Yeah, we could tell by the lack of strategically placed turds.
14.
Yutsano
@Demo Woman: Sam is gonna have one very interesting upbringing with all the uncles and aunts he’s gonna have all over the world.
15.
Demo Woman
Last year I had about 12 trick or treaters. My neighborhood is pretty small, about 25 houses. So this year just to be safe in case the 12 brought friends or something, I made 25 bags of treats. I had two pirates and a darth. That’s it.
16.
Fulcanelli
We went to see my 10 month old grandson on his first Halloween tonight, he was dressed in a too-cute-for-words lion costume.
Mrs. F gave him a Gummi Bear and part of a Reese’s cup. He’ll be up all night.
Grandchildren = Revenge on your kids.
17.
Doonhamer
For the tenth year in a row, the local kids have disdained to walk down our kilometer of unlit, ungraded gravel through the coyote-rich Sonoran desert to our house to trick-or-treat. For some reason.
More demon-infested Zagnuts for me, I guess.
18.
Yutsano
@Fulcanelli: No wonder my mom wants them so bad! I thought it was just because she’s an ed assistant at an elementary school.
19.
Martin
Is it wrong to force nine year olds to say “fuck the Yankees” before you give them candy?
Is it wrong to force nine year olds to say “fuck the Yankees” before you give them candy?
Wrong? Force? These are nine-year-olds, they’d be delighted for any opportunity to say “fuck” in front of the grown-ups!
21.
hal
20 years from now:
” you and I have unfinished business.”
22.
jeffreyw
We haven’t had any trick-or treaters, checked the traps myself just a few minutes ago.
23.
Anne Laurie
RedKitten, young Sam is adorable. But next year, to get him in the proper attitude for the Balloon Juice commentariat, you should dress him as Eeyore instead!
24.
Yutsano
@Anne Laurie: I figure by nine Halloween is the perfect time to ditch the grown-ups and roam the neighborhood sugar collecting. Course that could have just been my childhood and we could only trick-or-treat on base, so I may be an outlier.
Was waiting for Martin to weigh in and give his objective opinion.
Looks like a go./
27.
MikeJ
The nine year old trick or treater started giving me shit about how he was from New York. I then informed him I was from Boston and his seven year old sister started yelling “Yankees suck! Yankees suck!”
He got one mini candy because I can’t turn them away empty handed. She got a big handful.
@hal: Like hell. My sister’s posted pictures of her kids on the potty. I’d NEVER do that. (Hell, if you look at Lamebook, you’ll see that some people have actually posted pictures of their kids bowel movements.)
So it could be much, much worse.
29.
Martin
Was waiting for Martin to weigh in and give his objective opinion.
Science don’t lie, dude.
And 1-0 Phillies. FTFY.
30.
Anne Laurie
President Obama is truly the First Geek, ‘cuz Michelle wore nekomimi (cat ears) for Halloween!
(Okay, it made me happy. I are also geek, too.)
Happy Halloween, y’all!
31.
Mike in NC
Turned out all the lights and am reading “Nixonland” by candlelight. Scary! Also have the original “Night of the Living Dead” playing on AMC. Why do so many of these zombies look like goddamn teabaggers?
32.
Zuzu's Petals
I am impatiently awaiting pics of my granddaughter in her ladybug costume on her first Halloween.
It’s killing me.
33.
jl
@Anne Laurie: All right for First Lady Michelle. Nice costume. Mee-Oww!
Well, maybe not that pic, since she is making a face, but in general, a big mee-oww to Michelle, my favorite first lady since before I can remember.
I’ve decided we need Michelle for President. I think she would kick some butt around Congress, and bully some pulpit, unlike a certain associated person.
So, OK, Cole can send out some Tunchbuttbaster to wipe me out, now that I have dissed the leser half, Mr. Obama again.
PS: I know it was not Tunch in the pic right off. Tunch would have eaten up the poor little bear, instead of letting him just sit there and show disrespect to the Tunchmeister.
34.
AB
No candy for me. I’m instead getting ready for “the Islamic bomb”.
@Anne Laurie: Thanks for the link….Best First Lady Ever !!!
36.
Polish the Guillotines
@jeffreyw: Ha ha! Well, it’s eerie. So far, we’ve had only two groups of kids come by. We’re gonna have a lot of candy left over. Unfortunately (or fortunately for my belt), no Heath bars.
37.
General Winfield Stuck
No candy for me. I’m instead getting ready for “the Islamic bomb”.
My first thought. A constipated Dick Cheney.
Now I haz nightmare.
38.
IndyLib
Krista, SamKitten as a bear is unbearably cute.
My little (actually, not so little, all of them are less than a foot shorter than I am) miniLibs went with their Dad (dressed as Darth Vader) to the haunted house on the Navy base to help scare people. One werewolf, one grim reaper with a mask that has a plastic cover that makes it look like blood is running down his skeleton face, and one space alien. Good times.
We don’t get trick-or-treaters here, I assume because we live on a semi-busy 2 lane street with no sidewalk.
39.
chrome agnomen
3-0
F. T. F. Y.
40.
