Halloween Fun 152
RideMax writes "Forbes today has posted a nice selection of printer-friendly halloween masks, including those of several dead celebrities, and of course, this famous billionaire." An anonymous reader sent in a strange Halloween Geek Test. And another reader sent in the iPod-O-Lantern.
Nader (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nader (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nader (Score:2)
Re:Nader (Score:4, Funny)
More scary though, look at http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/28/the_strangers _scarie.html [boingboing.net] for a truly scary Halloween costume, that's all too real
Re:Nader (Score:2)
There's also a few others that are quite scary!
Yes, flimsy paper masks! (Score:5, Funny)
Rubber is definately the way to go.
Re:Yes, flimsy paper masks! (Score:3, Funny)
I thought we were only allowed to teach abstinance to the kids?
Re:Yes, flimsy paper masks! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes, flimsy paper masks! (Score:2)
Re:Yes, flimsy paper masks! (Score:1)
What I hated the most as a young child trick-or-treating was wearing those plastic half-masks that only cover your face. Being the ugly duckling that I was, I had (well, still have) a disproportionally large head and so the damn rubber band (held in place on the mask with a single staple,) would always break after about the third house or so. Of course the solution was always to tie the two pieces together making the band ever smaller and even more prone to breaking.
Re:Yes, flimsy paper masks! (Score:2)
I can tell you from personal experience that a nail gun loaded with brads doesn't work nearly as well as you might think...
Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:2)
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:1)
Wait until the _class action law suit_ rolls in from parents whose kids get paper cuts from these masks.
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:1)
For me, the whole point of Halloween is for *kids* to dress up, have fun going house to house or at a party, and yes get sick eating too much candy. I know I should just let it pass, but I get really annoyed when I
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:1)
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:2)
The horror, the horror... (Score:2)
You'll have a Charlie Brown [cafepress.com] Halloween if you do.
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:5, Insightful)
Paranoia? About what? Adulterated candy? People still believe this crap? Hoaxes for the most part, and when true- often it's family members.
But [religioustolerance.org] don't [about.com] take [dailyaztec.com] my [michaelmoore.com] word for it.
The link on Moore's website is for the book "Culure of Fear- Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things" by Barry Glassner. Highly recommended, and it attacks both the right and left politicians, and the right and left media, for ignoring the real issues facing our country, and whipping up hysteria.
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:2)
Right now, I'm picturing a Homer-esque person sitting there "testing" the candy to make sure it's alright. *Howmp* Yes this candy was good! Oooooh Atomic Fireballs!
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:2)
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:2)
Paranoia? About what? Adulterated candy? People still believe this crap?
Yes, unfortunatly they seem to believe it in spite of the remarkably absent evidence. When I ask people what makes them think it's even vaguely possible that bad people all over the country pass out harmful candy to children in their own neighborhoods without even a single news story about an arrest EVER, they are all too often stunned because it makes perfect sense and they never thought about it.
That's what makes it paranoia. It
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:2)
But for those of us for whom it is a spiritual holiday, it's nice to have the rest of the world at least looking like they're in step with the cycles of nature for a change. Halloween, or Samhain, is a night when the "veil between the worlds" is at its thinnest, and it is when we invite our ancestors who have passed on to come back and celebrate the final harvest of the year. Little kids running around thre
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:1)
For the rest of the world October 31 means absolutely nothing with respect to the cycles of nature. Is it harvest time in the southern hemisphere? the equator? Passing ancestors can be invited back at anytime. Pagan spirituality? You make me laugh. Try celebrating the solstice or equinox instead.
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life? (Score:2, Interesting)
for more info, see the wiki [wikipedia.org]
Ha ha! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ha ha! (Score:1)
Re:Ha ha! (Score:1)
Re:Ha ha! (Score:1)
Re:Ha ha! (Score:1)
And ofcourse, (Score:5, Funny)
Just don't forget to wear a bullet proof vest when you venture out.
Re:And ofcourse, (Score:2)
Happy Halloween, Daryl.
Re:And ofcourse, (Score:2)
Yes, I sent one to Darl himself... except I think it might have been fake poop, and it was in a box, not a flaming bag.
*cough* Scary shit.
Gates looks good! (Score:2, Funny)
http://images.forbes.com/media/halloween/gates.jp
Hey (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Hey (Score:1)
Slow day on /.? (Score:1, Funny)
Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
They never said it had to be for your face.
Re:Missing option (Score:1)
Don't forget Homestar Runner! (Score:4, Interesting)
Quiz. (Score:1, Funny)
I'm Going With a John Kerry Mask (Score:1, Funny)
That would be hilarity.
Re:I'm Going With a John Kerry Mask (Score:2)
Re:I'm Going With a John Kerry Mask (Score:1)
Careful on the mask you pick. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Careful on the mask you pick. (Score:2, Funny)
Now who's Daryl McBride...?
Re:Careful on the mask you pick. (Score:1)
An evil monkey puppet created by the tears of small children beaten to death by the satanic Teletubbie they don't show on TV [sco.com]
Re:Careful on the mask you pick. (Score:1)
Oh DARL, from SCO!
Nope, I still wouldn't've had a clue... But I did get to use two apostorphes in one word, and for that I am happy!
