CHRISTMAS IS COMING

And no gift says "Peace On Earth" like this gift.

(Thanks to Claire Martin)

Comments

[Eleanor]

Paging Susan, paging Susan..

Czech your e-mail.....:)

[Susan]

*goes to check various emails*

I am not dressed up for Halloween...I will not be dressed up for Halloween.

I don't think we even got candy to give out tonight...ours will be one of the dark houses.

Not that there are really any kids in the neighborhood.

[Susan]

El, did you send me email?

I'm looking...

And looking...

[wolfie]

*skips back in bedecked in glowing thingie*

There is a mouse parade going thru my office. Real mouses, not costumed ones. I screamed. Loudly. Nobody noticed.
I also called the exterminator. I have a 4 mouse a day limit.

[BigD®]

I am not dressed up nor will be dressed up for Halloween. There will be no "kinder" at our house, since LittleD was the only kid left in our neighborhood. But we do have candy, just in case,the down side is I will have to eat it. :)

[insomniac]

kylie went to daycare dressed as a witch, i think that will be her costume, her mom will take her out with friends tonight. the mrs. and i will hand out candy at our place, (i won't at 7:30 when jeopardy! is on).

[rita]

Nope, not dressed up, although a lot of our teachers are wearing hats and makeup.

Makeup that's scarier than usual, that is.

We live in the middle of nowhere, so once we give Zippy and Chester treats, no more will be necessary.

[Kibby F5™]

*puts on kibby outfit to go visit rita's house*

Figure your thong-present will be enough?

He's tuff, cold won't bother him....

[Jeff Meyerson]

As a kid we lived in an apartment building on a block with several other apartment buildings, so we just went around the buildings on Halloween.

When we moved to Brooklyn we were in a private house in a safe neighborhood.

When we got married we lived on the third floor of a brownstone. You had to ring the downstairs bell to get in and no one climbed up to the third floor anyway.

Now we're back in an apartment building and the only ones who come around are those who have kids in the building. And there are very few young kids around these days. A woman with a baby and a 4 year old moved in down the hall a few months ago, so I'm curious if they'll be coming around.

In the neighborhood, all the stores on the main shopping streets (especially Third Avenue) have candy to give out, and the after-school rush lets mothers feel safe and kids get quite a haul. Some of them also cruise this neighborhood in packs (with parents, usually, though the older kids come around at night) but they just go to the private houses, not the apartment buildings.

So I guess I'll be eating my Dark Chocolate Hershey's Kisses (™) myself this year.

[Susan]

It seems like the last time or two I was at home to give out candy, a lot of the kids weren't really dressed up at all. A lot of kids...with a bag or something...no costume.

*whispers to El* Was I supposed to have email by now?

[Eleanor]

whispers back: I sent it over a half hour ago, to the WCRE addy. I'll send it again to the other one..

[Eleanor]

whispers back: I sent it over a half hour ago, to the WCRE addy. I'll send it again to the other one..

Sent, but I can't get this to go thru...

Take 2

[Eleanor]

oops, sorry

[Eleanor]

when I preview it's gone - help!!!

[Eleanor]

i've tried twice to close the italics and in the preview they're gone

Take 3

[DDi]

TEST

[DDi]

ACK! *hides under Smith*

[slyeyes]

Did this do it?

[Susan]

Got it...at the other one...

[Eleanor]

Mad, if you're around, czech your e-mail....:)

[Eleanor]

FYI, I've banned myself from using italics for the remainder of the day.

[Higgy]

Your Fantasy Football update for the week:
1. Area 51 Visitors 7-1-0 .875 703.00 L-1
2. Sly's Guys 6-2-0 .750 714.00 W-4
3. Charmed Disarmament 5-3-0 .625 670.00 W-1
4. Eager Beavers 5-3-0 .625 663.00 L-1
5. Alhambra Artweasels 4-3-1 .563 591.00 W-1
6. Higgys Handsome Huns 4-4-0 .500 673.00 W-2
7. Silvers' Studz 2-4-2 .375 580.00 W-1
8. kibby's krhuisers 3-5-0 .375 500.00 L-1
9. Mad's Monkeys 2-5-1 .313 566.00 L-3
10. Kaf's Crushers 0-8-0 .000 387.00 L-8

DING DONG The King is dead. Well, not dead, but certainly not undefeated anymore! Congrats to El for knocking Lab off his unbeaten horse 94-90! Mr Fisher's Beavers couldn't stand up to another record week by the Huns 131-65. The Artweasels walked over Kaf's crushers 53-20, Sly had an outstanding week over Kibby's Krhuisers 109-70 and Bismuth disarmed Mad's Monkeys 95-55.