Martin
No candy at chez Martin this year. Not gonna spread the H1N1 any further than necessary (hate this flu).
Iran is directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of more American military personnel than any other country since the Vietnam War. Tehran does not lack the will to stand up to the United States even without nuclear weapons. It’s chilling to consider how much more bold Iran will be with an atomic arsenal.
42.
madmommy
Awww…the cute is very strong in this one! My youngest was about this age for his first Halloween. He was a peapod, and I propped him up in the corner of the couch just like this to take his picture.
I’m saving it to show his future spouse at the wedding reception.
We got more ToTers this year than last even thought it’s been raining on and off. Final tally: 10 kids, one of whom refused to come in the yard because he was too scared.
44.
burnspbesq
I just hope the little heathens don’t freak out Laettner and Hurley too badly.
Worst case, I will have leftover fried chicken to use to lure them out of the bushes tomorrow morning.
45.
burnspbesq
So I get sent off at halftime of the USC-Oregon game to get snacks, and when I come back the fucking baseball game is on. Argggghhh.
46.
Max
Just had a big herd of kids but had to walk out to the street to catch them. Turns out, my sweet, 45 lb wheaten terrier is scary to strangers and his bark makes him sound mean.
I am from Kentucky and bleeds the blue, and not that blue, the other one.
49.
Martin
Explain this paragraph to me…
Iran is part of the axis of evil. All US military are good. All deaths of US military must be due to evil. Therefore, all deaths of US military is due to Iran.
I studied first order wingnut predicate calculus in school.
Enjoy the Calipari era while you can. I give it three years before the first indictment is handed down.
52.
Martin
@burnspbesq: Not sure which way to go on that one. USC is almost as bad as the Yankees. Almost.
But I think both USC and the Yankees losing is proof that Halloween is a holiday of goodness and not evil. How could the Pope be so ignorant in the face of such overwhelming evidence?
53.
General Winfield Stuck
Cats are lucky, cuz they have nine lives and all.:)
Yeah, thats what I was thinking. That’s a tough call – the ball was dropping pretty fast and might have caught the top of the fence. But creating that situation was just dumb.
The loot handed out was just part of the treat for the kids, ages 6 to 14.
…
“He touched my hand,” said a beaming Tiera Thomas, 11, of Washington, D.C., after she picked up her candy from President Obama.
I remember Rosie O’Donnell saying that she always made a point of signing autographs for kids who recognized her as ‘Betty Rubble’, because it was so nice to feel she’d made the kid’s day.
And I’m sure we’ll see pictures of Sasha & Melia in costume, just not till they’ve had the chance to model them for their friends and the important people in their lives!
The First Couple should have dressed up as Rhett and Scarlett. Teabagger heads all across the South would instantaneously explode.
68.
smiley
@Keith G:
My grade school was given the day off, in 19– for a field trip to go see Gone With The Wind in one of the bigger theaters in town. It’s history, man, history.
69.
donovong
I must live in a tougher neighborhood than I thought, or the Trick or Treaters are just really determined this year. I have a 110 pound German Shepherd who “answered the door” every time the bell rang tonight. He stood up on two legs against the full-length window next to the door, snarling and barking like a heathen from hell.
Every single one of the little fuckers stood tall and hung in there, waiting for me to move the monster out of the way and give them their just desserts. I’m impressed!
70.
MikeJ
I’m afraid word may have gotten out in the neighborhood about crazy yankee hating guy. I answered the door, “What’s the worst baseball team?” and the herd of children responded, “Yankees!”
This is why I love the first lady… she is so cool.
72.
Demo Woman
@Anne Laurie: The local CBS station in Atlanta had a nice segment on the Obama’s handing out candy. Michelle looked great.
73.
Delia
I only had one little trick r treater until after 8:00. Then all the middle schooler and high schoolers started showing up. Which is fine because I’ve got to get rid of all these demon-laced Butterfingers bars. And my doorbell is broken so I’m relying on the dog alert system, which works rather well. It’s just hard to shut it off.
74.
Morbo
Frightening. Also, FTFY.
75.
MikeJ
How often has daylight wasting time come on halloween?
I have airchecks somewhere of me in college on both nights (I did 10-2) both probably more blotto than the fcc would prefer. That’s what to expect when you hand 10,000 watt FM transmitters to 17 year olds.
What do people do who work night-shift during the time changes? Do they lose an hour of pay in the spring and make it up in the fall?
These are the sorts of questions I ponder over a glass or three of box wine while watching baseball and surfing the internets.
78.
Delia
How often has daylight wasting time come on halloween?
It used to be in early or mid October. That fabulous energy bill that was passed sometime during the Cheney Administration had as its prime energy-saving mechanism extending daylight savings time so that it starts earlier in spring and ends around the first of November. This was supposed to save tons of energy somehow.
I love Halloween, I especially love being able to use one of my old prosthetics as a candy dish. I mean what’s the point of losing a limb if you can’t have some fun with it now and again?
80.
Fulcanelli
Pretty light turnout for Trick or Treaters this year. Even so, I still shouldn’t have to buy dog food until February, maybe March. That’s the benefit of having the parents come to the door with ’em
I’m afraid word may have gotten out in the neighborhood about crazy yankee hating guy. I answered the door, “What’s the worst baseball team?” and the herd of children responded, “Yankees!”
