happy halloween (pictures)

[beecubed]

my house, decorated:

http://superior1234.406losers.net/files/images/IMG_1328_copy.jpg

my pumpkins:

http://superior1234.406losers.net/files/images/IMG_1333_copy.jpg
http://superior1234.406losers.net/files/images/IMG_1338_copy.jpg
http://superior1234.406losers.net/files/images/IMG_1339_copy.jpg
http://superior1234.406losers.net/files/images/IMG_1345_copy.jpg

girlfriend's pumpkins:

http://superior1234.406losers.net/files/images/IMG_1330_copy.jpg
http://superior1234.406losers.net/files/images/IMG_1336_copy.jpg

it was a pretty slow year, perhaps because there was a home steeler game. good thing too, i drasistically underestimated the amount of candy i needed. if it would have been like last year, i would have ran out 1/2 way through.

[Bub, Andrew]

Very cool. I can't get the IMG tags to work on this forum but they work on my forum. This is not to be construed as a shameless plug for my site.

http://www.gamerdad.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1287

[Alan Au]

Very cool. I can't get the IMG tags to work on this forum but they work on my forum. This is not to be construed as a shameless plug for my site.

http://www.gamerdad.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1287
Uh, I can't see the images on your forum either.

- Alan

[Gourmand]

woah, someone has artistic talent. Very cool.

I tried my hand at carving a pumpkin again this year, one of those general goofy face pumpkins with the triangle eyes, and crescent mouth. People have told me it looks "Autistic". Heh, ouch.

So, you get bonus "woah!" points from me.

[Duality]

Of course, if he's using the Dremel pumpkin carving kit, then can he really be given that much credit?

I suppose, if you want to give him credit for making sure he carved inside the lines. ;)

[beecubed]

heh. autistic.

anyway, those are all from patterns. i don't have an ounce of artistic talent. pumpkin master products are god's gift to people who like halloween.

[edit] not trying to make fun of autism there. i just think that is funny way to describe a pumpkin. didn't want to offend anyone.

[Derek Meister]

http://www.meisterplanet.com/gallery/albums/halloween2004/Halloween_2004_003.sized.jpg

As we've done since moving into this house in 1996, we have the outside and inside of our oversized garage decorated for the kids. There are something like 127 animated pieces on all those tables and along the walls.

This year we got over 150-something kids and their parents and grandparents coming through. Sometimes the kids get so wrapped up with all the things to interact with, they forget about getting some candy.

My personal favorite is setting up the graveyard outside in the side so that smoke mists out from the graves.

More pictures here (http://www.meisterplanet.com/gallery/halloween2004?page=1).

[Jamie Madigan]

Wow, very cool carvings and setups. I'm not nearly so skilled, so I went for something simpler.

My daughter was too young to go out trick-or-treating, but we dressed her up anyway. We totally underestimaged the number of kids we'd get at our door, though. We ran out of candy around 6:30. My wife suggested we just hand out quarters, but I thought that was exeedingly lame so we just shut off the lights.

[Jamie Madigan]

WOAH. I did a google search for "Dremel pumpkin carving kit." This is what they have on their homepage (http://www.dremel.com/productdisplay/tool_template2.asp?SKU=764-01):

http://sam.zoy.org/fun/goatse/pumpkin.jpg

If you recognize what that is, I'm so very sorry. If you don't, consider yourself lucky. I wonder if they were hacked? The URL for that image isn't on the dremel.com domain.

[Funkman]

Dear god! It took me a second to realize what that was.. and let me be the first to say:

Thats just not right.

[chet]

Some amazing pumpkins from a site we host
http://www.hooverdam.net/pumpkin/

[beecubed]

Of course, if he's using the Dremel pumpkin carving kit, then can he really be given that much credit?

I suppose, if you want to give him credit for making sure he carved inside the lines. ;)

i tried cutting using a dremel. it sucked. hard to control and it made a huge mess. the snoopy one, i had to use a dremel for. i had to get a shower afterwards, because i was covered in pumpkin splatter.

everything else is carved with the pumpkin master tools. which, admittedly, do make it way easier.

derek: holy shit, man. you guys really like halloween!

[Bub, Andrew]

Very cool. I can't get the IMG tags to work on this forum but they work on my forum. This is not to be construed as a shameless plug for my site.
Uh, I can't see the images on your forum either.

- Alan

Sorry man! I moved them to my own host. They should work now.
http://www.gamerdad.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1287

No Dremel kits were used to make these homemade costumes.

[Derek Meister]

http://meisterplanet.com/images/livejournal/Halloween-2004--floating-head.jpg

I had fun creating a "crystal ball effect", which was done using a DVD of a talking head you can get in many of the halloween supply stores here, a small television suspended over an enclosed viewing area with a piece of clear plexiglass at a 45 degree angle to the view window which reflects the image as if it were on the ball behind it.

I made the "viewing cabinet" out of PVC pipe and foamcore board panels, so the whole thing cost less than $20 with the plexiglass.

[Gourmand]

heh. autistic.

anyway, those are all from patterns. i don't have an ounce of artistic talent. pumpkin master products are god's gift to people who like halloween.

[edit] not trying to make fun of autism there. i just think that is funny way to describe a pumpkin. didn't want to offend anyone.

Yeah, I didn't mean offense to any autistic folks either. I just figured it a funny remark since the difference between artistic and autistic is ever so slight.

Also, Derek wins the haloween hardcore award. I wish my neighbors did cool stuff like that for me when I was wee.

[Nathan]

Nice carving! I've been kind of interested in seeing what I could do, but never quite interested enough to actually mess with it. Moreso considering that I always go elsewhere for Halloween, meaning I'd have a jack-o-lantern saying "candy here", but not actually be there to deliver the goods.

