Amazon’s Halloween Deals

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If you have kids and they’re excited by the approaching spookiness of Halloween, Amazon has some great deals that you might want to take advantage of:

Amazon’s Halloween Store (Costumes, candy, accessories, and décor)External Image

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If you don’t have kids, there are some excellent deals available on grown-up items too:

Amazon Video On Demand Halloween Movies and TV ShowsExternal Image

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(Note: If you buy anything at Amazon by clicking these links, you don’t just get great deals — you also help support LGF, because we get a small piece of the purchase price through the Amazon Associates program. It’s a win-win, as they say in the biz.)

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193 comments
1 sngnsgt  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:42:13pm

BOO!

2 Political Atheist  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:42:54pm

I need dry ice for the pool next week.

3 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:43:20pm

I heard about one of the most popular costumes this year...Ballon Boy. It's a kid wearing a box and a mylar balloon tied to the box.

4 Killgore Trout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:43:45pm

I'm kinda looking forward to seeing Where the Wild Things Are. Sounds interesting.

5 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:43:47pm

I'm looking at the candy now. I like to bring candy to some of my games and this may be a good way to do so. Thanks, Charles.

6 Political Atheist  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:44:22pm

re: #5 Dark_Falcon

It's kinda calm here.

7 Liberal Classic  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:44:32pm

re: #1 sngnsgt

BOO!

Boo back.

8 rwmofo  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:45:03pm

re: #3 NJDhockeyfan

I'm betting "Balloon Boy" will stick to that kid for a long time.

9 Danny  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:45:08pm

re: #4 Killgore Trout

I'm kinda looking forward to seeing Where the Wild Things Are. Sounds interesting.

My teen daughter and some of her friends went to see the thing but the theater was overrun with screaming toddlers so they left.

10 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:46:34pm

I see no sexy nurse, catholic school girl uniform, cheerleader, or little red riding hood costumes for adult females in those links. FAIL
/

11 Izzyboy  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:46:50pm

re: #9 Danny

My teen daughter and some of her friends went to see the thing but the theater was overrun with screaming toddlers so they left.

A review I heard said that it's a movie about childhood, not a childrens movie.

12 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:47:07pm

re: #6 Rightwingconspirator

It's kinda calm here.

Yep. We'll stay up here and stay cool.

13 Killgore Trout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:47:43pm

re: #9 Danny

From what I've heard it's not a movie that kids are going to like. It's too dark.

14 Danny  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:47:51pm

re: #11 Izzyboy

A review I heard said that it's a movie about childhood, not a childrens movie.

Apparently some parents aren't reading the reviews.

15 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:48:07pm

re: #11 Izzyboy

A review I heard said that it's a movie about childhood, not a childrens movie.

I heard the too. It's supposed to be too scary for some kids.

16 Killgore Trout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:50:10pm

re: #15 NJDhockeyfan

I heard some interview on the radio the other day with the original author of the book. When asked about why kids didn't like it he said something like, "let them wet their pants or go home. I don't care.' Gotta admire that.

17 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:50:10pm

The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today)

18 sngnsgt  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:50:32pm

re: #3 NJDhockeyfan

I heard about one of the most popular costumes this year...Ballon Boy. It's a kid wearing a box and a mylar balloon tied to the box.

Now this is a Halloween costume:

Halloween costume

19 rwmofo  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:50:58pm

re: #12 Dark_Falcon

Yep. We'll stay up here and stay cool.

They went back downstairs. Kinda reminds me of people who need to get the last word. Of course it can also be rewarding when someone challenges you, then you leave them hanging...no response...Where IS he? Heh.

20 freetoken  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:51:41pm

re: #10 Slumbering Behemoth

I see no sexy nurse, catholic school girl uniform, cheerleader, or little red riding hood costumes for adult females in those links. FAIL
/

If only this be the LNDT...

21 akarra  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:53:24pm

I just want to take this opportunity to say thanks again for running this site.

Also, a link for those of you concerned: Slate magazine on being a Good Samaritan online

22 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:53:36pm

Halloween is a pagan celebration designed to ensnare young innocent minds and bring them to Satan. I do not recommend this "holiday" for anyone.

23 Izzyboy  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:53:56pm

Social networking sites as humans

24 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:54:59pm

re: #8 rwmofo

I'm betting "Balloon Boy" will stick to that kid for a long time.