I expect this in Boston. Not bad for Seattle.
I live in Seattle (well Burien) and I don’t know anyone who likes the Yankees. I mean I’m not even into baseball, the last time I watched any was the 2004 World Series because I wanted to see the Red Sox win (hey that was history) and I still hate the Yankees.
82.
gnomedad
That fabulous energy bill that was passed sometime during the Cheney Administration had as its prime energy-saving mechanism extending daylight savings time so that it starts earlier in spring and ends around the first of November.
Actually, I thought this was an amazingly radical tradition-breaking move for them. I’m sure it would be evil if Obama had started it.
It is nice to have the daylight for kids trick-or-treating. Unfortunately, it has obsoleted my geeky automatic-DST- adjusting watch.
83.
Martin
I’m afraid word may have gotten out in the neighborhood about crazy yankee hating guy
No, you just got all the children who are pure of heart.
And mighty USC goes down 47-20 to a team whose mascot is the Duck. Now, we just need 3 more Philly runs.
84.
Betsy
Oooohhhhh how cute!!!
I decided to make my own Halloween treats tonight – browned butter chocolate chip cookies OMG YUM.
85.
burnspbesq
Those people you hear cheering in the background? That’s everyone who has anything to do with the Holiday Bowl. The only way USC ends up in the Rose Bowl is if Oregon makes the BCS championship game.
Oh, well. The other two schools I care about both won today. My undergrad school is two wins away from the Division 3 playoffs, and Duke is two wins away from being bowl eligible.
Yes, you read that correctly.
86.
gnomedad
Also: oh noes, the teddy bear eated Sam!
87.
Martin
You know, if you’re going to hit A-Rod with a pitch, you might as well get him in the head.
88.
Fulcanelli
Do you like to scare people? This guy does. His girlfriend, no less.
@Fulcanelli: Well, if he did it to someone else’s girlfriend, he’d probably go to jail.
91.
Moonbatting Average
FTFY, of course, and may Shakira’s Ass and the FSM deliver us from evil! But damn, this day was teeth-grindingly awful for foes of the BCS:
– Assuming Alabama and Florida meet in the SEC championship, the losing team gets hosed for the national championship.
– If Texas wins out, they get to play the winner of that game, arguably undeservedly (and I say this as a current UT student).
– Oregon gets TOTALLY hosed if they win out, even after destroying USC, b/c of a close first game loss to current #7 (!?!) Boise State
– Cincy, TCU and Boise State were, as of this morning, ahead of Oregon, LSU, and GaTech in the BCS?!?! Since all those teams won, there should be no change in the standings, right? WTF-ever
Basically, what I am trying to say is COME ON, OBAMA!! Institute a playoff! Those of us who hate the BCS are tired of “just words”! Don’t make us start a grassroots-ish campaign to send alligators, longhorn cattle, mallards, ummm… crimson tides (?), or, ummm hawk’s eyes to the White House… Don’t force our hand!
(+6 or so)
92.
General Winfield Stuck
FTFY – damn
93.
Yutsano
Just back from dinner with my parents and FINALLY getting my birthday cake to find the Ducks winning (yay) and the Yanks winning (boo) so I guess today is more less a push.
94.
Delia
Well, I live in Eugene now, and ordinarily I think people around here care way more than they should about Ducks football. But I have to say, it really gives me a warm glow to know that the Ducks utterly and completely trounced USC.
95.
Robertdsc-iphone
I’ll take this Yanks win.
/types painfully with a sprained wrist inflicted by the company owner during working hours.
Mom is OK, but her incision has to be dressed every day. A nurse comes every day to do that. Otherwise, she’s recovered. She appreciates all the good wishes.
96.
Keith G
I see it’s just past midnight here in Houston. Feliz Día de los Muertos, amigos!
There are 60 days remaining in the fucked-up mess that is 2009. Enjoy.
97.
arguingwithsignposts
Like JC, I’m back from my travels. Tired, just glad I’m not traveling back tomorrow.
Eeuuww . . . . Now that is one demon-infested Halloween horror I wouldn’t mind inviting the Pope over to exorcise.
102.
Debbie(aussie)
You will all be pleased to know that Halloween is taking off here in Aus. Had three visits, last night(not sure how many kids, hubby and daughter answered door) and not having young ones forgot, so had to say sorry. Note to self for next year- ‘don’t forget lollies and chocolates’.
Sam is so very cute.
103.
anie
As I am in Eugene as well – Go Ducks!!
Eugene is the most football obsessed city I’ve ever lived in, by far.
FTFY. Also.
Happy All Hallow’s Eve to all.
104.
Yutsano
@anie: Anyone who despises the Washington Huskies as much as we do can’t possibly be all that bad. Plus whenever Duck fans would come to visit (including the band!) they were always a blast to hang out with.
What do people do who work night-shift during the time changes? Do they lose an hour of pay in the spring and make it up in the fall?
When I worked at 9-1-1, the policy at first was just to ignore it as far as pay went, because it would all work out in the wash – chances were if you worked one hour less when you “sprang forward” you’d eventually work one hour more when you “fell back.”
