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Halloween Thread: Funny Costume, Cute Costume, and "Candle Cove"

First a couple of cute things:




Okay, with the cute stuff out of the way, here's the creepy bit.

I don't know the exact definition of "Creepypasta" but it appears to be some kind of brief, urban-legend style scary story spread via the internet.

One of the cleverest ones I've heard of concerns a children's show called "Candle Cove." On some forum message board, years back, someone began asking if anyone else remembered this show called "Candle Cove" that used to run on a local tv station when he was a kid. (I forget the locale -- maybe Pennsylvania, or Ohio.)

Then other people began supplying the details of the show that they could remember, though no one could remember too much about "Candle Cove."

Some of the message board exchanges are collected here.

It's important to keep in mind this wasn't presented as a "story" anywhere; if you had stumbled across this, years back, you would have just found some people talking, it seems, about a kid's tv show they say they remembered from their childhood.


Skyshale033
Subject: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Does anyone remember this kid's show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don't remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.

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mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

it seems really familiar to me....i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove...was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl

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Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

YES! Okay I'm not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn't belong on the body. I don't remember what station this was! I don't think it was WTSF though.

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Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in '71, not '72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.

It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn't a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don't remember the girl's name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.

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Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.

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mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

ha ha i remember now too. do you remember this part skyshale: "you have...to go...INSIDE."

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Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That's what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock's face with each pause. YOU HAVE... TO GO.... INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.

You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.

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kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.

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Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

That wasn't the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain's sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.

But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can't believe what they let us watch back then.

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kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.

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Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Wasn't his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children's skin??

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mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn't open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said "why does your mouth move like that" and the skin-taker didn't look at the girl but at the camera and said "TO GRIND YOUR SKIN"

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Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

I'm so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!

I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.

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kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

i don't think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.

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Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.

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kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

maybe i'm manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.

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Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn't have the courage to turn it back on.

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mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid's show?

i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid's show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said "because i used to think it was so strange that you said 'i'm gona go watch candle cove now mom' and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show."

Posted by: Ace at 06:43 PM




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1 no way

Posted by: Judas Washington at October 31, 2015 06:43 PM (hCdMd)

2 You want Creepypasta?

Here ya go!

DON'T OPEN YOUR EYES

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660559477532307456

Also:

Not peeking is more than just a courtesy...

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660552155602878464

Perhaps the minister in Footloose was on to something...

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660551633030393856

Is there any *normal* "cabin in the woods"?

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660550802893750272

This is why you always use a condom...

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660550177267122177

Bet this'll give Planned Parenthood the warm fuzzies...

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660549667722129408

At least they didn't use BetaMax...

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660548981773107201

Perhaps they blinked...

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660548808200228864

"Please return the mirrors."

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660547431478636544

Posted by: The Scary Hat at October 31, 2015 06:44 PM (vBeA5)

3 even second after a generous pause

Posted by: Judas Washington at October 31, 2015 06:44 PM (hCdMd)

4 I have never liked booger movies. And the moderns ones are all crap anyway. Instead of scary they are just bloody.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 31, 2015 06:44 PM (t2KH5)

5 More creepy stuff... now with animated GIFs!

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660545617505087488

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660546962639335424

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660547142918893569

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660553254133084160

https://twitter.com/ThePoliticalHat/status/660553302665367552

Posted by: The Scary Hat at October 31, 2015 06:45 PM (vBeA5)

6 SAMHAIN!!!

\m/ \m/

Posted by: Insomniac at October 31, 2015 06:45 PM (kpqmD)

7 Somebody went to a lot of trouble to make that porcupine costume.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 31, 2015 06:46 PM (t2KH5)

8 My fave ever was House On Haunted Hill...

Posted by: Judas Washington at October 31, 2015 06:46 PM (hCdMd)

9 Halloween 3 is junk but that speech the old man from Robocop gives about "The Last Samhain was 3000 years ago and the hills ran red with the blood of children and animals" is awesome.

Posted by: Naes at October 31, 2015 06:49 PM (Ypc8j)

10 Gavin Mcinnes dressed as a Geisha Tranny Rapper Indian on Red Eye.

Posted by: Ktgreat at October 31, 2015 06:51 PM (Bl4dy)

11 i absolutely love Halloween III, always have. Like it better than Halloween I and II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAhAvJXeq-Q

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2015 06:52 PM (dciA+)

12 The littlest porcupine is beyond adorable.

When I was about that age I was Little Red Riding Hood, and our German Shepard was the wolf. Very realistic! :-)

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at October 31, 2015 06:55 PM (GG9V6)

13 test

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 06:56 PM (2x3L+)

14 Mr Y-not pointed out that the cute porcupine costume would be even better if he was gnawing on a tire.

Posted by: Y-not at October 31, 2015 06:57 PM (t5zYU)

15 Okay, Pixy allows me to post now. The absolute worst Halloween candy is tootsie rolls. That's what all the cheap people give out. It's phoning it in barely Halloween almost Kaboom level candy.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 06:59 PM (2x3L+)

16 He is the Father of the year, He's dressed his kid as "the most terrifying thing ever!!!"

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 06:59 PM (zt+N6)

17 15
Okay, Pixy allows me to post now. The absolute worst Halloween candy is
tootsie rolls. That's what all the cheap people give out. It's
phoning it in barely Halloween almost Kaboom level candy.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 06:59 PM (2x3L+)

I like tootsie rolls.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 31, 2015 07:01 PM (t2KH5)

18 Laffy taffy and now and laters were the bane of my existence as a kid. I always went to the church thing and they gave you a big bag of stuff that was cheap at SAMs I'm pretty sure. Not nearly enough chocolate!!!

Posted by: Lea at October 31, 2015 07:01 PM (vmMMi)

19 "Creepypasta" comes from the more benign "copypasta" which is a portmanteau/corruption of "copy/paste". It just refers to transmission of text via copy/paste, though, and I don't know quite how it made the leap to being horror short stories (since the copy/paste aspect is gone) except perhaps the serendipity of "copy" with "creepy".

Unless it started with copypasta of urban legends. I guess that might be.

I love the "Candle Cove" thing, though. Surprised it hasn't been made into a movie.

Posted by: moviegique at October 31, 2015 07:02 PM (m3P2y)

20 I didn't really enjoy "Halloween III" but I really did enjoy John Carpenter treating the studio/moviegoing like the morons they/we can be sometimes.

"You want ANOTHER film where this faceless evil guy stabs teenagers? What are you, stupid?"

And I'll say this: H3 had a bravura ending.

Posted by: moviegique at October 31, 2015 07:04 PM (m3P2y)

21 BOO!

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:04 PM (vsbNu)

22 Sorry, Vic. I hate disagreeing with you, but tootsie rolls are fake chocolate. They are intended to be the treats at the camps.

:-)

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:05 PM (2x3L+)

23 Speaking of costumes...

Transgender Approved - Transracial Denied

A "liberated African-American woman" was ecstatic that her son "Bug" wanted to be a pretty pretty little princess for Halloween... however, this Social-Justice-fest turned to horror!

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10321

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 31, 2015 07:05 PM (vBeA5)

24 Are Tootsie Roll Pops acceptable?@

Posted by: teej at October 31, 2015 07:06 PM (1Zi6N)

25 I should give out MREs this year to prepare for the burning times.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:07 PM (2x3L+)

26 I like tootsie rolls.


Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 31, 2015 07:01 PM (t2KH5)

I am with Vic. I also like those lolly pops with tootsie roll inside them.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:07 PM (jJRIy)

27 teejy!!!!!! Idk about tootsie roll pops. They sound better than plain old tootsie rolls. If they qualify as ice cream as they sound, I approve.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:10 PM (2x3L+)

28 A "liberated African-American woman" was ecstatic
that her son "Bug" wanted to be a pretty pretty little princess for
Halloween... however, this Social-Justice-fest turned to horror!



More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10321

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 31, 2015 07:05 PM (vBeA5)

She lives in NJ. Probably the sanest person in the neighbor, which tells you a lot.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:10 PM (jJRIy)

29 27 teejy!!!!!! Idk about tootsie roll pops. They sound better than plain old tootsie rolls. If they qualify as ice cream as they sound, I approve.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:10 PM (2x3L+)



You know about Tootsie Pops.

"Mr. Owl, How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie Pop?"

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 07:12 PM (zt+N6)

30 You guys can like your tootsie rolls, but they disappoint small children.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:12 PM (2x3L+)

31 I like Tootsie Pops, Tootsie Rolls not so much....and they are definitely cop-out Halloween treats.

If you resent handing out candy that much, just keep the porch light off and don't answer the damn door.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:13 PM (JqEq4)

32 You don't know Tootsie Roll Pops?
They're like different flavored rock candy with a Tootsie Roll center on a little round cardboard stick.

Posted by: teej at October 31, 2015 07:13 PM (1Zi6N)

33 22 Sorry, Vic. I hate disagreeing with you, but tootsie rolls are fake chocolate. They are intended to be the treats at the camps.
----

They saved the Marines:

http://tootsie.com/letters-stories/5


I like them in Tootsie Pops.


Good n' Plentys are under appreciated imho.

Posted by: Y-not at October 31, 2015 07:14 PM (t5zYU)

34 "I have never liked booger movies."

Wait a minute.

Booger was GREAT in the _Revenge of the Nerds_ movies.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 31, 2015 07:14 PM (noWW6)

35 It always sucked getting the brown wrapper tootsie pops. I liked the red and blue ones.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 07:14 PM (zt+N6)

36
Liberated from what, reality?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 31, 2015 07:14 PM (DgBcT)

37 o/t

just finished watching a lecture by don doyle on "global perspectives on the american civil war" on c-span. see it if you can. fascinating.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at October 31, 2015 07:15 PM (WTSFk)

38 They should have had mom dressed as a bottle of Coke. Then they could have sang:

Jack and Coke!
Jack and Coke!
Even better with a Marlboro smoke,
Well, tomorrow I'm gonna feel like I'm hanging from the end of a rope,
From a-drinkin' too many Jack and Coke.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 31, 2015 07:15 PM (iQIUe)

39 Earleir this yar I encountered a Christian company that sold "harvest festival" candies including one line that I believe was called "Jesus Ranchers" or something similar: what they did was take Jolly Rancher candies, or a copycat similar hard candy, and custom wrap them in cellophane with Christian messages, stuff like "Salvation is through Our Lord Jesus Christ only" and so on.

Not quite as creepy as the SJW parenting this year, but still a bit off-putting. I trick-or-treat for a sugar rush, say the kids, not a guilt trip!

Posted by: zombie at October 31, 2015 07:15 PM (jBuUi)

40 Willowed from last thread:
Didn't someone do a video (maybe Stephen crowder) where he took the kids candy and redistributed it?
Posted by: CaliGirl

It was Crowder. Here's the link.
https://youtu.be/fHNBr3PZQaE

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 31, 2015 07:15 PM (awspb)

41 27 teejy!!!!!! Idk about tootsie roll pops. They sound better than plain old tootsie rolls. If they qualify as ice cream as they sound, I approve.
Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:10 PM (2x3L+)

--Seriously, you've never heard of Tootsie Roll Pops????


"How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Roll Pop? The world may never know."

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:16 PM (vsbNu)

42 ... it'll probably be run again this weekend or may be available on the c-span site.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at October 31, 2015 07:16 PM (WTSFk)

43 Buzzion, Ha! I approve of lollipops too.

So tootsie roll pops are lollipop, huh? With disappoint in the middle once you get to the tootsie roll center? That sounds kinda mean to me.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:16 PM (2x3L+)

44 Love the porcupine!

When my son was 3 he dressed up as a lion and hubby dressed as a safari guide (floppy hat, cargo shorts, etc.) except he shredded an old shirt and dabbed some fake blood on it as if he had been attacked by the lil' lion.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 07:16 PM (NOIQH)

45 "I should give out MREs this year to prepare for the burning times."

Ammo.

"Here you go, kids! Two each! Oh, no, wait, that's .45ACP and it's just not gonna work for a five year old. Here, have a couple of .22 longs instead."

Posted by: torquewrench at October 31, 2015 07:16 PM (noWW6)

46 We dressed my kid brother as Death one Halloween.

He was tall and thin, wore the hooded cloak, and carried my Grandfather's old wooden scythe.

Holy fucking shit, he looked liked the real deal.

Kids ran from him and adults backed away.

Posted by: eman at October 31, 2015 07:17 PM (MQEz6)

47 I love Gavin McInnes. He does an internet show for Anthony Cumia's site/show/whatever. He had a porn star on and while they feigned talking about something serious, she stripped off and started playing with herself.

Maybe we could get Megyn to do that at the next Fox debate. Ask some really boring policy wonkish question to say Huckabee, and she hikes up her skirt and goes at it.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 07:17 PM (dvuhZ)

48 It had me going up to the Skin-Taker bit.

Cute porcupine kid.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 31, 2015 07:18 PM (HMt16)

49 OMG

I just crapped my pants.

I REMEMBER THAT SHOW!!!

Posted by: Lazarus Puthy at October 31, 2015 07:18 PM (5fSr7)

50 Good n' Plentys are under appreciated imho.

Posted by: Y-not at October 31, 2015 07:14 PM (t5zYU)

Not big on the licorice.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:19 PM (jJRIy)

51 43 Buzzion, Ha! I approve of lollipops too.

So tootsie roll pops are lollipop, huh? With disappoint in the middle once you get to the tootsie roll center? That sounds kinda mean to me.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:16 PM (2x3L+)



Seriously? You've never seen this commercial? It was a classic on Saturday morning cartoons. I was still seeing it in the 80's and 90's, and its apparently from 1969.

https://youtu.be/O6rHeD5x2tI

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 07:19 PM (zt+N6)

52 I'll be clicking between Irish-Owls and World Series shortly.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:19 PM (vsbNu)

53 My wife bought a bumble bee outfit for both my sons. They looked great together.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:20 PM (jJRIy)

54 There was even a tacky rap song that sang 'how many licks does it take till you get to the center' or something.

Unless I just went all pirate cove..

Posted by: Lea at October 31, 2015 07:21 PM (vmMMi)

55 So me and Tammy al-Thor are totally in agreement. I love this secular holiday. It's so much fun. I'm dressing up as Velma and putting black dots made out of poster board on my Great Dane Scoobette for next year. I can't pull off the ginger Daphne bc it doesn't work for me. She is a bimbo anyway.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:21 PM (2x3L+)

56 Garr.... me and the new Wench will be Pirates this year...

Party.... Live band... and a Hotel Room within waling distance...


Garrrrr....

Posted by: BB Wolf at October 31, 2015 07:22 PM (qh617)

57
Meet 'the man who killed Halloween'

http://bit.ly/1Sf4IUy

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 31, 2015 07:22 PM (iQIUe)

58 Is that the owl one buzzion?
Remember the "Pop pop Tootsie Pop,,, daaaaaad." And the dogs ears go up?

Posted by: teej at October 31, 2015 07:22 PM (1Zi6N)

59 >>Transgender Approved - Transracial Denied

Ugh! These people are killing all the joy of the holiday. What happened to putting together your own costume - why expect a store to have everything you need or they're raaaacist, cis-normative a$$holes out to insult your lil' snowflake? Grow up.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 07:22 PM (NOIQH)

60 He is father of the year. Made sure his kid is dressed warmly, holding his hand, doing activities with him.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 31, 2015 07:23 PM (iQIUe)

61 69 Boyz: Tootsee Roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs7f3ssuEjA

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 31, 2015 07:24 PM (HMt16)

62 I should give out MREs this year to prepare for the burning times.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:07 PM (2x3L+)
Nope...spam, stale saltine crackers, cigarettes and Overholt rye whiskey. You'll get it and like it. You want fruit/veggies? Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 31, 2015 07:24 PM (ej1L0)

63 The tootsie roll is good inside the tootsie pop. I don't know why, but it's a good mix.

On their own, tootsie rolls just taste like artificial chocolate flavoring to me, with the aggravation of having to all but break your jaw to eat them.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:24 PM (JqEq4)

64 I approve of lollipops too.

So tootsie roll pops are lollipop, huh? With disappoint in the middle once you get to the tootsie roll center? That sounds kinda mean to me.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:16 PM (2x3L+)


So does Joe Biden:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/o3paqmr

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 31, 2015 07:25 PM (vBeA5)

65 Buzzion, outside of baseball and football and political debates, me no teevee.

And Candy Corn and Pixy stix all the way. Best Halloween candy.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:25 PM (2x3L+)

66 some kids weren't even in costume!

that's not Halloween, that's just begging

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 31, 2015 07:26 PM (Cq0oW)

67 Today waiting in line at a Post Office in the SF Bay Area I encountered the PROTOTYPICAL Bay Area racial back-and-forth interaction.

