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Title: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Patti Feinberg on October 31, 2005, 03:36:16 PM: [dancing_skeleton]
Just HAD to have Monsieur Dancez-Skeleton.

Hope everyone has a safe & fun Halloween!
Patti [bonny_hand]
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Julianka7 on October 31, 2005, 04:00:24 PM: [hall2_smiley] [dancing_skeletons] [hall2_smiley]
Our town let the Trick or Trickers roam on saturday night.
I hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween!
Julianka
[Bat] [_Vampire_] [vampsmiley] [Witch_Potion_Animated] [Wolfie] [frankie] [frkoff]
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: onyx_treasure on October 31, 2005, 07:12:40 PM: I have a scary halloween story. The town nearby by has their own "Rev. Trask". He says we are all paying homage to evil by letting our children trick or treat. Of course, he is the same nut who gathered his followers in the park to burn "Harry Potter" books but the city refused to give them a burn permit. They showed up anyway but brought scissors instead. A bunch of local librarians showed up to counter protest the destruction of books(Go get'm, librarians. They are a feisty bunch when riled up.)
My son and I intend to go out in evil costumes. My son has a smiley face mask and I am wearing a bright orange sweatshirt with a kitty on it saying "Got Candy?". We will collect as much evil candy as his evil bucket will carry and eat it until our evil tummies burst. [hall2_shocked] [hall2_tongue]
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on October 31, 2005, 08:36:35 PM: Quote from: onyx_treasure on October 31, 2005, 07:12:40 PM
My son and I intend to go out in evil costumes. My son has a smiley face mask and I am wearing a bright orange sweatshirt with a kitty on it saying "Got Candy?".

No! No! No! How can you dress up in such depravity?! Don't you know that dressing in smiley faces and kitties can lead to - ulp - dressing as bunnies [bunny] - the most hideous costumes of all!! [wow] [shockeyes] I mean, just ask Anya of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: PennyDreadful on October 31, 2005, 10:57:43 PM: Happy Halloween! I love these crazy Halloween er..."smilies" [candle_in_skull_2] [skull_winks]
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: FireRose on November 01, 2005, 12:33:40 AM: [female_skull] [skull_winks]

Have a wonderfully fun spook filled night. [dancing_skeleton]

[bonny_hand]
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: michael c on November 01, 2005, 02:02:28 AM: happy halloween everyone!

[vampy] [zoom] [spidr] [blackbat] [blackwidow] [Witch00]

there are just not enough opportunities to use the 'scary' smilies.
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Barnabas'sBride on November 01, 2005, 04:35:48 AM: I love the skull with the long hair and flashing eyes. It's creepy looking. [hall2_wink]

Our neighborhood was dead this year, but that's no different from last, the year before, etc... When I was a kid, I used to go to my friends' neighborhoods because more people gave out candy and there were more kids around. Surpisingly, the very, very small town I lived in for a year had more trick-or-treaters on Halloween than the place I live in currently, and I'm in the middle of a heavily populated area.
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 01, 2005, 04:59:26 AM: Quote from: Barnabas'sBride on November 01, 2005, 04:35:48 AM
I love the skull with the long hair and flashing eyes. It's creepy looking.

I really like that one too. It reminds a lot of the second NoDS poster design:

(http://www.dsboards.com/images/nods2.jpg)

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Our neighborhood was dead this year, but that's no different from last, the year before, etc... When I was a kid, I used to go to my friends' neighborhoods because more people gave out candy and there were more kids around. Surpisingly, the very, very small town I lived in for a year had more trick-or-treaters on Halloween than the place I live in currently, and I'm in the middle of a heavily populated area.

Same here. Sadly, thanks to the idiot wackos who put razor blades in apples and who knows what other terrible things in candy, today's kids have been robbed of a lot of the fun Halloween was when we were kids. [hall2_cry] Sure, they can still have fun at house and school parties, but it's just not the same as trick or treating from house to house. [hall2_sad]
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Julianka7 on November 01, 2005, 05:35:52 AM: Our town let the kids trick or treat on saturday this year.
Our family tradition is to have crock pots full of chili, chips, salsa
and gooey cheese so anyone can eat whenever they are hungry or come in.
We watch old movies and all love seeing the kids in costume. We had over 90
kids and grown ups stop by for treats this year. 2 of the most unusual were
one boy dressed as the Pope. and one little tyke dressed as a pilot with a
blow up plane around his waist complete with lights!
We carve elaberate pumpkins and play games. Halloween has to be my favorite
holiday [hall2_cheesy]
Julianka
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: onyx_treasure on November 01, 2005, 04:13:51 PM: We had 200 kids show up! Some people that live in more rural areas(few street lights and no sidewalks)drive to my area to trick or treat. I bought three of the huge bags(100plus) and have only one left. I get to see my neighbors and say "hi " to them at least once a year. My son memorized his candy stash so I guess I won't be sneaking any of that. ;)
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Raineypark on November 01, 2005, 06:08:17 PM: Did anyone else get the Hallmark box that looks like a huge Book of Spells? When you open the cover, an animatronic witch's voice cackles and says one of several different things.