Next week's matchups:

Mad's Monkeys drop banana peels for
Higgys Handsome Huns

Eager Beavers dress up in black to expel
Area 51 Visitors

Silvers' Studz attempt to decaf
Kaf's Crushers

Alhambra Artweasels will try to paint
Sly's Guys into a corner.

kibby's krhuisers try to drive by
Charmed Disarmament

[Susan]

*looks around*

I hope that isn't the fan I hear running on the other computer...in the other room...

*tracks down the sound*

Nope. It's one of the computers in the main studio. One I'm using now, in fact...for the tec report.

*giggle*

And will be using for some of the music...so I can't turn it off now.

[rita]

Kibby, it's been awfully cold here in the mountains, but it was 45 last night, so you might not get too cold in your thong. But I wouldn't count on it.

Plus, there are bears in the woods. Watch your step.

[Susan]

Hmmm...

I think a country version of Macarena by The Groovegrass Boys would be pretty scary...

But I will refrain from playing it.

[rita]

You can wear this tonight, kibby.

I'm waiting till a kid wears one to school.

[Kibby F5™]

Not much taste in that t-shirt.

I'll have to watch my step for bear dung. Sticky stuff that's sure to have a lingering smell....

If things get too crazy I could always use the thong to shoot rocks! What are those things called?

Running bare, through the woods....

[Kafaleni]

*puts out bowl of Peanut Slabs for the visiting kidlets*
*reconsiders, because I loooooove me some Peanut Slabs*
*gives in and sets bowl near the front door for the lovely little children*
*electrifies fence*
*sits back to watch the babies dance, and throw consolation pieces of fruit to survivors*

Seriously.. I didn't have a single visitor last night, and as I've never had one, I would have been pretty much totally unprepared for it. They dressed the kids up at play group yesterday, but only about half of them dressed up. One of the mothers who was responsible for morning tea carved out a pumpkin and filled it with candy jet planes.

Sly.. your Halloween story was gorgeous! *snork* at your joke!

Wurm.. good news.. and I'm so glad that you've managed to get closer to FLDW, and that that's going well, too. Having a life must be nice. What's it like and do you know where I can get one?

Jeff.. U2 cancelled a series of concerts earlier this year.. I think they're due back sometime this month for the replacement concert. I know quite a few people who were going and then suddenly had all their plans changed. They were quite gutted (and in the case of one woman, she's moved to Washington State between when the concert was supposed to be [sometime in Feb] and now, so she's going to miss it.) However, no one sued U2 for any amount, so far as I know. Lawsuits like that just make me mad. She lost less than $1000, and she would get the chance to see them when Mick was able to perform. Sure she's disappointed (and maybe a day or two short in the pay packet as a consequence), but she's not $51 million worth of disappointed.

[Kafaleni]

Oh, I forgot my Halloween joke!

What's green and goes red at the touch of a button?
A frog in a blender!

Yeah, Sly's joke was better.

[Higgy]

YAY - Susan's playing my song!! WOOT!

[Susan]

Yay! I talked to Higgy! Wooo!

Today's playlist...(with many suggestions, although not really listed as such, from this great bunch here...)

Tuesday 10-31-06 All Request Lunch Hour
News
Tec report
“Thriller” Michael Jackson
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“The Monster Mash” Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett
“Ghostbusters” Ray Parker Jr.
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“I Put A Spell On You” Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
“Spooky” Atlanta Rhythm Section
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“Frankenstein” Edgar Winter Group
“Rhiannon” Fleetwood Mac
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“Witchy Woman” Eagles
“Werewolves of London” Warren Zevon
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“Haunted House” Jumpin’ Gene Simmons
“Purple People Eater” Sheb Wooly

*dances around to Run Runaway*

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

Congrats El!

[Eleanor]

Thanks Mad!

I feel pretty good this morning! :)

[Marie in Kourou]

Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!

Seriously, though, the pink ooze grossed me out a bit as a child. I remember liking how the Statue of Liberty got up and walked, though.

