Tricks or treats? - Page 2

strandinthewind · #16 10-27-2005, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

lol - I don't think I could bring myself to wear SAS's

I'm wearing FMH's (f*ck me heels)

Candy Striper RED I hope

strandinthewind · #17 10-27-2005, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

It seems to me that costume would also call for kneepads.

If you fly to Mississippi - she might just wear them

Nixxxed · #18 10-27-2005, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

If you fly to Mississippi - she might just wear them

Nothing worse than a pair or ripped white hose.

JasonJazmen, you will post pics afterwards for us, yes?

JazmenFlowers · #19 10-27-2005, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

Nothing worse than a pair or ripped white hose.

JasonJazmen, you will post pics afterwards for us, yes?

lol - if you're lucky!

JazmenFlowers · #20 10-27-2005, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Candy Striper RED I hope

kinda a la Janice ? from the Blink 182 video

strandinthewind · #21 10-27-2005, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

kinda a la Janice ? from the Blink 182 video

OMG - I love you

Please post pics!!!!!!

Richard B · #22 10-27-2005, 07:38 PM

Halloween begins tonight with a party. Break on Friday night. BIG studio party on Saturday night. Break (Recouperation) on Sunday. Monday/Halloween is the huge Street Fair or a party at a mansion off Sunset Blvd. Not sure which on that night.

My costume: Electrocuted. I have done this the past 5 years. I get lots of attention and it's so easy. I wear normal street clothes. Then I stand my hair on end, straight up (lot's of product). I have a pair of eye glasses that I have cracked one of the lenses and put them askew on my head, and I have an electrical socket outlet that I cut a whole in so that I put my finger through it. Hehehe...then add some blood to make a bloody noise.

It's such a fun costume. One year I hid incense behind my head so it looked like my head was still smoking...but I ended up burning some of my hair. Not good. So that little part is out this year.

Have fun all of you!!!

Brwn_eyes0511 · #23 10-27-2005, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Neal

I'll be drinking myself into oblivion Friday - Sunday (nothing unusual there) and Monday is the big annual Castro Street Halloween party in San Francisco.

You drunk little whore!!!!

Nixxxed · #24 10-27-2005, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard B

Halloween begins tonight with a party. Break on Friday night. BIG studio party on Saturday night. Break (Recouperation) on Sunday. Monday/Halloween is the huge Street Fair or a party at a mansion off Sunset Blvd. Not sure which on that night.

My costume: Electrocuted. I have done this the past 5 years. I get lots of attention and it's so easy. I wear normal street clothes. Then I stand my hair on end, straight up (lot's of product). I have a pair of eye glasses that I have cracked one of the lenses and put them askew on my head, and I have an electrical socket outlet that I cut a whole in so that I put my finger through it. Hehehe...then add some blood to make a bloody noise.

It's such a fun costume. One year I hid incense behind my head so it looked like my head was still smoking...but I ended up burning some of my hair. Not good. So that little part is out this year.

Have fun all of you!!!

That's a cool costume idea! Did you use stick incense? If so, would cone incense be safer?

I've already stocked up on incense for my yard. I buy the cheapest, stinkiest stuff from the dollar store, and hide it in the bushes & around the trees. It creates a great effect, with the smoke and the smell. And a heck of a lot simpler and cheaper than a fog machine.

JazmenFlowers · #25 10-27-2005, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

OMG - I love you

Please post pics!!!!!!

I may go as a vampire/temptress - not sure yet, depends on what kind of costume I can find...but if I get pics, I'll post em

paleshadow · #26 10-27-2005, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

How are you celebrating Halloween? Costume parties? Trick-or-treating? Playing tricks on your neighbors?

I'll be carving pumpkins with my nephew on Saturday, in preparation for his school's "Fall Festival" Sunday afternoon. I don't think I'll actually make the festival, however - I have a costume party on Saturday night, and I don't plan to be conscious on Sunday if I can help it.

On Monday, I'll be decorating the yard (with MY pumpkins), and will spend the evening passing out treats to the neighborhood kids. And maybe a few tricks too.

A friend of mine in Houston told me about this great prank he used to play on kids, and I might try it. You hook up an air compressor, hide it behind some hay bales or appropriate decoration, then run the air hose down your shirt sleeve. Put the air nozzle in whatever hand you hold the candy bag - it must be something that hangs down from your hand - and when the goblins reach into the bag for their treat, you press the nozzle. Of course, you get a horrifying loud hiss, and a puff of air that I'm told is sure to startle just about anyone.