Then a couple of union contracts later, since there was a new shift signup every six months, they decided to address it formally and paid you OT if you worked the extra hour, and made you take an hour of vacation time or work the lost hour on the other end.
OK, so it was probably more of a rhetorical question. :-)
106.
Comrade Luke
Holy crap – Tunch at a baby.
107.
Comrade Luke
ate
no fcuking edit button ruined my joke
Damn you, Cole. DAMN YOU!
108.
Cain
Anybody read Frank Rich’s article? I swear he must read balloon-juice because it sounds like a summary of our recent thread about NY-23 district.
He was trying to be helpful in stacking boxes on a dolly. Unfortunately, my wrist was in the way. I took the hit, didn’t notice it at the moment, but after the customer had left with their boxes, I began to feel it. Unlike my shoulder injury in June, I could pinpoint exactly when it happened. Also unlike my shoulder injury, this one is covered under workers’ comp if need be since it happened during working hours, lol.
I had to stop at the local Walgreens up the street to get some ibuprofen (in the kiddie 200MG size, pfft on the kids’ stuff; where the fuck is the 600 MG? Prescription?I got your prescription right here!)and a wrist wrap that will tide me over until the doctor can see me early next week.
As for working late during hour changes, it can be a bit disorienting, but I do my standard 8 and my boss credits me for the changed hour. The daytime people change all the clocks, though. I’ve worked the late shift for 10 years now, so the time change isn’t much of a bother anymore.
This baby is the only adorable creature I saw tonight. Actually there were far fewer kids out this Halloween, which means I will look like an oompa loompa by Christmas eating the leftover candy.
And Krista, that picture is squeee-making cute. He will kill you over it in about 14 years, however, so start preparing defenses now.
116.
Julia Grey
A. DOR. A. BLE.
117.
valdivia
RedKittten–what an adorable boy! that picture is killer.
118.
YellowJournalism
Too cute! That bear costume just looks so cuddly.
We had a long, quiet night at our house. All of us, even the baby, have the flu pretty bad and didn’t want to give it to anyone else, so we hung a sign on the door. I felt so bad because I love Halloween and wanted to celebrate LittleYellow’s first one in style, cute costume and all. In the past, Hubby set lights up around our doorway to give it an eerie glow while he passed out candy in a mask and rubber monster gloves with long black nails.
When I was young, my family decorated our doorway to look like a spooky haunted house. Dad would dress up as a witch in a scary mask (I wouldn’t touch it for years, that’s how creepy-looking it was.), sit in the doorway as if he was a prop, and then reach out as kids waited to get some candy. He scared the crap out of many a kid, including one who was so scared he threw his bag of candy up in the air and ran down our walkway. He also freaked out a mom so bad once that she was shaking. She waited at the end of the walkway while her little ones recieved their treats.
Awwwwwww, Kitten-Bear is teh cutest. Except for Tunchie in the same costume, but I have a hunch that Cole would have a bleeding stump of a hand before THAT ever happened. I spent Halloween with my best bud. It was nice. I didn’t have to pretend not to be home this year. And, she gave me a bunch of Whoppers to take home. Yum.
I have an atomic clock over my kitchen sink. I happened to be up getting a glass of water when it made the adjustment from 2 am to 1am.
The freaky thing is the hands only move, well, clockwise, so I watched them move at super speed all the way around the dial until they reached 1:00. Demon clock!
121.
licensed to kill time
SamKitten is a chubby bubby bear and soooo squeeeee!zable.
When oh when will we dump daylight savings time? A most useless annoyance/holdover from past agrarian days.
MikeJ
A bit thinner than Tunch, even after the bear of little brain has raided the honey pot.
robertdsc
Where CAN I get one of those Tunch costumes? Does it come with his bad attitude as well?
General Winfield Stuck
I fear a reckoning some day.
Comrade Mary
Of course it’s not Tunch. There’s no shit on the couch.
That looks like an awfully cute wee Kitten-Bear instead. Aww!
Polish the Guillotines
Happy Christian War On Candy(R).
Still waiting for the first wave of mini-heathens…
Keith G
What a ‘lil heart stealer.
Happy first All Hallow’s Eve, SamKitten.
(He looks a bit unsure)
MikeJ
Just got my first trick or treaters. Is it wrong to force nine year olds to say “fuck the Yankees” before you give them candy?
Bad Horse's Filly
Mom, why did you let the bear eat me? What a cutie!
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Gotta indoctrinate them early man. Although 9 might be too old, you may have been better off taking them out and teaching the Kitten-bear.
Fulcanelli
@MikeJ: It depends on what kind of candy, right?
Demo Woman
@MikeJ: Yes.. But think it all you want.
Sam is quite a cutey.
General Winfield Stuck
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
He does look snug as a bug in a rug, as my granny used to say. And warm.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Yeah, we could tell by the lack of strategically placed turds.
Yutsano
@Demo Woman: Sam is gonna have one very interesting upbringing with all the uncles and aunts he’s gonna have all over the world.
