All Hallows Eve! What's it going to be this year?
I'm in the spirit for it this year! I'll also be celebrating dios de los muertes. I'm going to get a pumpkin after work today and carve Lj's face in it. Did I say that out loud? ;) (Jim O' Lantern)
Anyway....I think I'm going as this, this year:
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That is Debbie from Sealab.
"So?"
"So shut up."
This is going to be really easy for me.......
My husband is going as Sparks.
What are your plans?!?
I don't know. I was thinking a female pirate costume would be really fun. Now I just need the time. Working two jobs dosn't leave me much time to do anything but sleep. I do have a few decorations up. They are mostly autumn themed.
I'm going as the pope. Also, I'm going to be stoned. It should be fun.
Also, I'm going to be stoned. It should be fun.
Stoned, as in the "Weed" thread or as in "Rocks";)
http://www.adultswim.com/shows/sealab/
How in the hell am I going to get a bright orange suit like this?
Get a disposable tyvek painter's coveralls suit from Home Depot, and a can of orange spray paint. $15 bucks total for both.
Edit: Use a stapler if you want to make it more fitted. They are often one size fits all.
I am guessing I will be either a) at a meeting, or b) at home watching telly with a bowl of sweets and mini-choc bars ready near the door, for when the two or three straggling groups of kids come knocking (one of which will contain my two nieces).
Anyone else notice a miserable and expensive crop of pumpkins this year? We've had a drought in this area, and the pumpkins are $7 or so for a little one.
Get a disposable tyvek painter's coveralls suit from Home Depot, and a can of orange spray paint. $15 bucks total for both.
Edit: Use a stapler if you want to make it more fitted. They are often one size fits all.
Hmm....this sounds just like something I would do. Which is why I'm not going to do it. lol!! Not only are people not going to get it....I'll look stinking awful. This costume idea has become a bust.
Because.......
I am the queen of horrible home-made costumes. One year I put black ink on a white tee shirt and went as the ink blot test.(yeah...people finally got it but still thought it was dumb) I also went as the boogie-man another year because no one knows what he looks like. I am trying to avoid the wtf comments....I need to go pro. So I'm giving up on the Sealab idea. I am completely unable to find an entirely orange scuba suit or wet suit on the internet.....All my other ideas are just about as impossible to carry off. I also want a Pink Panther suit.
So it's back to square one. Maybe I'll just give in and go to the party city outfitters....I don't know what I'm going to do....:D
Years ago, my wife and I went as the girl's room and the boy's room, respectively. Used some of that one line
redacting tape to make a grid of 4 inch tiles on a couple white T shirts. Then spray painted one light blue and the other one light pink. Removed the tape, and it really looked like tiles. Then we got out a couple different colored sharpies, and started writing graffiti on the "walls." All of mine was genuine graffiti I remembered from all the boys rooms growing up. Based on my wife's graffiti, girls' rooms don't have the raunchy stuff boys rooms do. It was easy, and people had a fun time reading the graffiti on our shirts. Good conversation item.
Glatt? What in god's name made you want to show up at a party as a bathroom?!? lol!!
Say, where's the bathroom? (Everyone looks at Glatt and his wife)
I think I would have tried to sign your shirt without your permission....
Yea....still sounds like something I would do. Well I think it's funny anyway...
I have a full pirate outfit.
I have a variety of renfaire costumery.
I have a delightful set of urban camo. "What are you supposed to be?" I'm a bush."
"What are you supposed to be?" "I'm a shadow on the side of a building."
"What are you supposed to be?" "I'm a dumpster."
"What are you supposed to be?" "I'm a pile of boxes and bags next to an Armenian fruit vendor's stall on Pasayunk Avenue."
Instead, because Halloween is a weeknight, I will be wearing a baseball cap with the word "WITCH" embroidered on it. Wearing costumes at the nuthouse is not generally considered a good idea, although dayshift staff have been doing this over the last couple of years.
I am guessing I will be either a) at a meeting, or b) at home watching telly with a bowl of sweets and mini-choc bars ready near the door, for when the two or three straggling groups of kids come knocking (one of which will contain my two nieces).
My night might NOT be too far off from this IF I don't end up working too much that day.
