Halloweeners

[Losty]

I read the BEST Halloween *prank* EVER.

A couple of college students got a door, complete with frame.  Installed a knocker on it.  Put a hand written sign on it that said "Please knock, bell is broken."   Dressed up as elderly people.  One even had a walker.

Go up to door on Halloween and ring door bell.   Person answers the door with bowl of candy in hand expecting trick or treaters.  Is faced, instead, with above described door.  Uses knocker as instructed.  College boy dressed as old man opens fake door with his own bowl of candy in hand filled with single-wrapped butterscotch hard candies and starts in with ooohs and ahhs and calls the person soooo cute.  Calls for Ethel to come look at this one.  Ethel appears at door using walker.  Does her own ooohs and ahhs, admires the homeowner's costume, prompts them with "now what do you say?"  (Makes homeowner say "Trick or treat") and pinches their "cute little cheeks" and hands them a single butterscotch candy.    Tells them "Happy Halloween"  and closes the fake door.

I.JUST.LOVE.THIS. 

Who here does Halloween and how?  We used to dress the house up big time but have just kind of slacked off over the years.  Between all the churches having their own events (to keep the kids safely away from Satan) and the town having a big trunk Halloween, we just don't get the foot traffic to make it worth the bother any more.

That is fantastic. I’d love to see a video of it playing out!

[brewer]

[outtathereligioncloset]

Losty, we have a bunch of clients on one subdivision where we've worked for four or five years now. All have good sense of humor. We'd love to do this ourselves (we're a remodel/renovation company) but we're already old. So dressing up as old would be redundant. If SOMEONE went down our client list doing this they would all roll with laughter and LOVE it. If it were US I'm afraid it would lose something in the translation----dressing up as different old people? I SUPPOSE they'd get it but it would be funnier if we were younger and obviously wearing old people wigs. But now they'd probably be concerned and ask me ow I hurt myself that I'd be using a walker.

[TheGulegon]

You said halloweeners.

Anyone who realizes  that's the name of a gang, in Seattle, from the year 2055, gets a cookie!

Who here does Halloween and how? 

Me. How? All year long!! 


The greatest fits of hysterical laughter always occur, for me, when I get someone to scream in horror.  Thanks to the great war of unholy terror that has been waged for going on 25 years now, between me, my father, and my brother, I have gotten very good at scaring the piss out of people! Sometimes literally   Normally we just keep it between us, and our friends, so as not to cause too much carnage...





But on Halloween we are set free!!! 

[brewer]

You said halloweeners.

Anyone who realizes  that's the name of a gang, in Seattle, from the year 2055, gets a cookie!  

Thanks a lot for making me look that up. I don't want your cookie now.

[LastPoet]

This is more an US stuff than anything. Oh well. We have all hallows day next AKA mens day.

[Shell B]

Shell B---what are your favorites for watching that night?

I don't feel like I have to watch all of Hocus Pocus these days but it would NOT be Halloween for me  if I didn't get to see THIS part:





Also love Young Frankenstein.  Whole movie.  Gotta watch it.  Too many great clips to start listing them here.

I played the lead in a comedic play a few months ago in a local theatre.  (No, I won't say what play.)  In it, I was required to have a limp for much of the play.  I paid tribute to the Young Frankenstein movie by changing which foot every time I made a new entrance.  Had been rehearsing it like that for weeks before the director noticed and called me on it.  Once I explained WHY, he just chuckled, shook his head and let me keep doing  it.  As far as I know nobody else ever realized I was doing it.  I also threw in a Monty Python reference that none of my college-aged castmates ever understood.  But on those rare performances when someone in the audience caught it, it was priceless.

Fucking love Hocus Pocus and Young Frankenstein is one of my favorite movies. We also watch Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Nightmare Before Christmas, etc. On my own, I watch various classic and current horror films. Tibs hates them.

[Bob Kelso]

I trick or treated until I was 17. I may have looked dumb, but I knew all the places to hit and had candy stashes every year, all year.

Now my tradition is dressing up with my kids, but not the terrible parent/kid costumes. They go as what they’d like and so do I, year before last I went as a stupid-scary clown, my son wasn’t a fan at first but after he figured out that dad was underneath the mask he giggled every time I looked at him.

I guess I never really stopped trick or treating lol

[Shell B]

No joke, my mother is 60 and still walks up to every door. She pretends she has a sick kid or grandkid at home she's trick-or-treating for, and she has been doing so since I was a child. We've repeatedly told her it's tasteless and embarrassing. She doesn't give a single, solitary fuck.

[Dr H]

This is more an US stuff than anything. 

True, but it's become a pretty big deal.  A lot of people here now spend more money and time decorating for Halloween than for Christmas -- and that includes a lot of ostensible Christians.

Understandable, really.  
Why bother with elves, reindeer, and candy canes, when you can have vampires, zombies, and rotting body parts?