Demo Woman
Last year I had about 12 trick or treaters. My neighborhood is pretty small, about 25 houses. So this year just to be safe in case the 12 brought friends or something, I made 25 bags of treats. I had two pirates and a darth. That’s it.
Fulcanelli
We went to see my 10 month old grandson on his first Halloween tonight, he was dressed in a too-cute-for-words lion costume.
Mrs. F gave him a Gummi Bear and part of a Reese’s cup. He’ll be up all night.
Grandchildren = Revenge on your kids.
Doonhamer
For the tenth year in a row, the local kids have disdained to walk down our kilometer of unlit, ungraded gravel through the coyote-rich Sonoran desert to our house to trick-or-treat. For some reason.
More demon-infested Zagnuts for me, I guess.
Yutsano
@Fulcanelli: No wonder my mom wants them so bad! I thought it was just because she’s an ed assistant at an elementary school.
Martin
No. SATSQ.
Anne Laurie
@MikeJ:
Wrong? Force? These are nine-year-olds, they’d be delighted for any opportunity to say “fuck” in front of the grown-ups!
hal
20 years from now:
” you and I have unfinished business.”
jeffreyw
We haven’t had any trick-or treaters, checked the traps myself just a few minutes ago.
Anne Laurie
RedKitten, young Sam is adorable. But next year, to get him in the proper attitude for the Balloon Juice commentariat, you should dress him as Eeyore instead!
Yutsano
@Anne Laurie: I figure by nine Halloween is the perfect time to ditch the grown-ups and roam the neighborhood sugar collecting. Course that could have just been my childhood and we could only trick-or-treat on base, so I may be an outlier.
jeffreyw
@Polish the Guillotines:
Saw that line and my first thought was “mmm…mini heath bars”.
General Winfield Stuck
@MikeJ:
Was waiting for Martin to weigh in and give his objective opinion.
Looks like a go./
MikeJ
The nine year old trick or treater started giving me shit about how he was from New York. I then informed him I was from Boston and his seven year old sister started yelling “Yankees suck! Yankees suck!”
He got one mini candy because I can’t turn them away empty handed. She got a big handful.
RedKitten
@hal: Like hell. My sister’s posted pictures of her kids on the potty. I’d NEVER do that. (Hell, if you look at Lamebook, you’ll see that some people have actually posted pictures of their kids bowel movements.)
So it could be much, much worse.
Martin
Science don’t lie, dude.
And 1-0 Phillies. FTFY.
Anne Laurie
President Obama is truly the First Geek, ‘cuz Michelle wore
nekomimi (cat ears) for Halloween!
(Okay, it made me happy. I are also geek, too.)
Happy Halloween, y’all!
Mike in NC
Turned out all the lights and am reading “Nixonland” by candlelight. Scary! Also have the original “Night of the Living Dead” playing on AMC. Why do so many of these zombies look like goddamn teabaggers?
Zuzu's Petals
I am impatiently awaiting pics of my granddaughter in her ladybug costume on her first Halloween.
It’s killing me.
jl
@Anne Laurie: All right for First Lady Michelle. Nice costume. Mee-Oww!
Well, maybe not that pic, since she is making a face, but in general, a big mee-oww to Michelle, my favorite first lady since before I can remember.
I’ve decided we need Michelle for President. I think she would kick some butt around Congress, and bully some pulpit, unlike a certain associated person.
So, OK, Cole can send out some Tunchbuttbaster to wipe me out, now that I have dissed the leser half, Mr. Obama again.
PS: I know it was not Tunch in the pic right off. Tunch would have eaten up the poor little bear, instead of letting him just sit there and show disrespect to the Tunchmeister.
AB
No candy for me. I’m instead getting ready for “the Islamic bomb”.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/29/getting-ready-for-the-islamic-bomb/
Cat G
@Anne Laurie: Thanks for the link….Best First Lady Ever !!!
Polish the Guillotines
@jeffreyw: Ha ha! Well, it’s eerie. So far, we’ve had only two groups of kids come by. We’re gonna have a lot of candy left over. Unfortunately (or fortunately for my belt), no Heath bars.
General Winfield Stuck
My first thought. A constipated Dick Cheney.
Now I haz nightmare.
IndyLib
Krista, SamKitten as a bear is unbearably cute.
My little (actually, not so little, all of them are less than a foot shorter than I am) miniLibs went with their Dad (dressed as Darth Vader) to the haunted house on the Navy base to help scare people. One werewolf, one grim reaper with a mask that has a plastic cover that makes it look like blood is running down his skeleton face, and one space alien. Good times.
We don’t get trick-or-treaters here, I assume because we live on a semi-busy 2 lane street with no sidewalk.
chrome agnomen
3-0
F. T. F. Y.
Martin
No candy at chez Martin this year. Not gonna spread the H1N1 any further than necessary (hate this flu).
And not-Yankees are up 3-0. FTFY.
Demo Woman
@AB: Explain this paragraph to me…
madmommy
Awww…the cute is very strong in this one! My youngest was about this age for his first Halloween. He was a peapod, and I propped him up in the corner of the couch just like this to take his picture.
