All Hallow's Eve
 

All right! I'm a big kid, I can't help it - I just LOVE Hallowe'en.

So, those of you who're going to parties, who's going as what?

I was gonna go as a medieval soldier with my head caved in. Cheap and easy. But then I realised I'm getting my hair done the day before (I don't get it done very often) and I realised what a waste of straight, newly died hair to muss it up and matt it with blood. So I've decided to go as a nekomata (I think that's how it's spelt - split tailed daemon cat, I'm going as a tri-colour for luck http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif ). Bought my costume bits today and am about to start making it...

i dont do halloween
but apparently at work we all have to dress up as cats on the dayhttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/jaguar.gif

theres some kids cat outfits in the shop that should fit
but ill only do it if i get sweeties
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Never celebrated halloween as a kid.

Guy Fawkes now, that is a reason to celebrate.
The only guy (pun intended) who really knew what to do about Government.

well, not the only one, there were a group of them
but yes bonfire night rocks
i love all the tradition, and where some of the fireworks take their names, catherine wheels for instance
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Unfortunately Guy Fawkes got stopped here before I was even born. Something to do with the laws about fireworks.

Just found out that my grading date has been bought forward a day so I am grading on Halloween. Good omen? Should I take my Michael Myers mask to the seminar with me to scare the shit out of the locals on the evening? http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

You can be sasquatch in a hakama then.

The idea of Halloween is to dress up as something you don't dress up as for the rest of the year =D

+Rep for the comment, arse-kicking on Thurs as retaliation... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

HAHA! it was worth it. I think http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo.../confused2.gif

About four years ago we started to make an effort with Hallowe'en. My wife wasn't too keen but I was damned if I wasn't going to get a load of sweets to get the kids, better that than pretend not to be in and when forced to actually answer the door have to part with cash because we didn't have 'treats. I know I'm tight but it's not about money it's about rotting teeth. So it's got steadily bigger each year with around 50-70 kids. Luckily for us we also have the Mere Brow Giant Pumkin competition but I'll miss that this year for grading.

Anyway as the nipper has got older it's even more fun. I was coming in the house the other day and heard two youngsters in the street saying 'this is the house that gets dressed up dead good'. I grinned to myself.

We've done pumpkins every year and hopefully this washout will still come up trumps. We've also tried to make pumpkin soup, fantastic pumpkin muffins and loaf, and toasting the seeds as well. www.zombiepumpkins.com has some fantastic stencils but from my experience free-hand Jack O'lanterns are much more effective and easier and quicker to carve. I may attempt a 'Kendo Jack' this year.

My other revelation was that although I would love to have decorations like those featured at www.pumpkinrot.com, we get lots of younger kids who are terrified of a 5' cardboard vampire we hang by the side of the door, let alone ultra-realistic body parts. Fun and kitsch will be our design style until we can get a unified look. My outfit may just stretch to a black robe, the kids are scared enough as it is mask would send them fleeing.

Bonfire night on the other hand is blasphemous, I will not have this celebration of Chinese gunpowder technology in my house or in the garden for that matter. It's obscene wasteful and disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood. Although Pitchshifter's song Un-UK does have the immortal line "We can learn a thing or two from Guy Fawkes" for those with an anti-parliamentary bent.

let see.. i need to carve up some pumpkins.. get new outfit for the kids.. and sit home and hand out candies to kids on our area.. that's about it for me http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif i might be a drunking guy next door for the halloween, but our neighors might not appreciate that too much.

pete

The way you uisually dress would we notice a difference?http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/laugh.gif

thats a shame, I love fireworks. Darlington put on a HUGE show every year which I take my kids to. Standing in the cold, mud covering the ankles, rain lashing down waving some soggy sparklers to watch half an hour of firweorks to classical music - bloody brilliant.

What is it with you and dressing up?http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo.../confused2.gif (see how I refrained from making any smutty reference - getting old or getting boring? - you decidehttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...nocked_out.gif)

Nah, you can just scare everybody with your facehttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/laugh.gifhttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/laugh.gifhttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/laugh.gifhttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/laugh.gif

Yawn. At least Perry and Nige were funny.

hehehe "yes that they were" as would Kaoru-san say.

Come to Portland my friend, and we can sneak across the border to that lawless place called Washington and visit a veritable nirvana called "Blackjacks Fireworks".

It's all about the boom.

As an Australian who grew up during the '80s, Halloween is pretty much a non-event for me. Kind of sucks being an ALT in Japan when every teacher asks you in front of the class, "Tell us about Halloween in your country".
I want to reply, "Sure, if you can tell me about Tenshin Shoden Katori Ryu"!

Scott, if you want to go as something scary, try dressing as Drexer!

Anyone in the UK wanna come to my fireworks show?

I bought an A-10 tankbuster gun barrel on eBay (no shit) and I am gonna launch fireworks through it at the local chav scum all night (or until the police get a fix on my location...) - Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Halloween is my favorite holiday.

My past favorite costumes:
A fake knife stabbed through a box of lucky charms.
(a cereal killer!)--its great with a SlingBlade accent

Jungle Safari Hunter.
Big fake mustache, safari hat, shooting jacket, fake gun.
Little daughter dressed up in a full Tigger suit.
Wife dressed in Leopard print....oh ya, that was a good halloween.

70s Disco Pants and Butterfly collar shirt with lots of ugly gold horoscope symbol necklaces....
Reeking of cologne.....they ask you what you are, you pull a bottle of "aqua velva" out of your too tight pants.
splash it on..."Im the aquavelva man....baby...." Proceed to splash after-shave on....and then hit on the nearest
woman with cheesest line possible.

Medical scrubs with blood smeared all over, maybe a dismembered hand in the pocket.
Name tag states "Med Student"

Then about every 3-4 years or so I get the urge for the super horrific costume...the
zombie with latex ripped flesh face-- etc...nothing like driving into work, pulling up to a stoplight
and watching someone look at you....they always have that "OH GOD" look for a split second.

Isn't Halloween the day/night with the single highest number of shootings in the US?