And I'm sure those kids are set for life, no matter what happens to the jerk mom and dad. Book deals, what ever.

25 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:55:11pm

re: #22 Walter L. Newton

Halloween is a pagan celebration designed to ensnare young innocent minds and bring them to Satan.

...but in a bad way.

26 Van Helsing  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:55:54pm

re: #22 Walter L. Newton

Halloween is a pagan celebration designed to ensnare young innocent minds and bring them to Satan. I do not recommend this "holiday" for anyone.

Wait a minute. Didn't you just say you were on the Island chasing Celtic girls when Hellenic was going Hellenistic and you dare to run down Samhain?

CINO!

27 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:56:53pm

re: #26 Van Helsing

Wait a minute. Didn't you just say you were on the Island chasing Celtic girls when Hellenic was going Hellenistic and you dare to run down Samhain?

CINO!

Hey, my heathens are better than your heathens. You got a bunch of false heathens. Yours are not real heathens.

28 Charles Johnson  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:56:59pm

re: #22 Walter L. Newton

Halloween is a pagan celebration designed to ensnare young innocent minds and bring them to Satan.

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

29 rwmofo  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:57:28pm

re: #24 Walter L. Newton

Has "Dad" been charged with anything yet? That story has faded away on a national level.

30 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 8:58:22pm

re: #29 rwmofo

Has "Dad" been charged with anything yet? That story has faded away on a national level.

Not yet, they're working on it.

31 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:00:01pm

re: #28 Charles

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

Well, no, not really, if you... ah... are you fucking with me... you're Satan aren't ya... ha... I caught you...

32 Izzyboy  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:00:17pm

re: #22 Walter L. Newton

Halloween is a pagan celebration designed to ensnare young innocent minds and bring them to Satan. I do not recommend this "holiday" for anyone.

Heaven help those who also read Harry Potter on Halloween.

/shudder

33 reine.de.tout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:00:45pm

re: #22 Walter L. Newton

Halloween is a pagan celebration designed to ensnare young innocent minds and bring them to Satan. I do not recommend this "holiday" for anyone.

It sure was my fave celebration, growing up.

I'm still trying to find somebody to go to the Haunted House with me this year before it's gone again for another whole year.

34 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:02:08pm

I'm one of those
"hide from the kids"
Kinda Haloweeners.

Loved "pumpkin bowling" as a kid, on a hillside...

35 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:02:28pm

re: #22 Walter L. Newton

Halloween is a pagan celebration designed to ensnare young innocent minds and bring them to Satan. I do not recommend this "holiday" for anyone.

Nobody says 'Satan' like Church Lady.

Youtube Video
36 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:03:49pm

re: #33 reine.de.tout

It sure was my fave celebration, growing up.

I'm still trying to find somebody to go to the Haunted House with me this year before it's gone again for another whole year.

My grandmother back in Brooklyn use to hand make my bother and mine costumes every year. They were always of popular characters that you couldn't get off the rack, and they were extremely elaborate. I suspect that it would cost you 4-5 hundred dollar each now a days if you had a costume made with the same quality and handiwork as she did.

37 Hector1980  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:04:02pm

Kids?

I want them for ME!!!

38 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:04:05pm

re: #32 Izzyboy

Heaven help those who also read Harry Potter on Halloween.

/shudder

My 7 year old loves those movies. She's watched all of them hundreds of times.

/Do I need to keep an exorcist on speed dial?

39 rwmofo  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:04:11pm

re: #35 NJDhockeyfan

Nobody says 'Satan' like Church Lady.


[Video]

Elizabeth Hurley was somewhat convincing.

40 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:04:28pm

I always thought the best thing to do on Halloween was pull out all of my horror anthologies and some classical and read by flashlight...best part is that sometimes the music will synch up with the story and will achieve simultaneous climax with the story...

There's nothing like the hairs at the back of your neck rising when you get to the good part and get scared or at least WTF'd by a good story.

Robert Bloch, Fredric Brown, all the classics...

41 Barrett Brown  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:05:05pm

Hey, you know what people ought to be buying from Amazon? Victoria: Empire Under the Sun, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis 3, and Hearts of Iron 3.