And no, I would never do such a thing to really little kids. I'm thinking more of those "I'm so cool in my goth makeup" teenagers that seem to overrun our area every year.

Any other trick ideas?

The air compresser sounds like a cool idea. I know I would crap myself if someone did that to me. Last year I bought one of those big plastic witch's cauldrons and cut a hole in the bottom big enough to fit my hand through. I glued a black rubber glove to the inside of the cauldron so that I can slip my hand through the bottom into the glove. The idea was to put the candy in the cauldron over my gloved hand then when they reach inside the cauldron to help themselves to the candy, my hand would pop up and grab them. I didn't end up doing it last year because most of the kids that came were pretty young. I'll try again this year though.

Pumpkins will be carved tomorrow night probably. I usually don't like to do it more than a day or two before Halloween because they will rot, but I have to work this weekend and won't have time. Tonight I'm going to pop in "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" and maybe sample some of the candy, just to make sure it's fresh for the kids on Monday night.

Richard B · #27 10-27-2005, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

That's a cool costume idea! Did you use stick incense? If so, would cone incense be safer?

I've already stocked up on incense for my yard. I buy the cheapest, stinkiest stuff from the dollar store, and hide it in the bushes & around the trees. It creates a great effect, with the smoke and the smell. And a heck of a lot simpler and cheaper than a fog machine.

I used stick incense...but maybe the cone in a little container might be a better solution. Good idea.

I love your idea with incense around your yard. That's very creative and smart.

When I was a teenager, my friend and I would make a graveyard on the front lawn, hang bodies from trees, and then run a hose from the back of the house onto the roof, then had a sprinker head attached to create...rain on the front of the house onto our graveyard, complete with a strobe light, thunder sound effects. It was really cool. People came from who knows where to check it out. It was fun...and of course mt friend and I would be surprising people from corners and the bushes in the graveyard...generally with axes and butcher knives. So fun.

Nixxxed · #28 10-27-2005, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by paleshadow

The air compresser sounds like a cool idea. I know I would crap myself if someone did that to me. Last year I bought one of those big plastic witch's cauldrons and cut a hole in the bottom big enough to fit my hand through. I glued a black rubber glove to the inside of the cauldron so that I can slip my hand through the bottom into the glove. The idea was to put the candy in the cauldron over my gloved hand then when they reach inside the cauldron to help themselves to the candy, my hand would pop up and grab them. I didn't end up doing it last year because most of the kids that came were pretty young. I'll try again this year though.

Pumpkins will be carved tomorrow night probably. I usually don't like to do it more than a day or two before Halloween because they will rot, but I have to work this weekend and won't have time. Tonight I'm going to pop in "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" and maybe sample some of the candy, just to make sure it's fresh for the kids on Monday night.

That's a great trick idea!

And a quick pumpkin tip: coat the cut-out areas with Vaseline & it will help it stay fresher. The inside is usually OK since it gets cooked. I can't wait to carve pumkins this year. I found a really cool site for templates:

http://www.zombiepumpkins.com

And no, I didn't pay for the service. I just print out the finished pic (they also have user-submitted pics) & make my own pattern - works pretty well for the simpler designs. This site is linked on the Zombie site, but it's also great (especially the Photos section):

http://www.halloweenpumpkins.be/

Karlie · #29 10-27-2005, 08:24 PM

I'm going to two costume parties this weekend, then going trick-or-treating with my friends on Monday.

I love Halloween.

I'm going as Stevie.

Livia · #30 10-27-2005, 08:25 PM

I bought this hat:

http://costumepartysupply.com/catalo...pcategory=1065

"I didn't want to be hot dog, or a box of Kleenex. I wanted to be a witch! With the hat, and the dripping sleeves..."

The biggest, best party is tomorrow nite. There are 2 more I know of on Sat. nite...carve pumpkins Sunday (I love to roast the seeds) and then hand out candy Mon. nite. I've got a jack-o-lantern light already up in the front window, and my spooky skeleton curtain on the porch. Mon. nite, I'll put out the motion sensor scary "BOO" sign that makes creepy noises and screams when it's set off.

I adore Halloween!