At least I will be up for something by 8pm. A haunted house? Bloody people screeming at me? nah
Also, I am kinda wondering how much candy to buy. hum
I have a full pirate outfit.
I have a variety of renfaire costumery.
I have a delightful set of urban camo. "What are you supposed to be?" I'm a bush."
"What are you supposed to be?" "I'm a shadow on the side of a building."
"What are you supposed to be?" "I'm a dumpster."
"What are you supposed to be?" "I'm a pile of boxes and bags next to an Armenian fruit vendor's stall on Pasayunk Avenue."
Instead, because Halloween is a weeknight, I will be wearing a baseball cap with the word "WITCH" embroidered on it. Wearing costumes at the nuthouse is not generally considered a good idea, although dayshift staff have been doing this over the last couple of years.
I like the baseball cap idea but I am a little jealous of your pirate outfit.
Just realised I am going to be here on my own.
As this is a very friendly street, and all the children from the area play together I have no doubt I'll be hit.
Good job I realised in time - I'll get a couple of bags of funsize bars in with next week's shop. I could hide in my room (back of the house) but that seems unfair. Cheaper than the £10 I was originally planning to spend on myself anyway :)
Do they celebrate it differently in the UK or Down Under?
We're going to a party the Saturday before (still trying to think of good costumes), and on the night of...we might go to the Khyber to see a friend's band play.
Do they celebrate it differently in the UK or Down Under?
I refer you to
this thread.
DuckNuts:
The last few years certain suburbs in the major cities have started their own little halloween/trick or treat thingie. But other than that we dont, its just another nite. Occasionally, if someone is having a birthday that weekend, it will be turned into a Halloween party.
JayMcGee:
Rather, it has become not just an occasion when pre-teens can bang upon your door and demand 'trick or treat' without the slightest comprhension of the culture behind that phrase, but also a 'marketing opportunity' for our supermarkets to offload several tons of rather tacky 'hallowe'en party essentials', which consist in the most part of rubberised face-masks that approximate a childs perception of a vampire, and possibly even (in the de- luxe versions) a candle to put inside the (optional extra) turnip head.
And a
post from me with some photos of tacky halloween party essentials.
In short, yes it is different. For us it's a very minor occurrence, and only children dress up. They also dress in spooky costumes, not fancy dress. They do Trick or Treat, but for many years I haven't had a single child come to my door - it's less common here. Some pubs have Halloween parties, but that's really just to boost the takings. We're more geared to Bonfire (Guy Fawkes) Night on 5 November.
fancy dress (UK) = costume (US)
(for SG, related but from a different thread swimming costume = swimsuit over here. learned that one the hard way!)
Aha! Unwitting making the merkins think I am doing Water Workout dressed as a comedy octopus or something. Thanks for the heads up!
I think most on here have a grip on the Brit thing, but, you know, for future reference and all......
actually, I'm quite enjoying the idea of you doing water work out dressed as an octopus.....
Ugh SG , read about a
MERKIN
That would make for some INTERESTING water aerobics !!!!
S'okay, I know what a merkin is. That's why it's funny :)
(Merkin being a pubic wig as well as a contraction of the word American, in case you don't want to follow the link)
In short, yes it is different. For us it's a very minor occurrence, and only children dress up.
And students. Most student unions and a lot of individual faculties organise a halloween piss up with fancy dress themes. But then...students have a tendency to grab any opportunity to trail about a city on a pub crawl dressed bizarrely.
Ugh SG , read about a MERKIN
That would make for some INTERESTING water aerobics !!!!
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.htmlMy Fellow Merkin's
An Internet bad joke
The word merkin is one of the perpetual bad puns of the Internet. I first came across it in the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett (a group devoted to the works of the British fantasy writer Terry Pratchett, he of the Discworld fantasies) and it puzzled me. From context, it seemed to be used as a synonym for inhabitant of the United States of America but it only slowly dawned on me that those who used it were guying a supposed half-swallowed pronunciation of “American” by some Americans, particularly the late Lyndon Johnson.
Then I looked it up and the full force of the pun hit me. The word actually has a number of senses, all of them sexually-related and, therefore, highly risible to persons of a certain cast of mind. One of the current standard ones is pubic wig (such wigs are used, apparently, in the theatrical and film worlds as modesty devices in nude scenes). It can also be a contrivance used by male cross-dressers to imitate the female genitals. Another sense which is even lower slang and which came into the language last century is, as Eric Partridge delicately puts it in A Dictionary of Historical Slang, “an artificial vagina for lonely men”.
