Let’s just expand this to say that ANY candy you can’t give away to trick or treaters is totally wrong for the holiday. Unless they are individually wrapped. Same goes for the circus peanut knock-offs that are halloween shaped.
Personally, I always appreciated those bags of cheapo candy. They were about the only thing I ever got that wasn’t chocolate.
Under the heading of holiday decorations and “What were you thinking?”, I have a neighbor who goes overboard with the decorations. When everybody was putting out their flag, this person put a clothesline between two trees and hung two flag afghans from them, plus overalls with flag patches.
For halloween, she put a pile of dirt in her yard, and put stuffed kid’s pants on the pile of dirt with the “feet” sticking straight up. So it looked like she had 3 kids buried head down up to their waist in the pile of dirt. Sheesh
Apparently either someone complained or stole the pants because they are gone now. She does still have the giant (the length of a small car) spider in the yard.
“He would on Halloween!”
(mad props to who can identify the quote (although it actually relates to a different super-hero))
She won’t be the only one, either. I’d put good money on at least 7 sets of Twin Towers in this year’s Greenwich Village Hallowe’en Parade.
I [heart] New York.
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Oh, it’s from a Simpsons episode…Milhouse talking about Radioactive Man. But I can’t remember exactly which episode…
That would be Treehouse of Horror 10. The sub episode was “Desperately Seeking Xena.” The part of the "Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl was “Enter the Collecter.”
Speak for yourself. I’m an adult, and I have that very costume. It’s draped over the door of this room right now, to keep it both out of the way and free of creases, and I am going to wear it on Halloween.
I should mention, however, that I am the fry queen. My dressing as a large order of fries is like the typical Doper dressing as a box of chocolates.
The company I work for recently listed a funeral home for sale. Open Houses in our City are held on Wednesday. This Wednesday is Halloween.
Anyone for a Halloween Open House in a Funeral Home? Guess who thought up that idea 
I think it would be in poor taste to offer Pixie Sticks for a Halloween treat.
For those of you that don’t know, they come in a paper straw like wrapping that if snapped in half, a lot of flavored sugar comes out.
< God think of the neighborhood freak out if someone did that, LOL > That’s scary!
Good point. I can’t give them out. I’ll have to eat them all myself.
I smell an UL starting over this observation - terrorists are poisoning pixie sticks with anthrax!
She hung up an Afganistan flag, or an knitted afghan (throw) made like an American flag? And why overalls?
I got called in to work tonight, at the mall. Many stores were giving out El Cheapo candy, mine among them. In fact, it was the same for all stores, except the ones that had their own product: teeny little lollies, SweeTarts, teeny little Tootsie Rolls, and
Pixie Stix.
I did a walk before going into my store, snagging as much candy as I could (got some Sees chocolate lollies! Woohoo!). Was on the point of saying, “Can you believe; they’re actually giving out Pixie Stix!” when I saw my supervisor holding a tub of the same stuff. Well, it wasn’t my idea. But I remember seeing a report somewhere from a town that had banned trick-or-treating and was having a party in the civic center instead. A spokesperson for the local constabulary was quoted as saying “We don’t want to get a hundred calls from people freaking out because a Pixie Stick broke in their kids bag.” Or something to that effect.
- String lights need not be made for EVERY HOLIDAY ON THE CALENDAR! Were the manufacturers just not making enough off of Christmas? 3 or 4 homes on my street have those ugly-ass orange icicle lights on 'em, not to mention the deep purple ones around the door. When did this happen? I remember seeing them for the 4th of July, too. What’s next? Thanksgiving and Groundhog Day lights?
They are american flags, but are the afghans you buy to throw over the back of your couch. I supposed they’re called a throw, but that just doesn’t sound right to me.
As for the overalls, I think the idea is that she’s trying to create a patriotic Americana scene recalling those days long ago where you wore patched overalls to plow the back 40, and the little woman hung the wash up on a line to dry. :rolleyes:
In my opinion, you can’t get enough colored lights.
I don’t really mind too much that they’ve been selling Christmas stuff for several weeks now, but I DO mind that two days before Halloween they were already taking away the Halloween stuff! How are you supposed to buy last-minute stuff if they store’s already putting it away?
Slight tangent…they did that with the school stuff and it really pissed me off. My daughters came home almost every day that first week with something else they needed that wasn’t on the original list (an extra binder for this class, a marble notebook for that class, more dividers, etc.) and at Target at least, the school supplies were being removed for more Halloween crap and the beginning of the Christmas crap.
Well, duh. My mistake.
I realized right when I hit “submit” that you meant “throws”. :o
I guess I saw the words “flag afghans” and thought something else.