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moevillini

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once upon a time, back in the days before the first jazzanz message board meltdown, before Babe and Milsapa were part of our world, before the NBA lockout left us all feeling bereaved and when the mortgage meltdown and financial crisis had just begun, I had a thread in a special place all my own that was

DEDICATED TO FREAK

I will never be able to replace that thread, but in the spirit of the season, I'm giving it the old college try...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL MY GHOULISH JAZZFANZ FRIENDS (and even those of you who don't consider yourself my friends) - I HOPE YOU HAVE A MOST BLESSEDLY CURSED ALL HALLOW'S EVE
:-)

and now time for the show...

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No, just have a costume that covers all.

Oh hey my dog had her puppies today (3:00 am, of course). It is fitting, I am pretty sure one of them is evil.
 
First year that I am not trick or treating :(

This is seriously depressing.
 
Why not? Go out and get some candy. Just wear a mask or something. They will never know how old you are, or aren't.


When my kids were little and got tired fast, I would trick-or-treat for them after they went to sleep. A dad has to get his candy fix too ya know.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Why not? Go out and get some candy. Just wear a mask or something. They will never know how old you are, or aren't.


When my kids were little and got tired fast, I would trick-or-treat for them after they went to sleep. A dad has to get his candy fix too ya know.
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Thats a damn good point, actually. I was just kinda reluctant, because I figured that with my sudden influx of a lot of facial hair and my stature (I'm 6'4") that I might tick off some of the parents or something; some of my friends have, and they said that their neighbours got pissed for some reason. But yeah, ****, I should've just worn a mask and gotten a bunch of free candy. Way to tell me this after the matter, LogGrad :(
 
This is the first year I'm not out trick or treating with my kids and it's bummin me out man. Both of them are out with groups of their friends and I'm stuck at home.

Well, I guess it's time to adopt one of those little jerks from Africa or Cambodia.
 
I don't care how old or big you are, if you go to the trouble of putting on a costume, I'll give you candy. On the flip side, I don't care if you're 10 (or whatever), if you don't do a costume, no candy.
 
jazz_fanatic said:
I ticked off a few people when I went trick or treating at the age of 22. Next year, I'm wearing a mask.
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and find some little tyke that you can take around the neighborhood - - I'll bet there are plenty of parents who'd be happy to let someone else have that duty. Though I do think it's more fun to pass out the candy anyhow! I get a kick out of the little ones in their costumes.

Not so much the bigger ones, esp. because many don't make much of an attempt at a costume at all.

Gave out 500 pieces of candy tonight, I think that's a record for me.
 
Wow, 500?! I've had one group of trick or treaters so far. They better start comin' soon...I need to get rid of all this candy!
 
oh and I had two different people come around trick-or-treating for their DOGS - - who were in costumes by the way. One dog was a bumble bee, the other was an angel. They looked pretty stupid.
 
My son has a kick-*** domo costume and he scared the **** out of some little kids with it. Highlight of the evening, watching them run screaming back down the driveway.
 
jazz_fanatic said:
Wow, 500?! I've had one group of trick or treaters so far. They better start comin' soon...I need to get rid of all this candy!
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Trunk'r'treats are cramping your candy hustle. Utah went overly safety paranoid a few years back, it seems like a huge amount of the foot traffic doesn't even exist anymore. You take your kids to a church parking lot, the mall, shops downtown, whatever now because you don't want Old Harry the meth addict sticking something in the candy or Billy the child molester putting the move on your kids. Quicker haul of candy, less fun experience. Kids let adults hi-jack the one quintessential Halloween experience. It doesn't even sound fun anymore.
 
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Duck Rodgers said:
Trunk'r'treats are cramping your candy hustle. Utah went overly safety paranoid a few years back, it seems like a huge amount of the foot traffic doesn't even exist anymore. You take your kids to a church parking lot, the mall, shops downtown, whatever now because you don't want Old Harry the meth addict sticking something in the candy or Billy the child molester putting the move on your kids. Quicker haul of candy, less fun experience. Kids let adults hi-jack the one quintessential Halloween experience. It doesn't even sound fun anymore.
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I loathe the idea of trunk or treating. They were invented under the guise of "safety first", but it's not like we've had a problem with mass amounts of children being molested, abducted, or harrassed on Halloween night. I think it has more to do with parents being lazy a-holes. Trunk or treats allow parents to sit on their asses more and as an added bonus, they get to say it's "safer".
 
jazzman12 said:
I loathe the idea of trunk or treating. They were invented under the guise of "safety first", but it's not like we've had a problem with mass amounts of children being molested, abducted, or harrassed on Halloween night. I think it has more to do with parents being lazy a-holes. Trunk or treats allow parents to sit on their asses more and as an added bonus, they get to say it's "safer".
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You guys are missing the obvious. Trunk or Treat means TRIPLE candy. I take my kids to the trunk-or-treat at our ward and our previous ward, which are always on non-halloween nights, and always on different nights so they don't interfere with each other's planning. We get double chilli or pot-luck and double-candy, get to talk to friends and hang out, etc., kind of the "adults" socializing halloween night. Then on halloween we turn the kids loose on everyone else. By the time they get back, we are loaded for bear (sugarly-speaking) and my kids are finally candied-out so I can get my pick with very little fuss and no need to sneak it in the middle of the night.

This year we ended up with about 3 or 4 pillow-cases full to the top of candy, literally. Probably 30-40 pounds of candy total. Oh yeah. Easily 150 kit-kats (one of my faves). Good stuff.
 
I hate Halloween as much as the next guy, but Trunk or Treats are the stupidest things ever invented. I'd like to kick the Relief Society President who thought up this jackass idea square in the chops.

That being said, I dressed up as my opponent in the upcoming election -- people kept asking me if I was a pedophile. I laughed. (American flag tie, graying hair, pedo-smile, Blue-Tooth in my ear at all times, you know)
 
LogGrad98 said:
You guys are missing the obvious. Trunk or Treat means TRIPLE candy. I take my kids to the trunk-or-treat at our ward and our previous ward, which are always on non-halloween nights, and always on different nights so they don't interfere with each other's planning. We get double chilli or pot-luck and double-candy, get to talk to friends and hang out, etc., kind of the "adults" socializing halloween night. Then on halloween we turn the kids loose on everyone else. By the time they get back, we are loaded for bear (sugarly-speaking) and my kids are finally candied-out so I can get my pick with very little fuss and no need to sneak it in the middle of the night.

This year we ended up with about 3 or 4 pillow-cases full to the top of candy, literally. Probably 30-40 pounds of candy total. Oh yeah. Easily 150 kit-kats (one of my faves). Good stuff.
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Looking back, I don't even remember the candy. I ran into a kid I used to run around with when we were little last night and every experience we were reliving of trick or treating has some element that you wouldn't want to tell your parents at at the time. Remember when that naked lady answered the door? Remember when that guy dropped off his roof trying to scare us and accidentely kicked Mario in the face? Remember when we would steal the entire candy bowl out of the giver's hands? Remember when that guy tried to shoot us with his bb gun? etc. etc. etc.
 
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