I’m saving it to show his future spouse at the wedding reception.
kommrade reproductive vigor
@Doonhamer: You’ve been reading Sadly, No! I see.
We got more ToTers this year than last even thought it’s been raining on and off. Final tally: 10 kids, one of whom refused to come in the yard because he was too scared.
burnspbesq
I just hope the little heathens don’t freak out Laettner and Hurley too badly.
Worst case, I will have leftover fried chicken to use to lure them out of the bushes tomorrow morning.
burnspbesq
So I get sent off at halftime of the USC-Oregon game to get snacks, and when I come back the fucking baseball game is on. Argggghhh.
Max
Just had a big herd of kids but had to walk out to the street to catch them. Turns out, my sweet, 45 lb wheaten terrier is scary to strangers and his bark makes him sound mean.
I live in Oakland. That’s good to know.
DPirate
Hope you don’t own a dog!
General Winfield Stuck
@burnspbesq:
I am from Kentucky and bleeds the blue, and not that blue, the other one.
Martin
Iran is part of the axis of evil. All US military are good. All deaths of US military must be due to evil. Therefore, all deaths of US military is due to Iran.
I studied first order wingnut predicate calculus in school.
burnspbesq
@General Winfield Stuck:
I’m sure that if you ask nicely, my itteh bitteh kitteh Laettner will be happy to stomp on your chest and then hit a game-winning shot.
burnspbesq
@General Winfield Stuck:
Enjoy the Calipari era while you can. I give it three years before the first indictment is handed down.
Martin
@burnspbesq: Not sure which way to go on that one. USC is almost as bad as the Yankees. Almost.
But I think both USC and the Yankees losing is proof that Halloween is a holiday of goodness and not evil. How could the Pope be so ignorant in the face of such overwhelming evidence?
General Winfield Stuck
Cats are lucky, cuz they have nine lives and all.:)
General Winfield Stuck
@burnspbesq:
If we just Pitino back, and his second squeeze.
smiley
@Anne Laurie: Here’s more. Very disappointing. I still want to see what the girls wore.
dfd
Had four trick-or-treaters total. Made sure to give them big heaping handfuls of candy.
3-2 FTFY
Keith G
Why would MLB allow for the placement of a camera hanging over an outfield fence in play? My god, such stupidity.
Martin
Obama should have dressed up as Orly Taitz.
smiley
@burnspbesq: Oregon is up 7 and about to score (correction: just scored – now 34-20) about half way through the third. Plenty of time left.
Martin
@Keith G:
Yeah, thats what I was thinking. That’s a tough call – the ball was dropping pretty fast and might have caught the top of the fence. But creating that situation was just dumb.
Anne Laurie
@smiley: Yeah, but I love stuff like this:
I remember Rosie O’Donnell saying that she always made a point of signing autographs for kids who recognized her as ‘Betty Rubble’, because it was so nice to feel she’d made the kid’s day.
And I’m sure we’ll see pictures of Sasha & Melia in costume, just not till they’ve had the chance to model them for their friends and the important people in their lives!
smiley
@Martin:
Heh. I was thinking Margaret Thatcher or Ronaldus Maximus to really freak the wingnuts. I like you idea better.
Steeplejack
@Keith G:
Yeah, especially since it’s probably doing 90-100 percent long zoom shots of the infield. Like it can’t be back another two feet?! WTF.
Steeplejack
@Martin:
I think it was a home run, but definitely camera placement fail!
smiley
@smiley: I canniot type todat! WTG?
Genine
Awwwww, little Sammy is just adorable! What a precious one!
Keith G
@smiley: No, no
The First Couple should have dressed up as Rhett and Scarlett. Teabagger heads all across the South would instantaneously explode.
smiley
@Keith G:
My grade school was given the day off, in 19– for a field trip to go see Gone With The Wind in one of the bigger theaters in town. It’s history, man, history.
donovong
I must live in a tougher neighborhood than I thought, or the Trick or Treaters are just really determined this year. I have a 110 pound German Shepherd who “answered the door” every time the bell rang tonight. He stood up on two legs against the full-length window next to the door, snarling and barking like a heathen from hell.
Every single one of the little fuckers stood tall and hung in there, waiting for me to move the monster out of the way and give them their just desserts. I’m impressed!
MikeJ
I’m afraid word may have gotten out in the neighborhood about crazy yankee hating guy. I answered the door, “What’s the worst baseball team?” and the herd of children responded, “Yankees!”
I expect this in Boston. Not bad for Seattle.
Litlebritdifrnt
THIS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/31/white-house-trickortreate_n_341235.html
This is why I love the first lady… she is so cool.
Demo Woman
@Anne Laurie: The local CBS station in Atlanta had a nice segment on the Obama’s handing out candy. Michelle looked great.
Delia
I only had one little trick r treater until after 8:00. Then all the middle schooler and high schoolers started showing up. Which is fine because I’ve got to get rid of all these demon-laced Butterfingers bars. And my doorbell is broken so I’m relying on the dog alert system, which works rather well. It’s just hard to shut it off.
Morbo
Frightening. Also, FTFY.
MikeJ
How often has daylight wasting time come on halloween?