Re:Careful on the mask you pick. (Score:1)
Re:Careful on the mask you pick. (Score:2)
Better Pod-o-lantern (Score:4, Interesting)
Extreme Pumpkins (Score:5, Interesting)
Election Results Predicted by Candidate Mask Sales (Score:5, Interesting)
See:
http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/21/news/funny/prez
Re:Election Results Predicted by Candidate Mask Sa (Score:2)
Strange really, you would think that Gore would have had the edge if it was based on Halloween.
Anyway, I think this year Kerry is a dead (no pun intended) cert, due to his striking resembelance to Frankenstien's monster.
Re:Election Results Predicted by Candidate Mask Sa (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Election Results Predicted by Candidate Mask Sa (Score:1)
What I want to know is, did more people buy the (eventual) winner's mask because they liked that candidate, or because that candidate was most scary to them?
Sort of like a reverse-popularity predictor if it's the latter.
This Year (Score:3, Funny)
Now THESE are scary (Score:5, Funny)
halloween geek failure (Score:1)
halloween geek test (Score:5, Funny)
OCT 31 == DEC 25
Re:halloween geek test (Score:1)
Re:halloween geek test (Score:1)
Mask sales predict presidential election? (Score:2, Interesting)
I recall back in 2000 a news story about how the sales of Halloween masks for the presidential candidates predicted the election outcome (candidate whose mask sold more won the election).
Found this site [buycostumes.com] keeping tabs on sales this year. W is in the lead right now (though I expect their numbers to be somewhat less than scientific).
In a similar vein, Washington Redskins home game wins have correlated with the outcomes of presidential elections. This has held true sine 1936! When they loose their last ho
Re:Mask sales predict presidential election? (Score:2)
Year Won: 1912 President: William Taft Re-elected: NO
case closed.
That looks nothing like Bill... (Score:1)
This may be the best form of pumpkin... (Score:2)
Good ole' Buffalo Bill's [blakespot.com]
blakespot
iPod Variants (Score:5, Funny)
The GOP Presidential iPod: comes in a red, white, and blue case. Only plays Pat Boone, Mel Torme, and John Phillip Sousa. Invades you're active applications on the desktop when you sync it, attempts to download and then fight as many viruses as possible, and then claims you need to keep it installed to finish what it started.
They Kerry iPod: Will play any tune, but never the same way twice. Married to a rich file-serving application that can get it any song it wants. The case is painted to look like a waffle.
The Red Sox iPod: Plays the blues for 85 years before finally blasing out "We Are the Champions."
I'm going as a pirate this year (Score:4, Funny)
Dremel: the vibrator for men.
Re:I'm going as a pirate this year (Score:2)
Too clever! I'm going to steal that.
Re:I'm going as a pirate this year (Score:2)
Re:I'm going as a pirate this year (Score:1)
What were *you* thinking?
Re: (Score:2)
Donnie Darko (Score:1)
dead? (Score:1, Funny)
What has halloween to do with the world? (Score:1)
Re:What has halloween to do with the world? (Score:1)
Re:What has halloween to do with the world? (Score:2)
H*R goodness (Score:2, Interesting)
Mirror for iPod-o-Lantern (Score:2)
800x600:
http://www.chaosmint.com/images/ipodh
1024x768:
http://www.chaosmint.com/images/ipod
1280x960:
http://www.chaosmint.com/images/ipod
bp
Umm... they made a mistake (Score:1)
I distinctly remember seeing him at kmart
2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes (for kids) (Score:1, Redundant)
http://www.thestranger.com/current/special.html [thestranger.com]
Ballmer Pumpkin is the SCARIEST! (Score:2, Interesting)
Nitrozac has also made a nice tutorial [geekculture.com] for those who want to try making one these very cool Jack O Lanterns.
Where (Score:1)
SCO is very scary
A Billg mask is not scary... (Score:2)
Billg, himself, is scary, but a Billg mask is not scary.
Now a Steve Ballmer mask, THAT'S SCARY.
Especially if you throw in the Monkeyboy dance - "Developers! Developers! Developers!"
(Of course, one might conjecture that the original dance may have had something to do with too much sugar and caffeine.)
And to go with the iPod-o-lantern... (Score:2)
As Gizmodo put it, "No, really. Just hit 'menu.'"
scarier: do-it-yourself ideas -- for kids! (Score:2)
BOFH all hallow's eve (Score:2)
Office Party Fun (Score:3, Interesting)
You know Gates is hated... (Score:2)
Just curious about screen sizes (vaguely on-topic) (Score:2)
Re:Just curious about screen sizes (vaguely on-top (Score:2)
Re:Just curious about screen sizes (vaguely on-top (Score:2)
1280x1024 is actually a "narrower" size than 1280x960:
1280/960=1.33...
1280/1024=1.25
t's definitely usable on normal screens, it's what I use on my 17" CRT and i've seen it on PCs, so I don't think it's just an apple resolution.
the scariest costume yet... (Score:2)
The Troll like creature is NOT a gremlin (Score:1)
what geek test could get this wrong?
iPod-o-Lantern? (Score:2)
wtf? Printing instructions? (Score:2, Funny)
OBLIGITORY (Score:1, Funny)
Re:For Halloween.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Here's how Madonna [amazon.com] did it.
(Image from here [amazon.com].
Re:For Halloween.. (Score:1)
Re:For Halloween.. (Score:1)