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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).
The Ripley's museums have those silly graveyards inside, and Ripley's also has those Haunted Adventure places. Somewhat similar.
Loomis
"The television is the retina of the mind's eye" - Videodrome
Has everyone seen today's FoxTrot?
"I feel like I should send Microsoft some of this."
Heh.
-Russ
Me
Here is scary halloween-reading for geeks :)
The problem in the world today is communication. Too much communication - Homer Simpson
The original story is that people were trying to keep the spirits away from your house. I don't understand why people dress up to go to others houses. This is nothing more than the candy manufacturers way of getting extra dough into their pockets.
No one posted this? Weird
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http://hiptop.bedope.com/
It's a halloween scavenger hunt. The objective is to use your Hiptop mobile device, and take pictures of as many things on the list as you can. There are 5 teams (which are closed, sorry johnny-com-lately's), each vying for the fabulous prizes being awarded to the one team that score the most points (each item on the list has a point value. McDonalds is 1, White Castle 2. George W. Bush is 8, Al Gore is
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Is anyone bothering to dress up?
I'm in college, so I wasn't planning to, but I found out everyone else is getting into the spirit, so I need a costume quick.
I combed the shops this morning and this was all that was left to buy: stage blood and various color face paint. Any ideas? If I can't think of something cool I can make quickly, I just going to mix up a grey-green paint and go as a zombie.
uuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh brrraaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnn
Anyway, I just want to know what cool costumes everyone else did.
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
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.
Got Extra Money?
The do this yearly a little south of where I live. If your in the Delaware valley, you have to check it out. Theres nothing like watching a pumpkin travel a mile!
/ 20 01/11/02itsahighflyingf.htmlm pionshippunkinchunkin.com/
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local
http://www.worldcha
Check out this guy's carvings... http://www.grumpkins.com
He carves giant pumpkins, and they don't look like the standard run-o-the-mill jack-o-lanterns, thats for sure!
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
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...
Here's a list of the scariest geek movies.
That's nothing compared to the world-record-holding Aludium Q-36 Pumpkin Modulator (A "Marvin the Martian" reference for those who don't watch enough Warner Bros. cartoons).
another story about the pumpkin cannon.
;-)
5 mile range?!
quote "This is way too much fun to stop."
'nuf said! lol
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Heh, this isn't on-topic really other than it's about Halloween and /.'s favorite company, MS.
Check out today's Foxtrot, Im sure most of the ppl visiting this site will get a chuckle from it.
"Derp de derp."
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.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Give it up for the likeness of my head carved into a pumpkin!!!!!!
Gee whiz, don't be so negative.
You don't need a day off to have a holiday. Some holidays are just for fun. Are all of the holidays in your country _serious_ holidays? Don't you just want to go out and play sometimes?
Not everyone in America celebrates halloween so extremely. It's mostly celebrated by people 35 and under (with many exceptions), and is a big holiday for many college kids, geeks, artists, and people who veer from the mainstream.
I'll give you a perspective from someone in the San Francisco, California area. Halloween is a holiday because:
- It's fun
- It's creative. I get to exercise my creative juices by decorate my house in spiderwebs, skeltons and blacklights. Next year I'm planning Robotic flying ghosts in my front yard.
- It's an excuse to dress up
- The children love it
- It's an excuse to party. Halloween is by far the biggest holiday in the San Francisco area. In the city, you'll have parties that stretch for 10 blocks, with tens-of-thousands of people dancing and having a good time.
- Day of the dead is tomorrow (Big holiday in Mexico and here in California).
Now, there are historical roots to the trick-or-treating, and the dress up, and pumpkins, and the day of the dead, but I won't go into that now. (Wait, looks like you're from the UK. You should know the roots already!)
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Oh shit! Slashdot is haunted! And it has a hook for a hand!!!
*runs screaming*
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
" celebrates pure Evil and the power of Satin"
If I had enough rolls of satin I could make a dress to fit the whole Earth, and the entire planet would look like a woman! Mwuhahahahhaah!
Next year: the diabolical plan involving silk.
graspee
''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.
Maybe you should educate the morons of tomorrow so they'll stop believing the leaders of tomorrow. - Dogbert
Do you understand that the U.S. has FREEDOM OF SPEECH??? It is great that you have your beliefs on this matter, but don't go pushing your feelings and beliefs onto others!
The parent poster hasn't "pushing" his beliefs on you - he was simply stating them publicly. That's freedom of speech.
You also have the right to ignore him...
Heck today, at the gas-station I was served by a witch! Why? I just don't get it, it's not going to make me buy more gas or so.
You misunderstand. The witch didn't dress up to please you, and she didn't dress up to see you more gasoline. She dressed up for herself, perhaps for her friends at the station (No offsense, but you're a customer, not a friend), and perhaps for a party afterwards.