The OED says that its first use in English, in the sixteenth century, was as a term for the female genitals, but then its sense transferred to the pubic hair, and from there to artificial pubic hair and then much later to an artificial vagina. Such is the shifting and inconsistent nature of vocabulary, at least when the word concerns intimate matters not often spoken of in public nor written down.
Various people on the alt.usage.english newsgroup (Mark Israel, Paul Andresen, Mark Brader) have recently been discussing Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr Strangelove, which named the character of the President, one of the parts played by Peter Sellers, as “Merkin Muffley”. This gets two risqué usages past the censor at once, since “muff” is another slang term for the female genitals (as in muff-diving for cunnilingus). This name was presumably the work of Kubrick or his scriptwriters, since the book on which the film was based (Red Alert by Peter George, pseudonym of the late Peter Bryant), does not name the presidential character.
No doubt you will understand now why the use of Merkin in Usenet posts is usually restricted to non-Americans ...
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/merkin.htmIf you choose to go out on the night of October 31, look to the sky. If you see a group of stars in the following formation...[size=4]RUN![/size]
Good thing I can't see the stars from here...
Just because you can't see them doesn't mean he isn't coming.
I guess I'll have to be surprised then.
um...
Who should I be looking out for, just in case? Will he be getting his own hotel, or should I make up the guest bedroom??
Well, I'll give you a hint. He wears grey cover-alls, a pale-white mask, and black combat boots. He's survived over 20 gun shot wounds, as well as being burned alive. His favorite weapon is a really big kitchen knife. He is pure evil (though not by choice).
Still stumped? Just ask for a picture, and ye shall receive.
Well, I'll give you a hint. He wears grey cover-alls, a pale-white mask, and black combat boots. He's survived over 20 gun shot wounds, as well as being burned alive. His favorite weapon is a really big kitchen knife. He is pure evil (though not by choice).
Still stumped? Just ask for a picture, and ye shall receive.
zippyt?
Well, I'll give you a hint. He wears grey cover-alls, a pale-white mask, and black combat boots. He's survived over 20 gun shot wounds, as well as being burned alive. His favorite weapon is a really big kitchen knife. He is pure evil (though not by choice).
Oh that guy never leaves the burbs.
I wouldn't be so sure. He found his sister living in California.
Michael Myers or a member of this board who shall go unnamed.
If I get this question right you don't get to kill me right?
Now name that one Thanatos.
Probably Dr. Finklestein if I can get someone to help me clear out my shop in time.
Michael Myers
We have a winner! :D
So what do those star symbols have to do with Michael Meyers?
We actually ended up with Dios de los Muertos costumes this year (just masks really), which is cool because I was going to celebrate it anyway!!
So now I can be doing both at the same time...talk about holiday management. Awesome.
Our masks are pretty cool, I'll get some photos of us all dressed up!
We have decided to visit 2 partys an hour and a half away from each other, and then come home to drink! drinky!!!
My son picked out a costume for me at the Halloween store... I was not there.
A very typical vampire.
Will make a lot of sense in the chair. But, it is what he wants.
Hey, I'm all for equal opportunity vampirism!
Maybe you're a vampire that recently fed off a victim who was full of some kind of narcotic. When you realised you couldn't walk properly you stole a motorised chair.
It works.
My son picked out a costume for me at the Halloween store... I was not there.
A very typical vampire.
Will make a lot of sense in the chair. But, it is what he wants.
I think you should play dead/dying in the chair and have the rest of your party pretend not to notice. Perhaps have someone dressed as a nurse with you and add some oxygen tanks. Take a "last gasp" as petitrage says "trick or treat", then expire with a slight shudder. Or have the rest of the party wear mourning clothes and loudly discuss "but it's what he would have wanted, one last chance to trick or treeat with his son... the poor brave soldier..." etc
:lol:
My son picked out a costume for me at the Halloween store... I was not there.
A very typical vampire.
Will make a lot of sense in the chair. But, it is what he wants.
Well it makes sense to me....The chair could be just a part of your ploy to ask for blooood!!!
