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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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1. 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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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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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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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: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.
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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