I just downloaded Firefox 2 (yeah, I know, LTTG), and it's great except for the annoying spell check when I type in French. And in English, for that matter: it underlined the word "ghostbusters" and "LTTG" in red. *sigh* I'll go disable the spell-check.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Good news. Just heard from the car repair guy and, while I couldn't exactly decipher his accent over the phone, I did get that it would only cost me $55 after my $50 deductible, so it wasn't brakes (the brake light was on, for one thing), as he'd suggested (hoped?). The car was driving fine, making no noises, etc. But when the computer tells you to check, you can't always ignore it.

We saw a few little kids out already at noon with mom. One little boy was a cowboy; just adorable. And a little girl was Raggedy Ann, also adorable. (Both were 2 or under.)

I've always preferred the home made to the store bought costumes, but then I never had to make them.

kylie went to daycare dressed as a witch, i think that will be her costume, her mom will take her out with friends tonight.

I hope you'll share a picture with us, insom.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Favorite Halloween quote:

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Blonde on the Beach alert:

Girl #1: Hey, have you heard of those Rice Krispy treats? They're awesome. They should so make a cereal out of those, or something!
Girl #2: You dumbass, they are cereal!
Girl #1: Oh...

--Robert Moses Beach, Long Island, New York

[Annie Where-but-here]

Chili Cook-off Update
Ok, so it's the FIRST time I've mentioned it, but my office is having a chili cook-off contest. Now. On Halloween day...a few hours before people are supposed to greet hundred trick-or-treaters at their door. When one really, really, shouldn't be indisposed, or have an upset tummy. Yeesh.

Anyway, I just checked on the contest - a whopping TWO entries. So I'm off to Wendy's to buy their $1 chili bowl special and enter it in the contest. I'll take at least 3rd place, good enough for a $25 gift certificate!

[Eleanor]

WTG, Annie!

And the Wendy's chili, IMO, isn't bad at all. You know you can get a Large for a little more $$$$. :)

[Susan]

I don't usually remember Halloween meals, but I do remember Halloween...hmmm...it was 11 years ago...my grandmother was still doing ok, so she had come over, and we had chili and cornbread before I took my daughter out trick or treating.

I have now tried marmite on buttered toast...mmmmm. And, as the jar suggests, spread thin on crispbread with cottage cheese.

Also yummy.

My mother was undecided on the buttered toast version.

I guess that means I don't have to share with her.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Cuteness alert:

Went out to get the car. (It was NOT nothing, it needed an alternator, but it was covered under warranty.)

First I saw 6 high school-age girls dressed in costumes, trick or treating.

Now I thought there was a generally recognized principle that there is an age (roughly 10-13?) where it is no longer considered acceptable to go trick or treating unless:

a. you have younger siblings in tow
b. you are with your own children

Anyway, let that pass.

Next I saw two women and a guy escorting 4 little kids. The one little one was dressed as a black cat in a one piece jumpsuit, with whiskers (but had long blonde hair). When her sister (or friend) got no response at the door despite ringing the bell repeatedly, the little one (about 2) turned to her parents are said, obviously puzzled, "but, they not home."

Too cute for words. I wish I had a camera with me.

[Annie Where-but-here]

El - I've heard their chili is good. I don't eat chili, but I was hoping for a prize. Anyway, I chickened out. Bad kharma. But even worse contest!

[slyeyes]

Here in the midwest, we've never heard of a chili cookoff with fewer than a gazillion entries; and Cincinnati has 6 times that number. In fact, there have been some contests in which a winner was never declared due to exploding judges.

(And exploding judges WBAGNFARB)

OK, I may have exaggerated, just teensy bit.

[Susan]

I wish I had thought of chili earlier in the day...that would have been good...

Except my mother and daughter will only eat the traditional red chili that we've made for years and years...and I have a recipe for a chicken chili (with no tomatoes) that I looooove. Usually I'll just do some major cooking and make both kinds.

But...family members are too impatient to wait for that. I had a phone call earlier, french toast is apparently the meal for tonight.

French toast and treet. No...no spam. We are not a spam household. Treet only.

I may even make coffee.

I should also stop somewhere and purchase fruit type items...bananas...or something....

[insomniac]

*throws pants over pumpkin on Lab's lawn, making
a Pants O'Lantern*

[neophyte]

oooh, pretty! Insom's pants look so nice as they burn! Now insom has hot pants.

[neophyte]

And btw, Happy Halloween.

[Annie Where-but-here]

*snork* at neo's hot pants...or insom's hot pants....

chili cook-off - 250 people work here, a whopping 4 entries! Very sad.

Tums - it's what's for dinner.