Also, in the delay between reading the words "girlfriend's pumpkins" and the picture loading, I kind of expected to see something else. Just sayin'.

[Donald L.]

Dear god! It took me a second to realize what that was.. and let me be the first to say:

Thats just not right.

You said it. Took me a few seconds to make heads or tails out of it. :shock:

[Lunch of Kong]

anyone got the pattern for the goatse pumpkin? :-)

[MattKeil]

That's nothing. Check out the Christmas cookies.

http://sam.zoy.org/fun/goatse/goatsecookies.jpg

[Tim]

We set up a maze of refrigerator boxes covered with trash bags. It was supposed to be Mordor. We had a fog machine at the entrance with a big inflatable spider on a web you had to duck under. My 7 year old in a diaper playing the part of Gollum. The ring from our LotR board game hidden in the maze. A few battery powered bats & spiders, a glow in the dark skeleton and a few other gizmos, leading to the Eye of Sauron - our High Speed pinball machine left running the police light test with a homemade light gel in front of it.

It went over pretty well!

[pms]

my house, decorated:

http://superior1234.406losers.net/files/images/IMG_1328_copy.jpg


You carved your own Janeane Garofalo?

[dannimal]

I just think it's cool his house # is 1234.

[Jamie Madigan]

Heh, that is pretty cool. Is it 1234 Street street?

[beecubed]

its easy to remember, because it is the combination i've always used on my luggage.

[shift6]

MattKeil, think you could get that camera closer to those cookies there? :P

Also:
http://www.gamerdad.com/images/topics/hallow20042.jpg
Clearly the Kerry/Edwards ticket makes kids cry. Why do the Johns hate children during the holidays?

[Derek Meister]

Dude, I can't believe you missed the obvious joke there.

Girl in little red riding hood outfit ...

John Kerry sign in the back ...

That commercial about wolves ...

All the ingredients were there, man.

[Bub, Andrew]

Actually Shift6, that photo is titled:

Hope is on the way!

[Donald L.]

Since the P&R section has spilled over onto the Everything Else section, thought I'd add this:

Now Kiss the Ring!!!

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20041031/capt.dt10310311916.cheney_dt103.jpg

Actually it is Cheney's granddaughter. Me bad :lol:

[DrCrypt]

This is my favorite pumpkin this year:

http://butlergames.tripod.com/1a708080.jpg

[Matthew Gallant]

This is my favorite pumpkin this year:

http://butlergames.tripod.com/1a708080.jpg

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/images/cacopumpkin.jpg
So others won't have to jump through hoops to see it.

Also: LOL RARGH WHY ISNT IT IN A CLOSET, HAHA HURRR

[DrCrypt]

Thanks Matt! I didn't catch the Tripod url.

[Tyjenks]

I didn't get a picture, but there was a 13-15 year old (?) dressed up in a Hooters waitress outfit. My wife and her mom said she either had something put under her shirt or was a well-endowed youngster. Now, I was handing out the candy and once I saw the owl and orange, I knew I shouldn't be staring, so I missed the whole thing.

I also heard that, and saw at least one, French Maid outfits were popular with girls this year. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but is this not just a little weird. I understand girls are wanting to look older and sexier at younger ages, but Hooters and French Maids which are pretty blatant examples of male objects of fantasy? Oh, well. I guess it shows I have a 3 year old daughter and, if I was not before, I am officially old.

The college girl with the thigh high white stockings, pig tails, and a Catholic school girl outfit kicked ass. We gave her little siter candy, she said, "Thank You." and I paused and said "No....thank you." There is a very fine line between appreciating young beauty and criminal perversion. It won't be long until I feel old ogling 20 year olds. Yikes!

[Jamie Madigan]

A friend of mine had one of those 15-year old trick-or-treaters show up dressed as a sexy pixie. He said he had "one of those American Beauty moments." He opened the door, and then boom --rose petals everywhere.

My daughter was a frog (http://www.jmadigan.net/ssi/image.shtml?img=/photos/sam_story/week40/week40-17.jpg).

[Tyjenks]

A friend of mine had one of those 15-year old trick-or-treaters show up dressed as a sexy pixie. He said he had "one of those American Beauty moments." He opened the door, and then boom --rose petals everywhere.

My daughter was a frog.

Mine, Winnie the Pooh.

HEHE. I am semi-terrified that I will not be able to beat my filthy mind into submission when my daughter brings friends over once she reaches those formative years.

[Squirrel Killer]

Clearly, the only solution is to get your closeted homosexual neighbor to shoot you. :wink:

[nife2o4]

Here's my halloween outfit...I think the kids will be scarred for life (though I am one sexy beast)

http://home.earthlink.net/~nife2o4/resizedHalloween.jpg

[Bub, Andrew]

I like how the two most recent posts here sort of work together.

[DrCrypt]

Trev, you should use that picture for your match.com ad.

[nutsak]

He can't - I'm using it for my CS spray logo.

http://www.deadbored.com/sprays/Britney2o4/Britney2o4.jpg

[Toddy]

I didn't get a picture, but there was a 13-15 year old (?) dressed up in a Hooters waitress outfit. My wife and her mom said she either had something put under her shirt or was a well-endowed youngster. Now, I was handing out the candy and once I saw the owl and orange, I knew I shouldn't be staring, so I missed the whole thing.

At the Halloween party I went to on Saturday, four or five women went as Hooters girls. All wore some kind of fake breast thingie, and one had her Hooters t-shirt hiked up to her neck all night long. Hard to stop staring, even though it was just rubber. Those rubber tits were pretty realistic, though, especially in dim light, so I don't feel quite so pathetic for gawking.