:D
When did you stop sucking blood anyway?!?
rk:
you're still on my ignore list, to our mutual enjoyment, I'm sure. But seeing you quoted above...
here, have a clue.
Your son doesn't see your farkin chair.
he sees *his dad*.
so, let me ask you:
What are you going to be?
A chair rider?
Or his Dad?
Boy that ignore sure works like a charm.
I think V has a very valid point and very nicely put. And he cares about you and your son and your relationship enough to take the time to post it. And you throw it back in his face. Nice
Nothing says I care like ignore. I'm ignoreing you but listen to my advice:
Weed
I'm sorry, but that's the attitude in the cellar that gets to me. "Let me impart my great wisdom even though I won't lower myself to read your posts". (Obviously read because there was a cohesive response)
BigV is correct though....just delivered in a back-handed manner.
:)
Hey Cicero:
1 -- you totally missed the meme on "weed"
2 -- monster's right (and you are too, eventually) that I do care about rk and his son, and their relationship. In fact, I care enough to insulate us from each other with my choice to place him on my ignore list. what's the point of reading stuffs that has lately only made me too angry with him to reason with him? no point. so I put a buffer between us. my choice.
I do care. that's why i made my remark.
there are two things going on here.
my current frustration with rk's posts.
and
my concern for him about the little bit that leaked through my walls. it wasn't backhanded at all. straight up. direct. not mean.
I went as Ronaldinho...
So I went from OMG, my son wants to be an angler fish for Halloween, I have three days left and I haven't even started! .....to idea, design, prototype and finished two hours later. Here it is. (I'm pretty impressed with myself) There is a mini glow stick on the end of the "bait pole"
Monster, great job on that. I bet it looks really scary outside in the dark...
Holy Moly that is cool Monster!!! Where were you when I walked out looking like this?!? My home-made costumes are always crap crap crap. So here we were. Day of the dead figures:
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Well we had fun anyway!
Happy Hallow-weeny everybody!!!
:D
thanks guys -cic, those masks are cool.
(you should see the monster trucks I made, though... and the praying mantis..... ) :D
Now y'all know why i'm so happy in America -me and Halloween were made for each other. What will i do when my kids grow up?
monster trucks (with real working headlights)
(boys were pissed off at being made to wait for a photo before heading off to mug the neighborhood :lol:)
So I went from OMG, my son wants to be an angler fish for Halloween,
Did you know....
Anglerfishes of the suborder Ceratioidea employ an unusual mating method. ...
At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. When he is mature, the male's digestive system degenerates, making him incapable of feeding independently, which necessitates his quickly finding a female anglerfish or else dying. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads, which release sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.[2]
Did you know....
Sadly enough, i did (although a little more vaguely...) -that's what you get for having an nerdy 8yo Angler fish fan as a son. I made the costume and he took the mini paper prototype and attempted to simulate mating with the costume, stating that the big costume was the wife to the mini prototype because the females grow old and get much much bigger.......
Monster, I am jealous of your creativity!! Those costumes are so cool. What is the body of the anglerfish made of though? I can't for the life of me figure it out.
As for their mating scheme, I did not know that and now wish I was still ignorant. Thanks for that Halloween trick, jinx. :greenface
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Cute...but what's the costume Ibram?
Monster...I am going to hire you next year!!! Do you accept money orders?!?
Chicago gangster is more or less what I'm going for.
Cute...but what's the costume Ibram?
Monster...I am going to hire you next year!!! Do you accept money orders?!?
Sure :lol:
The angler costume is made from thin foam -you can buy squares of similar stuff at craft stores for about 30c each, but at the
Scrap Box, they sell end of roll stuff from some manufacturing process or other. They also have a cool pattern to make knights helmets, and I adapted the top of the helmet design for the arse of the fish. It's one piece of foam, apart from the teeth. they are stuck on with duct tape. they eyes are a plastic easter egg.
Monster that is bloody good! Just wondering, does it have an internal frame of wire or such, or is the foam sturdy enough on its own?
I salute your spelling of "arse", and your use of duct tape. Bless it.
Happy Hallow-weeny Everybody!!! I am continuing the thread until I get through the days of the dead....I want Halloween photos everybody!!! Stat!
:)
Now y'all know why i'm so happy in America -me and Halloween were made for each other. What will i do when my kids grow up?