It starts with a lot of hot and bothered customers in line, most of whom were white, for a teller who was a black woman, today wearing voodoo-priestess white chalk designs on half of her face, like you sometimes see at Mardi Gras parties.

Despite her festive makeup, she was doing the classic "Little Hitler" act of torturing the people in line by doing everything as slowly as possible, and then even doing nothing as slowly as possible. At one stage, she spent ten solid minutes helping no one, but needlessly rearranging the counter, while talking into her bluetooth cellphone headset to a friend, mumbling "These cracka-ass fools gonna have to wait. Let 'em wait." What the psychologists call a "power trip," but in typical Bay Area fashion, a racialized power trip.

So, when she FINALLY starts helping people again, what does the first lady in line say -- a white, grey-haired old SF area liberal chick? "Happy Halloween! I just love your makeup! Hope everything is wonderful for you," and in general just falling all over herself with delight to have been abused and humiliated by a black woman, whom one must then act all ingratiating and condescending toward, as a manifestation of White Guilt.

The teller ignored her jabberings and silently sold her some stamps.

Life in the Bay Area.

Posted by: zombie at October 31, 2015 07:26 PM (jBuUi)

68 Out.
Leofb

Posted by: teej at October 31, 2015 07:26 PM (1Zi6N)

69 One time, at gymnastics camp, a couple of us counted how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop. Think it was over 800?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 07:26 PM (NOIQH)

70 Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:21 PM (2x3L+)

I love Halloween, but haven't done costumes in years. No one out here really does much, partly 'cuz we in the woods and partly because Bible Belt.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:26 PM (JqEq4)

71 From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:26 PM (vsbNu)

72 "BOO!"
-Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:04 PM (vsbNu)

WHY?!? Damnit! I spilled my apple juice and peed a little.

Thanks, "Bro!"

-Slappy f'ing Halloween to you, too, ya' skidmark.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), making a guest appearance (T) at October 31, 2015 07:27 PM (OQ9R7)

73 Slappy!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:28 PM (JqEq4)

74 On their own, tootsie rolls just taste like artificial chocolate flavoring to me, with the aggravation of having to all but break your jaw to eat them.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:24 PM (JqEq4)

--You've never had the flavored (lemon, orange, etc.) Tootsies?

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:28 PM (vsbNu)

75 So, who shot those people in Colorado Springs? They killed him but no info I can find as to who or why he did that.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 31, 2015 07:28 PM (iQIUe)

76 @75

What are you talking about?

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:29 PM (jJRIy)

77 --You've never had the flavored (lemon, orange, etc.) Tootsies?

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:28 PM (vsbNu)



Oh those are AWESOME

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 07:30 PM (zt+N6)

78 73: Tammy!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at October 31, 2015 07:30 PM (Z/+J6)

79 What's Halloween without some Alice Cooper...

"Feed My Frankenstein"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO2cHJmDkBg

Posted by: kbdabear at October 31, 2015 07:31 PM (GrXXa)

80
Oh those are AWESOME
Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 07:30 PM (zt+N6)


--The flavors are good, but they're also softer than the original Tootsies.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:32 PM (vsbNu)

81 75 So, who shot those people in Colorado Springs? They killed him but no info I can find as to who or why he did that.


The cops aren't releasing his name or motive.

Hmmmm.

But, 24 hour rule and all that.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 31, 2015 07:32 PM (HMt16)

82
btw, that orange notice about peanuts in the post below is further evidence supportng my theory that all the little leftist totalitarians are about are controlling Other by constantly creating New Rules.

The person who wrote that does not give a shit about children.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 31, 2015 07:32 PM (DgBcT)

83 75 So, who shot those people in Colorado Springs? They killed him but no info I can find as to who or why he did that.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 31, 2015 07:28 PM (iQIUe)

--According to news, sounds like suicide by cop.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:33 PM (vsbNu)

84
82
btw, that orange notice about peanuts in the post below is further evidence supportng my theory that all the little leftist totalitarians are about are controlling Other by constantly creating New Rules.

The person who wrote that does not give a shit about children.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 31, 2015 07:32 PM (DgBcT)



My thought would be to put out two bowls. One for "Normal families" with all the good stuff. And then one for "Parents who hate their children" full of the baby carrots.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 07:34 PM (zt+N6)

85 Hi Slapweasel. Where you been hiding? I hope you are well

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:34 PM (2x3L+)

86 Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:28 PM (vsbNu)

I had no idea such horrors existed, no.

If I wan't fake fruit flavored candy, I'll take a bag of Jolly Ranchers, thank you.

And I will cut a bitch who tries to eat any.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:34 PM (JqEq4)

87 btw, that orange notice about peanuts in the post below is further evidence supportng my theory that all the little leftist totalitarians are about are controlling Other by constantly creating New Rules.

The person who wrote that does not give a shit about children.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 31, 2015 07:32 PM (DgBcT)

******

My response to them, rrom the last thread:

I like Milky Ways. I eat them with peanuts to pretend they're Snickers. As I am doing so I think of how little Chad or Ashley would blow up like a freaking beach ball if they chose to do this, and I laugh and laugh.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 07:21 PM (gdiBW)

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 07:35 PM (gdiBW)

88 Chavez!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:35 PM (JqEq4)

89 I'm good, guys. Just waiting for Game Four to start, so I'll be A.F.K. after the game starts. No T.V. in the Den and my upstairs compy threw a HDD.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), making a guest appearance (T) at October 31, 2015 07:36 PM (OQ9R7)

90 Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 31, 2015 07:28 PM (iQIUe)

Was it the guy shooting motorists? And if so, was it the same guy shooting people further north?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 31, 2015 07:36 PM (GDulk)

91
Heh.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 31, 2015 07:36 PM (DgBcT)

92 I want whatever Ace is having.

Posted by: rickl at October 31, 2015 07:36 PM (sdi6R)

93 Jesus Christ, if my child was THAT allergic to so many things, I'd have a party at home.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:36 PM (JqEq4)

94 My thought would be to put out two bowls. One for "Normal families" with all the good stuff. And then one for "Parents who hate their children" full of the baby carrots.


Man, she really, really hates Raisinettes.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 31, 2015 07:37 PM (HMt16)

95 Yes, I was born in Candle Cove, Hawaii... why?

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at October 31, 2015 07:38 PM (FWubD)

96 --You've never had the flavored (lemon, orange, etc.) Tootsies?

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:28 PM (vsbNu)


Those are the best. I could eat them all day, every day.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 07:38 PM (zc3Db)

97 Man, so many candy bigots. I'm ashamed. All candies of all flavors and colors are great. As long as there is plenty of sugar (and no coconut or licorice)

Posted by: traye at October 31, 2015 07:38 PM (Onvc5)

98 93
Jesus Christ, if my child was THAT allergic to so many things, I'd have a party at home.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:36 PM (JqEq4)

I guess it never occurred to the SJW that she could go WITH her son when he trick or treats to look after him.

She's too busy putting up flyers.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:39 PM (jJRIy)

99 How's everybody doing? The weather here is perfect.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at October 31, 2015 07:39 PM (Z/+J6)

100 "Jesus Christ, if my child was THAT allergic to so many things, I'd have a party at home."
-Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:36 PM (JqEq4)

Exactly. Kids make friends, no matter how overbearing and narcissistic their parents are.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), making a guest appearance (T) at October 31, 2015 07:39 PM (OQ9R7)

101 I had a 15-month-old lion visit earlier who would give the porcupine a run for his money in the cuteness department.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 07:39 PM (TEpA2)

102 Brian Williams interned on Candle Cove.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 31, 2015 07:40 PM (HMt16)

103 I don't know which is worse; smothering your child to the point where they can't function in real life or scaring the crap out them so they can't function in real life.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 31, 2015 07:40 PM (Xo1Rt)

104 Well, we've got 15 minutes left of town-alotted trick or treating, and my doorbell hasn't rung once. Even my own grandchildren haven't shown up. How pathetic is that?

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:41 PM (dFi94)

105 Apparently Michigan is going 3 yards and a cloud of dust.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 07:41 PM (zt+N6)

106 One of my cousins has a newish-born in a little pea-pod costume. I nearly died of the cuteness.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:42 PM (JqEq4)

107 And at least that Dad/Bottle of Jack and his marlboro box kid were hanging out together.

See the smile on that face? I bet that kid remembers that fondly for years and maybe even tries to duplicate that with his own.

Good for you DAD!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 31, 2015 07:42 PM (Xo1Rt)

108 Grammie, your town has a trick or treating time limit?!?!

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 07:42 PM (TEpA2)

109 97 Man, so many candy bigots. I'm ashamed. All candies of all flavors and colors are great. As long as there is plenty of sugar (and no coconut or licorice)
Posted by: traye at October 31, 2015 07:38 PM (Onvc5)

--No love for Almond Joy?

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:42 PM (vsbNu)

110 Have a drink and a smoke.

The won't kill ya.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 07:42 PM (AgHOl)

111 So my daughter has Health Republic of NJ...and it seems Health Republic of NY a sister company is going under...They were both set up with Fredocare funds by the same women and she is best buds with guess who? Fredo


Fuckin cock suckers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 31, 2015 07:42 PM (DUoqb)

112 67--- zombie --- I'd like to think the older white woman was just playing the I'm-not-going-to-give-her-the-satisfaction game by pretending not to notice the clerk's behavior. Killing her with kindness, maybe.

But I suspect it really was pathetic, kick-me grovelling.



Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 07:43 PM (JfN61)

113 The teller ignored her jabberings and silently sold her some stamps.

Life in the Bay Area.

Posted by: zombie at October 31, 2015 07:26 PM (jBuUi)
I used to know a shop foreman at my local post orifice. He told me that the counter people always try to keep a customer waiting or as long as possible at their window so the other guy has to service more customers. Unions baby!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 31, 2015 07:43 PM (ej1L0)

114
I had a 15-month-old lion visit earlier who would give the porcupine a run for his money in the cuteness department.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 07:39 PM (TEpA2)

Is he still in the area?

Posted by: Bow hunting dentist at October 31, 2015 07:43 PM (5zyvn)

115 I don't remember "Candle Cove", but then again, there's a lot that I don't remember.

Maybe it's for a reason.

Posted by: rickl at October 31, 2015 07:43 PM (sdi6R)

116 I don't know which is worse; smothering your child to the point where they can't function in real life or scaring the crap out them so they can't function in real life.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 31, 2015 07:40 PM (Xo1Rt)

******

That second thing. Scars for life there. Hovering they can get away from.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 07:43 PM (gdiBW)

117 We had ONE trio of little girls trick or treat. To their credit, they had to climb a dark twisting driveway up a wooded hill to get to us. For their boldness, they each got about a half-bag of candy.

Posted by: goatexchange at October 31, 2015 07:44 PM (F68FA)

118 --No love for Almond Joy?

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:42 PM (vsbNu)


They're good ... once you spit the almond out. Better to just get Mounds and not have to go through the extra work.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 07:44 PM (zc3Db)

119 Grammie, your town has a trick or treating time limit?!?!

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 07:42 PM (TEpA2)
==========================================

Oh ya. They set the date too. It's usually never actually on Halloween. It's on the Sunday afternoon what falls before Halloween. They made an exception this year because Halloween falls on a Saturday.


Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:44 PM (dFi94)

120 --No love for Almond Joy?

Yeah, one of my favorites. I like the dark chocolate ones too.

I'm allergic to most nuts, but not almonds so I eat a lot of 'em.

I like Coffee Crisp too. They still make them, in Canada or somewhere. Wegman's carries them in their imported food section.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 31, 2015 07:45 PM (HMt16)

121 Log prof, I love Almond Joy, so you aren't alone. Far superior to Mounds

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:46 PM (2x3L+)

122 104
Well, we've got 15 minutes left of town-alotted trick or treating, and
my doorbell hasn't rung once. Even my own grandchildren haven't shown
up. How pathetic is that?


Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:41 PM (dFi94)

Next year tell them you won't have carrots again.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:46 PM (jJRIy)

123 121
Log prof, I love Almond Joy, so you aren't alone. Far superior to Mounds

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 07:46 PM (2x3L+)

True dat.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:46 PM (jJRIy)

124 Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:44 PM (dFi94)

If Halloween falls on a Sunday here, they will trick-or-treat on Saturday night. It's not a law, though, just the custom.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:47 PM (JqEq4)

125 "It's usually never actually on Halloween. It's on the Sunday afternoon what falls before Halloween."


What....?


That's kinda farked up.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 07:47 PM (AgHOl)

126 Oh ya. They set the date too. It's usually never actually on Halloween. It's on the Sunday afternoon what falls before Halloween. They made an exception this year because Halloween falls on a Saturday.


Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:44 PM (dFi94)


So, what do they do? Arrest kids in costumes who ring bells on any unapproved day. The town probably cleans up on the "filing fees" and "court costs" they charge the parents to get their kids back.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 07:48 PM (zc3Db)

127 Another classic candy commercial:

https://youtu.be/HdwVw4KZ_Bc

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:48 PM (vsbNu)

128 It is weird. I only get a craving for candy around this time of year. I'll eat just about anything. Bag of Kit-Kats, usually.

Then as soon as the craving shows up, it disappears. I'll bet I don't eat more than two candy bars throughout the rest of the year.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), making a guest appearance (T) at October 31, 2015 07:48 PM (OQ9R7)

129 My favorite candy: Fruit Pastilles (Brit.). kinda like Rollo-shaped and -sized gummy bears, but with tons of added sugar grains.

Posted by: goatexchange at October 31, 2015 07:48 PM (F68FA)

130 One place we lived they always had a teacher's work day the day after Halloween. A nice touch.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:48 PM (jJRIy)

131 "Far superior to Mounds "


Almond Joy has nuts, Mound don't.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 07:49 PM (AgHOl)

132 Unlike Peanut Mom's special snowflake, I don't remember ever being "devastated" by Halloween or all those platters of Christmas cookies around the holidays, that I couldn't partake of (my nut allergy is so bad, even a nut-free cookie that was touching a cookie with nuts can give me a reaction if I eat it.)

We just dealt with things as they were, back then.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 31, 2015 07:49 PM (HMt16)

133 Next year tell them you won't have carrots again.


Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:46 PM (jJRIy)
=======================================

Seriously - my daughter is a Food Nazi. Organic this, all natural that, whole foods blah blah blah. She had a fit when I put little chocolate bunnies and jelly beans in the kids' Easter baskets. I said - "What !? I should give them each a head of broccoli??"

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:49 PM (dFi94)

134 They made an exception this year because Halloween falls on a Saturday.


Posted by: grammie winger,

Well bless their little fascist hearts, isn't that generous.