I have airchecks somewhere of me in college on both nights (I did 10-2) both probably more blotto than the fcc would prefer. That’s what to expect when you hand 10,000 watt FM transmitters to 17 year olds.
gnomedad
@Comrade Mary:
Thanks for the lolz.
“‘Ow d’ye know ‘e’s a king?”
“Doesn’t ‘ave shit all over ‘im.”
madmommy
@MikeJ:
What do people do who work night-shift during the time changes? Do they lose an hour of pay in the spring and make it up in the fall?
These are the sorts of questions I ponder over a glass or three of box wine while watching baseball and surfing the internets.
Delia
It used to be in early or mid October. That fabulous energy bill that was passed sometime during the Cheney Administration had as its prime energy-saving mechanism extending daylight savings time so that it starts earlier in spring and ends around the first of November. This was supposed to save tons of energy somehow.
Wile E. Quixote
That is a seriously cute kid.
I love Halloween, I especially love being able to use one of my old prosthetics as a candy dish. I mean what’s the point of losing a limb if you can’t have some fun with it now and again?
Fulcanelli
Pretty light turnout for Trick or Treaters this year. Even so, I still shouldn’t have to buy dog food until February, maybe March. That’s the benefit of having the parents come to the door with ’em
Wile E. Quixote
@MikeJ
I live in Seattle (well Burien) and I don’t know anyone who likes the Yankees. I mean I’m not even into baseball, the last time I watched any was the 2004 World Series because I wanted to see the Red Sox win (hey that was history) and I still hate the Yankees.
gnomedad
Actually, I thought this was an amazingly radical tradition-breaking move for them. I’m sure it would be evil if Obama had started it.
It is nice to have the daylight for kids trick-or-treating. Unfortunately, it has obsoleted my geeky automatic-DST- adjusting watch.
Martin
No, you just got all the children who are pure of heart.
And mighty USC goes down 47-20 to a team whose mascot is the Duck. Now, we just need 3 more Philly runs.
Betsy
Oooohhhhh how cute!!!
I decided to make my own Halloween treats tonight – browned butter chocolate chip cookies OMG YUM.
burnspbesq
Those people you hear cheering in the background? That’s everyone who has anything to do with the Holiday Bowl. The only way USC ends up in the Rose Bowl is if Oregon makes the BCS championship game.
Oh, well. The other two schools I care about both won today. My undergrad school is two wins away from the Division 3 playoffs, and Duke is two wins away from being bowl eligible.
Yes, you read that correctly.
gnomedad
Also: oh noes, the teddy bear eated Sam!
Martin
You know, if you’re going to hit A-Rod with a pitch, you might as well get him in the head.
Fulcanelli
Do you like to scare people? This guy does. His girlfriend, no less.
burnspbesq
@Martin:
The Pope’s job is to be ignorant. This Pope gets a “substantially exceeds expectations” evaluation.
AhabTRuler
@Fulcanelli: Well, if he did it to someone else’s girlfriend, he’d probably go to jail.
Moonbatting Average
FTFY, of course, and may Shakira’s Ass and the FSM deliver us from evil! But damn, this day was teeth-grindingly awful for foes of the BCS:
– Assuming Alabama and Florida meet in the SEC championship, the losing team gets hosed for the national championship.
– If Texas wins out, they get to play the winner of that game, arguably undeservedly (and I say this as a current UT student).
– Oregon gets TOTALLY hosed if they win out, even after destroying USC, b/c of a close first game loss to current #7 (!?!) Boise State
– Cincy, TCU and Boise State were, as of this morning, ahead of Oregon, LSU, and GaTech in the BCS?!?! Since all those teams won, there should be no change in the standings, right? WTF-ever
Basically, what I am trying to say is COME ON, OBAMA!! Institute a playoff! Those of us who hate the BCS are tired of “just words”! Don’t make us start a grassroots-ish campaign to send alligators, longhorn cattle, mallards, ummm… crimson tides (?), or, ummm hawk’s eyes to the White House… Don’t force our hand!
(+6 or so)
General Winfield Stuck
FTFY – damn
Yutsano
Just back from dinner with my parents and FINALLY getting my birthday cake to find the Ducks winning (yay) and the Yanks winning (boo) so I guess today is more less a push.
Delia
Well, I live in Eugene now, and ordinarily I think people around here care way more than they should about Ducks football. But I have to say, it really gives me a warm glow to know that the Ducks utterly and completely trounced USC.
Robertdsc-iphone
I’ll take this Yanks win.
/types painfully with a sprained wrist inflicted by the company owner during working hours.
Mom is OK, but her incision has to be dressed every day. A nurse comes every day to do that. Otherwise, she’s recovered. She appreciates all the good wishes.
Keith G
I see it’s just past midnight here in Houston. Feliz Día de los Muertos, amigos!
There are 60 days remaining in the fucked-up mess that is 2009. Enjoy.
arguingwithsignposts
Like JC, I’m back from my travels. Tired, just glad I’m not traveling back tomorrow.
Keith G
@Robertdsc-iphone: Yay, Mom.
bago
it’s our dick in a box!
Yutsano
@Robertdsc-iphone: Is there a story here?
