HalloEvilWeenie - Ask It Basket

October 30, 2008 by Randy
Filed under Asides, Ask It Basket, Holiday, Humor

Ellie drops an online card in the “Ask It Basket.” She asks …

Ok, I have a question: are you going to celebrate Halloween (eg, carve pumpkins, hand out candy)?

Last year I wrote (more thoughts after the jump)

I must confess that I am not real into Halloween. It is a personal conviction and while I pick on other Christians (in fun) about it … I leave room for varying opinions.

I live in a gated community that is primarily an older crowd. I am 40 and one of the youngin’s. We didn’t have any children come around trick or treating last year. If we did I probably would hand out candy. I used to be hard core about not celebrating Halloween but I figured out I need to stop being a weenie about it. People are grown up and can do what they want. If they want to know why I am not into it … they can ask.

Now, last year I did write a post that contained the transcript of my own interview with a vampire. His name was Lou (notice the past tense.)

So, I will hopefully do another funny (to me at least) post. If you have any ideas … feel free :).

Oh, as for the picture. I tried taking a picture of my eye with my iPhone and it did all that crazy stuff on its own. That’s kinda’ spooky.

And don’t forget, I do like to get silly, stupid and sincere questions in the Ask It Basket.

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B.T.Carolus 10/30/2008 10:20 PM 1 point
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Well, I for one love Halloween (and I'm going to Caltech tomorrow so I'm really excited, I'll report back if they live up to their Halloween rep). I think it's mainly because I love history and it's a great excuse to walk out of your house dressed up like a historical character.

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Randy 10/30/2008 11:14 PM 1 point
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I hope you will post a picture.

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B.T.Carolus 10/30/2008 11:36 PM 1 point
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I will if I can bring a camera...they might not do anything really exciting until the night, though (when Dabney House drops pumpkins frozen in liquid nitrogen off the roof of the library hoping to create triboluminescent sparks).

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Randy 10/30/2008 11:43 PM 1 point
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Oddly ... I find that inspiring.

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Randy 10/30/2008 11:31 PM 1 point
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::: laugh ::: that is true. They love the payoff.

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Randy 10/31/2008 02:12 AM 1 point
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Well, the import worked but didn't. I knew there would be problems with the disqus threading surviving the import. It didn't and the comments that threaded off of original comments are not showing. I have a support ticket in to Intense Debate. Other than that, we are all moved in and set up. :).

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Ellie 10/31/2008 05:04 AM 1 point
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What's actually weird is that my first comment is missing...What it said was that I'm excited about being at Caltech on Halloween. Unfortunately, I couldn't bring my camera :(

But I have so far seen a guy wearing a tie-dye jumpsuit, and pink with silver glitter fairy wings, carrying a giant rainbow colored umbrella :-) (no, I'm not making that up!).

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Randy 10/31/2008 05:08 AM 1 point
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No... I see it http://randythomas.org/2008/10/30/halloevilweenie...

That rainbow ... person ... sounds very into it. :-)

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Ellie 10/31/2008 05:10 AM 1 point
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I don't see it, and I don't see your reply to it. It seems like this system just randomly chose disqus comments to import or something.

I have to work now, I'll start my thorough investigation when I get home...

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editorgal 10/31/2008 09:09 AM 1 point
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Halloween's always been fun...costumes and candy, does it get any better? Now that my kiddo is grown I love seeing the new batch of little bitties come toddling up to our door, proud and protective parents hovering at the edge of the porch coaching them to say "Trick or Treat" and "Thank You" while the kiddies eyes fix firmly on the candy basket. Now that's focus!

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Ellie 10/31/2008 09:21 PM 1 point
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I saw him again later and he added a halo made out of that wire wrapped in multi-colored foil stars.

Plus I saw a guy dressed up like Santa Clause.

Those were the two coolest I saw. It probably gets cooler at night when they have the pumpkin drop.

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Randy 10/31/2008 09:51 PM 1 point
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That pumpkin drop sounds like so much fun. Seriously fun.

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B.T.Carolus 11/01/2008 03:38 PM 1 point
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Well, our first comments came back, but the ID ones left. There's something ironic about that.

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Jonathan 11/01/2008 04:05 PM 1 point
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Does anyone else get amused if they think of it like the 'Trick" part of Halloween? :)...Obviously it's some form of database reversion.

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Randy 11/01/2008 04:37 PM 1 point
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oddly ... I am not amused :)

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Jonathan 11/01/2008 04:57 PM 1 point
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If I was the one having to deal with trying to fix it directly, I'm sure I wouldn't be either.

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