Author Topic: THE OFFICIAL BORE™ ALL HALLOW'S EVE® CELEBRATION THREAD: 2009 EDITION! (Read 7096 times)

ch1nchilla · « **on:** October 28, 2009, 10:00:56 AM »

It's Wednesday night (in the nihons, anyway), Halloweekend officially kicks off tomorrow night, what y'all doing for Halloween? I'm super excited, 4 day weekend, etc. It's going to be chaos.

Thursday night: ¥50 beers (50 CENTS OMG OMG OMG) all night, not going to my school's party because it's apparently too packed every year.

Friday night: mad shotz at my apartment then whatever

Saturday night: pre-gaming at a smaller Halloween party ($30 OPEN BAR YESSS), then heading to Roppongi for more expensive clubbing. My plan is to pregame my face off at the Halloween party so that by the time I'm heading to Roppongi ~midnight I am housed and won't have to buy $10 drinks all night for myself and my girlfriend.

Sunday: drinking at Yoyogi Park, maybe in costume?

What is everyone going as?

Bocsius · « **Reply #1 on:** October 28, 2009, 10:03:24 AM »

Yankees-Phillies Game 3.

Beezy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 28, 2009, 10:10:38 AM »

I'm suppose to go to a some party with a friend that's free to get into with a costume. I got no costume though and I can't think of any simple ones that I can do. I'm not wearing a full face mask or makeup. I honestly don't think that black dudes have much to choose from on Halloween.

Reb · « **Reply #3 on:** October 28, 2009, 10:13:26 AM »

growing the fuck up

ch1nchilla · « **Reply #4 on:** October 28, 2009, 10:14:24 AM »

Quote from: Rebiak on October 28, 2009, 10:13:26 AM

growing the fuck up

Awww

Brehvolution · « **Reply #5 on:** October 28, 2009, 10:31:36 AM »

Quote from: Rebiak on October 28, 2009, 10:13:26 AM

growing the fuck up

You are in your late 40's?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #6 on:** October 28, 2009, 10:52:24 AM »

I'm gonna watch horror movies with some friends of mine and eat candy. That's about it.

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #7 on:** October 28, 2009, 11:14:15 AM »

My friend Waleed is throwing a part on Friday night and our other friends are throwing a house party on Saturday night

. Gonna try to not get completely shitface; the last houseparty they through I puked all over their bathroom and was asleep before midnight $:-\$

tiesto · « **Reply #8 on:** October 28, 2009, 11:22:24 AM »

I am dressing as Ash Ketchum

Friday - throwing down a sick mnml set with my former neighbor in the afternoon, then a friend's coworker's house party.
Saturday - parade in the Village, going with some friends and this girl who I have been seeing

tehjaybo · « **Reply #9 on:** October 28, 2009, 11:43:40 AM »

Everyone: Make sure you get pics of your costumes! I'm excited to see The Bore dressed up.

I'm not really sure what's going on for me. Friday I think I'm heading to Richmond for a magic tournament (read: homoerotic exploration) with T234. Then Saturday, I'm picking up a friend and heading to Berea to watch the first ever screening of the movie I was in, then up to Lexington to see what I can get into. If I find a place for me and my friend to stay, or trust him to drive my car, I might get shit hammered.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #10 on:** October 28, 2009, 11:51:25 AM »

Quote from: tehjaybo on October 28, 2009, 11:43:40 AM

Everyone: Make sure you get pics of your costumes! I'm excited to see The Bore dressed up.

I bet you are, you sick fuck.

tehjaybo · « **Reply #11 on:** October 28, 2009, 11:53:38 AM »

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #12 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:17:31 PM »

I dress up as Harry Potter every year for work (the kids and staff think I look like him, go figure), but I don't think we're doing anything on Halloween. I'd hand out candy while we watch scary movies, but stupid over-protective parents don't let their kids trick-or-treat in neighborhoods anymore, they go to malls instead.

ch1nchilla · « **Reply #13 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:20:30 PM »

Quote from: distantmantra on October 28, 2009, 12:17:31 PM

I dress up as Harry Potter every year for work (the kids and staff think I look like him, go figure), but I don't think we're doing anything on Halloween. I'd hand out candy while we watch scary movies, but stupid over-protective parents don't let their kids trick-or-treat in neighborhoods anymore, they go to malls instead.