42 reine.de.tout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:06:40pm

re: #36 Walter L. Newton

My grandmother back in Brooklyn use to hand make my bother and mine costumes every year. They were always of popular characters that you couldn't get off the rack, and they were extremely elaborate. I suspect that it would cost you 4-5 hundred dollar each now a days if you had a costume made with the same quality and handiwork as she did.

We just threw something together for Halloween.
Mardi Gras was another story . . . those were the handmade-by-grandma costumes! I still have one of them .. .

43 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:07:10pm

re: #40 PT Barnum

I always thought the best thing to do on Halloween was pull out all of my horror anthologies and some classical and read by flashlight...best part is that sometimes the music will synch up with the story and will achieve simultaneous climax with the story...

There's nothing like the hairs at the back of your neck rising when you get to the good part and get scared or at least WTF'd by a good story.

Robert Bloch, Fredric Brown, all the classics...

We have a "homeless" theatre company here in Denver called "Hunger Artists" and they do a Poe readers theater every year in a historic mansion in downtown Denver.

The venue holds only about 30 people a performance, and they usually run 5 nights a week and sell out.

They really do a wonderful job of it.

44 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:07:13pm

My favorite costume I've seen so far was a kid at my son's cub scout halloween party.

His mom had it set up so his head came out the chest of the costume (a headless guy) and it looked like he was carrying around his own head. Had a fish bowl so it looked pretty cool..

45 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:07:48pm

re: #42 reine.de.tout

We just threw something together for Halloween.
Mardi Gras was another story . . . those were the handmade-by-grandma costumes! I still have one of them .. .

And you just finished my story... grandma was from NO, of course. That's where she learned to costume like that.

46 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:09:50pm

re: #43 Walter L. Newton

cool...last year we did a radio theatre for halloween at our community theatre..

It was something written by Leonard Nimoy and the guy that played Q on Next Generation.

The Canterville Ghost, The Mark of the Beast, and A Cask of Amantillado

Second half was "The War of the Worlds" which dragged horribly, but the first three went over really well.

We had the sound effects on stage, but I wouldn't do that again, to be honest. It was a distraction.

47 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:09:56pm

Hey, anyone seen Iceweasel?

48 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:10:09pm

re: #18 sngnsgt

Now this is a Halloween costume:

Halloween costume

Oooo...I like that. How much would one of those cost to make?

49 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:10:34pm

re: #47 Cato the Elder

Not tonight...

50 [deleted]  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:11:00pm
51 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:11:05pm

re: #47 Cato the Elder

Hey, anyone seen Iceweasel?

Visa expired and they shipped her back to the UK.
//

Er, no... I was wondering that this morning.

52 reine.de.tout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:11:29pm

re: #47 Cato the Elder

Cato - check your FB email

53 sngnsgt  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:12:07pm

re: #48 NJDhockeyfan

Oooo...I like that. How much would one of those cost to make?

I dunno, I just found it on a forum.

54 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:13:03pm

FAvorite Bloch quote, though I'm not sure it's original with him

I have the heart of a small child. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

55 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:13:18pm

re: #50 MikeySDCA

The Ballad of Anne Boleyn

Sounds like my ex-wife after a bad drunk.

56 Charles Johnson  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:13:55pm

re: #41 Barrett Brown

Hey, you know what people ought to be buying from Amazon? Victoria: Empire Under the Sun, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis 3, and Hearts of Iron 3.

You mean: Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis III, and Hearts of Iron 3?

(It's true. I am without shame.)

57 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:14:38pm

re: #55 Walter L. Newton

Mine too...except the bad drunk wasn't necessary

Sex with her was like pledge week on public radio

you had to endure 30 minutes of begging before you got to anything you were actually interested in.

Hello...Hello...is this thing on?

58 Four More Tears  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:15:26pm

re: #38 NJDhockeyfan

My 7 year old loves those movies. She's watched all of them hundreds of times.

/Do I need to keep an exorcist on speed dial?

You might...

Youtube Video
59 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:15:37pm

UFO alert: police officer sees aliens at crop circle

The sergeant, who has not been named, was off-duty when he saw the figures standing in a field near Silbury Hill, and stopped his car to investigate.

However, as he approached the 'men' – all over 6ft tall with blond hair – he heard "the sound of static electricity" and the trio ran away ''faster than any man he had ever seen''.

