen Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I needed a cheap, easy costume for this year - as with every other year I always over think it and then get too lazy to create it at the last minute - ah well.

    Of course..it is pretty obscure, but I wanted to make the jacket regardless of Halloween.
    But one question remains:
    Who is Number 1!!??!!
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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    redfield85 wrote: »
    Spoilers for this weeks The Office episode (and what I want to be for halloween).
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi9_oqiklW4&eurl=http://www.officetally.com/employee-transfer-promos?cp=all

    I can't decide on if I want to be Dave or a three hole punch version of me. Also, I can't wait for this episode.
    what is the Dave nametag a reference to?

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  • FuzzFuzz Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    My girlfriend and I are dressing up this year as this..

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    Oh yeah.

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    So I wasn't planning on doing anything this year, but then I got invited to a party last minute, which means costume shopping today.

    I was thinking of tracking down a white robe and white hair/beard. Then wear some spike collar, a band's t-shirt underneath the robe, and sling my guitar over my shoulder and go as a Rock God.

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  • noir_bloodnoir_blood Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Kyougu wrote: »
    So I wasn't planning on doing anything this year, but then I got invited to a party last minute, which means costume shopping today.

    I was thinking of tracking down a white robe and white hair/beard. Then wear some spike collar, a band's t-shirt underneath the robe, and sling my guitar over my shoulder and go as a Rock God.

    How would anyone see the t-shirt under the robe?

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  • DarkDragoonDarkDragoon Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    This year's costume
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    The face paint has faded a little bit, so I'm probably going to need to touch it up soon.

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    My scarecrow outfit is going over big here at work. Just some old baggy clothes from Salvation Army store, some hay from Michael's, work gloves dyed dirty brown from OSH, some rope, a black out mask and burlap for the head.

    I'm actually scaring some people here. I can't wait to go out with my nephew tonight!

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  • LineNoizLineNoiz Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
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    It's uhh... It's itchy.
    Tach wrote: »
    My scarecrow outfit is going over big here at work. Just some old baggy clothes from Salvation Army store, some hay from Michael's, work gloves dyed dirty brown from OSH, some rope, a black out mask and burlap for the head.

    I'm actually scaring some people here. I can't wait to go out with my nephew tonight!
    Scarecrow brothas!

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Overalls would have been awesome- but I couldn't find any.

    Solidarity, brotha!

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  • redfield85redfield85 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I don't know about any of you, but a Halloween party to me doesn't consist of just drinking and playing Rock Band. That right there is called every weekend I go to my friends, not Halloween. No scary movies = no me. I might just stay in tonight and watch movies.

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  • YarYar Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I think most of the biggest holidays have strong roots in our pagan collective psyche, that's why they are so popular.

    On Halloween, we pretend to be death and monsters and creatures of darkness and all the things we're afraid of, to remind ourselves that we aren't really that afraid of death and monsters and the fact that we are more than hlafway into the dark part of the year. To remind ourselves that we really are better than those things, better enough to make fun of them.

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Not to mention the fact that we basically train our young to terrorize their neighborhoods, threatening the citizenry with vile acts, unless they placate the youngins' with sweets- or, god forbid, plastic baggies filled with pennies.

    I love this holiday.

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited October 2008
    I've managed to complete my Rorschach costume. I think it turned out well, and all it cost me was a hat and a white scarf for under $20 combined. Whoo, vaguely topical costumes!

    My son was going to be Robot Chicken, but we ran out of time so now he's just Chicken. It was actually a costume designed for a dog, but it was cute and cheap and it fit. Maddie will be Snow White using a made-from-scratch/store-bought combo dealie. Julie's going to be a hot witch, or something (it's a costume she already had).

    Normally I wouldn't bother dressing up, but Maddie wanted us to and we're weak.

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  • geckahngeckahn Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Sentry wrote: »
    Seriously, you UKers are dead inside. Absolutely dead inside.

    This is true.

    Halloween is amazing. Probably the best holiday ever.

    It's an excuse to act nuts and dress up in absolutely ludicrous costumes. And all the girls who want to get to dress up like huge whores of the evening, yay!

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Hey guys check out my bitchin' costume that cost me a total of six dollars:
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  • BobCescaBobCesca Is a girl Birmingham, UKRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Halloween is so far awesome:

    no annoying trick-or-treaters = check
    pumpkin soup for dinner = check
    non-halloween dvd to watch = check (Children of Men)

    A nice, normal Friday night :D

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  • redfield85redfield85 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    No scary movie? For shame.

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited October 2008
    Willeth wrote: »
    Hey guys check out my bitchin' costume that cost me a total of six dollars:
    jayne.jpg

    Cool.

    You need an unreasonably large gun.

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Willeth wrote: »
    Hey guys check out my bitchin' costume that cost me a total of six dollars:
    jayne.jpg

    Cool.

    You need an unreasonably large gun.

    Dammit, don't give me orders. Do you know what the chain of command is? Etc.

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  • RaggaholicRaggaholic Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    BobCesca wrote: »
    Halloween is so far awesome:

    no annoying trick-or-treaters = check
    pumpkin soup for dinner = check
    non-halloween dvd to watch = check (Children of Men)

    A nice, normal Friday night :D

    I was going to do something like that, but tomorrow. Anyone ever had pumpkin soup served out of an actual cleaned pumpkin? I'm thinking of doing that. But with scary movies.

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  • BobCescaBobCesca Is a girl Birmingham, UKRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Raggaholic wrote: »
    BobCesca wrote: »
    Halloween is so far awesome:

    no annoying trick-or-treaters = check
    pumpkin soup for dinner = check
    non-halloween dvd to watch = check (Children of Men)

    A nice, normal Friday night :D

    I was going to do something like that, but tomorrow. Anyone ever had pumpkin soup served out of an actual cleaned pumpkin? I'm thinking of doing that.

    oh dear...someone just knocked on the door...we're not answering.

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  • RaggaholicRaggaholic Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    BobCesca wrote: »
    oh dear...someone just knocked on the door...we're not answering.
    I hope you like eggs...

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  • BobCescaBobCesca Is a girl Birmingham, UKRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Raggaholic wrote: »
    BobCesca wrote: »
    oh dear...someone just knocked on the door...we're not answering.
    I hope you like eggs...

    it was probably a group of 8 year olds with their parents...no eggs for us!

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