Whaaaaat?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #14 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:22:01 PM »

Yeah, my fear is in another generation or two, I'll be one of those old fogeys that says, "... back in my day, we used to go door to door and trick-or-treat!"

It really is disappearing from suburbia, and parents are taking their kids to malls and shopping centers. That's lame. Part of what made trick-or-treating so great was the possibility that your candy had razor blades or strychnine in it!

... did anyone die from razor blades or poison from Halloween candy? I feel like, as a child, that was a real fear. I remember parents taking their kids to x-ray their candy and stuff.

Since I live in a nice, little safe alcove with two-story houses, I'll see a modest amount of trick-or-treaters - mostly tykes. My brother is working, so a friend and I are probably going to watch movies, drink beer, carve pumpkins and hand out candy. Relatively low key affair.

ch1nchilla · « **Reply #15 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:25:22 PM »

When I was a little kid, the rule was we could only eat stuff that was wrapped and did not have a broken seal, so no apples and shit. I mean, get it together, would you really take an apple from a complete stranger ever? I wouldn't. My aunt is preparing for the apocalypse with the amount of candy and shit she bought, so apparently in the Chicago suburbs trick or treating is still pretty big.

Reb · « **Reply #16 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:29:23 PM »

Quote from: ch1nchilla on October 28, 2009, 10:14:24 AM

Quote from: Rebiak on October 28, 2009, 10:13:26 AM
growing the fuck up

Awww

Real talk: there's no celebrating Halloween in Holland. Our variant of it is socially acceptable to participate in until you're around 13.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #17 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:30:34 PM »

Sounds pretty fucking lame.

Once you get older, Americans really let it hang loose - booze, candy and sexy costumes. It becomes a sexually charged holiday; women will do anything during that one day.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #18 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:31:03 PM »

Quote from: Bocsius on October 28, 2009, 10:03:24 AM

Yankees-Phillies Game 3.

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The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #19 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:32:06 PM »

Quote from: ch1nchilla on October 28, 2009, 12:25:22 PM

My aunt is preparing for the apocalypse with the amount of candy and shit she bought, so apparently in the Chicago suburbs trick or treating is still pretty big.

It still exists in parts of the country, and I don't think it will ever entirely disappear, but even I cay confidently say there is a significant shift from door to door trick-or-treating that most of us remember in our youth to the community organized events at malls and shopping centers.

ch1nchilla · « **Reply #20 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:32:58 PM »

Quote from: Willco on October 28, 2009, 12:30:34 PM

Sounds pretty fucking lame.

Once you get older, Americans really let it hang loose - booze, candy and sexy costumes. It becomes a sexually charged holiday; women will do anything during that one day.

Yep, totally awesome. It's easily one of the biggest (and best) party weekends of the year. So many awesome shenanigans and copious drinking.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #21 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:35:33 PM »

Quote from: Willco on October 28, 2009, 12:22:01 PM

It really is disappearing from suburbia, and parents are taking their kids to malls and shopping centers. That's lame. Part of what made trick-or-treating so great was the possibility that your candy had razor blades or strychnine in it!

I live in an urban village neighborhood of Seattle with lots of houses, condos and townhouses, and I know for a fact that there are tons of kids in those townhouses and condos. We've been in our house for the past two Halloweens and every year we put out jack-o-lanterns on the porch and a hanging pumpkin lantern in the front yard. Never had a single trick-or-treat'er. When we lived on top of Queen Anne hill (mega rich neighborhood), we got ONE kid all night. ONE.

smh x infinity

ch1nchilla · « **Reply #22 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:37:44 PM »

Quote from: distantmantra on October 28, 2009, 12:35:33 PM

Quote from: Willco on October 28, 2009, 12:22:01 PM
It really is disappearing from suburbia, and parents are taking their kids to malls and shopping centers. That's lame. Part of what made trick-or-treating so great was the possibility that your candy had razor blades or strychnine in it!

