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Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en?

Posted by timothy on from the best-holiday-generally-speaking dept.

Hallowe'en is my favorite holiday: I like seeing costumes (and walking around in my own), and seeing what people do to decorate their houses, yards, etc. For the second year in a row though, I've failed to come up with a really good scheme for making my own place appropriately spooky. So, in hopes of loosing some inspiration for myself and others, I ask today what you're doing to spookify your surroundings (or your person) tomorrow, especially if it means using technology in interesting ways. Sensor-activated scary sounds or lights? An Arduino or Raspberry Pi-controlled costume? Elaborate trap-door? Infrasonic hackle-raising subwoofer install? Maybe one year Alek Komarnitsky will switch to Hallowe'en instead of Christmas, and offer a webcam-equipped remote-controllable haunt.

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  1. Dressing up... by Nukenbar · · Score: 5, Funny

    and hitting on girls a decade young than me in short skirts.

    1. Re:Dressing up... by hercludes · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't think the best strategy of hitting on girls is to wear short skirts.

    2. Re:Dressing up... by RubberChainsaw · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is only a problem because you are 22 years old..

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  2. The same thing I do every night by decipher_saint · · Score: 5, Funny

    Try to take over the world

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  3. Hiding in the Shadows of my Porch... by AdamStarks · · Score: 4, Funny

    and when little kids walk up, I'll leap out in my Conan the Mathematician costume and roar out the skull-splitting multiplication rules for Quaternions.

  4. I carry. by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 4, Funny

    I walk around with an (unloaded) pistol on my hip.

    Scaring little kids is easy, I go for scaring the adults.

    1. Re:I carry. by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

      Scaring little kids is easy, I go for scaring the adults.

      One year we lugged around a rubber boat, dressed up like Greenpeace activists, threw the boat on a front lawn, jumped in, and staged a naval assault on the "Greenhouse that was destroying the ozone hole." Instead of ringing the doorbell, we peppered the windows with a hail of fire from airsoft electric machine guns, while yelling, "Nuke the Whales!", and other assorted non-sequitur nonsense.

      It didn't scare any adults, but they would come out of the house with a priceless confused look on their faces, like, "What the flying fuck is going on here?!" and "What in God's Hell is this supposed to be!?"

      The truth was . . . we didn't really know either.

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    2. Re:I carry. by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Funny

      He leaves it unloaded to scare the NRA members.

  5. Down Under... by klingers48 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being Australian? I can go grumpy old man on those few kids that usually go trick or treating. It's always fun watching blank stairs of incomprehension as I tell them that their mums and dads are bad parents for indoctrinating their children with an Americanized handout mentality as well as bad neighbours for expecting me to cross-subsidize their efforts with candy.

    Get off my lawn. Clean up those eggs and toilet rolls.

  6. What am I going to do for Halloween? by Obfuscant · · Score: 4, Funny
    What I do every year -- try to take over the world.

    Unless some dinky laboratory mice with modified DNA beat me to it. Poit!

  7. Thanks for the reminder! by grub · · Score: 1, Funny

    I forgot Halloween was almost here!
    Have to run out to buy some apples and razor blades!

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  8. Re:A fine evening by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

    I never use an apostrophe, I always use thepostrophe

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  9. Re:Snore by jaymzter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Halloween has been saved. Allow me to introduce you to Slutoween...

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  10. Re:What am I doing on "halloween" ? by Gogo0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I dont live in america and all of my friends are not americans, yet they celebrated halloween by dressing in silly costumes, going to parties, and having fun.
    it was HORRIBLE. the sooner people stop making excuses to have fun, the better. goddamn halloween

  11. Re:Spellchecker by Bite+The+Pillow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it ten o'clock yet? I can't wait until it's ten o'clock. Do you know why? I bet you don't. I just like ten o'clock. Especially when it's in the morning because I can say "top o' the mornin' to ya" and sound bright and cheery.

    And look at all the apostrophes I get to use! It's almost like apostrophes can do anything. They're magical and mystical and wonderful. Got to love apostrophes.