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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 31, 2002 @04:15AM from the mostly-treats dept.

qaz submits a story about a remote-controlled graveyard. Supposedly this site is another computer-controlled setup, but it's not responding at the moment. Still looking for a pumpkin carving pattern (the Ellen Feiss pattern is nice too)? Or perhaps you'd prefer yet another punkin-chunking machine, a new model which has several news stories about it: here and here. And if spooky stories are more your style, everything2 is running a scary story contest (see last year's for ideas).

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FoxTrot Halloween by rbeattie · 2002-10-31 04:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Has everyone seen today's FoxTrot?

"I feel like I should send Microsoft some of this."

Heh.

-Russ

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Me
1. Re:FoxTrot Halloween by Raul654 · 2002-10-31 04:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  A girl down the hall in my dorm put this on her door. I write back (on her marker board) that it was cute, but please don't remind me of things I have to deal with in my major ;-)
  
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  To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
  --E.C. Stanton
2. Re:FoxTrot Halloween by microTodd · 2002-10-31 04:59 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I actually dressed up as a BSOD one year for a halloween party. Blue face-paint and blue posterboard taped to my chest with white lettering.
  
  Only a few people got the joke, and most of the girls at the party thought I was a wierdo geek and ignored me.
  
  *sigh*
  
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  "You cannot find out which view is the right one by science in the ordinary sense." - C.S. Lewis on Intelligent Design
Halloween reading for geeks by Penguuu · 2002-10-31 04:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Here is scary halloween-reading for geeks :)

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The problem in the world today is communication. Too much communication - Homer Simpson
1. Re:Halloween reading for geeks by Gamasta · 2002-10-31 08:12 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  This is a joke which is very common, but some might not have read it...
  
  Q: Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Xmas?
  
  A: Because OCT 31 = DEC 25
  
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  reason defies logic
Wow by strateego · 2002-10-31 04:29 · Score: 2, Funny

Bristoe, a 42year-old electrician and mechanic from Ellettsville, estimates his cannon's range at about five miles.

We only live 5 miles from the border between Canada and the USA. The drug dealer in my city should get one of those. Then they can drive along shooting their product over the border.

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Got Extra Money?
Re:What's everyone doing? by foistboinder · 2002-10-31 04:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Do what I do...

I usually spend the day dressed up as my evil twin (at leat it's cheap!).

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Yet Another Web Site
Tux pumpkin by Drath · 2002-10-31 04:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Hmm. The tux pumpkin is a helpful tutorial, basically it says to make a pumpkin with tux on it all you need is:

1.A Pumpkin
2.Artistic Ability
3.Expensive Software
4.Something called a light board (sounds arty)

Wow! Simple!

you know, if i could draw tux i wouldn't need a kit...
1. Re:Tux pumpkin by mblase · 2002-10-31 04:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Ironically, this is typical of Linux advocate's thinking.
  
  "All you need to run this free software is standard PC hardware! And these CDs, of course. Well, you'll probably want to partition your hard drive beforehand, too. Be sure you know the specs of your components so you can configure the OS correctly. And do you know how to configure your own broadband Internet connection? No, you can't use AOL on this, but here's a great web-based tool that's also free and you only need to compile it once or twice...."
Re:What's everyone doing? by DrMaurer · 2002-10-31 05:03 · Score: 3, Funny

Uhh, get a cereal box, preferably one with a cuddily mascot on the front, and a toy knife.

Impale the box and spread your sage blood liberally.

If you're creative, paint your face up like the mascot. (They're GRRReat!)

Go, cereal killer, go.

(Yeah, it sucks, but I usually go as a chick, but this year I cut my hair, so it's a bit tougher to pull off.)

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Dan
Re:Holloween must be boycott'ed by tit4tat · 2002-10-31 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Holloween... is a Pagan holliday that celebrates pure Evil and the power of Satin. Do not allow you're children to wear costume, do not let them go to holloween party's, and do not hand out candy to kid's who are glorrifying Satin. This type of holliday has no place in a post 9-11 world!

I love satin! Soft, smooth, shiny. Satin is definitely not "pure evil." Pure lux, is more like it. What's this AC's problem with satin?! Where would the post 9-11 world be without satin pajamas?! We must fight for the love of satin or the terrorists will have already won!

Uh... he probably meant "Satan." Whatever.
One of the funniest ones out there by buzzsport · 2002-10-31 05:12 · Score: 1, Funny

http://www.artbell.com/images/fun-pumpkin01.jpg
Re:Holloween must be boycott'ed by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-31 05:16 · Score: 1, Funny

And don't even get me started on rayon!
Re:What's everyone doing? by Palshife · 2002-10-31 05:45 · Score: 2, Funny

Stormtrooper on Vacation.

No kidding. I took a stormtrooper helmet, threw on some surfer shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. It's great!

The hard part is finding the helmet.

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Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Re:The original idea of All Hallow's Eve... by IxnayOnTheIxnay · 2002-10-31 06:00 · Score: 5, Funny

No, it started when three witches went around eating children, until one family offered them sweet gingerbread children. That's the story of the first caramel cod....yar, I mean, Halloween.
Pumpkin Cannon is a scary story by Jaguar777 · 2002-10-31 06:29 · Score: 5, Funny

''I intend on shooting in competition, and I'm going to change my barrel size to regulation so I can compete with the other big guns,'' he said.

The fact that there is a "regulation" barrel size for a pumpkin shooting competition scares me.

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Maybe you should educate the morons of tomorrow so they'll stop believing the leaders of tomorrow. - Dogbert
Re:Because it's fun by stefanlasiewski · 2002-10-31 07:05 · Score: 3, Funny

The whole thing is just dumb for dumb unimaginative people who don't know how to have fun by themselves.

Thanks for being so 'fun'. With those dictionary references, I'm sure you're a riot at parties.

Another thing: why does society have to give you a reason to have fun and party and perhaps even dress up? What's wrong with doing it on some other day in the rest of the year when you're not being a sheep

So tell me, in the last year, how many times did you wake up one morning and say "Today, I'm going to dress up in a costume and go to work|school|to the park|whatever!". Let me guess... zero. And I wouldn't do it either. Why? Because if I was the only person wearing a costume, I'd feel like an idiot.

Look, Halloween gives me an excuse to dress up as a scarecrow and take my nephew out to get candy from the neighbors. We like it. It's fun. It's full of imagination and creative energy. I can't wait until I have my own kids and can take them out.

I love making my house look haunted. I like the toys, I like the special effects.

There is nothing wrong with communities dressing up and celebrating the same thing on the same day. Doing this does not make us 'sheep' any more then celebrating New Years on the same day. It's a fucking holiday.

Don't like it? Fine, don't do it. Nobody's forcing you. Now go back to your 'fun'...

You want sheep, try Valentines day. But leave my holiday the fuck alone.

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"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Pregnant BSD cheerleader!!! by jjinux+at+yahoo · 2002-10-31 08:02 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm going as a pregnant BSD cheerleader!!!
http://ironorchid.com/jjinux/daemon/index.html