Dope-A-Ween DC/MD/VA/PA/DE 10/27/01!!

Yes, it’s true. The Chance family is throwing another rip roaring party.

And this time it’s a Halloween Costume Party!

Prizes for best costume, silliest costume, etc…we’ll make them up as we go.

So come on all you dopers! Who’s game to see if I can top the grand “Cat in the Hat gives tractor rides while drunk on cheap wine” incident of 1998?
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Date: Saturday, October 27, 2001

Time: 2PM to God alone knows when
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Goody bags for all! We’ll make them up.

We’ll be serving beer, wine (Raspberry and Plum are my current favorites), hot food, cold food, snacks, candy, you name it.

Games will be played, friendships made and broken, chaos rules the land, things fall apart and all that fine stuff.

We don’t know if we’ll be having entertainment yet. At our Halloween parties we normally count on the guests to bring forth the entertainment!

So who’s with me here? Let’s hear from those travelling dopers! At the Spring party in June we had people from 8 states arrive. Can we go international this year? Only you can prevent it from happening.

I’ll say it again…

ARE YOU WITH ME HERE???

And, as an aside…

This is also my 1000th post. I’ve been saving it for just this announcement. It’s because I love you all so…

sniff

If I’m there, and I plan to be there, then the lovely born-and-raised-in-Sweden Anniz will be there, too. Does she count for being international?

And, mazel tov on 1000. I hit 3000 last night in a thread also near and dear to my heart: THE PHILLIES ARE IN FIRST PLACE IN THE NL EAST!!! :slight_smile:

Anniz would certainly count as international! We’ll be glad to have her there.

Do they have the whole “dress up in costumes and extort candy from strangers” thing in Sweden?

I plan to be there. And I plan to have the most original, yet fitting, costume. I just have to find the appropriate picture of the person I’m going to be.

Many of you will recognize me as this person. A few will not. And for now that’s all I’m going to say.

Yes, we have Halloween Costume Party here too,
but it has just been here for the latest years.
Many of things like this gets here from US.
But I’ve never been to one before,
so it would be fun to see how it is.

Anniz, we would be honored to have you present at our party. Let me know if I can make you feel at home by laying in anything unique to Sweden for you. As host, it’s my duty to make certain all of my guests are as comfortable as possible.

And I look forward to iampunha’s costume. How good can he be?

Anyone else?

hand raised, jumping up and down…

Oooo! Oooo! Us! Us! Are kids welcome at this one, too? 'Cause we all had a perfectly groovy time at your last party, and would love to come to this one.

You know I’ll be there, nate, I already told you so!

You know I’ll be there, JC, I already told you so!

Provided I’m not busy helping hedra and epeepunk prepare for the impending addition to their family, I’ll be there.

I’ll give you a hint, though you shouldn’t take the first thing that comes to your mind:

Circus peanuts.

Hey, I just care about the costume pun, not your personal life!

Yes, of course children are welcome. We’ll serve beer to the adults and get the kids so hopped up on candy that they’ll fly to the moon and back.

We’ll be serving chocolate by the pound. Good stuff too, not this silly low-class chocolate.

What else should I get?

OK, I’ll ask it…

What’s everyone’s favorite candy?

Indian corn!

(Or whatever the politically correct term for those little pyramids of sugar goodness is.)

OK, that’s one vote for 10 pounds of Candy Corn! Gotcha! Easy to deliver!

Note to self: ‘indian corn’? Last I heard Indian Corn was that decorative, un-eatable red and brown corn that my grandmother keeps putting on her walls.

D’oh, you’re right. “Indian corn” is the darker coloured version of candy corn. I think Indian corn is red and brown. I meant “candy corn.”

I’m with you on the nomenclature, Jonathan - and I’ll be there; I’ve just gotta think of a costume!

Damn copycats.

What, you can’t make a trip to Buckeye Country, “The Heart of it All,” so you’re just gonna stay out East and poach Dopers, huh?

Actually, simul-Fests could be kinda neat…nevermind.

Ooo…

A competition breaks out!

I’ll have you know I announced this back during the Spring party!

Top that!

You’re going as Jean Teasdale?

[sub]Sorry, I couldn’t find the right column. But she got busted for stealing circus peanuts from her local store.[/sub]

Robin

I announced mine last year. August 13th*, to be exact. So there.

punha, you’re going as an elephant? Wait, you said “not the first thing”…a midget clown?

[sub]*: To see why this is funny (to me, anyway), check here[/sub]