The officer returned to his home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, and contacted paranormal experts and told them he had spotted a UFO.

Wiltshire Police has refused to comment on the incident, saying it is a ''personal matter'' for the officer involved.

Six foot aliens with blond hair?

60 bosforus  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:16:18pm

re: #41 Barrett Brown

Hey, you know what people ought to be buying from Amazon? Victoria: Empire Under the Sun, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis 3, and Hearts of Iron 3.

I dont' ever see myself moving on past Age of Empires 2.

61 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:16:24pm

re: #56 Charles

NO WAY!
You'd be cutting into my LGF time with that stuff.
And no sarc tags either!

62 Charles Johnson  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:16:34pm

Hearts of Iron 3 looks pretty good.

FLV Video
63 [deleted]  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:17:56pm
64 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:18:08pm

re: #62 Charles

Better than LGF???
Not that some folks don't enjoy other things.

65 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:18:10pm

re: #22 Walter L. Newton

Halloween is a pagan celebration designed to ensnare young innocent minds and bring them to Satan. I do not recommend this "holiday" for anyone.

Actually it's a pagan celebration cleverly tamed and tied in to a Christian holiday on the following day (All Hallow E'en = the evening before Allhallowmas or All Saints Day). The holiday is now forgotten, much like Whitsunday (Pentecost), unless you keep to the liturgical calendar as well as the secular one.

Which do you think makes more money for the ones who sell all the crap, Saint Valentine's Day or Hallowe'en? I'm serious, I have no idea.

66 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:18:10pm

re: #61 Floral Giraffe

I have enough of a problem with Mafia Wars on Facebook.

Between that and LGF, I pretty much have neglected my D&D online account for a month now. Oh well, they're all massive time sinks...

67 ryannon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:18:17pm

re: #50 MikeySDCA

The Ballad of Anne Boleyn

Youtube Video
68 Racer X  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:19:06pm

Moon and Planets in the Morning

69 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:19:19pm

re: #66 PT Barnum

The intertubes are one big black hole for your time!
Some of it's fun, mostly just gone...

70 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:20:12pm

re: #65 Cato the Elder

Former retailer here, depends on the product you are selling.
Perfume? Valentine's day.
Costumes? Haloween.

71 Four More Tears  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:20:42pm

re: #62 Charles

Hearts of Iron 3 looks pretty good.


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I didn't know people still made games like that. And it made me miss Axis and Allies for some reason.

72 Mich-again  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:20:57pm

re: #3 NJDhockeyfan

I heard about one of the most popular costumes this year...Ballon Boy. It's a kid wearing a box and a mylar balloon tied to the box.

I was just thinking about what stupid costume I could come up with for a stupid costume party I have to go to Saturday. Thats perfect. It'll cost about $2.

73 Racer X  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:21:02pm

About Galilean Nights

On 22-24 October 2009, the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone Project, Galilean Nights, will see amateur and professional astronomers, enthusiasts and the public taking to the streets all around the globe, pointing their telescopes to the wonders that Italian astronomer Galileo observed 400 years ago.

Spread over three nights, astronomers will share their knowledge and enthusiasm for space by encouraging as many people as possible to look through a telescope at our planetary neighbours. The focus for Galilean Nights is the objects that Galileo observed, including Jupiter and the Moon, which will be well-positioned in the night sky for observing.

74 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:21:18pm

re: #65 Cato the Elder

Actually it's a pagan celebration cleverly tamed and tied in to a Christian holiday on the following day (All Hallow E'en = the evening before Allhallowmas or All Saints Day). The holiday is now forgotten, much like Whitsunday (Pentecost), unless you keep to the liturgical calendar as well as the secular one.

Which do you think makes more money for the ones who sell all the crap, Saint Valentine's Day or Hallowe'en? I'm serious, I have no idea.

"Halloween is the number one holiday for candy sales. Sales will near 2.1 billion dollars this year! That is up almost 3 percent since last year and there is ..."

[Link: www.everythinghalloween.com...]

75 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:21:20pm

re: #69 Floral Giraffe

I used to tell my web page design class at the local community college that if you're an information junkie the Internet is like being an alcoholic and getting locked into a liquor store where they just kept making deliveries.

