Outside of the MMP thread I don’t see a general H’ween discussion going on, so I thought I’d better start one before it’s too late.
Anyone watching a scary movie tonight? I’m queuing up Night of the Creeps, probably my favorite horror-comedy. It’s a fun alien/zombie invasion flick with more B-movie references than you can count and lots of great lines like *“The good news is, your dates are here. The bad news is…they’re dead.” *
Any other random Halloween-y musings you’d like post about?
Have you noticed the older the children, the less thought they put into their costumes? “I’m a high school football player!”
Me, again. Why can’t they make the time change the last Sunday of October instead of the first Sunday of November? Dark an hour earlier for the small fry.
Great costume I saw tonight: a cowboy riding an ostrich, straight from the Island of Misfit Toys! Honorable Mention: an iPhone, White Trash (white kid dressed in trash bag) Nudist on Strike (kid with that written on a sign) a tiny Dragon, a genderbending teenage couple where she was dressed as a football player and he was a cheerleader, and a delightful young man dressed as Spock, complete with the ears.
Here I am trick-or-treating tonight in my Trump mask, with Tic-Tacs at the ready in case I run into any beautiful women and don’t want to wait: https://twitter.com/SlackerInc/status/793263765084966912
^ Aaaaaaaaaaa! No, not that! Make it stop! :eek:
One of the more amusing yard decorations I saw this year: a couple of skeletons dressed as Donald and Hillary with a sign that said “Everybody Sucks 2016”
LOL, that’s what my wife said! She actually bought me the mask, but once I had it on she found it really disturbing to look at and regretted her purchase.
Don’t you just hate it when trick or treaters keep returning after you have given them candy? The cat from next door in the orange tabby costume came back 3 times for more Temptations cat treats. Cute costume, but I recognized you, puss.
There were no scary movies at our house last night…just the annual first-viewing of The Nightmare Before Christmas. We’ll watch it several more times during the holiday season before it gives way to more traditional Christmas-related fare…like Die Hard.
My four-year-old figured out what trick-or-treating is all about this year. Last year, when people would open their doors, he would just squirt past them and scurry around inside their houses. This year he was a candy-requesting machine. He said “thank you” when prompted, and someone apparently taught him to say “no peanuts.”
My 20-month-old went around in the stroller, and she was happy because she had some juice and some colorful costume shoes, both of which are words she has learned to say. She still does not articulate very well, though, so to an outsider, it will have seemed like she spent the whole evening saying “Jew” to everyone.
Probably more of a “you had to be there” moment, but trick-or-treaters are always asking about the cooking smells coming out of our house. This was a conversation from last night:
Kid #1: Your house smells good! What did you have for dinner?
Me: Ummm…chicken enchiladas.
Kid #2: What kind of chicken enchiladas?
Me: Ummm…Mexican-style?
Over in (shameless plug) this thread, Balthisar agrees with me on the best costume, but wouldn’t it be great if you carried a large container of fake blood and slowly poured it out on the ground while you waited for your candy? Then leave a trail as you walk away? (Wouldn’t make you many home-owner friends, but still… 
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I suggested this to my wife after the festivities wrapped and she just slowly shook her head side-to-side as she trudged down the hall to the bedroom, probably wondering what she’d gotten herself into marrying this mental defective.
::maniacal chuckling::
Yesterday at noon I showed It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! to some co-workers in one of our conference rooms. It’s something I used to do every year at another job a long time ago; I’m hoping to make it an annual tradition at my current office. 
Last night my dog and I hid from the neighborhood children. Porch light off, most interior lights off, just sittin’ on the couch and watching TV. I’m in the middle of a medically-supervised weight-loss program, and I didn’t want to risk having candy in my house (I haven’t had any carbs or refined sugar in over a month) – plus, trick-or-treaters stress my dog out. So we usually hide.
Halloween has historically been my second-favorite holiday, but these days it’s a hard time of year for me: my mom died on 11/2 last year, and the prior week was spent in the ICU gradually realizing that she wasn’t going to wake up. I’m both very aware of tomorrow’s anniversary and yet not aware of it…I’ll catch myself wondering why I feel so tired/out of sorts, and then I’ll be like “Oh. Yeah. Right.” Somehow, watching Charlie Brown during the day and then hiding out with the dog after work seemed to be just right.
I’m sorry for your loss. 
This made me laugh.
Heh, one of my running jokes in my Trump getup (photo posted upthread) was “we need to watch very carefully: in certain neighborhoods, kids are coming back 5, 6, 7 times for candy.” So it’s cats too!
In time-honored, monster movie tradition, she’ll be the first to go–for unleashing the demon! :eek:
I used to be more invested in Halloween, but after one year where I decorated with spider webs and lights and carved a pumpkin and wore a costume and got almost zero visits, I kind of gave up. This year, I sat around until 8:00, answered the door twice, and that was my Halloween. Spent the rest of the night watching Treehouse of Terror re-runs for the third time in the past week.
Excuse me…Treehouse of Terror?
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(Sorry, but that’s one of my pet peeves.)
Assuming you are referring to the The Simpsons episodes, they are, and have always been, titled “Treehouse of Horror.”
A kid dressed as Death tripped and nearly conked me with his scythe. He apologized. “It’s because my robe is so long.”
A girl next to him said, “You do realize that’s a dress, not a robe, right?”
My son made what I thought was a fairly scary jack o’ lantern, but a little Ninja Turtle knelt to pet it. Awww…
Also, I think you are too old to trick or treat (he looked about sixteen) when you compliment the woman giving you candy on her blouse. (Which wasn’t Halloween–ish in any way.)