Borrow someone else's spares?
:p
Finally decided on something...
(They made me take my ears off at work though...them jerkses. hmph.
Monster - I'm just happy when you post pics of your kids - they ae the children I wanted to be when I was growing up! ([COLOR="Silver"]shame they'll sound like septics though[/COLOR] ;)) Fantastic costumes! I'd love a US version of Halloween too - few and far between are the occasions where it's not suspect to take fancy dress (costume? Whatever the translation is) in Britain. I have my next one sorted - just need the party. Am going to be a girl from the make-up counter in Boots. You can get a white coat quite cheaply. Then I just put on orange foundation and tarantula lashes etc.
Cicero - don't sell yourself short! Blimey, those masks are fantastic. And I know *a little* about Day of the Dead from when my ex and I were planning a trip to Mexico. I bought a couple of weighty guidebooks which outlived the relationship...
Razz - you cutie!
Oh hey Razz! Y'know in the pic on the right you look like the cheerleader in Heroes.
Razz, you're way cute! :)
Aw shucks guys *blush* thanks :blush:
Cheerleader from heroes? After extensive googling I have to say
Pfwaahahahaahahahahahaahahahaahahahahaah
I wish :rolleyes:
Zen -no internal support. It'd have blown away if I hadn't attached a hat and elastic straps for the arms inside, and frequently blew inside out! (twas very windy) The foam is about 2mm thick and suprisingly sturdy yet light. Son liked this costume best of all so far -no complex frame/support makes it easier and more comfortable to wear.
Happy All Souls Day!!!
Don't forget to respect the dead! Light a candle, say a prayer, or whatever! Dance around....
Yes...there will be photos. Cicero is a FREAK! Aaaaw yea....
Sí, Felíz Dia de los Muertos!
Cicero, don't you live in Santa Fe? I would certainly hope you'd have some good holiday photos...
Sí, Felíz Dia de los Muertos!
Cicero, don't you live in Santa Fe? I would certainly hope you'd have some good holiday photos...
:D
The photos just changed per the What do you look like RFN thread...no one has told you yet!! lol!!
No umm seriously...I am waiting to celebrate tonight because it's all Soul's Day...I don't really do all saints! There will be an alter...candles...food..and item's of the dead folks. I'm really celebrating this year and doing a happy dance after I figured out that they are possibly still alive on a parallel universe and I might be the dead one....well something to think about anway!!
Happy dead dance!
The shrink dressed up.
And prescribed for EVERYONE.
Happy Halloween, if a bit belated.
Oh....there's wolf!! Hi wolf....
Anyhoo...Here's the creepy photo of my Day of the Dead alter!!:D
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Anglerfishes of the suborder Ceratioidea employ an unusual mating method. ...
At birth, male ceratioids are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. When he is mature, the male's digestive system degenerates, making him incapable of feeding independently, which necessitates his quickly finding a female anglerfish or else dying. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads, which release sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.[2]
Eventually she completely absorbs him.
Hey Cicero:
1 -- you totally missed the meme on "weed"
2 -- monster's right (and you are too, eventually) that I do care about rk and his son, and their relationship. In fact, I care enough to insulate us from each other with my choice to place him on my ignore list. what's the point of reading stuffs that has lately only made me too angry with him to reason with him? no point. so I put a buffer between us. my choice.
I do care. that's why i made my remark.
there are two things going on here.
my current frustration with rk's posts.
and
my concern for him about the little bit that leaked through my walls. it wasn't backhanded at all. straight up. direct. not mean.
Yeah:
here, have a clue.
drips with "caring"... bullshit.
Please remain fucked-off and leave my son out of your games.
Anyhoo...Here's the creepy photo of my Day of the Dead alter!!:D
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I think it looks very nice and welcoming. :)
It was supposed to there blue. Thanks! But I just realized a couple of people there (in the photos) didn't get along. That is just like me...to throw a party and forget that people are enemies.
Buzz-kill
;)
Well, they're supposed to be visiting you, not each other. So, I wouldn't worry.
But I just realized...I don't see any tequila or munchies there. What the hell kind of party were you throwing? :cool:
Water......They got the water on your left. I did that on purpose.....they had already had too much...
Thanks for noticeing that though...(good eye, blue)