Posted by: traye at October 31, 2015 07:49 PM (Onvc5)

135 Zombie, well you were there, but the little old lady gushing about the voodoo halloween makeup could be read as doing a very subtle version of "bless your heart" to the USPS cashier.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 31, 2015 07:50 PM (iA/+T)

136 Oh ya. They set the date too. It's usually never actually on Halloween. It's on the Sunday afternoon what falls before Halloween. They made an exception this year because Halloween falls on a Saturday.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:44 PM (dFi94)

******

Some weenie on our HOA Board tried to bring up making neighborhood rules for trick or treating here. I read some of the email responses. Freaking hilarious.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 07:50 PM (gdiBW)

137 Damn and my big bag of candy from Costco does NOT have any almond joys.


Assholes.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:50 PM (jJRIy)

138 So, what do they do? Arrest kids in costumes who
ring bells on any unapproved day. The town probably cleans up on the
"filing fees" and "court costs" they charge the parents to get their
kids back.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 07:48 PM (zc3Db)
====================================

Fire Hose

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:50 PM (dFi94)

139 Food allergies are on the rise in 1st world countries and they haven't figured out why. Peanut allergies in children have tripled since the 90s.

Something is screwing up their immune systems and there are all kinds of theories, but nothing concrete. I've even seen something talking about the modern diet is changing the balance of gut flora. Those little buggers apparently play a role in what our immune systems get hot and bothered by.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 07:50 PM (dvuhZ)

140 Watching 'Mad Monster Party' and giving out full-sized Hershey bars.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 31, 2015 07:50 PM (oVJmc)

141 Not sure how they afford it, but we just had a kid come up with a lemon and gave it to us saying "When life gives you lemons make lemonade" It was cute.

Posted by: FCF at October 31, 2015 07:51 PM (kejii)

142 The Denver Public Schools always has the three days before Halloween off --- they want nothing to do with the holiday. Suspect that costume/candy PC nannyism got to be too much.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 07:51 PM (NOIQH)

143 "Assholes."


Gotta check your bag. That's on you.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 07:51 PM (AgHOl)

144 Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 31, 2015 07:49 PM (HMt16)

Exactly, your problem was YOUR problem to deal with, not everyone else's to accommodate.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:52 PM (JqEq4)

145 Coconut in candy.

What sadist came up with that?

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 31, 2015 07:52 PM (oVJmc)

146 HOLY SHIT! I lied, one of the Costco bags has Almond Joys in it.



Eat your hearts out horde I going to open the bag and ruin my diet.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:52 PM (jJRIy)

147 145
Coconut in candy.

What sadist came up with that?


Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 31, 2015 07:52 PM (oVJmc)

The coconut oil is full of fat! YUM

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:53 PM (jJRIy)

148 "Fire Hose"
-Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:50 PM (dFi94)

It always amazes me when the smaller kids flow right into that tiny sewer opening. We take bets on which ones will/won't.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), making a guest appearance (T) at October 31, 2015 07:53 PM (OQ9R7)

149 119 Grammie, your town has a trick or treating time limit?!?!

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 07:42 PM (TEpA2)
==========================================

Oh ya. They set the date too. It's usually never actually on Halloween. It's on the Sunday afternoon what falls before Halloween. They made an exception this year because Halloween falls on a Saturday.




Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:44 PM (dFi94)



Yeah my town had that too. It was always on a Sunday afternoon for a couple hours. Starts out with a little parade with the high school or middle school band and the kids following ending at the school where they would hand out some candy there. And then you're off. Heavily Catholic area, so not sure if in the past it wasn't referred to as Halloween Trick-or-Treating but at least by the time I was doing it that is what it was known as.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 07:53 PM (zt+N6)

150 i was stunned to find that no one sells one of favorites anymore, chuckles. the kid at the counter never even heard of it.

they're still made, by a company that makes brach's, red hots and jujyfruits, ferrara, based in chicago.

with mars and wrigley, et al, chicago must be the candy capitol of the world.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at October 31, 2015 07:53 PM (WTSFk)

151 There was a recent Scandi (I think) study showing that kids raised with animals have fewer allergies and are overall healthier. That must be why my crew was so healthy. Dog hair -- one of the essential food groups!

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 31, 2015 07:54 PM (MIKMs)

152 Coconut in candy.

What sadist came up with that?


Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 31, 2015 07:52 PM (oVJmc)
=============================

Mmmmm coconut. I keep a bag of it in the house just to dip in to.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:54 PM (dFi94)

153 80 calories for one small almond joy. Damn

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:54 PM (jJRIy)

154 Classic Pink Panther Halloween:

"Pink Panic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzriJpYiGjw

"Pink Plasma"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_rfja8KTLw


Both are hilarious.

Bluh! Bluh!

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 07:54 PM (vsbNu)

155 I couldn't find any Brach's bags of caramel cubes - the kind we used to melt down for caramel apples. Weird.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 07:54 PM (NOIQH)

156 Headed-off to watch Game 4!

G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), making a guest appearance (T) at October 31, 2015 07:56 PM (OQ9R7)

157 I'm just sitting here enjoying homemade popcorn that is to die for.


Maybe I should be giving it to the trick-or-treaters: Eat this popcorn, kiddies. It's TO DIE FOR! BWHAHAHAHAHA!



Nah, I'd prolly get arrested.

Posted by: rickl at October 31, 2015 07:56 PM (sdi6R)

158 Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 07:53 PM (zt+N6)

where da hell you people live with all these cray rules?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:56 PM (JqEq4)

159
Empty eggshells shd always be broken up lest witches make boats out of them...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (iQIUe)

160 Father of the year

I knew someone who named their first-born Jack Daniel. On purpose, not a family name or anything.

Posted by: t-bird at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (OLNwX)

161
I couldn't find any Brach's bags of caramel cubes - the kind we used to melt down for caramel apples. Weird.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 07:54 PM (NOIQH)
==================================

Sometimes they put them in the produce section near to the apples.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (dFi94)

162 Candy will be really cheap tomorrow.

Posted by: eman at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (MQEz6)

163 I hate hate hate going to the post office. The scene you described could have happened here in Georgia zombie.

Posted by: freaked at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (BO/km)

164 There is indeed the hyper-clean hypothesis. In our quest for cleanliness, we are denying a baby's immune system from getting the proper training it needs, and thus it overreacts to harmless stimuli.

I've seen long and heated debates over it, with the strengths and weaknesses hashed out.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (dvuhZ)

165 I'm just handing out tiny bottles of Grey Goose to the little darlings. Their parents will thank me!

Hi everyone! Happy Halloween!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (jR7Wy)

166 I couldn't find any Brach's bags of caramel cubes - the kind we used to melt down for caramel apples. Weird.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 07:54 PM (NOIQH)


I think a lot of stores have moved to more expensive, snooty caramels.

The thing I remember about the Brach's caramels was that the plastic wrapping didn't always come off. It would break as I was taking it off and there was a little plastic left on the caramel. Usually you could fish it out with your tongue ... but if not the caramel covered it, anyway.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 07:58 PM (zc3Db)

167 D'oh! Thanks, grammie!
have a cookie recipe that calls for caramels, so I'll check that part of the store!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 07:58 PM (NOIQH)

168 where da hell you people live with all these cray rules?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 07:56 PM (JqEq4)
===============================================

I live in the only town in Paul Ryan's district that isn't Republican. Yeah me.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:58 PM (dFi94)

169 "Coconut in candy."


It's not the taste. It's the consistency.

Posted by: Woody Harrelson at October 31, 2015 07:58 PM (AgHOl)

170 The worse/best thing of not getting any treaters is I have to eat all the stickers bars I have. Luckily not expecting to get any I only ha 've one bag to eat.

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2015 07:58 PM (gE2Li)

171 Joe Buck: OK I am gay and proud of it.

The rest of the world: We already knew that and Fuck you!


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at October 31, 2015 07:58 PM (1ijHg)

172 I hate hate hate going to the post office. The scene you described could have happened here in Georgia zombie.
Posted by: freaked at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (BO/k

*****

Out here in the Acworth/Kennesaw, no issues like this at all.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 07:58 PM (gdiBW)

173 I've had about half of the mini candy bars so far. Milky Ways are better than 3 Musketeers, Snickers are better than both. What I'm really liking are these little 3-packs of Whoppers, malted milk balls.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 31, 2015 07:59 PM (2cS/G)

174 Over at the WSJ they have a story on CO shooting. The anti gun trolls are obviously been told to troll the WSJ. There are tons of the same comments.



Stop the guns. These trolls don't show up by accident. The WSJ commentators are bitch slapping them pretty hard.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 07:59 PM (jJRIy)

175 Shredded coconut is evil

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2015 08:00 PM (gE2Li)

176 "I'm just handing out tiny bottles of Grey Goose to the little darlings. "


Hahahaha....


Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 08:00 PM (AgHOl)

177 The anti-gun trolls are also all over the Denver Post site, too. It's almost like it's organized or something. Nah! /sarc

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:01 PM (NOIQH)

178


It's not the taste. It's the consistency.


Yes. Pencil shavings.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 31, 2015 08:01 PM (oVJmc)

179 Next year tell them you won't have carrots again.

Brussel sprouts have more anti-oxidants.

Posted by: A Highly Concerned Parent! at October 31, 2015 08:01 PM (OLNwX)

180 There is indeed the hyper-clean hypothesis. In our quest for cleanliness, we are denying a baby's immune system from getting the proper training it needs, and thus it overreacts to harmless stimuli.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (dvuhZ)


We're just raising a lot of weaklings. I think that fertility procedures have probably contributed to it, but mostly it's just a weakling thing.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a good amount of allergies are psychosomatic. Not saying that they aren't real but they are induced in kids by suggestion. Sort of like hysteria used to be a fashionable illness for girls.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 08:01 PM (zc3Db)

181 "The rest of the world: We already knew that and Fuck you!"


Seriously. I think Joe was the last one to realize it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 08:02 PM (AgHOl)

182 It's not the taste. It's the consistency.

*******

It's both. Yeecchhhh!

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:02 PM (gdiBW)

183 >>Good n' Plentys are under appreciated imho.

Posted by: Y-not

One of my favorites. Always liked Mike and Ikes too.

Posted by: Aviator at October 31, 2015 08:02 PM (c7vUv)

184 Shredded coconut is not evil! Love almond joy and homemade macaroons!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (NOIQH)

185 In Bernie Sanders America, only one candy will be made: Tootsee Roll!

Posted by: Colin at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (0bEpn)

186 175 Shredded coconut is evil
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2015 08:00 PM (gE2Li)


The best popcorn is popped in coconut oil.

Posted by: rickl at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (sdi6R)

187 "I'm just handing out tiny bottles of Grey Goose to the little darlings. "





Hahahaha....







Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 08:00 PM (AgHOl)"

Silver dimes would be cheaper.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (1ijHg)

188 Kind a hard to make yourself break out in hives followed by anaphylactic shock, though.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (JqEq4)

189 Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 07:58 PM (dFi94)

next time you see the speaker, you tell him traye says hey, and kick him in the nut. You can skip the saying hey part.

Posted by: traye at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (Onvc5)

190 There is indeed the hyper-clean hypothesis. In our
quest for cleanliness, we are denying a baby's immune system from
getting the proper training it needs, and thus it overreacts to harmless
stimuli.

I've seen long and heated debates over it, with the strengths and weaknesses hashed out.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (dvuhZ)
===================================
My daughter's hyper-clean in addition to being a Food Nazi. Always boiling toys and pacifiers and crap like that. She's got all three kids trained to use hand sanitizers every time they turn around. If I take them to the store and put them in a cart, I have to use a cart cover.

That's if she's around. When she's not around we play in the dirt and look for bugs and mess around in the swampy part of their pond and get goose poop on our shoes, and then I take them all back to the trunk of my car where the cookies and candy stash are, and let them pick out two of whatever they want. Okay maybe three. No more than four. Five's my limit.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (dFi94)

191 I always wondered if it had something to do in the past with the 90%+ Catholic town's reluctance of a "Satanic Holiday" or whatever that it wasn't on Halloween night. I know I've heard of a "Beggar's Night" in other places where they would do it on a night other than Halloween to avoid the Halloween connection. Like I said though where I was it wasn't referred to as anything other than Halloween and Trick-or-Treat.


But really as a kid I didn't give a damn about when it was or how long it officially lasted because I still got plenty of candy.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (zt+N6)

192 I read somewhere that allergies are more common now is because kids nowadays are more sheltered, not outside playing in the dirt.

And eating about a pound of dirt a year.

Do you think current snowflakes would drop candy on the ground, and "Kiss it up up God"
then devour it ?

Posted by: seamrog at October 31, 2015 08:04 PM (RJYdU)

193 Yarr! To Cankle Cove we sail!

Posted by: Cacklebeard the Pirate at October 31, 2015 08:04 PM (FWubD)

194 I couldn't find any Brach's bags of caramel cubes

Brach's has been closed for years here in Chicago. Had a buddy whose dad retired out of there. Maybe they make them elsewhere but the plant here is gone.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:04 PM (kDYa9)

195 next time you see the speaker, you tell him traye says hey, and kick him in the nut. You can skip the saying hey part.

Posted by: traye at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (Onvc5)
============================
Ha! I'll be sure to pass that message along.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:04 PM (dFi94)

196 There is indeed the hyper-clean hypothesis.

Vitamin Dirt is an essential part of growing up. And it's available most everywhere outdoors.

Posted by: t-bird at October 31, 2015 08:04 PM (OLNwX)

197 Candle Cove episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqAfm9-wkMI

Posted by: The Political Hat at October 31, 2015 08:05 PM (vBeA5)

198 If I take them to the store and put them in a cart, I have to use a cart cover.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:03 PM (dFi94)


LOL.

Sorry, but that's funny.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 08:05 PM (zc3Db)

199 Donald Trump -- Goes as himself (because who wouldn't want to be him)

Ben Carson -- Energizer Bunny

Marco Rubio -- Some character named Dondi

Ted Cruz -- Borrows Steals Scott Walker's Throne of Skulls, becomes

Reaper of Reporters, most terrifying nightmare of the GOPe

Juan Ellis Bush -- 45th President (because his mommy said he could be anything he wanted, no matter how ridiculous)

Juan Kasich -- Mailman, just like his daddy (in case you haven't heard)

Carly Fiorina -- Slave Leia

Krispy Kreme Christie -- Jabba the Hut

Rand Paul -- Yukon Cornelius, looking for "SIIIILLLLVEEEERRRR!" (dimes)

Posted by: GOP Presidential Debate and Halloween Costume Contest at October 31, 2015 08:06 PM (eteeV)

200 I'm allergic to cats. However, living with one is better for my allergy because then I don't go to someone's house with cats and turn purple and faint. Saves on the allergy shots too.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 31, 2015 08:06 PM (MIKMs)

201 I like Good and Plentys. I like Mike and Ike. But I love Hot Tamales.

I once won a NASCAR hat, from buying them at the vending machine at work.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at October 31, 2015 08:06 PM (1ijHg)

202 "Pink Panic"

It'd be too far if Pink actually butt-flossed with the ghost towel while drying off.

Posted by: DaveA at October 31, 2015 08:07 PM (DL2i+)

203 I have also noticed no child's bare foot ever touches dirt any more. They all wear shoes in the gawt damned water even.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:07 PM (JqEq4)

204 Milky Ways are better than 3 Musketeers, Snickers are better than both.


Candy bar ranking. 3 Musketeers. Milky Way. Snickers. Milky Way Dark Chocolate.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 08:07 PM (zt+N6)

205 My daughter's hyper-clean in addition to being a Food Nazi. Always
boiling toys and pacifiers and crap like that. She's got all three kids
trained to use hand sanitizers every time they turn around. If I take
them to the store and put them in a cart, I have to use a cart cover.




A "cart cover" WTF is that?

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:07 PM (jJRIy)

206 If I take them to the store and put them in a cart, I have to use a cart cover.

Send her video of the grandkids squealing with delight in the town's greased pig contest.