What's wrong with that? Let her have her fun.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I know that opinion on Blizzard is divided around here, but anyone who plays Warcraft III should check out the MP3 they have on their home page. It's the WC3 units having a Halloween party, and most of the voices are the standard ones from the game, the ones you hear when you click repeatedly on the units. "Where's my drink? There's my drink. Get in my belly!" It's great!
"Common Sense Ain't" -Unknown
In the "Discomforting amount of attention paid on a teenage girl, leave her alone and start meeting some adult women already" sort of a way.
but isn't halloween that night kids throw rotten eggs at your window (the "trick part") if you don't open of fake not to be home. That makes it hard not to participate because if you don't, you have to clean your house the next day. Fun eh?
This doesn't really happen. If it does happen, it's a prank: Done by some teenagers (Teens do not usually go trick-or-treating), it'll happen weather their's candy or not, it might happen any night of the year, not just halloween, it's usually something less damaging like toilet paper, and it's usually the house of someone you know (like a coworker or a teacher or the principal). In short, it's a prank. An annoying prank.
Most kids are too polite to pull tricks like this. If there's no candy, the kids usuall shrug their sholders and go on to the next house.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
For those whose pumpkin tastes runs less towards throwing and more towards... well... intimacy, there's Punkin Lovin.
Homestar Runner's Pumpkin Carving Contest!
http://www.homestarrunner.com/halloween2002.html
I swear by MacOS X. Although I use to swear *at* MacOS 9...
Badass Pumpkins here
;-)
This guy has way way way too much time on his hands
Wait, so do I.
-S
We Apprentice Developers and Designers
I'm going as a pregnant BSD cheerleader!!!
http://ironorchid.com/jjinux/daemon/index.html
I once saw, spraypainted in white paint on the side of a barn:
WORSHIP SATIN
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
Chevy: Emily.
Emily: Yes, Cheddar?
Chevy: Irish settlers. Irish settlers brought Halloween to the US in the 1800's.
Emily: Oh, that's different. Nevermind.
(With apologies to Gilda.)
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Well, like everything, Halloween is in the eye of the beholder. It's what you make of it.
Halloween here IS way too commercialized, but that doesn't make Halloween a bad thing. There's a whole halloween subculture out there dedicated to creating cool halloween effects. The best costumes and the best decorations are the homemade ones.
If there's one thing that Europeans are good at it's resisting corporate culture (Well, ok, maybe mostly the Europeans who are 20+. I was shocked at the amount of American TV I saw while in Germany this summer...).
When Halloween becomes more popular in Europe, hopefully you'll be able to keep the commercialism in check. Turn off the TV, come up with your own traditions, and create your own flavor of Halloween...
Because like it or not, Halloween is in Europe to stay.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
but explain we why the servers at the canteen at work were dressed up too.
Same reason as the gas-station attendant... to have fun. Hell, a canteen can be a very boring place to work. You need all the fun you can get.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Where I live they cancelled Halloween.
FoundNews.com - get paid to blog.,
Not just in the Bible belt either, my Mom used to work in a library in New Jersey, and they had to remove the Halloween decorations because a customer complained.
Halloween was always my favorite holiday as a child, but I used to get upset when it seemed to be serving an agenda I didn't like. As a small child I had an orthodoxy about Halloween, ghosts, witches and demons were ok, firemen (except undead firemen) and flowers were not. Nobody ever paid any attention to me, of course, and as I grew older and mellowed out I realized that people were going to do exactly what they wanted to do and I couldn't force them to do what I wanted anyway. (It really made me mad when, after forcing my poor mother to work for hours on my mummy costume some kid dressed as a fire hydrant won the costume contest at school. Grrr...)
Do you have any costume holidays where you live? I mean holidays where people pick their own costumes, not holidays with particular costumes (like not like everyone dressing up as Santa Claus at Christmas.). If not, that's the problem. People like excuses to dress up in costume, I believe it is why Mardi Gras is also very popular.
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
Well, most Americans hate American culture in general, but there's nothing they're willing to do about it.
:-)
Your polititian reference is a good one, though, a lot of people are unwilling to look at fellow "people of the book" and realize that there is a lot of shitty stuff done on both sides of that conflict.
I don't see what you mean by arrogance, but whatever, why doesn't everyone hate the French?
That was a joke, it's really the Quebec'ers that are that bad.
That was a joke, too.
I don't see arrogance, but, if I may be so bold, I don't watch much TV. Perhaps some of your countrymen and women should follow that example.
Dan
The company is Pumpkin Masters.
Unfortunately, I don't have any of my pictures on the web at this point, but I have used their tools and patterns for the past 5 years now with no failure.
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
From the pumpkin gun story:
A story about the cannon published last week in The Herald-Times of Bloomington was picked up by The Associated Press, leading to calls from reporters as far away as Great Britain.
I actually saw a TV news spot on this thing here in Japan...(probably from the AP spot)