Happy Halloween!!!

[Devastatin Dave]

I hit refresh and BAM!!!! The board goes to hell, literally!!! LOL
Happy Halloween everyone!!! I love this place!!!

[Boyar Son]

I cant see!!!!!!!!:dizzy2: :dizzy2:

great theme though!!!!

[AntiochusIII]

Will anyone go out trick-or-treat-ing tonight? :beam:

I'll just spend my time watching horror shows alone in the dark though.

Also: this skin is dark >.>

[Devastatin Dave]

Will anyone go out trick-or-treat-ing tonight? :beam:

I'll just spend my time watching horror shows alone in the dark though.

Also: this skin is dark >.>
We took the kids to the church for their "Fall Festival". It makes the wife and kids happy. I do hate to miss The Great Pumpkin with Charlie Brown though.:no:

[GeneralHankerchief]

I gave out treats this year.

Asked kids if they saw "Great Pumpkin" (it was on the 30th here). If they said yes they got a rock (along with candy).

[AntiochusIII]

We took the kids to the church for their "Fall Festival". It makes the wife and kids happy. I do hate to miss The Great Pumpkin with Charlie Brown though.:no:As long as the kids have fun, it's all great. ~:) My little sister just went through a minute ago with a bunch of friends and they've taken all the candy. I feel like a Medieval villager after a Viking raid. :laugh:

I'm just sitting here bored because my family (my mom, to be exact) said that I can't turn the lights off and scare myself with some horror flicks I wanted to watch -_-

[Hepcat]

Hmm... I must have missed the Halloween skin yesterday.

We don't celebrate it here really. Here it's generally considered a silly American thing, since it is parents telling their kids to go and knock on a stranger's door asking for candy. Which is a bit in contradiction to the usual advice. :laugh4:

[Ice]

https://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4927/800pxpatteelibrarystackmz6.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Spent the evening studying here for my stats exam tommorow (on one of those desks in the left of the picture).

[Justiciar]

Gah. I have bookshelf envy.

[Ice]

Gah. I have bookshelf envy.

:yes:

I love going there to study. I think there are 5-6 floors that look identical to that.

Nice and quiet with a relaxed atmosphere.

[Gregoshi]

:yes:

I love going there to study. I think there are 5-6 floors that look identical to that.

Nice and quiet with a relaxed atmosphere.
I only went there once or twice while I was at Penn State. I'm note sure if I'm remembering correctly, but isn't there a ghost story associated with "the stacks" area of the library? If not a ghost story, there was at least a murder there...ah, I was right. The internet is an amazing thing: Haunted Penn State (http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2003/10/10-30-03tdc/10-30-03darts-13.asp). Muhahahahaha...better start lookin' over your shoulder Ice. :scared:

[Ice]

I only went there once or twice while I was at Penn State. I'm note sure if I'm remembering correctly, but isn't there a ghost story associated with "the stacks" area of the library? If not a ghost story, there was at least a murder there...ah, I was right. The internet is an amazing thing: Haunted Penn State (http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2003/10/10-30-03tdc/10-30-03darts-13.asp). Muhahahahaha...better start lookin' over your shoulder Ice. :scared:

:laugh4:

I was talking to some senior about politics/law school etc after I was done studying. We were sitting near the entrance. A bunch of drunk freshman came in and started wondering around apparently thinking the thing was haunted or something. :laugh4:

[atheotes]

Reminds me of the time i used to work part-time in the university library restocking books. But anytime i tried to sit there and study :book: ... it usually took me about 5 mins to :sleeping: :zzz::snore:
:laugh4:

[Don Corleone]

......
Also: this skin is dark >.>

Why do you have to bring racism into it? :laugh4:

[Kagemusha]

Happy Halloween, or pyhäinpäivä as we call this day over here.:horn:

[Gregoshi]

Here are some pictures of my house decorations for Halloween.

The whole house - red light bulbs give all the windows a hellish glow. The adults seemed to like this effect best.

https://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/gbresslr/Org%20Pictures/Halloween2007_1.jpg


The next two shots focus on the mini-graveyard:

https://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/gbresslr/Org%20Pictures/Halloween2007_2.jpg

https://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/gbresslr/Org%20Pictures/Halloween2007_26.jpg

The garage: a large spider on the left window and my glowing ghost in the other. The ghost did manage to spook at least one kid who took a few steps back when he unexpectedly saw it as he walked by.

https://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/gbresslr/Org%20Pictures/Halloween2007_6.jpg

A close up of the ghost.

https://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/gbresslr/Org%20Pictures/Halloween2007_9.jpg


Assorted things in the bushes: an evil pumpkin with glowing eyes, a skull, and 4 sets of glowing eyes peeking out of the bushes:

https://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/gbresslr/Org%20Pictures/Halloween2007_12.jpg


A small treasure chest filled with gems...but guarded by some nasty looking spiders:

https://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/gbresslr/Org%20Pictures/Halloween2007_14.jpg

I had a couple of spiders dangling from "webs" (fishing line) but they didn't photograph well. Fishing line glows quite well under the black light. I also had a "floating" Jason-esque hockey mask (glow-in-the-dark of course) and a witch's cauldron glowing a hellish red inside and a very cheesy skeletal hand reaching out of it. Three blacklight flourescent blubs and two incandecent blacklight bulbs in the sconces flanking the door provided the glowing effects to my props and the trick-or-treaters that came up wearing white on their costumes.

All in all I was rather pleased with the results considering my lack of artistic talent. The kids, teenagers and adults seemed to appreciate the decorations as it seems like I'm one of the few (only?) in my development to really decorate for Halloween. In that respect my old neighborhood was much more fun. :pumpkin:

[InsaneApache]

They have a lot of red lights in the suburbs of Antwerpen. :laugh4:

[Mikeus Caesar]

Euch, Halloween, cheesy American thing. Best avoided at all costs.

[KukriKhan]

I guess I never realized Holloween was just an american thing. As a kid, I was raised by catholics, who had us dress up as Saints (the "hallowed" of Hallow-e'en, November 1st being All-Saints Day). St. Patrick was popular, as was Michael the Archangel.

We'd attend classes wearing our saints costumes, then, with school finished, whip out the red and black ink pens and draw wounds and blood on each other's faces, and convert our saints' robes into sacks for carrying Halloween candy we'd get door-to-door. I never realized what a mix of pagan-catholic rites we were observing, 'til now.

Nice house deco, Gregoshi.

[Gregoshi]

Euch, Halloween, cheesy American thing. Best avoided at all costs.
Most of our traditions come from elsewhere in the world compliments of the melting pot nature of our country. We Americans just tend to go a little overboard with these things that's all.


I guess I never realized Holloween was just an american thing.

Yeah, I'd have thought there'd be something at least remotely similar in the UK.

Sheesh, Kukri, that's quite a spiritual whiplash you had as a kid, going from saints :angel: to demons :devilish: in a matter of moments.

[LittleGrizzly]

Yeah, I'd have thought there'd be something at least remotely similar in the UK.

we do have a bit of trick and treating and decorating houses ect. but nowhere near as much, always looked fun on tv when i was a kid!

btw cool decorations!

[Kralizec]

Halloween isn't really celebrated over here, except as an excuse for theme parties. We do have something similar, St. Martin's day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Martin%27s_Day#Flanders.2C_Netherlands.2C_Germany_and_Austria).