Posted by: t-bird at October 31, 2015 08:08 PM (OLNwX)

207 My Motto all during my kids' early years was 'Eh, That's Why They've Got An Immune System.'


Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 31, 2015 08:08 PM (oVJmc)

208 Do they still make those giant sweet tarts, two to a pack, for the Halloween trade? That, Full size Snickers bars, and Reese's peanut butter cups were the Triad of Awesome when I was a kid.

Second Tier, but still good: Bazooka bubble gum, Sno Caps, pixie sticks, big wad bubble gum, wax bottles of flavored goop/wax lips

Tertiary: butterscotch candies, candy corn, dum dums, red hots

The worst: ribbon candy, black Necco wafers, and toothbrushes.

I wasn't a fan of Good 'n' Plenty but it could be used as currency in the Big House the next day in the lunchroom.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (jR7Wy)

209 Candy bar ranking. 3 Musketeers. Milky Way. Snickers. Milky Way Dark Chocolate.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 08:07 PM (zt+N6)


You listed that backwards, right? And Butterfingers go at the top.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (zc3Db)

210 >>That's if she's around.....


Heh! Best granma evah!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (NOIQH)

211 Lotsa kids came knocking around here. Some good costumes mixed in with meh efforts. The most memorable, was the kid dressed as The Stig. No bag... no announcement. Just stood there with his arms crossed until you gave him something. I LOLed.

Posted by: otho at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (EWg9n)

212 194
Brach's has been closed for years here in Chicago. Had a buddy whose dad retired out of there. Maybe they make them elsewhere but the plant here is gone.
Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:04 PM (kDYa9)


Because American-owned companies employing Americans making products that American customers want to buy is just wrong.

It's exploitative, and bad for the environment or something.

Posted by: rickl at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (sdi6R)

213 And Rolo beats them all!

Sorry, Snickers is KIng.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (1ijHg)

214 Candy bar ranking. 3 Musketeers. Milky Way. Snickers. Milky Way Dark Chocolate.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 08:07 PM (zt+N6)


Dead guys have no taste. 3 Musketeers suck. Only eatable if none of the other three are available

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (jJRIy)

215 I have never heard of a cart cover either.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (BHl9S)

216 That mini-twix was damned tasty. Reminded me of a crunchy candy you'd get in a Whitman's Sampler or Russell-Stover box.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 31, 2015 08:10 PM (2cS/G)

217 213
And Rolo beats them all!

Sorry, Snickers is KIng.




Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (1ijHg)

Rolo's are the crack of candy. Addictive.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:10 PM (jJRIy)

218 I have also noticed no child's bare foot ever touches dirt any more. They all wear shoes in the gawt damned water even.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:07 PM (JqEq4)

******

That's one I had to sneak around the wife.

We would go play with the slip & slide setup in a downhill (slightly) pinestraw bed, sans shoes. She would have shat if she knew kid was barefoot.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:11 PM (gdiBW)

219 1. Snickers
2. Butterfinger
3. Milky Way


Done.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 08:11 PM (AgHOl)

220 Just realized that the porch light is off.

No wonder we didn't get any trick-or-treaters.

At 8:15, it is too late to turn it on.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at October 31, 2015 08:11 PM (1ijHg)

221 Yankee at the candy thread gave me a perfect idea.
Wear a Bernie mask and when kids show up get a percentage of what they have.

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2015 08:11 PM (gE2Li)

222 A "cart cover" WTF is that?


Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:07 PM (jJRIy)
=========================================

It's this cloth thing that fits over the basket part of the cart - where the kid sits. It's got leg holes so their feet will fit through but there hands and body won't come in contact with the cart.
I keep it in my car. When I take the kids to WalMart, she always says - Make sure to use the cart cover! I say Okay! I never do.

I'm a horrible lying liar of a grandma. But come on - a CART COVER?

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:11 PM (dFi94)

223 The cutest costume I saw on Facebook was a little 2 year old dressed as a crazy cat lady. Pink robe with stuffed animal cats sewn on it. Pink rollers cat eye glasses.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:12 PM (BHl9S)

224 209 Candy bar ranking. 3 Musketeers. Milky Way. Snickers. Milky Way Dark Chocolate.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 08:07 PM (zt+N6)

You listed that backwards, right? And Butterfingers go at the top.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (zc3Db)


Milky Way Dark at the top. Butterfingers are excluded due to design flaws. Buying the candy bar it is always broken in 2 and they stick to your teeth.

Posted by: buzzion at October 31, 2015 08:12 PM (zt+N6)

225 116 I don't know which is worse; smothering your child to the point where they can't function in real life or scaring the crap out them so they can't function in real life.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 31, 2015 07:40 PM (Xo1Rt)

******

That second thing. Scars for life there. Hovering they can get away from.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 07:43 PM (gdiBW)

Ditto. I would have preferred hovering to terrorism.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 31, 2015 08:12 PM (kpqmD)

226 The most memorable, was the kid dressed as The Stig. No bag... no announcement. Just stood there with his arms crossed until you gave him something.

That's hilarious!

Posted by: I wonder if the new show will still have the Stig at October 31, 2015 08:12 PM (DCPtp)

227 Funny thing about Rolo,

Where the Hell were you when I was young?


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at October 31, 2015 08:12 PM (1ijHg)

228 Those two giant sweet tart things... that's bringing back memories. I was grown by then, but they used tohave these things that were giant sweet tart type things, and then they had a little stick thingee that you used to add powder to or something??

Anyone?? Or was this strictly sold on Candle Cove?!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:13 PM (JqEq4)

229 I probably only had shoes on all summer as a kid was when I went to church

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2015 08:13 PM (gE2Li)

230 I don't eat sweets but I do like a frozen Snickers every now and again.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:13 PM (kDYa9)

231 These modern parents OD their kids on hand sanitizer too. A little dirt won't hurt anyone.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:13 PM (BHl9S)

232
It's this cloth thing that fits over the basket
part of the cart - where the kid sits. It's got leg holes so their feet
will fit through but there hands and body won't come in contact with the
cart.
I keep it in my car. When I take the kids to WalMart, she
always says - Make sure to use the cart cover! I say Okay! I never do.

I'm a horrible lying liar of a grandma. But come on - a CART COVER?


Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:11 PM (dFi94)

You have got to be kidding me? Is your daughter named Mary and is she from VT?

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:13 PM (jJRIy)

233 Didn't know what a cart cover was either.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 08:14 PM (AgHOl)

234 O/T: let's go royals

Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 31, 2015 08:14 PM (uZNvH)

235 Coconut in candy.

What sadist came up with that?
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel


Dried coconut is garbage.

It should be called 'clown dandruff.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 31, 2015 08:14 PM (JmGFJ)

236 Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:11 PM (gdiBW)

We're the same age I think, so can you tell me when this shoes-in-the-water became a thing?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:14 PM (JqEq4)

237 Hershey's with Almond.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:15 PM (p9ACE)

238 Anyone?? Or was this strictly sold on Candle Cove?!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:13 PM (JqEq4)

******

Pixie Stix?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:15 PM (gdiBW)

239 Tammy, are you thinking of Lick'em Ade?

*back down, 'rons. Jeesh.*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 08:15 PM (jR7Wy)

240 Man, those people would shit themselves coming to our farm. You cannot walk on a square inch that hasn't had poo on it. I figured there is just no way to keep my kids out of so I just say "go for it" and try to remember to squirt them off a bit before bedtime. My daughter had a ring of dirt around her mouth today and I didn't even consider it, but I'm sure the dirt she ate had some poo in it.

Posted by: traye at October 31, 2015 08:15 PM (Onvc5)

241 Do you take your daughters to the store naked? If not why a "Cart Cover". Where do you find such things? I have NEVER seen one EVER.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:15 PM (jJRIy)

242 194 I couldn't find any Brach's bags of caramel cubes

Brach's has been closed for years here in Chicago. Had a buddy whose dad retired out of there. Maybe they make them elsewhere but the plant here is gone.
Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:04 PM (kDYa9)


--I know Life Saver moved from Chicago to Canada because of the (artificially) high price of sugar in the USA. Maybe same with Brach's?

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 08:15 PM (vsbNu)

243 Baby Ruth are better than Snickers, Butterfinger is also up there.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 31, 2015 08:15 PM (2cS/G)

244 I have never heard of a cart cover either, but for the health of the poor sod who gets the cart after the drooling, pooping, snot monster has been in it it's not a bad idea!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:16 PM (JqEq4)

245 I really wanted to hand out candy cigs, but I probably would be breaking a law here in New York State. (you can still buy them in some states?)

Posted by: Colin at October 31, 2015 08:16 PM (0bEpn)

246 Coconut is a funny thing.

You either love it or hate it.

Wifey hates it. I love it.

Yum yum. More for me.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at October 31, 2015 08:17 PM (1ijHg)

247 237
Hershey's with Almond.


Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:15 PM (p9ACE)

I'll see your Hershey's and raise you a Cadbury with Hazel Nuts.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:17 PM (jJRIy)

248 We're the same age I think, so can you tell me when this shoes-in-the-water became a thing?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:14 PM (JqEq4)

*******

Seems like about 1990,craze.the whole parenting by the book thing became a craze.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:17 PM (gdiBW)

249 They have antiseptic wipes to wipe the bastard juice off of the carts now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:17 PM (p9ACE)

250 My wife got the little monsters Kit Kats. The bitch. I'm already into three and am HORRIFIED about what the rest of the night will bring.

Posted by: Caliban at October 31, 2015 08:17 PM (3GFMN)

251 Already had trick-or-treating parents ask me what the score was

Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 31, 2015 08:17 PM (uZNvH)

252 "Dried coconut is garbage."

I like coconut. Woody don't, but I do.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 08:18 PM (AgHOl)

253 245 I really wanted to hand out candy cigs, but I probably would be breaking a law here in New York State. (you can still buy them in some states?)
Posted by: Colin at October 31, 2015 08:16 PM (0bEpn)

Yes, but way off the beaten path. Oldtimecandy dot com has them.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 31, 2015 08:18 PM (kpqmD)

254 Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 08:15 PM (jR7Wy)

Yes, I think so!!! Off to Google.


Definitely not Pixie Sticks, which I love, but it was Pixie Stick like powder.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:18 PM (JqEq4)

255 You have got to be kidding me? Is your daughter named Mary and is she from VT?


Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:13 PM (jJRIy)
========================================

Nah, but she's a nursing professor. She's in and out of multiple hospitals every day supervising nursing students. They have strict germ protocols, which makes sense for hospital patients. But not for toddlers! I think she can't shut off "nurse" and just do "mom".


Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:19 PM (dFi94)

256 248

This tablet keyboard sucks!

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:19 PM (gdiBW)

257
>>>Lotsa kids came knocking around here. Some good costumes mixed in with
meh efforts. The most memorable, was the kid dressed as The Stig. No
bag... no announcement. Just stood there with his arms crossed until you
gave him something. I LOLed.


Posted by: otho at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (EWg9n)<<<

Some say he just wants candy, and if you give it to him, he won't t.p. your house.

Some say that he's gonna t.p. your house anyway.
All we know is... he's called the Stig.

Posted by: kid in a Jeremy Clarkson costume at October 31, 2015 08:19 PM (eteeV)

258 There may be something to this exposure idea, since I grew up in the sticks exposed to Nature Red in Tooth and Claw, or at least dirt, muck, and poop, plus dogs, cats, birds, fish, snakes, bugs, and most feculent of all, other children, and I am allergic to nothing.

I do use lots of hand sanitizer at work to decrease exposure to nerd cooties.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 08:19 PM (jR7Wy)

259 My complex is all 1 bedrooms and efficiencies. So only the Illegals have kids.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:19 PM (p9ACE)

260 I sort of miss trick or treating when the kids were young and we lived in a "starter" neighborhood. All the dad's would make a roader and take the kids out. We planned our stops at homes where we could get a refill.



Good times.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:20 PM (jJRIy)

261 Twix (either original caramel or peanut butter) is the best candy bar. No contest for me.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 08:20 PM (vsbNu)

262 Kit Kat's have good texture.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:21 PM (p9ACE)

263 228 Tammy

are you talking about "Pixie Stix' ?

Shaped like a long pencil, paper filled with some type of powder that would pour into your mouth, and either eat it or sneeze your ass off.

really bitter flavor

Posted by: seamrog at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (RJYdU)

264 But not for toddlers! I think she can't shut off "nurse" and just do "mom".




Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:19 PM (dFi94)

That explains it. She probably sees all sort of shit. Hospitals are a germ factory.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (jJRIy)

265 164 There is indeed the hyper-clean hypothesis. In our quest for cleanliness, we are denying a baby's immune system from getting the proper training it needs, and thus it overreacts to harmless stimuli.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 07:57 PM (dvuhZ)
--------------
That's what I have always told my kids, none of whom have allergies.
Yeah, I tell 'em I USED to be a good housekeeper but sacrificed a clean house for the sake of their health.

Heh. When they were little they believed it.
But maybe.......

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (JfN61)

266 They still cell candy cigarettes, but they don't put the red dot on one end and just call them 'candy sticks.'

As if candy cigarettes lead to smoking.

I do remember cylinders of bubble gum that were wrapped in paper printed like a cigarette. You could put one in your mouth and blow a puff through it and make the powdered sugar coating it look like smoke.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (oVJmc)

267 Where do you get a "cart cover"?

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (jJRIy)

268 245 I really wanted to hand out candy cigs, but I probably would be breaking a law here in New York State. (you can still buy them in some states?)
Posted by: Colin at October 31, 2015 08:16 PM (0bEpn)
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Just don't sell 'em loose!

Do they still make Pink Owl bubble gum cee-gars? I loved those as a kid.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (jR7Wy)

269 "who gets the cart after the drooling, pooping, snot monster "


Well, I try not to mess them up too bad.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (AgHOl)

270 They have antiseptic wipes to wipe the bastard juice off of the carts now.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:17 PM (p9ACE)


Oh, I know! And I am not afraid of bastard juice, by the way, I was just joking. I taught pre-school for years; I literally had a cold for the first 18 months, but haven't had one since, which was decades ago.

I don't ever touch my face in public and I wash my hands first thing when I come home from going anywhere.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (JqEq4)

271 Irish TD, first score.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 08:23 PM (vsbNu)

272 I remember those -- think they were called "Dipping Stix". One flat, white candy stick and two pouches of colored, flavored sugar.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:23 PM (NOIQH)

273 I know Life Saver moved from Chicago to Canada because of the
(artificially) high price of sugar in the USA. Maybe same with Brach's?

Too lazy to look it up but a LOT of major candy was made in Chicago. I think Hostess Twinkies were from here as well. Nasty little things.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:23 PM (kDYa9)

274 My little boy's out trick-or-treating tonight. He's on his own because he's getting to the age at which parents are the most humiliating things ever.

We both know that this is his last year. He has no younger siblings to "escort" the way his big sister did (so that she could go candy-begging until she was old enough to go partying).

It's a perfect evening, no rain, not too cold. He's been out for a couple of hours now; I think he was planning to meet up with some friends.

I hope they get into trouble. Not big trouble, but something to make the night memorable. When it's your last night trick-or-treating and you're a boy, you should get into trouble.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 31, 2015 08:24 PM (VvMUk)

275 Posted by: seamrog at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (RJYdU)

No, but the one component is very much like Pixie dust. It is sour to me, by the way, not bitter.

I LOVE sour.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:24 PM (JqEq4)

276 261
Twix (either original caramel or peanut butter) is the best candy bar. No contest for me.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 08:20 PM (vsbNu)

Twix and Kit Kat's are damn good, but the best? Lots of competition. No one has mentioned Heath bars?

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:24 PM (jJRIy)

277 Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:23 PM (NOIQH)

THAT'S IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:25 PM (JqEq4)

278 208 Do they still make those giant sweet tarts, two to a pack, for the Halloween trade?