76 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:21:31pm

re: #65 Cato the Elder


Which do you think makes more money for the ones who sell all the crap, Saint Valentine's Day or Hallowe'en? I'm serious, I have no idea.

Gotta be Valentines Day. Roses & diamonds cost more than costumes & candy bars.

77 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:22:34pm

re: #76 NJDhockeyfan

although fake diamonds are still more expensive than the fake chocolate in a lot of halloween candy.

78 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:22:42pm

re: #73 Racer X

About Galilean Nights

On 22-24 October 2009, the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone Project, Galilean Nights, will see amateur and professional astronomers, enthusiasts and the public taking to the streets all around the globe, pointing their telescopes to the wonders that Italian astronomer Galileo observed 400 years ago.

Spread over three nights, astronomers will share their knowledge and enthusiasm for space by encouraging as many people as possible to look through a telescope at our planetary neighbours. The focus for Galilean Nights is the objects that Galileo observed, including Jupiter and the Moon, which will be well-positioned in the night sky for observing.

We'll get those frickin' little space aliens this time.

79 Pawn of the Oppressor  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:22:46pm

re: #68 Racer X

Moon and Planets in the Morning

Que frustrating.

Relatively new telescope, ready to go, both me and the lady of the house are eager to look at something besides the Moon and Jupiter with it (not that we mind the Moon or Jupiter, we just want to see the rest of the planets too!) but unfortunately between the weather and our crappy job schedules, we can't seem to arrange a morning in a safe, private place with a view that we can get to in reasonable time.

"I want to see Mars" she says... Well sure, there's a whole splattering of planets to see in the morning, except we're on our way to work.

Stupid work. Screw capitalism! I wanna look at stuff.

/

80 Mich-again  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:23:05pm

re: #73 Racer X

On 22-24 October 2009, the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Cornerstone Project, Galilean Nights, will see amateur and professional astronomers, enthusiasts and the public taking to the streets all around the globe, pointing their telescopes to the wonders that Italian astronomer Galileo observed 400 years ago.

Disclaimer alert to space nerds. Please don't actually set up your telescope in the street at night.

81 [deleted]  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:23:11pm
82 Four More Tears  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:23:13pm

re: #76 NJDhockeyfan

Gotta be Valentines Day. Roses & diamonds cost more than costumes & candy bars.

I think it all depends on how many men remember. :P

83 austin_blue  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:23:46pm

re: #65 Cato the Elder

Actually it's a pagan celebration cleverly tamed and tied in to a Christian holiday on the following day (All Hallow E'en = the evening before Allhallowmas or All Saints Day). The holiday is now forgotten, much like Whitsunday (Pentecost), unless you keep to the liturgical calendar as well as the secular one.

Which do you think makes more money for the ones who sell all the crap, Saint Valentine's Day or Hallowe'en? I'm serious, I have no idea.

Yeah, the early Christians were pretty smart in moving Christ's birth (around September/October, the end of the growing season, Biblically), and moving it to the winter solstice.

84 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:24:21pm

re: #83 austin_blue

Nothing like marketing...

85 akarra  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:24:26pm

re: #56 Charles

You mean: Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis III, and Hearts of Iron 3?

(It's true. I am without shame.)

Darren Rowse of Problogger said once that having the Amazon links in archived posts pays off over time. I don't know anything about monetizing a blog in the least, but here's the discussion:

[Link: www.problogger.net...]

86 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:24:36pm

re: #72 Mich-again

I was just thinking about what stupid costume I could come up with for a stupid costume party I have to go to Saturday. Thats perfect. It'll cost about $2.

A buddy of mine told me about a friend of his. They were going bar hopping and realized some of the bars had costume contests. His friend found a pile of leaves and stuffed his sweater with them. He entered the costume contests as a bag of leaves. He won three times. Cost of costume...$0.00.

87 austin_blue  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:25:55pm

re: #84 PT Barnum

Nothing like marketing...

Yup. Replace one long standing celebration with another. Over time, Booyah!

88 Racer X  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:25:59pm

I've been away up in the mountains the past few days (torturing fish by making them pose for pictures with me).

The night sky was beautiful!

89 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:26:00pm

OT:
Is it just me, or does no one else's upding/downding refresh when the new comments refresh processes? I've also noticed it doesn't refresh if I log in after looking at a thread when I'm not logged in...