[Marie in Kourou]

*snork* Hot pants!

Chili sounds good to me today! We're having quiche lorraine, though.

The cat is going nuts chasing a bright orange glow-stick.

[steven]

At Midnite on Halloween I'll be here.
It's only a few miles from my house, a bunch of us from work are meeting there at midnite. If I see any headless brakemen searching for their heads, I'll try to get pictures.

[slyeyes]

To some people, if you make chili properly, the result is hot pants.

[Eleanor]

My ex and I went to a chili cook-off many years ago somewhere here in CA (CRS) that was supposed to the the chili cookoff capital of the world. Hundreds of booths, free samples, hot, dusty, I think it was near Edwards Air Force Base.

I guess this story doesn't really go anywhere. :( I just wanted to participate. :)

[neophyte]

If I see any headless brakemen searching for their heads, I'll try to get pictures.

Or, you could just give him what he's looking for. After all, aren't ALL men looking for some - ooh, look, something shiny!

[steven]

Neo, If he's good looking, I just might give him what he's searching for ;)

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

*snork* Now those are the kind of witty remarks I miss. Thanks guys

[Jeff Meyerson]

We went to a favorite restaurant of Jackie's tonight, a little (26 seats) Polish place. She had her favorite - pyzy (potato dumplings served by themselves or stuffed with minced meat or cottage cheese) with meat. I had Hungarian pancake, which is basically two huge fried potato pancakes with goulash in the middle. And it works out well because I give her my salad, carrot salad and cole slaw and she gives me her red cabbage and sauerkraut.

Yum.

Anyway, that wasn't the point. There were HORDES of kids wandering up and down the avenue going into every store demanding treats. They even felt free to come into the restaurant where people were eating. The owner told us she'd spent $100 on candy and 2/3 of it was already gone. They started at 2:30 and she said they'd keep it up until 10:00!

The thing that bothered me more than coming into the restaurant was how few of the kids said "thank you" when she gave them candy. To me this comes from the parents.

And there were MANY high school age kids out in the early evening wearing masks and trick or treating too.

Jackie said 10 or 11 for a maximum trick or treating age, and that she would have been embarrassed to go out when she was older.

[slyeyes]

I would have paid good money; ok, maybe no more than $25.00, to see potato dumplings served by themselves.

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

Happy Haunting everyone. Good night!

[insomniac]

i agree... onset of puberty = no trick-or-treat...

(i gave it up long before, as i had braces on my teeth and had a long list of verboten treats, so i gave it up after age nine or so...)

waitress: "What'll you have?"
whisper from the next table:"Psssst!, Stay away from the kielbasa, it's a bit 'off'. I'm much better!"
customer: "What was that?"
waitress: "The potato dumplings. They're self-serving."

[Marie in Kourou]

This is so lovely - a short (7 and a half minutes) Pathé Frères film of Moscow in 1908. Snow everywhere, people bundled into troikas and sleds and on skis, soldiers marching across a square, a busy street full of horse-drawn carriages, a quiet footpath in Petrovsky Park...

[Lara Antipasto]

Yuri Zhivago, is that you?

[Susan]

When I left work earlier, it was starting to get dark...One house I went past had probably close to a dozen kids, bags in hand. I don't think I saw one costume...or mask.

When I got home, after a stop at the store, it was about dark. I live in a teeny subdivision, (the road starts and ends at the highway, it just circles around {well, it's more of a teardrop shape}). When my sister and I used to go around, we walked. It's all of a half mile around.

I must have seen half a dozen cars just going to my house (and I drove about halfway around the circle.)

They were clearly not kids from the neighborhood, of which there are maybe 4 or 5 total.

Needless to say we gave away no candy.

But I did skish (yes, skish) a spider in the laundry room. My scare of the night.

[DDi]

We had, are you ready?? ONE trick or treater. Thats it. ONE. Needless to say he got off like a bandit, half the bowl of candy got dumped into his bucket. :)

Pyzy with nothing in them? All the pyzy I've ever had or made have been stuffed with something. Plain potato dumplings are called kopytka. Sounds like a yummy dinner Jeff! I've been craving kraut for a while, maybe I'll make some this weekend. Oooh, or maybe kapusta... its part sour part fresh cabbage. MMmmmm... *drool*

[slyeyes]

For the past week, the political phone calls have been nonstop.

Tonight, none.

Either the phone callers are trick or treating; or they think everyone else is busy and there's no point in calling tonight.