Love Sweet Tarts. Used to smuggle them into Algebra II in prep school and pass them around surreptitiously; that is, behind my back. Teacher was very old school which made it even more rewarding.

Posted by: Caliban at October 31, 2015 08:25 PM (3GFMN)

279 Heath bars were an adult thing for me. I gave them to my mom, who loved them. Same with licorice.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 08:25 PM (jR7Wy)

280 Posted by: Trimegistus at October 31, 2015 08:24 PM (VvMUk)

I so agree. Fun trouble.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:26 PM (JqEq4)

281 That Candle Cove thing has a Twilight Zone feel to it. I loved it!

Posted by: Puddleglum at October 31, 2015 08:26 PM (JWr+Z)

282 Love BabyRuths and Payday (nekkid babyruths), Butterfinger, Snickers.....

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:26 PM (NOIQH)

283 Ruth! Ruth! Ruth!

Baby! Ruth!

Posted by: Sloth at October 31, 2015 08:26 PM (FWubD)

284 I hope they get into trouble. Not big trouble, but
something to make the night memorable. When it's your last night
trick-or-treating and you're a boy, you should get into trouble.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 31, 2015 08:24 PM (VvMUk)

I spray painted an asshole neighbor door, they were gone. Someone turned me in. I had to go over and paint his entire front.
That was it. No cops.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:26 PM (jJRIy)

285 Twix and Kit Kat's are damn good, but the best? Lots of competition. No one has mentioned Heath bars?
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:24 PM (jJRIy)

******

I love those, but have not seen them in stores for at least 10 years. Maybe a little Chad or Ashley chipped a tooth on one and they had to stop mass marketing.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:27 PM (gdiBW)

286 HOLLOWEEN WARNING!! If you have any kind of mustache, DO NOT try to eat a candy or caramel apple. And don't ask how I know.

Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2015 08:27 PM (FvdPb)

287 Where do you get a "cart cover"?


Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:22 PM (jJRIy)
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I dunno. She gave me the one that I don't use, I mean - the one I always always use without fail.
She has two more at her house. Who knows how she found them, or even knew about them. I've never seen anyone else have one. So apparently other children are being put in grocery carts with no cart cover, and yet coming out alive.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:27 PM (dFi94)

288 Finally, a BabyRuth fan.
* waves Hi to Lizzy *

Posted by: L, Elle at October 31, 2015 08:28 PM (2x3L+)

289 No one has mentioned Heath bars?
Posted by: Nip Sip


Someone mentioned them the other night as being the WORST! I like them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 31, 2015 08:28 PM (FkBIv)

290 beirut? what do you know about beirut?

best damn baseball player in history!

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at October 31, 2015 08:28 PM (WTSFk)

291
I love those, but have not seen them in stores
for at least 10 years. Maybe a little Chad or Ashley chipped a tooth on
one and they had to stop mass marketing.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:27 PM (gdiBW)

That's weird, they are owned my Hersey now, they are everywhere I go.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:28 PM (jJRIy)

292 272
I remember those too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:29 PM (BHl9S)

293 Aren't Candy Bars like a buck when not on sale?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:29 PM (p9ACE)

294 I love Kit Kats. And Mallo cups, which I haven't had since I was a kid. Now. I really want some and I don't even know if they still make them.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. (Brandishing ampersands) at October 31, 2015 08:30 PM (P8951)

295 I've seen cart covers sold in infant toy catalogues. They're in the same section as the organic baby food makers and those sling baby carriers.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:30 PM (NOIQH)

296 This discussion reminds of a friend and "Beeroween." He brews his own beer, puts it on his neighbor's golf cart, and they follow the kids around the neighborhood offering a Halloween toast to the parents.

Posted by: Caliban at October 31, 2015 08:30 PM (3GFMN)

297 272 With a picture of a fat kid on the packet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:31 PM (p9ACE)

298 I like Baby Ruth bars. And nearly every other chocolate bar on the planet.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:31 PM (TEpA2)

299 285
I love Heath bars too. Reese then butterfingers.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:31 PM (BHl9S)

300 no, but seriously, life savers was chicago, too? wow.

ya know, the mars family is worth like $30 billion.
from candy bars. you never hear about them because the founder of the firm had an iron rule: never talk to the press. ever. about anything.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at October 31, 2015 08:31 PM (WTSFk)

301 We've had *one* trick-or-treater. One.
Son is manning the door - he declared he is too old to go out. He is so gonna claim all of the leftover candy.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:31 PM (NOIQH)

302 I was looking for those safe-t-pops -- lollipops with a string loop instead of a stick. They had really good flavors. Couldn't find them this year. Have a lot of candy left over it rained most of the day. (The 3Musketeers are MINE!) In my area kids trick or treat through high school and some of the costumes are great.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 31, 2015 08:31 PM (MIKMs)

303 She has two more at her house. Who knows how she
found them, or even knew about them. I've never seen anyone else have
one. So apparently other children are being put in grocery carts with no
cart cover, and yet coming out alive.



Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:27 PM (dFi94)


Yep. I tell you what is great fun, is to go to Costco in the morning when all these 30 something MILFs show up with their two kids in the cart shopping.
Makes me happy to see MILFs with kids and these kids are well behaved.

As a gentleman, I some times offer my help to these young ladies. Just cause you have to get your "good turn" in for the day.
Yeah, that's it.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:32 PM (jJRIy)

304 fun dip

Posted by: concrete girl at October 31, 2015 08:32 PM (f3K9g)

305 They're in the same section as the organic baby food makers
============================================




Well there ya go. That sounds like exactly where she would look for all those weird things that she has. And yes, she did the whole organic baby food maker thing too. She exhausts me.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:33 PM (dFi94)

306 Great, now this jingle is stuck in my head:

Baby Ruth and Butterfinger! Fresh! Guaranteed!

(Na-bis-co)

https://youtu.be/TFRqnQ7h2T4

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 08:34 PM (vsbNu)

307 Best candy: Midnight Milky Way, Butterfingers, Baby Ruth, York Peppermint Patties.

I like Almond Joy okay but wish it were dark chocolate.
I once put a naked Almond Joy and a naked Mounds together hoping they would mate and produce a dark chocolate A Joy.
But they didn't.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 08:34 PM (JfN61)

308 yes - fun dip! thanks!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:34 PM (NOIQH)

309 "No one has mentioned Heath bars? "


I guess they're okay. Not top o' list, but, okay.


No Zero bar fans here?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 08:34 PM (AgHOl)

310 The Fun Dip Fat Kid seems to be gone.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:34 PM (p9ACE)

311 We've had *one* trick-or-treater. One.


If it's not too late, maybe you should take the Garand and go sit in the house awhile. It's ok if they walk on your grass one night out of the year.
/s

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:35 PM (kDYa9)

312 I don't get any trick or treaters, I would have to give them an apple or pomegranate.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (BHl9S)

313 Oh Henry bars. I didn't see them this year.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (dFi94)

314 No Zero bar fans here?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 31, 2015 08:34 PM (AgHOl)

My X wife loves them, I think they taste cheap. Hunt for Red October is on American Hero's Channel, the old Military channel.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (jJRIy)

315 Well there ya go. That sounds like exactly where she would look for all those weird things that she has. And yes, she did the whole organic baby food maker thing too. She exhausts me.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:33 PM (dFi94)

******

Have you asked her how she thinks she made it through her childhood so well, given the obvious germ abuse that was heaped on her?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (gdiBW)

316 Our Kroger keeps marking Giant Hershey Bars down to $1. They are almost $3 otherwise.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (p9ACE)

317 Best candy: Midnight Milky Way, Butterfingers, Baby Ruth, York Peppermint Patties.




Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 08:34 PM (JfN61)


Ever stick a York Peppermint Patty in the microwave (sans wrapper, of course)?

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (TEpA2)

318 remember the little wax bottles with about a half ounce of colored sugar water ?

And the big red wax lips?

Was wax a part of the food pyramid back then ?

Posted by: seamrog at October 31, 2015 08:37 PM (RJYdU)

319 ya know, the mars family is worth like $30 billion.
from candy bars.


Plus they own a whole planet.

Posted by: Neil de Grasse Tyson at October 31, 2015 08:37 PM (DCPtp)

320 Once upon a time there was an engineer,
Choo-choo Charlie was his name we hear,
He had an engine and it sure was fun,
He used Good-n-Plenty candy to make his train run.

Charlie says, love my Good-n-Plenty.
Charlie says, really rings the bell.
Charlie says, love my Good-n-Plenty,
There is no other candy that I love so well.


Ridiculous that I still remember that jingle.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 31, 2015 08:38 PM (MIKMs)

321 Minnesota hanging with Michigan.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 08:39 PM (vsbNu)

322 ManBearPig seems to be in retreat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:39 PM (p9ACE)

323 Not sure how they afford it, but we just had a kid come up with a lemon and gave it to us saying "When life gives you lemons make lemonade" It was cute.

Posted by: FCF at October 31, 2015 07:51 PM (kejii)

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down... with the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

Posted by: Cave Johnson at October 31, 2015 08:39 PM (3pRHP)

324 No trick or treaters here. All the candy now belong to me.


I did see a witch in an electric wheelchair going up the sidewalk earlier. I was worried about her because it looked like her dress was might get caught in the wheels.

Posted by: freaked at October 31, 2015 08:40 PM (BO/km)

325 318
I remember those. The drink was disgusting.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:40 PM (BHl9S)

326 I can't imagine what the barrel will be like tonight.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:40 PM (TEpA2)

327 We are all Googling "cart cover" now...the lights dimmed at Google.

Posted by: Colin at October 31, 2015 08:40 PM (0bEpn)

328 Tiny wax "soda bottles" full of disgustingly sweet multi-colored liquid. (No wrapper)

Circus Peanuts. (No wrapper)

Wax Lips (No wrapper)

Chuckleheads.

BB Bats.

Bit o Honeys.

Pixie Stix.

Non-edible glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth.

Just reminiscing some of the crap I used to get in my bag.

Posted by: Sloth at October 31, 2015 08:40 PM (FWubD)

329 Oh Henry bars. I didn't see them this year.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (dFi94)


They were fantastic! I haven't seen any of them in a long time.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 31, 2015 08:40 PM (zc3Db)

330 Have you asked her how she thinks she made it
through her childhood so well, given the obvious germ abuse that was
heaped on her?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (gdiBW)
=============================================

Yeah - she moans and groans about how she doesn't know how she ever made it out alive, and why did I let her eat Fruit Loops, why did I let her watch so many cartoons, and blah blah blah. I just pretend to be senile.

On the other hand, on Election Day, she'll text me to see who she's supposed to vote for. So there's that.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:41 PM (dFi94)

331 Aye! I been Italilizized

Posted by: freaked at October 31, 2015 08:41 PM (BO/km)

332 Cave to the Barrel!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 08:41 PM (0yhH4)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 08:42 PM (0yhH4)

334 Gonna be sticky in the barrel tonight.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:42 PM (kDYa9)

335 I also loved abba zabba candy bars. Taffy like substance with peanut butter inside.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:42 PM (BHl9S)

336 317---Ever stick a York Peppermint Patty in the microwave (sans wrapper, of course)?
Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (TEpA2)
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Er, .....no.
Should I?

I do put them in the freezer sometimes and eat 'em half frozen.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 08:42 PM (JfN61)

337 One Charleston Chew could last me my whole afternoon paper route, so I went through a phase where I ate them every day. Occasionally even the Strawberry ones.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 31, 2015 08:42 PM (2cS/G)

338 Candy Corn. Yecch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:43 PM (p9ACE)

339 Never liked Zero bars. They were Uncanny Valley candy -- it looks like a candy bar, but it's NOT CHOCOLATE.

My mother decided for a while that chocolate was Bad For Us so she bought what seemed like a whole shipping container of Zero bars. Felt like a whole school year went by with those damned things in my lunch. Couldn't trade them either; my classmates weren't idiots.

My kids don't realize that by making them prepare their own school lunches I was doing them a favor. "You want to take six Saltines and a bag of loose salami slices for lunch? Go for it!"

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 31, 2015 08:43 PM (VvMUk)

340 Cave Johnson at October 31, 2015 08:39 PM (3pRHP)


--You think The Barrel is bad? The Barrel on Halloween is worse.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 08:43 PM (vsbNu)

341 Er, .....no.

Should I?



I do put them in the freezer sometimes and eat 'em half frozen.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 08:42 PM (JfN61)


They kinda expand in the microwave. Look on YouTube.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:44 PM (TEpA2)

342 There's that stupid green light bulb ad again

Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 31, 2015 08:44 PM (uZNvH)

343 And my song...has been italicized!

Posted by: The Chambers Brothers at October 31, 2015 08:44 PM (FkBIv)

344 Homemade bacon is my Halloween candy tonight, along with a couple eggs and taters fried in it's fat dammit. We'll see if my arteries agree with me.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:45 PM (kDYa9)

345 Throw some lemons in the Barrel, just for spite.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 31, 2015 08:45 PM (oVJmc)

346

I got to trick or treat! nomnomnom

Posted by: The Barrel at October 31, 2015 08:45 PM (cbfNE)

347 Grammie - I had a few friends whose mom was like your daughter. Uber-protected, made them wear dresses to school, the whole prissy girl upbringing.

Aaaaand one grew up to become a horse trainer with her own ranch and a ton of horses in rural CO. The other moved to Alaska and is a totes outdoorswoman.

Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:45 PM (NOIQH)

348 The popcorn talk up thread made me want to make some.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:46 PM (BHl9S)

349 Crappin' Mets.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:46 PM (dFi94)

350 Homemade bacon is my Halloween candy tonight, along
with a couple eggs and taters fried in it's fat dammit. We'll see if my
arteries agree with me.


Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:45 PM (kDYa9)


Eggs cooked in bacon fat are great; need to try potatoes.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:46 PM (TEpA2)

351 The WORST candies are those Mary Jane or Mary Lou things that taste like corrugated cardboard.
Kids hate 'em too.

Except for one of my sons, who actually liked them.
But then, he doesn't like candy that much.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 08:47 PM (JfN61)

352 Mets on the board first.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 08:47 PM (vsbNu)

353 I looked up a little about the latest. It's called the "hygiene hypothesis", too much hygiene makes for an hysterical immune system. It's been modified somewhat lately and what they think it is now they call the "Old friends hypothesis".

It's not exposure to *pathogenic bacteria* that is key, but to good bacteria, which are our evolutionary "old friends". Some of them are in the gut and some live on our skin and all that. The idea is that our immune systems can't function properly without these old friends, which are really symbiotic. IOW, a human being is really what we think of as pure human cells plus all these friendly bacteria. Hell, I think by cell count, we're more bacteria than human.

Anyway, the clean freaks and the modern antiseptic environment kill off the good guys as well as the bad guys.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 08:47 PM (dvuhZ)

354 I like smarties and uh not much else. Sweet Tarts. Yeah, those were kool.

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 31, 2015 08:47 PM (k9qR4)

355 Eggs cooked in bacon fat are great; need to try potatoes.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:46 PM (TEpA2)


Yes, indeed. That was my brunch today: thick bacon, fried, with two brown eggs, over hard, fried in the bacon fat. Yummy, it was. Now have a pot of spaghetti under construction.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 08:48 PM (0yhH4)

356 When I was a Little Vendette I hated getting raisins.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:48 PM (TEpA2)

357 Those SugarDaddy bars were killer on the teeth.
Prefer Milk Duds.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:48 PM (NOIQH)

358 Heath Bars were a favorite. They taste great. Instead of chewing it I would let each bite dissolve in my mouth, enjoying those candy juices. They lasted a lot longer that way. Milky Way, Reeses and similar stuff was for fast consumption. Necco Wafers were just colored chalk. We used them as targets for our BB guns.

Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2015 08:48 PM (FvdPb)

359 Posted by: Lizzy at October 31, 2015 08:45 PM (NOIQH)
=========================================



Good to know, Lizzy. I'm already starting to see signs of independence/following your own path in the older two. The 2 year old barely knows where he's at so it will take a while longer for him.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:49 PM (dFi94)

360 For most of my life my attitude about candy has been "Chocolate or GTFO." I'll make an exception for peppermint hard candies, but that's about as far as I'm willing to go.

Too many long Sunday afternoons visiting relatives with nothing but fucking Brach's in the bowl on the coffee table.

Posted by: Trimegistus at October 31, 2015 08:49 PM (VvMUk)

361 I wish I liked dark chocolate more since it's supposed to be better for you. it's supposed to be a more adult taste, but, no, I much prefer milk chocolate. I love Lindt chocolate, it's so smooth.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. (Brandishing ampersands) at October 31, 2015 08:50 PM (P8951)

362 339---My kids don't realize that by making them prepare their own school lunches I was doing them a favor. "You want to take six Saltines and a bag of loose salami slices for lunch? Go for it!"
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 31, 2015 08:43 PM (VvMUk)

------------
Interesting.

Posted by: NSA reporting to FLOTUS at October 31, 2015 08:50 PM (JfN61)

363 It's not exposure to *pathogenic bacteria* that is key, but to good bacteria, which are our evolutionary "old friends". Some of them are in the gut and some live on our skin and all that. The idea is that our immune systems can't function properly without these old friends, which are really symbiotic. IOW, a human being is really what we think of as pure human cells plus all these friendly bacteria. Hell, I think by cell count, we're more bacteria than human.

Anyway, the clean freaks and the modern antiseptic environment kill off the good guys as well as the bad guys.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 08:47 PM (dvuhZ)


And it might be also "hormesis", basically, that which does not kill you makes you stronger. Some good evidence that it's true for ionizing radiation; might be true for bugs, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 08:50 PM (0yhH4)

364 Yes, indeed. That was my brunch today: thick bacon, fried, with two
brown eggs, over hard, fried in the bacon fat. Yummy, it was. Now have a
pot of spaghetti under construction.

No, No, No
Michelle Obama

Posted by: Michelle Obama at October 31, 2015 08:51 PM (0bEpn)

365 Are you flippin' kidding me?

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:51 PM (dFi94)

366 Well, since it's Halloween, just something to bring up.

The Raven.

Weird thing is, I've always liked the poem but then I saw something different years ago. Near the end, it goes..

"And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door".

And then I saw this...

"And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, STILL is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chambor door".


Don't know why, but that changed the whole poem to me. I knew someone back years ago who could recite it, but not tell it. Big difference.

Posted by: HH at October 31, 2015 08:51 PM (DrCtv)

367 How do you not know how many outs there are when you're playing in the WS?

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:52 PM (dFi94)

368 Too many long Sunday afternoons visiting relatives with nothing but fucking Brach's in the bowl on the coffee table.
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 31, 2015 08:49 PM (VvMUk)

******

While sweating on the plastic ziplocked cushions of aaburnt orange shantung upholstered couch/love seat?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:52 PM (gdiBW)

369 When I was a Little Vendette I hated getting raisins.

Me too. I had a Great Aunt that we'd meet at the bus stop when she visited. Always gave us those little boxes of raisins and we had to eat them.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:52 PM (kDYa9)

370 Heh, Temple has a live owl mascot named Stella.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 08:52 PM (vsbNu)

371 Anyway, the clean freaks and the modern antiseptic environment kill off the good guys as well as the bad guys.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 08:47 PM (dvuhZ)


That was a sub-plot in the book "Andromada Strain" that we left out of the movies.

Posted by: The Andromina Hat at October 31, 2015 08:53 PM (vBeA5)

372 While sweating on the plastic ziplocked cushions of aaburnt orange shantung upholstered couch/love seat?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:52 PM (gdiBW)
======================================

You were at my grandma's house too?

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:54 PM (dFi94)

373 They will have plenty of raisins in the camps.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:54 PM (p9ACE)

374 341---They kinda expand in the microwave. Look on YouTube.
Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:44 PM (TEpA2)

------------
My, my, my.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 08:54 PM (JfN61)

375 Me too. I had a Great Aunt that we'd meet at the bus stop when she visited. Always gave us those little boxes of raisins and we had to eat them.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:52 PM (kDYa9)


Raisins are OK, I guess. One way you could eat fruit out of season, back in the day. Raisins make awesome bait for mouse traps. You can wedge them so tightly into the trigger that the little bastards can not winkle them free. And they stay soft and attractive for days.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 08:55 PM (0yhH4)

376 Too many long Sunday afternoons visiting relatives with nothing but fucking Brach's in the bowl on the coffee table.

An early Simpson's episode has Bart visiting an old woman who offers him a hard candy from a similar dish, but it's so old it's all stuck into one single piece.

Always thought that was a brilliant little joke.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 31, 2015 08:55 PM (oVJmc)

377 My, my, my.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 08:54 PM (JfN61)


Peeps do the same thing.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:55 PM (TEpA2)

378 My Grandmother also had hermetically sealed couch cushions.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:55 PM (p9ACE)

379 They will have plenty of raisins in the camps.


Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 08:54 PM (p9ACE)

They will have plenty of raisins in the Fun Camps... fixed, love Hillary

Posted by: Colin at October 31, 2015 08:56 PM (0bEpn)

380 Another disturbing thing may be that modern medicine is defeating natural selection, you know the strongest survive, and the defective doesn't live long enough to reproduce. IOW, we're are keeping alive people who would've died and allowing them to reproduce, propagating genetic errors.

I read something a while back claiming that the rise of autism meets all the criteria you would expect from a genetic problem like that.

That has a eugenics-y vibe to it which is rather disturbing, but if it's true, it's true.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 08:56 PM (dvuhZ)

381
While sweating on the plastic ziplocked cushions of aaburnt orange shantung upholstered couch/love seat?


That sounds like what we called the Italian frontroom around here. We filthy kids were never allowed to cross the threshold into that place.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 08:56 PM (kDYa9)

382 --You think The Barrel is bad? The Barrel on Halloween is worse.

Wouldn't all the denizens be out - leaving nothing but the crust.

Posted by: DaveA at October 31, 2015 08:57 PM (DL2i+)

383 Those little boxes of raisins remind me of Sunday school. As do Graham crackers and fruit punch.

I like raisins, but they are NOT for trick-or-treat, ffs.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:57 PM (JqEq4)

384 You were at my grandma's house too?
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 08:54 PM (dFi94)

******

I was at both of my Grandmas, 5 of my Great Aunts, 3 of my regular Aunts......

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:57 PM (gdiBW)

385 I wasn't allowed in the fancy room with th elastic slip covers at grandmas house. I remember she always had Heath ice cream bars in the freezer. Freezer was on the bottom

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:58 PM (BHl9S)

386 Raisins make awesome bait for mouse traps.
You can wedge them so tightly into the trigger that the little bastards
can not winkle them free. And they stay soft and attractive for days.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 08:55 PM (0yhH4)


I hope to have to never use this knowledge, but I thank you for it.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:58 PM (TEpA2)

387 I like raisins, but they are NOT for trick-or-treat, ffs.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:57 PM (JqEq4)

*****

This is why they had to invent Raisinettes.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 08:58 PM (gdiBW)

388 I like raisins in bread and with other things; not alone. Raisinettes were good, though.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V. (Brandishing ampersands) at October 31, 2015 08:59 PM (P8951)

389 Kids spotted several times. House still dark. Hunched down awaiting orders.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 31, 2015 08:59 PM (4ErVI)

390
Plastic covered davenport, everybody had (at least if they were good housekeepers).
How about those nifty plastic runner strips that you had to be careful not to step off of???

Posted by: Justamom at October 31, 2015 08:59 PM (sVnbw)

391 Plastic slip covers

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 31, 2015 08:59 PM (BHl9S)

392 >>>Ever stick a York Peppermint Patty in the microwave (sans wrapper, of course)?
Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:36 PM (TEpA2)
---
What happens?

Posted by: Emmie at October 31, 2015 08:59 PM (my5Fr)

393 356
When I was a Little Vendette I hated getting raisins.


Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 08:48 PM (TEpA2)

yeah me too
raisins are what you should get in your lunchbox at school, not on a special night like halloween

Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 31, 2015 09:00 PM (uZNvH)

394 Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 08:56 PM (dvuhZ)

Same sort of thing applies to how we save people in famine and disease ridden countries. Just makes the problem worse, as ugly as that sounds.

I'm not saying we shouldn't save them, but it's hard to deny that keeping people alive longer to breed more people on land that clearly can't sustain them is..... counter-intuitive.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:00 PM (JqEq4)

395 Well, I might even make the ONT. For some reason I fell asleep this afternoon and I hadn't been drinking either.


Right AFTER I drank a cup of coffee. Some times coffee does that to me.


Weird.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:00 PM (jJRIy)

396 Finally a use for raisins. My Grandmother didn't keep anything edible in the house. Just bland tasting vegetables no one ever heard of.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:00 PM (p9ACE)

397 with nothing but fucking Brach's in the bowl on the coffee table.

After Grandpa A passed I got the candy dish, Bro thought faster and got his Fire Captain helmet.

Posted by: DaveA at October 31, 2015 09:00 PM (DL2i+)

398 366 ... HH, I've never heard a good recitation of The Raven. Most speak as if they are on the stage of the Globe Theater in that rapid staccato cadence. The poem is about a man descending into rage and despair, screaming at an unkind fate. A recitation should show that.

Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2015 09:00 PM (FvdPb)

399 My Grandma used to give my Mother these round tins of hard candy dusted with powdered sugar, loved those things. I wonder if they still make them somewhere.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 09:01 PM (kDYa9)

400 Mets 2 Royals 1

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (vsbNu)

401
So, when she FINALLY starts helping people again, what does the first lady in line say -- a white, grey-haired old SF area liberal chick? "Happy Halloween! I just love your makeup! Hope everything is wonderful for you," and in general just falling all over herself with delight to have been abused and humiliated by a black woman, whom one must then act all ingratiating and condescending toward, as a manifestation of White Guilt.

The teller ignored her jabberings and silently sold her some stamps.

Life in the Bay Area.
Posted by: zombie at October 31, 2015 07:26 PM (jBuUi)


They all do it. Couple of months ago I was waiting in line to drop off some packages. They already had the postage, and I just needed to hand it to them. One customer had about 25 letters he was sending certified mail, and one of the tellers was helping him. The other teller, a black woman, decided that instead of helping those in line ready to go, she was going to start processing the two guys in front of me with 15 boxes that they still hadn't finished packing. 15 minutes later when she finally finished with them, there were 20 people in line behind me.

Now when I go to the post office, I try to do as much as I can with the automated machine in the lobby instead of dealing with those union bastards.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (Z7G74)

402 I wonder if they still make those plastic slipcover things? I have a white couch.




oh geez just shoot me now. I'm talking about encasing my furniture in vinyl. What's next? I fall and break a hip? I start putting lace doilies on the end tables? I wrap my head in tissue paper at night so I don't have to comb it in the morning?

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (dFi94)

403 What happens?

Posted by: Emmie at October 31, 2015 08:59 PM (my5Fr)


They expand.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (TEpA2)

404 Nevermore

Posted by: The Raven at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (cbfNE)

405 Something occurred to me. Remember that story this week about that woman caregiver who started boinking the profoundly mentally disabled man in her care? The one who is diapered because he has no toilet training?


Just wondered if she gets knocked up, would she be "hoist by her own retard"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (0yhH4)

406 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (Z7G74)

You know if you already have the postage on it, they will come to your house to pick stuff up, you arrange it online.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:04 PM (JqEq4)

407 kinda off topic......

we would get the unwrapped Christmas candy in our Christmas stockings.

At best they were lint covered.

didn't matter, we ate 'em.

Even better, the stocking were stored overyear in the attic.

Lots of aged candy was wrestled out of the toes.

Posted by: seamrog at October 31, 2015 09:04 PM (RJYdU)

408 Mmmm... Yorkie peppermint patty. **drools**

Posted by: SCOAMT at October 31, 2015 09:04 PM (eteeV)

409 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (0yhH4)

OMG, I snorted!

I had not heard about this and I still snorted.

You reached Muldoon heights there.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:05 PM (JqEq4)

410 I'm confused. Two active threads?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:05 PM (p9ACE)

411 I start putting lace doilies on the end tables?

Lol grammie. Have you started keeping a tissue tucked in your sleeve yet?

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 09:06 PM (kDYa9)

412 Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (dFi94)

Your hair gains a blue tint and your blusher is two round circles on your heavily powdered cheeks?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:06 PM (JqEq4)

413 >>>Mets 2 Royals 1

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (vsbNu)<<<

Common Core scorekeeping? I approve.

Posted by: Juan Ellis Bush at October 31, 2015 09:06 PM (eteeV)

414 2-0, I think.

KC needs to wake up.
As Charlie Brown would advise, start gritting your teeth, Royals.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 09:07 PM (JfN61)

415 You reached Muldoon heights there.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:05 PM (JqEq4)


Or depths, as the case may be. Yeah, the original story was creepy. Guy no way has the mental capacity to give consent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:07 PM (0yhH4)

416 I'm confused. Two active threads?


Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:05 PM (p9ACE)
====================================

The Hound of the Baskervilles is kind of a series. It started last night I think, then again this afternoon, then now, and again tomorrow I believe. Ace reads some more, posts some more.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:08 PM (dFi94)

417 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (0yhH4)



This is what an NDP government has done to you...

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:08 PM (TEpA2)

418 Yeah, should be Mets 2 Royals 0. Yeesh.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:08 PM (vsbNu)

419 oh geez just shoot me now. I'm talking about encasing my furniture in vinyl. What's next? I fall and break a hip? I start putting lace doilies on the end tables? I wrap my head in tissue paper at night so I don't have to comb it in the morning?
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (dFi94)

******

If you find yourself walking around with hard candies in your pockets and purse to hand out, become very, very worried.

Especially if they're butterscotch.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:08 PM (gdiBW)

420 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:07 PM (0yhH4)

There is a part of me who would place this in the community service category, but I agree that it's wrong.

As per my usual double standard of thinking, I'd be far more appalled if the genders were reversed, though.

In case I am not clear, I do think it is wrong.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:09 PM (JqEq4)

421 Lol grammie. Have you started keeping a tissue tucked in your sleeve yet?


Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 09:06 PM (kDYa9)
================================

Oh my gosh, I DO do that! What with three sets of snotty nostrils all 5 years old and under, I have to be ready at all times! LOL

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:10 PM (dFi94)

422 Didn't ace post this bakersville thread earlier?

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:10 PM (jJRIy)

423 Too many long Sunday afternoons visiting relatives with nothing but fucking Brach's in the bowl on the coffee table.
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 31, 2015 08:49 PM (VvMUk)
---
Is it any wonder we tried to bring down The Man?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 09:10 PM (jR7Wy)

424 Yea, Nip, but he is taking a sweet forever to get through the book so he keeps having to bump the discussion thread.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:11 PM (JqEq4)

425 Recycled thread.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:11 PM (p9ACE)

426 This is what an NDP government has done to you...

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:08 PM (TEpA2)


Yep. Raised the taxes on booze and tobacco, and banned all menthol cigarettes. For the chirren! Funny, ain't it, how the party that purports to be the friend of the working class, immediately raises taxes on the simple pleasures, said tax increases falling most heavily upon the working poor?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:11 PM (0yhH4)

427 I have not seen the reboot of The Muppets. Whoever does the voices of Statler and Waldorf suck.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:11 PM (vsbNu)

428 Temple intercepts ND.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:11 PM (vsbNu)

429 Or depths, as the case may be. Yeah, the original story was creepy. Guy no way has the mental capacity to give consent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:07 PM (0yhH4)


Reading the comments was painful. The same commenters who would probably endorse "Yes means yes every step of the way" were OK with her actions because a controversial method of communication was his consent and he obviously wanted it.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:12 PM (TEpA2)

430 Didn't ace post this bakersville thread earlier?
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:10 PM (jJRIy)

******

Yes, he did.