90 ryannon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:26:00pm

re: #65 Cato the Elder

Actually it's a pagan celebration cleverly tamed and tied in to a Christian holiday on the following day (All Hallow E'en = the evening before Allhallowmas or All Saints Day). The holiday is now forgotten, much like Whitsunday (Pentecost), unless you keep to the liturgical calendar as well as the secular one.

Which do you think makes more money for the ones who sell all the crap, Saint Valentine's Day or Hallowe'en? I'm serious, I have no idea.

Which is more powerful, Eros or Thantos?

91 austin_blue  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:26:47pm

re: #88 Racer X

I've been away up in the mountains the past few days (torturing fish by making them pose for pictures with me).

The night sky was beautiful!

Catch and release or creel for din-din?

92 freetoken  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:27:02pm

Ooohhh... some new PalinPorn at Youtube:

Youtube Video


Recipe for PalinPorn:

1 scoop of smarmy music;
2 doses of hyperbole;
5¼ measures of national symbolism

Put all ingredients into iMovie... shake well, always turning to the right with the wrist... let stand for 20 seconds on your computer, then post to Youtube and brag about it on Sarah's Facebook page in the hopes you'll finally get a date to meet her.

93 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:27:20pm

re: #90 ryannon

I'd rather get laid than killed

94 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:27:33pm

Ok... it's 28 degrees outside, it's a bit chilly 60 in here and I'm headed to the bed to cuddle with the girlfriend and a full bed electric blanket.

Cozy.

Night all.

95 [deleted]  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:27:52pm
96 Fenway_Nation  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:28:04pm

re: #89 PT Barnum

Works just fine for me...

/BWA HA HA HA!

97 austin_blue  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:28:21pm

re: #94 Walter L. Newton

Ok... it's 28 degrees outside, it's a bit chilly 60 in here and I'm headed to the bed to cuddle with the girlfriend and a full bed electric blanket.

Cozy.

Night all.

Night Walter, sleep well.

98 freetoken  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:28:36pm

Dare anyone to watch that PalinPorn while drinking a hot liquid...

99 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:28:42pm

re: #94 Walter L. Newton

My wife just got home from work and made the same suggestion...cuddle...I took a nap this afternoon and woke up to the Lhaso Apso practically burrowed underneath the blankets.

100 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:28:58pm

re: #70 Floral Giraffe

Former retailer here, depends on the product you are selling.
Perfume? Valentine's day.
Costumes? Haloween.

Sure. I was wondering which brings in the most loot overall.

I'm guessing Valentine's Day because women are trained to practically de-ball a man who doesn't honor that Hallmark Holiday with dinner, a show, a diamond or something even more useless and expensive.

101 Charles Johnson  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:29:23pm

re: #89 PT Barnum

OT:
Is it just me, or does no one else's upding/downding refresh when the new comments refresh processes? I've also noticed it doesn't refresh if I log in after looking at a thread when I'm not logged in...

Rating numbers don't refresh when you click 'new comments'. I tried it, and on longer threads refreshing the rating numbers brings Internet Explorer to its knees and deals it a death blow.

Safari's the only browser that could handle it, and it was still really slow on threads with more than a couple hundred comments.

102 Fenway_Nation  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:29:26pm

re: #97 austin_blue

Or don't...

103 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:29:52pm

re: #98 freetoken

Dare anyone to watch that PalinPorn while drinking a hot liquid...

I'm not taking that bet. I'd ruin my monitor when I spewed my beverage all over it.

104 SFGoth  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:30:19pm

I'd cross-dress, but this being San Francisco, it's not exactly considered a costume.

105 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:30:25pm

re: #100 Cato the Elder

Mine asked me for a new Porsche, so I got her a diamond ring instead.

Hard to find a fake Porsche

106 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:30:47pm

re: #101 Charles

Thanks.

107 Racer X  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:31:01pm

re: #91 austin_blue

Catch and release or creel for din-din?

Catch and release.

108 freetoken  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:31:10pm

And they say Obama has a cult following...

109 SFGoth  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:31:47pm

re: #86 NJDhockeyfan

A buddy of mine told me about a friend of his. They were going bar hopping and realized some of the bars had costume contests. His friend found a pile of leaves and stuffed his sweater with them. He entered the costume contests as a bag of leaves. He won three times. Cost of costume...$0.00.