I live in an urban village neighborhood of Seattle with lots of houses, condos and townhouses, and I know for a fact that there are tons of kids in those townhouses and condos. We've been in our house for the past two Halloweens and every year we put out jack-o-lanterns on the porch and a hanging pumpkin lantern in the front yard. Never had a single trick-or-treat'er. When we lived on top of Queen Anne hill (mega rich neighborhood), we got ONE kid all night. ONE.

smh x infinity

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #23 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:39:32 PM »

Oh, I feel your pain. I saw a dramatic drop off just in the past ten years in the same area. When I was a teenager, my folks and I would go through bags of candy because of trick-or-treaters. There were so many, that I even became an entrepreneur and would take polaroids of kids on a backdrop I painted on the side of the house for money.

One yeah, I had a friend wear an executioner's mask and carry a baseball bat, and he scared so many kids that we were able to fill almost half of a trash bag full of candy left on the lawn as a result.

In the same exact area nowadays, it's considering a "good" Halloween if you get a dozen trick-or-treaters. A dozen!

$:-\$

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #24 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:42:54 PM »

The one trick-or-treater we got on Queen Anne hill was given a one-pound bag of Skittles and an entire bag of mini Snickers bars.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #25 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:44:26 PM »

And he died of diabetes two weeks later.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #26 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:49:59 PM »

My parents live in the suburbs, and I remember they'd get 100+ kids every year when I was living there. Now, my mom says they're lucky to get 10 kids.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #27 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:54:38 PM »

Yeah, that sounds about right. It's the same thing over on this coast.

I think 9/11 and (locally) the Beltway sniper scared a lot of folks in terms of letting their kids trick-or-treat. At least, that's my guess. I really can't fathom how it is NOT safer than we were kids. I mean, I remember most of my friends went out in the surrounding neighborhoods without adult supervision, getting candy from God knows who.

This was before the Internet, we knew which neighbors were pedophiles, more secure candy, etc. Those wrappers were flimsy when I was younger.

Saint Cornelius · « **Reply #28 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:59:41 PM »

Magic: The Gathering Game Day.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #29 on:** October 28, 2009, 01:03:35 PM »

Quote from: Willco on October 28, 2009, 12:54:38 PM

Yeah, that sounds about right. It's the same thing over on this coast.

I think 9/11 and (locally) the Beltway sniper scared a lot of folks in terms of letting their kids trick-or-treat. At least, that's my guess. I really can't fathom how it is NOT safer than we were kids. I mean, I remember most of my friends went out in the surrounding neighborhoods without adult supervision, getting candy from God knows who.

This was before the Internet, we knew which neighbors were pedophiles, more secure candy, etc. Those wrappers were flimsy when I was younger.

In elementary school my buddies and I used to wander all over the north part of town where we lived getting candy, and nothing bad ever happened.

I remember the family who did a haunted house in their front yard every year, and the old lady who gave out bottles of Green River and full-sized candy bars. Good times, where have you gone?

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #30 on:** October 28, 2009, 01:08:30 PM »

fucking studying. :'(

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #31 on:** October 28, 2009, 01:11:49 PM »

Quote from: distantmantra on October 28, 2009, 01:03:35 PM

I remember the family who did a haunted house in their front yard every year, and the old lady who gave out bottles of Green River and full-sized candy bars. Good times, where have you gone?

Yeah, right when I graduated from high school, I noticed a rapid decline. I used to make elaborate trick-or-treat setups and decorate the yard. One year, I converted our entire garage into a haunted house, and had friends dress up as monsters and hide in trash cans (ready to spring out a moment's notice!).

We had music, fog, fake cobwebs, strobe lighting, etc.

Like, twenty people showed up. That was also the same year that the nearby mall really began to ramp up its trick-or-treat program.

My heart was broken, and I never put that much energy into my Halloween shenanigans since then.

tehjaybo · « **Reply #32 on:** October 28, 2009, 01:19:43 PM »

Quote from: Saint Cornelius on October 28, 2009, 12:59:41 PM

Magic: The Gathering Game Day.