He reupped it, like the fcuking guy owns the place or something! Sheesh.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:12 PM (gdiBW)

431 Your hair gains a blue tint and your blusher is two round circles on your heavily powdered cheeks?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:06 PM (JqEq4)

================================================
If you find yourself walking around with hard candies in your pockets and purse to hand out, become very, very worried.



Especially if they're butterscotch.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:08 PM (gdiBW)

=============================================

oh no the end is near. when did i become my own grandmother. It seems like just yesterday I was burning my bra at the Allman Brothers concert.Now I carry kleenex and hard candies.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:13 PM (dFi94)

432 402---".... I wrap my head in tissue paper at night so I don't have to comb it in the morning?"
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (dFi94)
---------------
Um,... this I have not heard of.
And, sadly, it deeply intrigues me.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 09:13 PM (JfN61)

433 Yep. Raised the taxes on booze and tobacco, and
banned all menthol cigarettes. For the chirren! Funny, ain't it, how the
party that purports to be the friend of the working class, immediately raises taxes on the simple pleasures, said tax increases falling most heavily upon the working poor?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:11 PM (0yhH4)


Because booze was cheap in the first place. And I'm sorry, I'm ignorant, but what cigarettes are left?

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:13 PM (TEpA2)

434 398 366 ... HH, I've never heard a good recitation of The Raven. Most speak as if they are on the stage of the Globe Theater in that rapid staccato cadence. The poem is about a man descending into rage and despair, screaming at an unkind fate. A recitation should show that.
Posted by: JTB at October 31, 2015 09:00 PM (FvdPb)
----
How about the Simpsons and Darth Vader?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGZOBFzmMN4

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 09:13 PM (jR7Wy)

435 Oh my gosh, I DO do that! What with three sets of snotty nostrils all 5
years old and under, I have to be ready at all times! LOL

Mystery solved! I never could figure why my Grandma did that. lol, it must be nice to have those little ones running around you.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 09:13 PM (kDYa9)

436 257
>>>Lotsa kids came knocking around here. Some good costumes mixed in with
meh efforts. The most memorable, was the kid dressed as The Stig. No
bag... no announcement. Just stood there with his arms crossed until you
gave him something. I LOLed.


Posted by: otho at October 31, 2015 08:09 PM (EWg9n)

Some say he just wants candy, and if you give it to him, he won't t.p. your house.

Some say that he's gonna t.p. your house anyway.
All we know is... he's called the Stig.
Posted by: kid in a Jeremy Clarkson costume at October 31, 2015 08:19 PM (eteeV)


What would be hilarious would be if you had 4 kids and dressed them up as the Top Gear crew. The Jeremy one would be punching the other two, the Hammond one would be crashing his little electric car, and the James May one would have a pink Barbie Jeep.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 31, 2015 09:14 PM (Z7G74)

437 There is a part of me who would place this in the community service category, but I agree that it's wrong.

As per my usual double standard of thinking, I'd be far more appalled if the genders were reversed, though.

In case I am not clear, I do think it is wrong.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:09 PM (JqEq4)


Yeah, I agree it would be worse if the genders were reversed. But the guy is so retarded he probably doesn't comprehend what being horny is; he could well be frightened by the whole thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:14 PM (0yhH4)

438 I've never heard a good recitation of The Raven.

I'm not much of a fan of the Simpsons, but the Homer version of The Raven is pretty dang good.

It's also odd how we like stuff, because if you listen to a lot of poets prior to about 1965, thye seem to like the flat, staccato, unaccented readings of their own works. Because that's how they themselves read their stuff.

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 31, 2015 09:14 PM (k9qR4)

439 You know mother nature's little program is cold and heartless. Throw a bunch of species into brutal competition. If you win, you live. If you lose, you die. There is no compassion, no bailouts, no help. It is that desperate competition that advances the species -- what's the old saying, war is the mother of innovation and invention. In a desperate attempt to survive, that's when you really shine.

We as nation are getting fat and weak, aren't we? Going right against nature's paradigm.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 09:14 PM (dvuhZ)

440 P.S. Booze in Canada is not cheap.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:15 PM (TEpA2)

441 I wrap my head in tissue paper at night so I don't have to comb it in the morning?
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (dFi94)


Isn't that what Raymond Burr's character did in The Rear Window?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2015 09:16 PM (3pRHP)

442 >>>I wrap my head in tissue paper at night so I don't have to comb it in the morning?
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:02 PM (dFi94)<<<




So, that would make you a grand mummy.

Posted by: Halloween humor at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (eteeV)

443 I only worry about combing my hair if I have to go out in public somewhere. Or better, just put on a cap.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (dvuhZ)

444 Um,... this I have not heard of.

And, sadly, it deeply intrigues me.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 09:13 PM (JfN61)
==========================================


I think this was a 60's thing. My grandma and women of her age would get their hair done at the beauty shop once a week. Then in between visits to the beauty parlor, they would wrap toilet paper around their heads and secure it with bobby pins. Then in the morning when they woke up, their hair was still in place. My grandma went to bed with toilet paper on her head for years.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (dFi94)

445 Because booze was cheap in the first place. And I'm sorry, I'm ignorant, but what cigarettes are left?

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:13 PM (TEpA2)


The Dippers banned all flavored cigarettes. Menthol, and clove, too (didn't know that was a thing, even). Supposedly they were "an enticement to children". I remember as a kid trying to smoke, me and my buds all thought menthol cigs were nasty. Not an enticement at all.


And booze wasn't cheap here. Cheaper than B.C. or Saskatchewan, by a small fraction, but way high compared to most U.S. States.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (0yhH4)

446 You know if you already have the postage on it, they will come to your house to pick stuff up, you arrange it online.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:04 PM (JqEq4)


Oh yes I know that, but the Mrs had ordered something and waited til the last minute to return it, so it had to go to the post office because it would have been too late to return it.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (Z7G74)

447 440 P.S. Booze in Canada is not cheap.
Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:15 PM (TEpA2)

--No shit. Really bad in MB where all the hard stuff is monopolized by the province.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (vsbNu)

448 >>> We as nation are getting fat and weak, aren't we?

Europe is shelling out a lot of Danegeld right now.

Posted by: fluffy at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (AfsKp)

449 440 P.S. Booze in Canada is not cheap.
Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:15 PM (TEpA2)
---
Isn't this why it's usually higher octane? Taxed per bottle, so buy fewer but with more kick?

On a more pleasant note, somebody told me they're thinking of relaxing the home distilling laws in maryland.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 09:19 PM (jR7Wy)

450 And booze wasn't cheap here. Cheaper than B.C. or Saskatchewan, by a small fraction, but way high compared to most U.S. States.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (0yhH4)


I clarified my bad attempt at sarcasm as to the price of booze.
As I've said to my parents and sister, Albertans may not like the government now, but they're stuck with them until 2020.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:20 PM (TEpA2)

451 Temple takes the lead.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:20 PM (vsbNu)

452 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (Z7G74)

You are such a sweet husband to do that for her!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:20 PM (JqEq4)

453 It's also odd how we like stuff, because if you listen to a lot of poets prior to about 1965, thye seem to like the flat, staccato, unaccented readings of their own works. Because that's how they themselves read their stuff.

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 31, 2015 09:14 PM (k9qR4)


I heard a recording of Robert W. Service reading his own poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee. That was pretty rousing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:21 PM (0yhH4)

454 Isn't this why it's usually higher octane? Taxed per bottle, so buy fewer but with more kick?





Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 31, 2015 09:19 PM (jR7Wy)


Tonne of taxes.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:21 PM (TEpA2)

455 Actually, I would think that running a comb through your hair would be less effort than wrapping it in tissue paper.

This puzzles me.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 09:22 PM (JfN61)

456 Canada taxes the shit out of all consumer goods. Booze and beer because they are trying to reduce demand. It's fvcking dark up there for six months. Nothing to do but drink and watch hockey.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:23 PM (jJRIy)

457 I think this was a 60's thing. My grandma and women of her age would get their hair done at the beauty shop once a week. Then in between visits to the beauty parlor, they would wrap toilet paper around their heads and secure it with bobby pins. Then in the morning when they woke up, their hair was still in place. My grandma went to bed with toilet paper on her head for years.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:18 PM (dFi94)

*****

I (thankfully) never saw that, but I did see my Mom go to bed with OJ cans used for curlers with bobby pins, and also remember that she would tape what guys would call sideburns into a 3/4 swirl shape. I think.

Was that a thing? Did I really see that or is it some fcuked up image I am holding on to?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:23 PM (gdiBW)

458 I hate the stories on Facilitated Communication, because they're all about -- well, like MacInnes, ouija board shenanigans.

Here's the thing: You start FC by holding the wrist which, yes, makes mischief possible. Over time, though, as the kid gets the hang of it, you move down to the elbow. Then finally the shoulder. Then nothing.

If your ouija board spells stuff out when you're not in the room, you may have issues.

Posted by: moviegique at October 31, 2015 09:24 PM (m3P2y)

459 Apropos of absolutely nothing, I just got an email from my aunt, which she sent 4 hours ago.

She lives less than 400 yards away from me.

Hillbilly internet.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:24 PM (JqEq4)

460 So Vendette, now that the Liberals are back in power, will the GST be increased?

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:25 PM (vsbNu)

461 What do the Canucks mean when they refer to the Dippers?

Posted by: Donna &&&&V. (Brandishing ampersands) at October 31, 2015 09:26 PM (P8951)

462 444 --- Ahhhh! (I wrote 455 before seeing your explanation.)
Now I see.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 09:26 PM (JfN61)

463 Abolish Daylight Savings Time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:26 PM (p9ACE)

464 On a more pleasant note, somebody told me they're thinking of relaxing the home distilling laws in maryland.

I've always wanted to try that. I wonder if there are kits to make it inside without blowing the house up.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 09:26 PM (kDYa9)

465 Canada taxes the shit out of all consumer goods.
Booze and beer because they are trying to reduce demand. It's fvcking
dark up there for six months. Nothing to do but drink and watch hockey.


Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:23 PM (jJRIy)


Funny, where I'm from at the worst the sun rose at 8:50 am and set at 4:30.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:26 PM (TEpA2)

466 Heh, the AFLAC Trivia question was what Halloween treat was invented in Philadelphia.

A: Candy corn, back in the 1880's

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:26 PM (vsbNu)

467 Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:23 PM (gdiBW)

It was Co-cola cans down here, but I remember my older cousins doing that. They would also iron their hair with actual irons on the actual ironing board.

I may vaguely remember the pin curl tape, too.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:26 PM (JqEq4)

468 79 yard TD by ND and they re-take the lead.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:27 PM (vsbNu)

469 Economically, prohibition tends to concentrate the contraband. The weak stuff isn't worth the trouble, so you want the product as concentrated as you can manage. You're not going to smuggle a trunk load of beer. It's going to be moonshine with as high a proof as your still can put out.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 09:27 PM (dvuhZ)

470 What do the Canucks mean when they refer to the Dippers?

Posted by: Donna V. (Brandishing ampersands) at October 31, 2015 09:26 PM (P8951)


NDP, New Democrat Party. Bernie Sanders would fit right in.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:27 PM (TEpA2)

471 This puzzles me.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 09:22 PM (JfN61)
=========================================

Remember - the hairstyles of the 60'd were those highly styled bouffant monstrosities of hair, complete with French twists and coils and all sorts of unnatural things. You couldn't comb it - it would dismember the whole thing. This was in the age before the natural look, before blow dryers and curling irons. Those big bouffant things that were a foot and a half tall couldn't be combed, and most women couldn't go the beauty parlor more than once a week.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:27 PM (dFi94)

472 *Now* it's Mets 2 Royals 1.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:27 PM (vsbNu)

473 So Vendette, now that the Liberals are back in power, will the GST be increased?

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:25 PM (vsbNu)


I bet next year.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:28 PM (TEpA2)

474 I hate Daylight Savings Time and will be glad to see it end tomorrow.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:28 PM (JqEq4)

475 Brilliant play-fake by the Irish.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:28 PM (vsbNu)

476 Apropos of absolutely nothing, I just got an email from my aunt, which she sent 4 hours ago.

She lives less than 400 yards away from me.

Hillbilly internet.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:24 PM (JqEq4)

******

I used to get them from daughter when she was 2 floors above me. I always included excrutiatingly detalong.step by step, turn by turn instructions about how she could get off her ass and walk down to my office to actually, ya know, talk to me face to face.

It didn't take long.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:28 PM (gdiBW)

477 Abolish Daylight Savings Time.


Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:26 PM (p9ACE)
==================================

Is that tonight??? Do we set our clocks back?

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:28 PM (dFi94)

478 ManWithNo Party: Ha! no dream - they were called, charmingly, spit curls.

Posted by: Donna &&&&V. (Brandishing ampersands) at October 31, 2015 09:29 PM (P8951)

479 Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:28 PM (gdiBW)

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:29 PM (JqEq4)

480 Is that tonight??? Do we set our clocks back?


Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:28 PM (dFi94)


Yup, it's tonight.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:29 PM (TEpA2)

481 oh gee I woulda showed up at church and been the only one there

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:30 PM (dFi94)

482 Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:28 PM (dFi94)

It ENDS tonight, so we get regular time back.

So yes, set your clock back.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:30 PM (JqEq4)

483 Is that tonight??? Do we set our clocks back?


Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:28 PM (dFi94)


Yes, extra hour of sleep

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 31, 2015 09:30 PM (DiZBp)

484 Is that tonight??? Do we set our clocks back?

Fall back, yep.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 09:30 PM (kDYa9)

485 I only have Computer and Cell Phone clocks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:30 PM (p9ACE)

486 Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:30 PM (dFi94)

But with perfect hair!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:30 PM (JqEq4)

487 Randell Garrett did a take on the Raven rhythm scheme called the "Egyptian Diamond"
and it also shows up in his short story The Foreign Hand Tie.

it starts:

"In a hall of strange description (Antiquarian Egyptian),
Figuring his monthly balance sheet, a troubled monarch sat
With a frown upon his forehead, hurling interjections horrid
At the state of his finances, for his pocketbook was flat."

Not a solitary single copper cent had he to jingle
In his pocket, and his architects had gone off on a strike,
Leaving pyramids unfinished, for their wages had diminished,
And their credit vanished likewise, in a way they didn't like

It was harder for His Royal Highness than for sons of toil,
For the horny-handed workmen only ate three figs per day,
While the King liked sweet potatoes, puddings, pies, and canned tomatoes,
Boneless ham, and Bluepoint oysters cooked some prehistoric way...


and it goes on from there. I never really understood the Raven until I read this play with it. I probably had heard the Raven recited too many times to really hear the rhythm I suppose, or got caught up in the high gothic of it all.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2015 09:31 PM (3pRHP)

488 Gophers re-take the lead over Wolverines.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:31 PM (vsbNu)

489 Was that a thing? Did I really see that or is it some fcuked up image I am holding on to?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:23 PM (gdiBW)
=================================

That was definitely a thing. I had pink tape all over my head. Thank goodness someone invented blow dryers. World's Greatest Invention.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:32 PM (dFi94)

490 My late grandma told me once how my mom, age 5, was the star of a wedding as the flower girl, but it took 2 days to get the shellacking out of her hair.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:32 PM (TEpA2)

491 NDP, New Democrat Party. Bernie Sanders would fit right in.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:27 PM (TEpA2)


In fact, they got so tired of the "Dipper" nickname, that they formally dropped the word "Party" from their party name, and rebranded as simply "New Democrats". But "Dipper" still clings to them like a bad odor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:32 PM (0yhH4)

492 But with perfect hair!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:30 PM (JqEq4)
=============================

And a kleenex up my sleeve. LOL

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:33 PM (dFi94)

493 Conforto another HR.

3-1 Mets.