Couple years ago, dressed as Angus Young, I encountered another Angus Young on the way in too. However, I had a real guitar, with mini-amp (and hidden iPod so I could blast Highway to Hell, and a real schoolboy tie, etc. I got the free beer. :->

110 Mich-again  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:31:49pm

re: #83 austin_blue

Yeah, the early Christians were pretty smart in moving Christ's birth (around September/October, the end of the growing season, Biblically), and moving it to the winter solstice.

For a while when our kids were little we had a elderly lady YEC baby sitter. She told the kids that Jesus birthday was actually in the Spring, not in the winter. Oh that and the fact that the globe in the toy room was a lie because the Bible said there were four corners of the Earth, so that meant the Earth was actually flat, not a sphere. I wish I had that conversation on video, my 6 year old son arguing with the baby sitter about that.

If clues about the actual date are in the Bible, I would bet she knew which passage to find it.

111 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:31:50pm

re: #101 Charles

Ah...I used Firefox, which doesn't seem to have a problem if I just hit refresh...just curious...

112 Political Atheist  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:32:48pm

re: #104 SFGoth

If you cross dressed really well it might...

113 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:32:49pm

re: #90 ryannon

Which is more powerful, Eros or Thantos?

In this world? Thanatos, by a long chalk.

114 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:33:09pm

re: #109 SFGoth

I went as Dilbert one year...with the tie curled up and everything...had a couple of lovely ladies come up and apologize for getting my tie all excited.

115 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:33:12pm

re: #105 PT Barnum

Mine asked me for a new Porsche, so I got her a diamond ring instead.

Hard to find a fake Porsche

This one looks fun.

116 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:33:16pm

re: #100 Cato the Elder

Most loot overall is December. It's the month retailers typically get into the "black" ink, that is. They operate at a loss for 11 months of the year, and turn a profit ( if they do at all) in December. If it's a really good year, a high profit margin area might make a 45 percent gross margin for the year. It's a really pressurized business, all profit rests in one month.
I am not sorry to be out of this business.

117 SFGoth  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:33:19pm

re: #22 Walter L. Newton

Halloween is a pagan celebration designed to ensnare young innocent minds and bring them to Satan. I do not recommend this "holiday" for anyone.

That's what Christmas is too, after all, it was the northern European pagan winter festival. Old fat guy in a red suit charming little children and giving them presents? Pedophilia.

118 sngnsgt  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:33:50pm

re: #115 NJDhockeyfan

LOL!

119 austin_blue  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:35:14pm

re: #92 freetoken

Ooohhh... some new PalinPorn at Youtube:


[Video]

Recipe for PalinPorn:

Good grief. The music alone is enough to get a fine gag reflex...

Ooh! Biblical references!...

Oh, dear...that was just disturbing. Does this play in whack Republican land?

Who thinks this a good thing?

120 Political Atheist  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:35:27pm

re: #100 Cato the Elder

Jewelry is not what it used to be for Christmas. Now the big one there is bridal. Notice how big Jewelry stores are going for silver, watches, gift ware. Not gold so much.

121 Killgore Trout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:36:03pm

re: #92 freetoken

The Palinites are a cult of personality on par with Obama or Ron Paul.

122 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:36:34pm

re: #116 Floral Giraffe

Most loot overall is December. It's the month retailers typically get into the "black" ink, that is. They operate at a loss for 11 months of the year, and turn a profit ( if they do at all) in December. If it's a really good year, a high profit margin area might make a 45 percent gross margin for the year. It's a really pressurized business, all profit rests in one month.
I am not sorry to be out of this business.

Someone said they heard Christmas music in a store the other day. And we're not even at Hallowe'en.

I guess maybe it dates me but when I was young they didn't start with the "festive music" until after Thanksgiving.

Feh.

123 SFGoth  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:36:46pm

re: #112 Rightwingconspirator

If you cross dressed really well it might...

That takes a LOT of effort, although given what dress sizes are these days... I *could* go as a dyke... Victoria Victor.

124 freetoken  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:37:39pm

re: #119 austin_blue


Who thinks this a good thing?

