Pumpkin I carved for my grandson this year.
Posted on 10/28/2009 6:22:16 AM PDT by mshoffner
It's the time of the season where the gates open and the nightmares come alive. Where you hear the bumps in the night, the wolves howl, and through the mist, you see the dead come alive. They're coming for treats, but be careful, for they will take your soul.
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Why was this posted?
You got me, IronKros. It definitely makes it onto my short list of weird thread postings. :~/
that is awesome! Good job!
Taking this thread down a different path - Here are the TOP TEN MOST HATED HALLOWEEN TREATS.
1. Raisins
Little boxes of stuck-together shriveled globs are not what little kids schlep around the neighborhood for all night. When they say trick-or-treat, they want candy that will rot their teeth, not wrinkled grapes. (Using an empty box as a kazoo-like instrument, though, is kinda fun.)
2. Candy Corn
The most polarizing candy of all. The fruitcake of Halloween; it just never goes away. If you love them, fine. But don’t subject the rest of us haters to the sickeningly sweet triangle that tastes like neither candy nor corn.
3. Necco Wafers
These chalky candies are supposedly “fruit-flavored,” but no fruit I know tastes like dust — and makes everything eaten after taste like dust, too.
4. Dum Dum Lollipops
Usually, foods on a stick are yummy (corn dogs, ice pops), but Dum Dums just can’t be included on that list. Not even if they were breaded and deep-fried and served at a fair.
5. Apples
Long before “poisoned candy” scares, evil people were handing out apples instead of candy on Halloween. This disappointing “treat” is the main reason to avoid unwrapped food while trick-or-treating.
6. Toothbrushes
Dentists and orthodontists should not be allowed to celebrate Halloween if they’re going to get all tooth doctory on us. Do not bring your work home with you, folks! We all have a personal responsibility to brush, and maybe some of us will forget, but your complimentary bristles on a stick (instead of a Snickers) will not help us remember. It will make us despise you and your trade.
7. Tootsie Rolls
It looks like chocolate and sort of smells like chocolate, but the mini brown tubes are not real chocolate. They taste like watered-down chocolate, and have a chewy texture that will strip the fillings right off your molars.
8. Laffy Taffy
I do not laffy when I get these. I sobby. I get depressedy. Because it gets all stucky to my teethy and doesn’t even taste that goody.
9. Miscellaneous, Wrapped Hard Candies
Halloween is supposed to be a holiday for young people, not senior citizens who suck on hard candies all day. Something about the strawberry-shaped strawberries, gold-wrapped butterscotch, and peppermint way past the expiration date. (These usually get set aside for Granny.)
10. Anything Fun-Sized
Who started calling it this? Since when is one bite fun?! Give us the rich houses with the sprawling driveways and full-sized candy bars any day. Portion control doesn’t need to start this young.
So is she a vampire or zombie?
I am hoping for Succubus.
I’ve got you beat.....I hand out those little fast food condiments....”Yum - relish!”
Necco Wafers? I love Necco’s ~ but only the chocolate ones!
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