Everyone who came to my house oooohhhdd and aaahhhddd over this thing. Not one person had seen it anywhere else. [hdscrt] How is that possible with a Hallmark product?
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Connie on November 02, 2005, 06:07:53 PM: Ya know, I thought I was finally done with all this Halloween stuff.... But NOOOOOOO.
Both my boys wanted costumes this year. My 11-year old wanted this "Big Daddy" costume - purple, shiny pants and top, pimpish looking hat with a feather in it, gold chain with a huge glittery $ sign hanging from it, and big ring with $ sign on it. "I wanna be a pimp", he said. ::)

My 14-year-old couldn't find a particular mask he wanted, then spotted a penis costume. (You believe this??) I said, "Absolutely NOT!"

I give up.
I'm tellin' ya.......television is the root of all evil.

:-

PS At the costume store there was a mask that looked exactly like the aged Barnabas -- even the wisps of hair on top. I didn't see it close up, but it looked like it had fangs. I swear it really looked like him at age 175. If it wasn't so expensive I would have bought it!
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Midnite on November 02, 2005, 07:36:22 PM: Quote from: Connie on November 02, 2005, 06:07:53 PM
PS At the costume store there was a mask that looked exactly like the aged Barnabas -- even the wisps of hair on top. I didn't see it close up, but it looked like it had fangs. I swear it really looked like him at age 175. If it wasn't so expensive I would have bought it!

It probably was the "Barnabus" mask. There are links to photos of it in this post:

Quote from: Midnite on October 12, 2004, 03:48:11 AM
Re: Halloween Offering
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Mary Elizabeth on November 02, 2005, 08:00:18 PM: i just want to know, is it just me or does Hallween seem extremely different from when you were out trick or treating. I had 0 trick-or-treaters. My husband was so disappointed. I remember going all over town for Candy on Halloweeen, trick-or-treating for hours. watching scary movies on tv, going to haunted houses, dressing in costumes at school. there was nothing like that this year. Not even the big baptist church in the middle of town had their annual "Fall house of horrors" (I don't think they ever used the word Halloween) and since when is Halloween such a bad word anyway?
Halloween was always such a fun Holiday for me, just seems as if it's slowly losing it's magic over the years? anyone else agree? :-[
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: TERRY308 on November 02, 2005, 08:51:58 PM: I have the Hallmark box that looks like a book of spells too. [read]

We live on a dead end street. We're the last house there too. So, needless to say, since we have lived here, we had one kid on Halloween

My daughter, Tessa, had bought the Hallmark box for me about a month ago. I have it in my "Dark Shadows Room". The DS in this room is autographed pictures of the cast, DS books, computer, scrapbooking table and alot of DS things.
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: CyrusL on November 02, 2005, 11:04:14 PM: Quote from: Connie on November 02, 2005, 06:07:53 PM
My 14-year-old couldn't find a particular mask he wanted, then spotted a penis costume. (You believe this??) I said, "Absolutely NOT!"

Where were you, Spencer gifts? ? ? ? [firedevil]

Quote from: Connie on November 02, 2005, 06:07:53 PM
PS At the costume store there was a mask that looked exactly like the aged Barnabas -- even the wisps of hair on top. I didn't see it close up, but it looked like it had fangs. I swear it really looked like him at age 175. If it wasn't so expensive I would have bought it!

I got that mask last Halloween and I wore it with a dark suit and large black ring, when my wife an I escorted our nephews around their neighborhood, near Olney Maryland. Its a Don Post mask, usually listed as "Old Vampire" and is definitley and intentionally made after the Dick Smith makeup on Jonathan. I got a few great reactions. [Ghost00]

Michael
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Raineypark on November 03, 2005, 03:44:43 PM: The loss of "Halloween" as we recall it, is a direct result of the "fear of strangers" that we all live with these days. I'm in my early 50's and my parents had only a general idea of where I was and what I was doing after school and during summer vacations. I was certainly in the neighborhood, I was traveling by bike, and I was almost always in the company of a pack of neighborhood friends.

"Kidnapping" was a fear only the wealthiest people ever worried about. We children of the middle-class suburbs were never considered "at risk" of disappearing.

Now, kids are taught not to talk to the people next door. They can't leave the house until a parent comes home from work. They have to be driven to every after-school activity and it's ALL arranged by adults. No more hanging around your own neighborhood, riding your bikes on your own block, or playing in your friends' houses or backyards. The parents are terrorized, the kids are "organized" and childhood has become a period of anxiety and stress that everyone seems to feel can't be gotten through fast enough. We have allowed 24-hour news programs to make us all a paranoid nation.

And that's why Halloween (and Childhood) as WE knew it is barely a memory that kids today wouldn't even believe ever happened.
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Mary Elizabeth on November 03, 2005, 06:05:43 PM: it's just so sad to me bacuse I know that there are wierdos out there but I never recall anything bad ever happening on Halloween, at least not around my town.
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: *starshine* on November 03, 2005, 07:27:22 PM: It's sad that Halloween is not what it used to be. But fearful is not necessarily a bad thing- you need to really be aware. One of dear friend's sister in-law was held up at gunpoint on Halloween. Two people came to her door "trick or treating" and held a gun to her head. They took only her purse but it had all of her keys, check book, credit cards etc. The cops think it was kids since that was ALL they took.
Title: Re: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - BOO!
Post by: Mary Elizabeth on November 08, 2005, 05:30:53 PM: oh my!!! sorry to hear that! :-[