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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Confirm this with BRC, but I think she was telling you to fuck off.
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What, you only love me for my Klingon? Well, ToQe' would be "you have acquiesced", sort of, which could be insulting (depending on what you acquiesced to). "taHQeQ" means liar. Neither is anywhere close to the curses my nephew has learned.
Question - I love Halloween. I am a suburban child of the '70s and have a decade's worth of fond memories of running around with a bunch of other people in costumes all night and eating sugar 'til I puked.
But now I live on a street in a neighborhood now that has no Halloween. (Our last place had some kids come trick or treating, and everyone else in my building would come out and hang on the steps and we'd drink grog and rate costumes, but now there are no steps and no kiddies trick or treat along the industrial strip where we can now afford rent.) This will not do.
Therefore, I am planning to have a Halloween party (the Sat before), and am looking for groovy stuff for little kids (who will of course be invited - what else is the point?). Question is: any suggestions for munchies, activities or decor, given that a bunch of the guests will range in age from about 2 to about 7?
So far, I have enlisted one friend to make her famous gelatin shrimp dip (which comes out a noxious salmon pink) in a brain-shaped mold, and I have several dozen chocolate eyeballs (Kosher!) on order. I'm figuring cider, mulled wine, beer, hot chocolate, maybe some apple bobbing for those looking to drown their kids. I have, Halloween geek that I am, a collection of rubber spiders, ravens, etc. from prior years that I can probably figure out how to stick on things to create "atmosphere." I will, without doubt, pull out my chalk collection and turn the sidewalk in front of our building into old-fashioned horizontal tomb covers (which the insurance co. in the ground floor shop will probably appreciate).
Since we now live up several flights of stairs, I was thinking of getting some blood-spatter sticky things to lead from the front door to our door, but I was wondering if that was too scary for little kids (or maybe I'm just being a ninny). I was also considering an old girl scout game I remember, where we'd turn out the lights and pass gross stuff around while someone told a scary story (e.g.: passing peeled grapes and telling a story about the eyeball killer). But maybe that's too scary for the age group. Or requires too much attention (from both the kids and parents trying to keep them from eating peeled food that's been handled by 15 people). I was considering buying a bunch of small pumpkins and letting everyone carve some to take home for Halloween proper, but I do value my rugs and 3 year olds with handfulls of pumpkin-guts-slime is probably not such a great idea, nevermind 3 year olds with knives.
Maybe I should just pull out the copper pots and the big spoons and let them make a ruckus while getting their parents suitably tanked?
