Halloween!

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:13 pm

I don't know if you guys have halloween in Canada or Sweden or whereever you're from, but I'm wondering what anyone else is doing for the holiday? C'mon get into the spirit! When I get pics of my costume I'll post 'em.

MaryxTyphus · Post by **MaryxTyphus** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:31 pm

I plan on being Eve from Parasite Eve. Because the Costume is going to be so fun to make. And so odd looking too.

I might put up pictures of the end result. I just MIGHT

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:44 pm

Yeah we have Hallowe'en in Canada. I used to always like going dressed as Paul Stanley from KISS when I was a kid. I also had a really cool shark costume my dad made me when I was a kid.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:20 pm

A KISS costume sounds really cool. How would a shark costume work though?

RavenxDrake · Post by **RavenxDrake** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:05 pm

Hehe... *knockknock* "Landshar... I mean, trick or treat."

Jackalope · Post by **Jackalope** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:33 pm

Deciding between the Music Pirate and the bargain-basement Mad Scientist costumes. The Music Pirate costume has the advantage of being already finished. But the vest that's covered in CDs is really heavy. I'd have to finish soldering the blinky light connections onto my kitchen collander helmet for the Mad Scientist. And finish pimping out my power wheelchair with EL wire.

Then again, George has this space capsule mockup that he built for the X-Prize meet last weekend. Might as well drag that out on the driveway and do the Mad Scientists' Lab again...

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:36 pm

swordsman3003 wrote:A KISS costume sounds really cool.

Yep, complicated costumes are a bother and a half to make.

And here in Finland we don't have Halloween. Not quite yet, anyway. Every year, there is more jack-o'-lantern, bat, moon and witch decorations around at All Hallows time. All Hallows is first Saturday in November. *Our* traditional trick-or-treating time is Easter.

Infinity-Iz-Blue · Post by **Infinity-Iz-Blue** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:32 am

Easter? May I ask why? I mean, is there a story behind it?

RavenxDrake · Post by **RavenxDrake** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:43 am

Makes more sense than Jesus coming back from the dead to give the children coloured eggs...

Ps, to learn more about easter, check out this snippet in the Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/o/ostara.html

And, as always, treat everything you learn on the internet with caution till it can be verified.

LindaH · Post by **LindaH** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:40 am

bah.. it used to be a religous holiday here, where you remembered the dead.. now.. commercial US crap! sorry but thats the way i see it..

CottonStar · Post by **CottonStar** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:01 am

As far as I'm concerned, any holiday that allows you to dress like a total freak AND get free candy from people is cool in my book.

Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be doing anything this year, unless I find some friends to go out Trick-or-Treating with. Unfortunately, my pool of friends is kinda...who am I kidding, I don't really have any at the moment.

However, if something does come up, I'll be going out as a monk.

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:29 am

I think the closest thing we have to All Hallow's Eve is the festival of St. Maarten. There are traditionally Chinese lanterns and singing of songs, and yes, you get some candy. But no dressing up as monsters, and the festival of St. Maarten is losing the public interest. You see a bit more US influence over here now, but it's nowhere near as big. And no trick-or-treating.

Kingofthemorlocks · Post by **Kingofthemorlocks** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:45 am

RavenxDrake wrote:Makes more sense than Jesus coming back from the dead to give the children coloured eggs...

Ps, to learn more about easter, check out this snippet in the Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/o/ostara.html

And, as always, treat everything you learn on the internet with caution till it can be verified.

Encyclopedia Mythica is generally pretty accurate, and the bit about Ostara (also called Astara and Eostre) is true. The church picked it up to make it easier for the pagans in Europe - Goths, Gaels, Celts, Gauls, Britons, even up to the Nords - to convert to Christianity. Same with Christmas - both fall near the solstices, which were high holy times for the pagans. The yule log came from the druids, the Christmas tree from the goths. Though to be honest a lot of cultures had similar things going on. There are a lot of similarities between Jesus and Osiris, Quetzalcoatl, and...I forget his name, but the lover of the Roman goddess Cybele sacrificed himself and rose up again after being dead for three days - and a festival honoring him took place in the spring, if I'm not mistaken.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:48 am

RavenxDrake wrote:Makes more sense than Jesus coming back from the dead to give the children coloured eggs...

Ps, to learn more about easter, check out this snippet in the Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/o/ostara.html

And, as always, treat everything you learn on the internet with caution till it can be verified.

Oh boy! More shittly researched pagan non-sense! Margrette Murray be praised!

Lulujayne · Post by **Lulujayne** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:03 am

We didn't really "do" halloween in the land of Oz, when I was growing up there, maybe they do now though? Anyway, at the time, any kid "cosmopolitan" enough to know that most holy of rituals and traditions, the "tricking or treating," would gather some friends together (provided you could get out of the house on a school night) and attempt it.
Our costumes (if any) were pretty pathetic, though I do vaguely recall one boy having fake-blood one year. Anyways, it
never worked because any door you knocked on would be answered by someone who of course had no candy because
a) nobody celebrated halloween
b) nobody knew what candy was anyway, we just knew that's what you asked for... Turned out it was the same thing as lollies *sigh of realisation, followed by sharp smack on the back of the head*

But none of that mattered, because instinctivley we knew the best part would be the vandalism. So, we'd chuck a few eggs at cars and pitifully attempt to toilet-paper some poor souls house, and inevitably some neighbour would call the police, who'd arrive and do a couple of laps around the area in their car, and scare us all witless into running home.

All in all, a bit of a fizzle really.

Everyone gets well into it over here in Bangkok, orange and black everywhere. Of course no-one really "gets it," after all it's not really a traditional buddhist holiday. But that's the great thing about here, they'll always adopt a holiday, this is a country that celebrates four seperate new-years celebrations after all

Halloween? Ok, bring it on!

Indigo Violent · Post by **Indigo Violent** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:33 pm

Rocky Horror all the way. I want to go as Columbia this year. Only problem is my hair - long and so dark it's almost black. Cutting and dyeing it would be too much of a pain.
Maybe I'll pull a Wednesday Addams and go as a homicidal maniac. After all, they look just like everyone else.

Nithos · Post by **Nithos** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:48 pm

I havn't decided on what I'm doing yet, but a couple of my friends had a funny idea. One of them is going to get some stuff from the Starbucks where she works, and dress the other up as a dead barrista, with things like straws, stirring sticks, and cups sticking out of her with fake blood around... personally I just hope she brings free samples to go with the costume

Chaszmyr Mae'Val · Post by **Chaszmyr Mae'Val** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:01 pm

I have NEVER done trick or treat (I'm ENGLISH) but I have found an excuse to dress up in costume for Hallowen in our local Goth Club, which has Halloween Nights

Two years ago I went as a drow elf - and we popped in the pub on the way to the nightclub. The staff were dressed in generic halloween costume (at least they put in the effort, even if it was tied in with a Halloween Themed Oktoberfest beer festival thingy) and one member of staff went up to me and said;

"I would just like to lodge a complaint on behalf of the staff that your costume makes ours look crap "

Made my night

This year I plan to go as Lloth.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:48 pm

Wow. I have been trick or treating ever since I can remember.

The first costume I can remember was when I dressed up as a native American. Since then I've been:

A mad scientist
A biker
A wizard
A ninja
A homeless man
A wizard (again)

This year I think I'll paint my face, get some fake teeth and earings, buy a sweet sword and gaulets and go as an Orc. How does that sound? It should make for a good reusable costume.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:54 pm

What, no GGC hallowe'en cosplay?