yes, cock puppets

Thank you! I got some compliments at the party... several people suggested that "dead" works for me. I wonder if that's a good thing...:skull:

I think I'm going to be tired and disillusioned.

With studs and whitewalls. :thumb2:

Last year we dressed the inchlet as a bumble bee. He became upset when he thought that he would actually become a bee. He maintained that he wanted to be a little boy.

This year we think he knows he will not actually be a leopard, he'll merely dress as one. We'll see. cf being eaten by a lego cow, and still worried that he will go down the drain with the bathwater...

As for homegirl, she's still not sure.

I have a tyvek suit that I am thinking of decorating with black blotches, I can either be a cow or a dalmation, depending on how fat I actually am.

I have a tyvek suit that I am thinking of decorating with black blotches, I can either be a cow or a dalmation, depending on how fat I actually am.

Or you could get a small battery powerd fan , some tape , some string and a saliors hat and be the stay puff marsh mellow man , She could dress up like SHENA , to tame the fierce leopard ,

Now you KNOW that pics are required !!! ;)

Jinx, I notice you are wearing your new shoes in the photo... :)

I like that idea! You are an idea man! maybe we could get a leopard sitter for the evening and she could be "the gatekeeper"...

But then you would have to dress up like a nerd !!!

Since thursday, I've only taken them off to bathe and sleep.

Nahh, I could still be the staypuft marshmallow guy.

Just saw this costume on the web. I like it.

These are the costumes I made.
Beautiful sis-in-law is wearing last year's costume and I am wearing a new one I made this year. I got smart and made the vest, bodices and skirts LACE-UP to accomodate changing waist sizes. ;-)
Husband agreed to the kilt if he could have a sword. To get him into one, I said Yes!
I did not have enough time to shop for fabric to finish the blue costume. I wanted a silver/gray blouse and underskirt. No fabric stores had the type of fabric I wanted, so I used store bought black knit top and skirt.
Heidi
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../quilts/bd.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../quilts/ap.jpg

What does Sis-in-law have on her finger?
Oh shit, now you show me his sword. :worried:

Went to a friends house tonight.
The house was decked out and after dark the porch lights, light up the decorations.
The storm window/screen was out of the door leaving a hole.
She was standing inside the door, in the dark, with a smoke machine blowing out the hole in the door.
The parents would typically stand on the sidewalk and send the tykes up the walk where she would jump up, wearing red and black makeup, rastifarian wig and a hooded cape.
Tomorrow she'll have to scrape the tyke poop off the walk. :D

It appears to be a beer cozy. The kind that is used on bottles instead of cans.

*Two* stinking trick or treaters. *Two*! Man, what has become of today's youth? I am depressed. If it hadn't been for the forty people at the ritual and feast, I'd be nearly suicidal.

Despite the lack of trick or treaters (I wonder if having signs saying "The Witch is In" and "Witch Way" and other such things in our yard year 'round discouraged them somehow. Didn't put the JW's off this weekend...), we had a terrific time celebrating both Samhain and my our ninth anniversary. I love Halloween.

Pics later. My wife looked so *hot*.

The usual 80 of the little fart-knockers here. I bribe them with full-size bars from Costco, and they go crazy. It is their only interaction with me and I don't want to be called that weird guy who we never see.

Two separate lads declared that my house is "really cool". I explained that it was highly mortgaged and that if I don't find some work in the next few months their parents could buy it from me. They screamed in horror and ran.

Don't be bummed, Elspode. I didn't get nearly as many trickertreaters this year. The kids that did come were so...so...dejected and downcast that you could have mistaken them for middle aged, mid-level managers at Wal-Mart or something. So many dispirited, unenthused, "trick or treeeeet"s. Was sad, I tell you. Like they were being forced on some Bataan Death March.

Our kids started out with a lot of enthusiasm, but then kind of forgot what the ritual was, and they would just knock on the door and stand there, not sure what they were supposed to do next. I had to keep reminding them between houses what they were supposed to do.

When I was a kid, we used to freakin' scream "trick or treat!"

I didn't get any tickertreaters at all, but I live in a second floor apartment with the porch light always on (i.e. the residents don't control it) so there was no way for kids to know that I had candy. And it was really cold last night, so that could be part of it. But I didn't expect anyone anyway. They don't go to the apartments.