Posted by: look out Murphy at October 31, 2015 09:34 PM (eteeV)

494 Nothing up my sleeve, presto.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:34 PM (p9ACE)

495 485
I only have Computer and Cell Phone clocks.


Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:30 PM (p9ACE)

I was whining this afternoon, I collect real watches, you know automatics and wind ups. I am going to do all of them tomorrow.


Takes some time, I have them on watch winders. Kind of fun though to play with all of them. I have 20.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (jJRIy)

496 And a kleenex up my sleeve. LOL
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:33 PM (dFi94)

*****

Don't forget the hard candy. Make it Jolly Rancher. For the Chirren.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (gdiBW)

497 The modern version of that pin curl tape is the sock bun.

And that shit works, too. Perfectly.

My curls don't last too long, but they are absolutely perfect while they do.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (JqEq4)

498 I miss Hoppity Hooper.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (p9ACE)

499 Here is SC, it's flat illegal to distill alcohol for consumption. You can get a "micro-distiller's" license for $5K per two years, with strict limits on production (I don't even know if you can sell it). Big Liquor loves it, keeps the competition down.

The art of moonshining is dying out, unfortunately, around here. Back in college, it was sort of rite of passage to get some real moonshine. I'd be leery of any of the stuff now, as the old hands just didn't pass it on.

You can easily roll your own still if you have the aptitude for that sort of thing. The internet is a wealth of information on how to do it right.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (dvuhZ)

500 Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (jJRIy)


I always think of you when I see those fancy thousands-of-dollars watches.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:36 PM (JqEq4)

501 The modern version of that pin curl tape is the sock bun.



And that shit works, too. Perfectly.



My curls don't last too long, but they are absolutely perfect while they do.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (JqEq4)


The sock part I understand, but how do you keep it in place?

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:36 PM (TEpA2)

502 3-1 now.

Grit your teeth, KC.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 09:37 PM (JfN61)

503 @499

You can sell it, that's why they made the law.



http://tinyurl.com/pr9thyt

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:38 PM (jJRIy)

504 3-1 now.



Grit your teeth, KC.



Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 31, 2015 09:37 PM (JfN61
================================================




What she said.

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:38 PM (dFi94)

505 You can easily roll your own still if you have the aptitude for that sort of thing. The internet is a wealth of information on how to do it right.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (dvuhZ)


Heh. At the last place we lived, our 3rd floor neighbour had a friend do a bit of 'shinin. It came out tasting like rotten eggs, but it was about 180 proof, and could kick your puny ass six ways from Sunday. 100% self taught.

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 31, 2015 09:39 PM (k9qR4)

506 Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (dvuhZ)

So much to say, so much I shouldn't. People around here still make it.

I mean, they don't of course, because it's more illegal than murder.

But if it wasn't so illegal, and they weren't such fine, upstanding citizens, they'd be making it steady, but not talk about it.

Or else they'd be making meth, because there's more money in it.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:39 PM (JqEq4)

507 ND not taking care of the ball.

Posted by: logprof at October 31, 2015 09:41 PM (vsbNu)

508 Takes some time, I have them on watch winders. Kind of fun though to play with all of them. I have 20.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (jJRIy)


Watch winders? Some sort of machine that rolls the watch around so its self-winder winds? I remember busting the mainspring of a self-winding watch because I wore it while breaking rocks with a sledge hammer. Should have had a pocket watch. I have a few of those, now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:41 PM (0yhH4)

509 What she said.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:38 PM (dFi94)


What She Said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgwsIhaFuAI

Posted by: The Smiths at October 31, 2015 09:43 PM (vsbNu)

510 You can sell it, that's why they made the law.



http://tinyurl.com/pr9thyt

My brothers age cheap tequila in little oak barrels and rave about it, but it's not quite the same as distilling your own booze. I'd like to do small batches.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 09:43 PM (kDYa9)

511 But if it wasn't so illegal, and they weren't such fine, upstanding citizens, they'd be making it steady, but not talk about it.

Or else they'd be making meth, because there's more money in it.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:39 PM (JqEq4)

*****

Hell, if I were of a mind, I could buy the real deal with a phone call and a short drive out here in the outskirts of Atlanta.

Sad part is that these people now live in the woods in this Oconomy.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:43 PM (gdiBW)

512 I always think of you when I see those fancy thousands-of-dollars watches.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:36 PM (JqEq4)

I have a few. I stopped buying/trading when I retired. The thought was real watches are labor intensive and the cost of labor is going up as is the cost of gold, etc, so the watches should appreciate in value.

Hasn't worked out as well as I hoped. Gold tanked and demand tanked during the Obama depression. Also styles changed, most of my watches are the old small diameter size 36mm to 38 mm. New watches now are more bling and tacky, 40mm to 42mm. Look like shit to me.


I could make money on about 1/3 of my watches. Lucky to break even on the rest. Cheaper than collecting cars.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:43 PM (jJRIy)

513 The sock part I understand, but how do you keep it in place?
Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:36 PM (TEpA2)


You make a pony tail with pony tail holders top and bottom, and you cut the sock so it's like a small tube, then you tuck the hair in the bottom pony tail holder and roll it.

The key is starting off with hair that is damp, only. Not super wet.

Also, youtube it, because I am shit at explaining anything!

If I can find it; there is an adorable little Vietnamese girl who does a great tutorial. I think the Morons would even enjoy it because she is do beautiful. (Or she may be Korean, I don't remember, but most adorable)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:44 PM (JqEq4)

514 The thrill of drinking illegal booze just can't be beat. The drunk is so much better, and it's a way of telling the state to go fuck itself.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 09:45 PM (dvuhZ)

515 I mean, they don't of course, because it's more illegal than murder.

=========================================




Why should it be illegal? Why can't an American citizen make their own liquor? They don't tell Americans they can't make their own cakes, or grow their own potatoes. What's so special about alcohol?

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:46 PM (dFi94)

516 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:44 PM (JqEq4)



Sigh. My hair's too short.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 09:46 PM (TEpA2)

517 @508

Yeah, I have five of these. They were a lot cheaper when I bought them.



http://tinyurl.com/ot9rzyt

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:48 PM (jJRIy)

518 Why should it be illegal? Why can't an American citizen make their own liquor? They don't tell Americans they can't make their own cakes, or grow their own potatoes. What's so special about alcohol?

Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:46 PM (dFi94)


Money. Those sweet, sweet, tax dollars.


But if you do bake your own cakes, and don't bake one for two fags that want to get "married", then it's off to jail with you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:49 PM (0yhH4)

519 Nip, if you enjoy it, just keep them. The style will come back, these new ones are gawdy!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:50 PM (JqEq4)

520 >>> They don't tell Americans they can't make their own cakes, or grow their own potatoes. What's so special about alcohol?

You can't grow your own wheat.

Posted by: Roscoe Filburn at October 31, 2015 09:50 PM (AfsKp)

521 Back in college (Clemson, '89) getting the moonshine was a rite. We up in the mountains, and there was an old gas station type affair. You had to have somebody who knew somebody. What you did was go in a buy some of their special "high octane" gasoline, which was some ridiculous price per gallon at the time.

The special pump was full service. You went inside, said the correct code words about the special high test gas, and waited. You made sure to leave your keys in the vehicle.They pumped you exactly one gallon of gas in your vehicle, and when you got home, you'd find a quart jar in your trunk. If in a pickup, if would be behind the seat.

If they didn't like anything about your manner, they didn't know anyone in the party, etc, you got nothing save some very expensive gas. And I guarantee you there was a shotgun trained on you the whole time.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 09:50 PM (dvuhZ)

522 The modern version of that pin curl tape is the sock bun.

And that shit works, too. Perfectly.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:35 PM (JqEq4)


Ms Tammy, I believe you have a tribble on your head

Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2015 09:50 PM (3pRHP)

523 Grammie, the govt doesn't get its tax money when you make your own liquor.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:50 PM (JqEq4)

524 Why should it be illegal? Why can't an American citizen make their own liquor? They don't tell Americans they can't make their own cakes, or grow their own potatoes. What's so special about alcohol?
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:46 PM (dFi94)

******

Taxes, that's what. The State loses out on massive taxes when you roll your own.

Remember Wickard vs. Filburn? Yeah, that.

Growing and using your own interferes with Interstate Commerce because it deprives the commercial market of your dollars that you would have spent in that market, and therefore, taxes.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 31, 2015 09:51 PM (gdiBW)

525 Yeah, I have five of these. They were a lot cheaper when I bought them.



http://tinyurl.com/ot9rzyt

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:48 PM (jJRIy)


Woah! Expensive. Wouldn't it be cheaper to hire a stripper, and strap the watches on her boobehs?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:52 PM (0yhH4)

526 518
Why should it be illegal? Why can't an American citizen make their own
liquor? They don't tell Americans they can't make their own cakes, or
grow their own potatoes. What's so special about alcohol?



Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 31, 2015 09:46 PM (dFi94)


A lot of folks thought like you do a long time ago. How did that work out?


Not too good,



http://tinyurl.com/c27sbdh

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:52 PM (jJRIy)

527 Woah! Expensive. Wouldn't it be cheaper to hire a stripper, and strap the watches on her boobehs?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2015 09:52 PM (0yhH4)

She only has two, so I would need ten strippers. Not a bad idea.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:53 PM (jJRIy)

528 hah, I have had worse things than tribbles on my head, I assure you!

Are tribbles the beasties in The Rolling Stones by Heinlein?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:53 PM (JqEq4)

529 You are such a sweet husband to do that for her!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:20 PM (JqEq4)


She didn't think so when I was 20 minutes late picking her up from work.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 31, 2015 09:53 PM (Z7G74)

530 When I got out of the Army in 75 I worked for the Public Works here. Boss man was from the South and he taught me how to use bent coat hangers to find water lines so we could dig for leaks. Some may call bullshit but that ol' boy could find find where to dig every time, even under frost in the winter.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 09:54 PM (kDYa9)

531 I know a guy from Normandy and he once told me every farmhouse there has a still for making Calvados,French apple brandy. Because the taxes make it extremely expensive, he said nobody buys bottles in the stores except for tourists and "fools from Paris."

Posted by: Donna &&&&V. (Brandishing ampersands) at October 31, 2015 09:55 PM (P8951)

532 519
Nip, if you enjoy it, just keep them. The style will come back, these new ones are gawdy!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:50 PM (JqEq4)

That's my plan. That or my sons will get them. The problem with real watches is that every five years or so they need cleaning, and that is not cheap.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:56 PM (jJRIy)

533 Are tribbles the beasties in The Rolling Stones by Heinlein?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 09:53 PM (JqEq4)


No, those are Flat-Cats and are from Mars

Tribbles are Star Trek and were written by David Gerrold.

(I am an official geek *hides face in shame and from social ineptness*)

Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2015 09:56 PM (3pRHP)

534 517 @508

Yeah, I have five of these. They were a lot cheaper when I bought them.



http://tinyurl.com/ot9rzyt
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 31, 2015 09:48 PM (jJRIy)


Do you have a Seiko Kinnetic watch?

If so, have you had to send it back to the factory to be reconditioned? I did, and I have to send it back again because it just won't charge up.

Assholes at the jewelery store keep asking me if I would like to trade it in on a new one. Gee, let me think about that, my wife gave it to me for an anniversary present, so yeah, let me trade it in.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at October 31, 2015 10:00 PM (Z7G74)

535 Ah yes, I think star trek borrowed the story line, or maybe it was vice versa?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 10:00 PM (JqEq4)

536 ONT is up.

Posted by: Vendette at October 31, 2015 10:02 PM (TEpA2)

537 Reminds me of the old song from Andy Griffith, with the Darlings and Earnest T. Bass, "Dooley":

Dooley was a good old man

He lived below the mill

Dooley had two daughters

And a forty-gallon still



One gal watched the boiler

The other watched the spout

And mama corked the bottles

And old Dooley fetched 'em out


[Refrain]:

Dooley slippin' up the holler

Dooley tryin' to make a dollar

Dooley give me a swaller

And I'll pay you back someday



The revenuers came for him

A-slippin' though the woods

Dooley kept behind them all

And never lost his goods



Dooley was a trader

When into town he'd come

Sugar by the bushel

And molasses by the drum

Ref.



I remember very well

The day old Dooley died

The women folk weren't sorry

And the men stood 'round and cried



Now Dooley's on the mountain

He lies there all alone

They put a jug beside him

And a barrel for his stone


ref:


And I'll pay you back someday


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 10:02 PM (dvuhZ)

538 Oh gosh yes, dowsers. Some call them water witches. My grandpa could do it, but he preferred a certain kind of wood stem, maybe a hazel? But he could use rods, too.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 10:02 PM (JqEq4)

539 I have an ex girlfriend, her current man is a pretty good guy and got into making whiskey. After he got pretty good he got a small distillery to start making it for him so he could sell it. Then he got an old family recipe from a noted NC moonshinin family to make their shine but legal.

I never drank any of his legal stuff, but the illicit when he was learning, yeah that. Just cause I could.

Posted by: traye at October 31, 2015 10:04 PM (Onvc5)

540 Back when I was a teenage, some older widow lady had a problem with her septic tank, but she couldn't remember exactly where it was. So one old neighbor got his witching apparatus, two bent steel wires that were supposed to cross over water.

Another neighbor said that was shit, you needed a forked peach tree branch.

Those two idiots walked all over her yard trying to find it, disagreeing on where it was. Basically, it was discovered by trial and error.

They've actually done controlled experiments on water witchers, and the results are no better than random chance. But the myth persists.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 31, 2015 10:07 PM (dvuhZ)

541 David Gerrold wrote the original Tribble screenplay, and he has two good stories, that one and Flying Sorcerers that he wrote with Niven.

I dunno, stealing story lines and concepts was a major element of SciFi.
But the Heinlein story came out first.


Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2015 10:09 PM (3pRHP)

542 Didn't Heinlein write Goosebumps?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 31, 2015 10:13 PM (p9ACE)

543 They've actually done controlled experiments on water witchers, and the
results are no better than random chance. But the myth persists.

If you haven't actually seen it I know it's hard to believe. I have, it does and I don't know why or how. I worked four years digging with that dude and he was closer than guys with detectors.

Posted by: dartist at October 31, 2015 10:18 PM (kDYa9)

544 One of Dad's old-timer friends was a dowser. He was a real one too.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2015 10:25 PM (3pRHP)

545 I beg tp differ, wurthers always rock!

Posted by: FCF at October 31, 2015 11:15 PM (kejii)

546
228 Those two giant sweet tart things... that's bringing back memories. I was grown by then, but they used tohave these things that were giant sweet tart type things, and then they had a little stick thingee that you used to add powder to or something??

Anyone?? Or was this strictly sold on Candle Cove?!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 31, 2015 08:13 PM (JqEq4)


Lick'em Ade is now called Fun Dip. Three packets of the colored and flavored sugar (different flavors) and two hard, SweetTart-like serving sticks. You wet a stick in your mouth, dip it in the sugar, eat and repeat. It is truly ghastly stuff, with the flavors being some awful chemical renderings of fruit.

Not recommended...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2015 08:29 AM (BK3ZS)

547 Candle Cove show: I grew up in the KY-OH-WV tri-state area which has both an Ashland (KY) and an Ironton (OH). I was 10 in '71 and don't remember such a show. I just now asked my brother, eight years my elder, about and he doesn't remember any such thing either.

Posted by: RedLion at November 01, 2015 12:46 PM (NKQeC)

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A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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