Delia
@bago:
Eeuuww . . . . Now that is one demon-infested Halloween horror I wouldn’t mind inviting the Pope over to exorcise.
Debbie(aussie)
You will all be pleased to know that Halloween is taking off here in Aus. Had three visits, last night(not sure how many kids, hubby and daughter answered door) and not having young ones forgot, so had to say sorry. Note to self for next year- ‘don’t forget lollies and chocolates’.
Sam is so very cute.
anie
As I am in Eugene as well – Go Ducks!!
Eugene is the most football obsessed city I’ve ever lived in, by far.
FTFY. Also.
Happy All Hallow’s Eve to all.
Yutsano
@anie: Anyone who despises the Washington Huskies as much as we do can’t possibly be all that bad. Plus whenever Duck fans would come to visit (including the band!) they were always a blast to hang out with.
eco2geek
@madmommy:
When I worked at 9-1-1, the policy at first was just to ignore it as far as pay went, because it would all work out in the wash – chances were if you worked one hour less when you “sprang forward” you’d eventually work one hour more when you “fell back.”
Then a couple of union contracts later, since there was a new shift signup every six months, they decided to address it formally and paid you OT if you worked the extra hour, and made you take an hour of vacation time or work the lost hour on the other end.
OK, so it was probably more of a rhetorical question. :-)
Comrade Luke
Holy crap – Tunch at a baby.
Comrade Luke
ate
no fcuking edit button ruined my joke
Damn you, Cole. DAMN YOU!
Cain
Anybody read Frank Rich’s article? I swear he must read balloon-juice because it sounds like a summary of our recent thread about NY-23 district.
Check it out
cain
robertdsc-PowerBook
He was trying to be helpful in stacking boxes on a dolly. Unfortunately, my wrist was in the way. I took the hit, didn’t notice it at the moment, but after the customer had left with their boxes, I began to feel it. Unlike my shoulder injury in June, I could pinpoint exactly when it happened. Also unlike my shoulder injury, this one is covered under workers’ comp if need be since it happened during working hours, lol.
I had to stop at the local Walgreens up the street to get some ibuprofen (in the kiddie 200MG size, pfft on the kids’ stuff; where the fuck is the 600 MG? Prescription?I got your prescription right here!)and a wrist wrap that will tide me over until the doctor can see me early next week.
As for working late during hour changes, it can be a bit disorienting, but I do my standard 8 and my boss credits me for the changed hour. The daytime people change all the clocks, though. I’ve worked the late shift for 10 years now, so the time change isn’t much of a bother anymore.
askcherlock
This baby is the only adorable creature I saw tonight. Actually there were far fewer kids out this Halloween, which means I will look like an oompa loompa by Christmas eating the leftover candy.
freelancer (itouch)
@Cain:
Mind meld. Rich’s column should be a litmus test for who one involves in their lives.
Thadeus Horne
Insomnia sucks. That is all.
Ruckus
@Thadeus Horne:
Yes it does.
calipygian
Does Frank Rich read Balloon Juice threads?
Svensker
@Robertdsc-iphone:
Yay, glad to hear it!
And Krista, that picture is squeee-making cute. He will kill you over it in about 14 years, however, so start preparing defenses now.
Julia Grey
A. DOR. A. BLE.
valdivia
RedKittten–what an adorable boy! that picture is killer.
YellowJournalism
Too cute! That bear costume just looks so cuddly.
We had a long, quiet night at our house. All of us, even the baby, have the flu pretty bad and didn’t want to give it to anyone else, so we hung a sign on the door. I felt so bad because I love Halloween and wanted to celebrate LittleYellow’s first one in style, cute costume and all. In the past, Hubby set lights up around our doorway to give it an eerie glow while he passed out candy in a mask and rubber monster gloves with long black nails.
When I was young, my family decorated our doorway to look like a spooky haunted house. Dad would dress up as a witch in a scary mask (I wouldn’t touch it for years, that’s how creepy-looking it was.), sit in the doorway as if he was a prop, and then reach out as kids waited to get some candy. He scared the crap out of many a kid, including one who was so scared he threw his bag of candy up in the air and ran down our walkway. He also freaked out a mom so bad once that she was shaking. She waited at the end of the walkway while her little ones recieved their treats.
asiangrrlMN
Awwwwwww, Kitten-Bear is teh cutest. Except for Tunchie in the same costume, but I have a hunch that Cole would have a bleeding stump of a hand before THAT ever happened. I spent Halloween with my best bud. It was nice. I didn’t have to pretend not to be home this year. And, she gave me a bunch of Whoppers to take home. Yum.
Zuzu's Petals
@Delia:
Speaking of DST …
I have an atomic clock over my kitchen sink. I happened to be up getting a glass of water when it made the adjustment from 2 am to 1am.
The freaky thing is the hands only move, well, clockwise, so I watched them move at super speed all the way around the dial until they reached 1:00. Demon clock!
licensed to kill time
SamKitten is a chubby bubby bear and soooo squeeeee!zable.
When oh when will we dump daylight savings time? A most useless annoyance/holdover from past agrarian days.
Plus it gives some people heart attacks, apparently.