Maybe there are so used to having everything handed to them the thought of actually going out and working (dress up and extort) for it, depresses them. ;)

Apartment complexes used to be the absolute primo ground for candy ... low walk to loot ratio. The place I'm in is probably around 15% occupancy, if my own court is typical, so slim pickings here this year.

There are few kids in the complex currently, so I didn't even bother turn turn on the front door light, which is the magic signal that candy is available. No problem, that just means more fun size bars for me.

I think, though, that what has changed are not children, but parents. Kids still love going from house to house getting enough sugar to power a major city for a month, but their parents won't let them. I know that for at least one of my friend's kids, trick-or-treating meant mommy driving them around to the homes of trusted adults ... her friends, parents, in-laws, and grandparents. Almost doesn't seem worth the effort, does it?

When you were a kid, did your parents take you out, tell you where to go, what to do, how to act and never let you out of sight for a minute?

I was on my own and that was half, or more, of the adventure. Sneaking up on people that could care less, but in my mind being terrorized. Nobody knew where I was or what I was up to, although in truth, the parent/neighbor network was keeping watch.

Now Halloween is run by Home(land) Security......keeps you safe......at a price.;)

I had to train myself not to send them off with a cheerful "seeya later!" like I do everyone else, because after I thought about it, that's a really creepy statement from an adult male who lives alone who they don't regularly see.

I would say at least half the kids at the door this year didn't actually say "trick or treat" at all. Which was irritating to me, you're trick or treating, that's what you say. We also tended to get mostly older kids, in the 8-10 age range, which for me is pushing it as far as trick or treating age goes.

When I was a young tike, yes. But I don't remember how old I was when they cut the strings. Mine are now 4 and 7. The 4 y.o. is too young to be on his own. I'd maybe be OK with the 7 y.o. going out without us if she had an older kid with her.

Times change :( .

We also have more traffic in our neighborhood on Halloween than when I was a kid. I think some kids get ferried in from other neighborhoods. Lots of minivans with kids jumping in and out of them. Crazy.

I saw my wife giving candy to a couple of teenagers, in their street clothes, holding big black trash bags. I was like "What the fuck are you doing?! Did you ask them what they are (dressed as)?!" Then again, I guess you don't want them to come back and burn your house down. Little shits.

I was Luigi's wingman, Mario.

Samhain is the best night for divination, you know. Perhaps they'd seen glimpses of their futures, and they were too bummed to enjoy themselves.

There has been a big change in Halloween, the last 10 years. It used to be something kids loved and adults sort of dreaded. Now it's become a big deal for adults....more decorations, cards, costumes, parties.

The side effect is more orchestration and choreographing of the kids activities, which makes them feel they are just along for the ride......just a piece of the adults festivities.

Of course the other thing is safety and there is no doubt parents have to be more careful. They had the nerve to ask me why I painted FREE CANDY on the side of the van with no inside handles. Harumpf.
:2cents:

A friend sent me these pics of her kids ,
and Yeppers the girl in the muddle is preggers , and married ,

Finally got a couple band shots in, they all suck of all of us, but here's my costume, and a long shot of the band between songs. We had a great crowd that night, too bad the pics don't quite get the energy. I am some flavor of pirate. Mike had a robot mask that he didn't wear for long cuz it was hot, Josh was Donnie Brasco, Justin, the new bass guy, was ... i think... Johnny Cash, and Nate didn't wear anything.

I think it will be awhile before I talk them into GWAR paint. But hey! I got to be "lol, pirate"

Wouldn't that be a NSFW picture? :eek:

But they didn't give the candy back, did they?

OK, folks, you got it from the horses mouth......the horse that keeps this board running. If you can't find the PayPal button, just ask. ;)

I donated a bit. I felt terrible that I hadn't done it already, as much as I use this place. I'll try and do it more regularly.

Thank you Sir. :D

I got another report from a friend in Maryland on low turnout of tykes.

This would have been easier. ;)

this is what I looked like:

now THAT IS SCARY !!!!!

You just wish it was YOU!

wow you look hot!!

Well, THANK YOU!

At last! Someone with an eye for beauty and good taste!

No offence intended , its just I had a teacher ( I think 3rd grade ) that looked like that .

Hot, perhaps, but scary. :D