Ideas needed for a Halloween Party - Page 3

eschwartz · 10-27-2015, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

...or bobbing for something else

Spoiler:

Classic!

And you know, supposedly the original title was going to be "Bobbing for babies"?

tubemonkey · 10-27-2015, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Classic!

And you know, supposedly the original title was going to be "Bobbing for babies"?

I know. I read about that in one of his books. He was already receiving hate mail from animal lovers for quite a few of his cartoons before this one was published. Can you imagine what kind hate mail he would've generated if he'd gone with the baby caption?

eschwartz · 10-27-2015, 11:51 AM

I can imagine -- I was just (re)reading The PreHistory of the Far Side, which has a whole chapter on "Public Response".

tubemonkey · 10-27-2015, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I can imagine -- I was just (re)reading The PreHistory of the Far Side, which has a whole chapter on "Public Response".

That's probably where I read it.

kindlekitten · 10-27-2015, 05:04 PM

Our first night at ski school was always referred to as "dwarf tossing" when dealing with the little kids on the magic . the kcarpetids would fall off in all sorts of directions and positions. we basically had all hands on deck to recover downed short people, get them out of the way of the out of control short people, get them upright and shove them off in the direction of someone looking like an instructor wearing something that looked like our school jacket.

so yeah, inappropriate terms for awkward situations

aceflor · 10-31-2015, 04:21 PM

The Party is in full swing and so far a big success. We have 18 kids in total, our 2 plus 16 overnighting. 7x 11 years old, 4x 13 years old, 7x 15 years old. Does the dog count too ?

We made a huge Pumpkin out of Papier Maché (that book is really good and gave us great ideas), also made a tombstone with a RIP sign, decorated the whole lower floor with huge spiderwebs, including spiders, made bats out of toilet roll paper and trash bags and hanged them from the ceiling upside down (they look so cute though, we put glow sticks ion their heads so their eyes are glowing in the dark). 3 skeletons are watching from corners. No electric lights, only artificial candles.

The kids all have brilliant costumes !!! We have 1 skeleton, 1 harry potter, 1 little riding red hood, 1 big bad wolf, 1 snow white, 2 vampires, 1 zombie, 1 clockwork orange (obviously the parents are behind that idea), 1 ghost, 1 buffy, 1 chuckie, 1 dead bride (it's a boy, and he looks brilliant), 1 joker, 1 voldemort, 1 morticia, and only 2 kids without costumes (they just landed from NY and had no time to create a costume). The costumes are fantastic, those kids really put lot of time into making them, I am amazed..

The big ones are now telling the small ones scary stories. You can tell who has an older brother or sister, and who has not. My daughter is so blasé, while other friends of her are really scared.

My husband did a lot of work to decorate everything for us, and is now free to lounge in front of the TV upstairs, while I am on watch. This is going to be a long night..

cromag · 11-01-2015, 01:00 AM

Excellent!

HomeInMyShoes · 11-04-2015, 02:26 PM

Cool. Glad it worked out. I found that book at the library and the concepts on how to apply the paper mache really help.

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10-27-2015, 11:51 AM	#33
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	I can imagine -- I was just (re)reading The PreHistory of the Far Side, which has a whole chapter on "Public Response".

10-27-2015, 05:04 PM	#35
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	Our first night at ski school was always referred to as "dwarf tossing" when dealing with the little kids on the magic . the kcarpetids would fall off in all sorts of directions and positions. we basically had all hands on deck to recover downed short people, get them out of the way of the out of control short people, get them upright and shove them off in the direction of someone looking like an instructor wearing something that looked like our school jacket. so yeah, inappropriate terms for awkward situations

10-31-2015, 04:21 PM	#36
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	The Party is in full swing and so far a big success. We have 18 kids in total, our 2 plus 16 overnighting. 7x 11 years old, 4x 13 years old, 7x 15 years old. Does the dog count too ? We made a huge Pumpkin out of Papier Maché (that book is really good and gave us great ideas), also made a tombstone with a RIP sign, decorated the whole lower floor with huge spiderwebs, including spiders, made bats out of toilet roll paper and trash bags and hanged them from the ceiling upside down (they look so cute though, we put glow sticks ion their heads so their eyes are glowing in the dark). 3 skeletons are watching from corners. No electric lights, only artificial candles. The kids all have brilliant costumes !!! We have 1 skeleton, 1 harry potter, 1 little riding red hood, 1 big bad wolf, 1 snow white, 2 vampires, 1 zombie, 1 clockwork orange (obviously the parents are behind that idea), 1 ghost, 1 buffy, 1 chuckie, 1 dead bride (it's a boy, and he looks brilliant), 1 joker, 1 voldemort, 1 morticia, and only 2 kids without costumes (they just landed from NY and had no time to create a costume). The costumes are fantastic, those kids really put lot of time into making them, I am amazed.. The big ones are now telling the small ones scary stories. You can tell who has an older brother or sister, and who has not. My daughter is so blasé, while other friends of her are really scared. My husband did a lot of work to decorate everything for us, and is now free to lounge in front of the TV upstairs, while I am on watch. This is going to be a long night..

11-01-2015, 01:00 AM	#37
cromag Surfin the alpha waves ~~ Posts: 26,294 Karma: 459765791 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: New Jersey Device: Jetbook Lite & Mini, Nook STR, Kobo, Hanvon N516, Kindle 2, Androids	Excellent!

11-04-2015, 02:26 PM	#38
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Cool. Glad it worked out. I found that book at the library and the concepts on how to apply the paper mache really help.

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