That's such a treat.

[wolfie]

I just gave away 500 glowstick bracelets, 50ish tubs of playdough, 40 bags of microwave popcorn and 25 bags of pretzels. And my butt hurts from sitting on the cold hard steps for the last 4 hours. Most kids I'd say were 15-18 years old. And one parent trick or treating for the 6 month old in his arms.
I made them all say trick or treat, altho when I asked several of them what the magic halloween words were they answered 'please and thank you?' which I found acceptable as well. No costume, tell me a joke.
How do you catch a unique bunny?
Unique up onit.
Har!

Never ask a single digit child for a joke. 5 minutes of rambling later and no end in sight you have to give up and just give them something to make them go away.

*blurks to go find nother beer*

[bbescuela]

wolfie, my five year old boy knows some good jokes. We were at Disneyland last week, and he volunteered this one to one of the salespeople in a shop: "Why did Mickey Mouse go to outer space? (I don't know.) He was looking for Pluto!"

I had never heard it before. I thought it was pretty good.

Happy Halloween everybody!

[slyeyes]

cute, boom boom. wolfie, you sure had a lot of kids! We had a lot of cute kids this year.

Some of my neighbors really go all out. I heard that the national expenditure on Halloween is over $5 billion dollars. I can't help but think that's inflated.

In any event, I drag the national average w-a-y down; I didn't decorate, not even one pumpkin. And I bought 3 bags of candy.

Am I the halloween equivalent of Ebenezer Scrooge? I don't think so. I enjoy seeing the kids; I just don't go nutz.

I save that for Christmas.

[Kafaleni]

I'm speechless. Please feel free to enjoy it. It doesn't happen often.

[Blogchik]

AARGH! I just discovered that the alopecia areata that I used to have has come back. (I last had it 6 years ago, it was treated with cortisone shots to the head without anesthesia, it went away.) Probably in response to stress...I'm going to call my dermatologist tomorrow and try to get an appointment the earliest Monday or Friday available.

And I've been procrastinating on paper-writing--doing laundry, folding/putting away laundry, doing dishes...all the housekeeping stuff I usually procrastinate on.

I took a mental health day today. Because I needed one. I want to get this stuff done so I can spend a day vegging out watching my Netflix DVD's and eating something made of chocolate.

/end AARGH!

and...Hi Wurm! Missed you bud! *Hugs*

[Kafaleni]

ugh... sorry about that Blogchik!

Here's (not hairs) a little something to cover up any bare spots. Hope stuff calms down for you very soon!

I'm heading for bed in a few. Early nights all round.. I'm just waiting for SVU to finish (has about 10 minutes left) - honestly, some of the stuff on that show is so awful, I wonder why I watch it. Then I remember.. great scripts, great actors, etc etc.

I'll come back tomorrow in a sillier mood.. I hope!

[Kibby F5™]

1/2 way through Night Shift and this Night Shifter is czeching in.

Had chili and corn bread for dinner last night too.

... just had to say that.

[slyeyes]

It's November 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a good day, all you saints! We're having chili for breakfast?

[slyeyes]

In Hono(u)r of All Saints Day, who's your favo(u)rite saint?

Being Protestant, I'll offer up my favorite saintly mention. During snowy days when I was a youngster, I'd FIRST! listen to the radio for the announcement of my school being closed. When that didn't happen (because we seldom closed, the administration forcing is to walk up hill, both ways in the snow storm), I'd listen for my favorite school closing: St. Mary's High on the South Side (which closed when snow was just mentioned in the forecast). The phrase "St. Mary's High on the South Side" always conjured up the vision of a weed-smoking nun hanging out at the corner of Chippewa and Jamison.

St. Mary has since either closed or gone into rehab because that announcement is no longer made.

[Kibby F5™]

Just remember ... rehabs for quiters.

[rita]

I'm no quitter!

[rita]

We had two tiny trick-or-treaters who came with their mommy and a friend.

Deer twins.

[slyeyes]

Did you fawn over them?

[Jeff Meyerson]

Good morning, all.

The "potato dumplings served by themselves" line should have been in italics as it was lifted from Wiki. Read that way it is amusing. I picture some troublemakers shunned by society and forced to sit in the corner, where they make fun of the rest of the room.

The pyzy served in this restaurant used to be about 5 or 6 little ones, but last night they were two HUGE ones with more meat in them than the old kind. There are grilled onions served with them.

