But it's eeeevil pie

[TechnoAtheist]

Tonight I've got to carve my pumpkin for holloween.

Normally this is either a chance for me to relive my dream of being the next biological based Michaelangelo, or a hurried attempt to make something hollow enough that I can set something burning inside of it and not take out the neighborhood.

This year, considering my work schedule, I fully figured it would be the latter (Is carving via directed charges good?) but it looks like i really might be able to do some honest carving.

Granted most of my pumpkins pretty much look the same, evil grinning gords of death that have cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar sprinkled on the lid to give it a pumpkin pie scent. Some of my friends have done far better jobs making truely remarkable bits of art.

My favorite so far involved a grinning pumpkin that was coated in a layer of naval jelly to which sterno was sprayed all over. Seeing a large flaming pumpkin sitting in his front yard definitely was a hit with the kids. I never asked him how he cleaned up the bubbling pile of smoking pumpkin goo that undoubtedly remained.

Another person of questionable sanity had a happy glowing pumpkin surrounded by blood with the remains of a hand sticking out of the mouth.

Complicating matters is the fact that this year is my first year in a new neighborhood. Normally I'd celibrate by drawing chalk outlines of costumed children missing vital limbs and or organs on my driveway, but I'm guessing that my wife would frown on that idea. (spoilsport) Or i'd greet the little goblins while I messily dismember a corpse in the garage, but coming up with the right amount of blood and a nice dull axe is hard when you're still unpacking.

Ah, well, I guess I'll just have to go with one of my old standards.


I wonder if I can pick up a bear trap, a few quarts of raspberry jello mix and a foam severed leg on my way home tonight?....
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[KedaDibandion]

Sounds like a lot of fun! Good luck...

[Maracus]

Sounds like you have way too much fun with halloween. Unfortuanately I've got to work. The other problem is when I show up in uniform, everybody thinks it's a big joke, and that it's just a really great costume. At least until they figure out the gun is real. Usually a flesh wound suffices.

Maracus

Why yell "STOP" before you shoot? I suppose they won't want to stop after you start shooting, but don't you think they'd get the idea?