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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).
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
In the US, halloween is second only to xmas for total dollars spent, and comes in third for total number of parties (after new years and the super bowl). Also for a more detailed description of the integration in american culture, see here
Heaven forfend we should have a little fun...
Not everything is a conspiracy, ya know.
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
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
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).
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...."
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.
It comes from the Celtic traditions:
People believed around this time, spirits walked the earth. They would put out their fires, in order to make their homes less appealing to the spririts. They also dressed up, and acted strange, in order to make the spirits think they were already posessed, so they would move on.
Children would also go door to door, and ask for "treats" in exchange for singing a song, or reciting a poem. This tradition was brought to America by Irish immigrants in the mid 1800's
Listen to NPR a little, no conspriacy here
You'll have to wait until February to see a holiday that was truely concocted by merchandisers to sell thing (namely cards and flowers)
---Lane
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.
''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
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.