Happy halloween!

[Kweepa]

Carving pumpkins is fun!

Aieeee!

[Domino]

That pumpkin at the top of the second picture is really creepy. I'm gonna have nightmares now. 

[Vince Twelve]

Awesome pumpkins!

My mildly-AGS-related Halloween story:

I planned a lot of Halloween activities for the Japanese kids at my school.  They have never made Jack O'Lanterns before, so we did that.  We also made masks and let them trick-or-treat the teachers for candy.  It was a lot of fun!

During all of this, I was wearing my Halloween costume which I bought last weekend.  Halloween costumes in Japan are hard to find in stores and I'm not much of a seamstress, so I ended up buying this funny mushroom costume that I stumbled upon.

So, I wore the mushroom costume (which looked a lot like a penis costume, I later realized) to school.  All the elementary school kids would point at me and shout "Kinoko da!" or "Kinoko sensei!"  I was confused for a few minutes until I remembered that Kinoko means mushroom in Japanese.  Until they started shouting it, I hadn't thought of that.  But it was kind of weird when all the kids started calling me the (fake) name of someone else that I know.  (even if I only know that person through her posts on an internet board)

So... yeah... I guess there were two Kinoko-senseis in Japan on Thursday...

[Kinoko]

Hehehe! 'Cept my kids don't call me that, so you deserve the title ^_-

[Darth Mandarb]

yes HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all and to all a good [devil's] night ... heheh!!

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

Due to the current circumstances of the town I live in...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Some of the people in this town don't celebrate halloween.  Half of them are lazy and don't want to do anything, but the rest consider it insulting to their religeon for some dumb reason.  Though all my friends are going to celebrate it, I'm not exactly sure about what we're going to do yet.

[edmundito]

Let's see some costumes!

Did/will anyone dress up?

[MATTANDALEX]

I did. I went as Lampshade Man, Half man half lampshade. All i did was put a lampshade on my head.

[SSH]

errr... isn't it TOMORROW anyway?

[MATTANDALEX]

Yeah but i went to a party yesterday so that will be the only time will have dressed up

[Vince Twelve]

Let's see some costumes!

Your wish is my command!  Here's Vince (not to be confused with Kinoko) and his very beautiful and very preggers wife:



I've just realized that the mushroom shirt makes me look chubby... I'm actually crazy thin.

Happy Halloween!

[Huw Dawson]

I think the pumpkin in the top left of that last picture is REALLY scary. 

Happy Halloween ev'rybody! (And wish me luck against bands of maurauding teens armed with eggs and faxe axes.)

[Pet Terry]

Happy Halloween!

Even though we don't celebrate it here in Finland, here's a piccy for you:

Watch out...

And also older ninja stuff:

[Mr Jake]

I've just realized that the mushroom shirt makes me look chubby... I'm actually crazy thin.

It also makes you look like a deformed penis.

[Redwall]

(which looked a lot like a penis costume, I later realized)

Yeah, he knows.

[Nikolas]

Your wish is my command!Ã,  Here's Vince (not to be confused with Kinoko) and his very beautiful and very preggers wife:

My god you're tall...

Tell you wife regards from me...

[Haddas]

She might also be short.

[Nikolas]

Yes, true. But look at the door...

[m0ds]

Happy Hallow'een! What I don't get is how Americans manage to turn "celebrate those in purgatory" day with "dressing up like a giant mushroom day" Did they just want to take the scary spin off things? ET always made me wonder that (the trick or treat scene with fairies, angels etc). We've had a couple of trick or treaters around! Aiieee! Not that I do that anymore, my favourite Hallow'een story is going out trick or treating without a costume, I just put my hood up (it was a poorly financed year that one ) but we still made a tenner and some sweets! And the best part was it was October 26th!



They say tomorrow is "all saints" day, I don't think the town council will have enough time to remember them after seeing the mess that's usually left around the town :p I also want to note the increase in decorated houses this year! I've seen quite a few gardens all mocked up to look like graveyards and things, spooky but very very American! :| I can't talk though, when I own my own house I'm going to have an operating ghost train on hallow'een! (you dont come out alive tho).



None the less, some interesting hallofacts!

* The ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween night. They began wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human. Unfortunatley, they were mistaken for freaks, and were burnt at the steak.

* Orange and black became Halloween colors because of orange is associated with harvests and black is associated with death.

* Some so-called vampire bats do drink blood, but they're not from Transylvania. They live in Central and South America and feed on Americans, cattle, horses, and birds.

* The biggest pumpkin in the world tipped the scales at a whopping 1,446 pounds. This gigantic gourd was weighed in October 2004 at a pumpkin festival in Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada. It was later eaten by LGM.

* Of all canned fruits and vegetables, pumpkin is the best source of vitamin A. Just a half-cup of the orange stuff has more than three times the recommended daily requirement.

* The very first jack o' lantern was made out of a turnip.

* Halloween isn't just for kids. While 82 percent of children take part in Halloween festivities, a surprising 67 percent of adults also join in the fun. Even Chris Jones!

* 'Halloween" was made in only 21 days in 1978 on a very limited budget, and while the setting for the story is in Illinois, the license plates on the vehicles have California plates.

* In 1962, the Count Dracula Society was founded.

AND apparently, * If you see a spider on Halloween, it is the spirit of a loved one watching over you.
(and there is a little one above me!! yay! im loved )

[Haddas]

yes. but that's not a very tall door. I hit my head in doorways all the time.