I might actually stop in at the one in Richmond on Saturday morning. The movie doesn't start until 4:30, and Game Day's only "suppsoed" to last until 5 here.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #33 on:** October 28, 2009, 01:22:58 PM »

I was talking to my wife last night, and I mentioned to her that one of the things that I was most excited about after buying our house in 2007 was being able to pass out candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween.

:'(

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #34 on:** October 28, 2009, 02:03:24 PM »

Might stay in.

I've been invited to parties but they're all over the state - nearest one being an hour and a half away, farthest about five hours. Not really sure it is worth it to drive three hours to get sloshed wearing a costume that fits uncomfortably.

The downside is that I get to miss out on the girl Halloween costumes. I don't know who decided that Halloween should be a holiday where girls dress as skimpy as possible but whoever made this decision needs to be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #35 on:** October 28, 2009, 02:06:17 PM »

I will be doing my annual taking the kids around the neighborhood until 1 gets tired or cold and wants to go home routine.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #36 on:** October 28, 2009, 02:07:15 PM »

And then you die in a duel to me in BORDERLANDS.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #37 on:** October 28, 2009, 02:08:25 PM »

You already got me once I thought. Or was that your bro?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #38 on:** October 28, 2009, 02:10:00 PM »

I think we both got you.

It's no biggie, we duel each other all the time.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #39 on:** October 28, 2009, 02:20:17 PM »

Watch some movies - in fact I might go see Where The Wild Thing Are
Monopoly tournament
World of Warcraft

tehjaybo · « **Reply #40 on:** October 28, 2009, 04:28:26 PM »

Monopoly tournament?

Man, living life in the fast lane.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #41 on:** October 28, 2009, 04:31:39 PM »

Monopoly is the worst board game ever made, man. Find something else to play.

tiesto · « **Reply #42 on:** October 28, 2009, 04:32:06 PM »

Quote from: Willco on October 28, 2009, 12:22:01 PM

Yeah, my fear is in another generation or two, I'll be one of those old fogeys that says, "... back in my day, we used to go door to door and trick-or-treat!"

It really is disappearing from suburbia, and parents are taking their kids to malls and shopping centers. That's lame. Part of what made trick-or-treating so great was the possibility that your candy had razor blades or strychnine in it!

... did anyone die from razor blades or poison from Halloween candy? I feel like, as a child, that was a real fear. I remember parents taking their kids to x-ray their candy and stuff.

Since I live in a nice, little safe alcove with two-story houses, I'll see a modest amount of trick-or-treaters - mostly tykes. My brother is working, so a friend and I are probably going to watch movies, drink beer, carve pumpkins and hand out candy. Relatively low key affair.

Here ya go - there's been a few incidents of needles in the apple, but nothing that lead to fatalities.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp

Oh yeah, last year we only got one group of trick-or-treaters... 2 small children from the neighborhood... the year before that, there were like 3 or 4 groups... since it falls on a Sat this year, I'm hoping we at least get a few this year.

Bacchus7 · « **Reply #43 on:** October 28, 2009, 05:14:16 PM »

I have lots of work over the next couple days, so no clubbing tonight, no party tomorrow, but then throwing a party Friday and going to a few Saturday. Saturday a group of us is being the Clintons + Monica + Janet Reno. I will be Bill.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #44 on:** October 28, 2009, 05:35:54 PM »

although it the most wonderful time of the year, my friends are all couch bitches now, so i have no party partners to go out with (and this would be the one time of the year i'd still do a little partying)

so i intend to spend the entire day eating junk food while watchng horror movies and reading old 1950s pre-code horror comics, then playing some L4D on that Crossroads Mall mod in the evening (maybe a few rounds on the demo)

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #45 on:** October 28, 2009, 05:43:20 PM »

You should venture northward, old man, and I'd show you a good time.

Wait, that sounded sexual.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #46 on:** October 28, 2009, 07:30:49 PM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #47 on:** October 30, 2009, 03:06:13 AM »

Quote from: tehjaybo on October 28, 2009, 04:28:26 PM

Monopoly tournament?