Di, you'd have enjoyed it. The owner came from Poland when she was 17. Last time she told Jackie some guy wanted to write her restaurant up for a magazine or newspaper (I forget which) which would increase her business.

"I don't WANT to increase my business! I have all the business I can handle."

As I said it's a small storefront place and it's almost always busy.

/end Polish menu report

Marie: thanks for the Moscow video. I love stuff like that. What I found interesting was that except for a few of the women skiing at the end NO ONE was wearing gloves.

For the past week, the political phone calls have been nonstop.

Yesterday morning I was sitting waiting for the car guy to call while Jackie was out. I had three calls, ALL political recordings. "This is Elliot Spitzer...". No it isn't, it's a d@mn recording!

I hate those guys.

Way to go, Wolfie, especially the "magic words" and the jokes. For the third or 4th year in a row we had NO callers and this year ended up with more candy than we started with, as the woman in the restaurant insisted we take mini-Milky Ways from her, since Jackie was "a good girl" and ate her pyzy.

[Jeff Meyerson]

I sent my cousin Nancy the Moscow video and she loved it and said "Grandma's muff was in the photos...very stylish."

My grandmother was very stylish as a younger woman, judging by the pictures of her we have.

Jackie was supposed to have dinner with friends tonight, and yesterday they called to ask her to come into school today (to "hang out"). But since we got back from Vegas she's been feeling like she was getting a cold and since last night her throat has been sore so she will probably stay home and rest instead.

Gotta be healthy for tomorrow night's concert.

And check out the guitar in that photo. I saw him on one of the morning shows saying when he dies he wants his ashes scattered over Yankee Stadium!

[wurm42]

Start your day off with a chuckle- go read the Amazon reviews of the new K-Fed album

I trick-or-treated through 5th grade. Didn't go 6th or 7th grade, but did go in 8th grade because two friends and I had a gimmick- it was 1992 and we went as the election. I was Bush, one friend was Clinton, and the third guy was a giant ballot box with three holes, one each for Bush, Clinton, and Perot. We asked people to vote with their candy. Best haul *ever*

*sigh* Bush won our chocolate poll by a landslide.

[Jeff Meyerson]

For MiK and anyone who doesn't mind reading stories on line: Victorian Ghost Stories.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Uh oh, I see lawsuits.

[Leetie]

Our doorbell rang a total of 3 times last night.

and I hung spooks in the trees and everything. :(

[slyeyes]

Leetie, you obviously scared them off.

[BigD®]

We actually had One trick or treater, more than the last 5 years combined. Cute little kid dressed as dracula.

[KDF]

Good morning, MOAT 'r' Treaters!

Bad news: I have approximately 25 pounds of candy in my house. Good news: I'm sick of it already so it no longer tempts me.

Full trick or treating report at my place.

Is it really November already??

[Leetie]

Wurm, I really enjoyed reading K-Fed's reviews! :)

[Jeff Meyerson]

Who says Wyoming is insular?

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

Good morning!

*zips over to Kathy's place*

[Sarah J]

No trick or treaters at my place, but we had a super-yummy stuffed pumpkin (stuffed with stuffing, of course) Yum! We're celebrating tonight with a "Munch 'n' Mingle" and I'm making candy corn shortbread, which should be super-cute. YAY!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Hobo: I am a Vietnam veteran. I cannot work due to the effects of Agent Orange. Agent Orange was used in Vietnam to kill all the vegetarians.

--Uptown R train

I love it that Kathy's daughter claimed she had to count her candy take as a math project.

[BigD®]

328 pieces of candy? What a haul!

Stoopud PypeTad won't remember me.... :(

[Leetie]

Do you find it ironic that the company behind the e. coli contamination in spinach is called "Natural Selection Foods?"

Natural Selection Foods: What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

*snork*

My friend said that. He's funny.

[KDF]

Are you kidding me?

Oh man, Leetie, that's the funniest thing I've read all week.

*SNORK*

[Leetie]

Natural Selection Foods: Weeding Out the Flock since 2006.

[Eleanor]

That's EXACTLY why I NEVER buy ANYTHING with the words "Natural" or "Healthy" in its name.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Natural Selection Foods: from the people who brought you the "War on Terror".

[rita]

Excellent point, Leetie! And

*snork*

[rita]

And that's why I only eat heavily-processed foods and snacks.

[Kibby F5™]

Did Ule Gibbons die of Natural Causes?

... maybe a pine tree fell on him.