Man, living life in the fast lane.

We all can't have dildo parties

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #48 on:** October 30, 2009, 03:10:18 AM »

Halloween is gonna be a bitch this year, going to a playoff game in the morning. Then over to my gf's cousins for some home made Candycorn vodka tasting. Then watching some halloween movies and then doing what old people do alot, sleep...

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #49 on:** October 30, 2009, 04:01:44 AM »

School work :'(

DeathNote · « **Reply #50 on:** October 30, 2009, 04:18:13 AM »

no plans yet

bork · « **Reply #51 on:** October 30, 2009, 10:54:50 AM »

Quote from: Kranz Fafka on October 28, 2009, 01:08:30 PM

fucking studying. :'(

Yeah. :'( :'(

tehjaybo · « **Reply #52 on:** October 30, 2009, 12:07:50 PM »

Dressed up like my father today at work. He just retired a couple of weeks ago, and everyone says I look just like him, so I thought why not. So far the reactions have been "Wow, you look just like him! Hahaha!" Pretty much what I was going for. Can't wait for tomorrow, with the unveiling of the real costume.

ch1nchilla · « **Reply #53 on:** October 30, 2009, 12:47:15 PM »

OH SNAP! I have a ROWDY sore throat right now (only on the left side though, wtf?), so I'm on the no cigarette diet until tomorrow, trying to recover in time for Halloween tomorrow night. Unless I have a fever of 101º or higher, I am going out tomorrow night, and that is the bottom line. But for now I'm just uploading games to my new PSP go, shouts to DCharlie for the ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR GAME HOOK-UP, I'm going to make a DC appreciation thread methinks.

Akala · « **Reply #54 on:** October 30, 2009, 12:55:21 PM »

I'm getting old. The planets aligned and made Halloween fall on FALL BACK night and we're not going out. :'(

Apparently, the neighborhood is insane with trick or treaters, so we bought $40 worth of candy (not the good stuff lol) and are just going to throw a party. There will be children.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #55 on:** October 30, 2009, 01:17:35 PM »

Quote from: tehjaybo on October 30, 2009, 12:07:50 PM

Can't wait for tomorrow, with the unveiling of the real costume.

When you dress up like you mother?

Ganhyun · « **Reply #56 on:** October 30, 2009, 01:28:52 PM »

Quote from: Willco on October 30, 2009, 01:17:35 PM

Quote from: tehjaybo on October 30, 2009, 12:07:50 PM
Can't wait for tomorrow, with the unveiling of the real costume.

When you dress up like you mother?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #57 on:** October 30, 2009, 02:25:05 PM »

Which one of these kids is tehjaybo?

tehjaybo · « **Reply #58 on:** October 30, 2009, 02:56:47 PM »

Quote from: Willco on October 30, 2009, 02:25:05 PM

Which one of these kids is tehjaybo?

You'd love that, wouldn't you.

Rman · « **Reply #59 on:** October 30, 2009, 02:59:46 PM »

Quote from: ch1nchilla on October 28, 2009, 12:37:44 PM

Quote from: distantmantra on October 28, 2009, 12:35:33 PM
Quote from: Willco on October 28, 2009, 12:22:01 PM
It really is disappearing from suburbia, and parents are taking their kids to malls and shopping centers. That's lame. Part of what made trick-or-treating so great was the possibility that your candy had razor blades or strychnine in it!

I live in an urban village neighborhood of Seattle with lots of houses, condos and townhouses, and I know for a fact that there are tons of kids in those townhouses and condos. We've been in our house for the past two Halloweens and every year we put out jack-o-lanterns on the porch and a hanging pumpkin lantern in the front yard. Never had a single trick-or-treat'er. When we lived on top of Queen Anne hill (mega rich neighborhood), we got ONE kid all night. ONE.

smh x infinity

What a pussified generation.

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Author Topic: THE OFFICIAL BORE™ ALL HALLOW'S EVE® CELEBRATION THREAD: 2009 EDITION! (Read 7096 times)