The Palinistas apparently dig PalinPorn; on her facebook page their saying this ought to be her theme song:

Randall Taylor Ok. . must see . . I found this Sarah Palin anthem Video!
It could be the 2012 theme song.
Whoever did this. . great job!!!

Youtube Video

2 hours ago
125 Political Atheist  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:37:52pm

re: #123 SFGoth

Very clever!

126 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:38:03pm

Or you could go as Hans Brinker and stick your finger in the ...dykes...ooh wrong story...

127 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:38:08pm

re: #122 Cato the Elder

Youtube Video

Just, well, because!

128 ryannon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:38:42pm

re: #119 austin_blue

Good grief. The music alone is enough to get a fine gag reflex...

Ooh! Biblical references!...

Oh, dear...that was just disturbing. Does this play in whack Republican land?

Who thinks this a good thing?

It hits a number of chords (no pun intended) and not all of them are bad.

And I'm not pitching for Palin here - or elsewhere.

129 freetoken  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:38:52pm

re: #121 Killgore Trout

You could never get them to admit that.

130 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:39:54pm

re: #92 freetoken

Yowch!

Makes me want to go burn a flag or something.

131 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:40:52pm

re: #122 Cato the Elder

I worked retail for 4 years for Radio Hovel...you can only listen to so many repeats of Mannheim Steamroller before you just can't stand ANY xmas music any more.

That and there was always one toy that made the obnoxious sounds possible. I liked to look for Grandparents to sell that one to.

"Just think of all the revenge you can get with this baby. I guarantee the little bastard will play with it day and night. How about a jumbo pack of batteries to go with that"

My commission checks at Christmas were damned good.

132 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:40:58pm

re: #122 Cato the Elder

Someone said they heard Christmas music in a store the other day. And we're not even at Hallowe'en.

I guess maybe it dates me but when I was young they didn't start with the "festive music" until after Thanksgiving.

Feh.

These days if they wait till after Halloween to put on the Christmas music, I'm happy. And if you work retail like I do, you come to hate Christmas music with a passion.

133 freetoken  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:41:47pm

re: #130 Cato the Elder

Heh... she's your type of woman... smart, sexy, powerful... ooops, that's the WWE Divas mantra...

134 Four More Tears  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:42:25pm

re: #92 freetoken

Ooohhh... some new PalinPorn at Youtube:


[Video]
Recipe for PalinPorn:

When the line "stand and fight with me this day" flashed on the screen I swear I could hear her delivering the St. Crispin's Day Speech.

135 Killgore Trout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:43:05pm

re: #129 freetoken

You could never get them to admit that.


Probably not. I'm still working on Ditto Heads and Beck fans. Conservatives are having a hard time finding the enemy these days.

136 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:43:31pm

Hey Night Lizards!

How many lutefisk have you killed today?

How are you-all?

137 austin_blue  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:43:36pm

re: #128 ryannon

It hits a number of chords (no pun intended) and not all of them are bad.

And I'm not pitching for Palin here - or elsewhere.

And it it's affective until she opens her cake hole. It's pushed toward the folks who are all perception and no substance. If your polity is the great unwashed, you are representing only the great unwashed. You are going to to get your ass kicked in the general.

138 freetoken  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:43:53pm

re: #131 PT Barnum

I worked retail for 4 years for Radio Hovel...you can only listen to so many repeats of Mannheim Steamroller before you just can't stand ANY xmas music any more. ...

Remember, you only have 64 shopping days left until Christmas!

MP3 Audio
139 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:44:47pm

re: #136 ggt

I knew a Jewish Norwegian who liked Lutegifeltefisk...

Actually lutefisk isn't bad if it's prepared right. Nordic soul food

Although it pales next to lefse

140 Racer X  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:45:24pm

re: #122 Cato the Elder

Someone said they heard Christmas music in a store the other day. And we're not even at Hallowe'en.

I guess maybe it dates me but when I was young they didn't start with the "festive music" until after Thanksgiving.

Feh.

I find that so irritating. It sucks that in July you cannot find any summer apparel in the stores - they are all gearing up for fall and back to school. By Thanksgiving all the stores are decorated for Christmas. In February you can find swimsuits on sale. Its just insane.

141 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:45:35pm

re: #136 ggt

Hey Night Lizards!

How many lutefisk have you killed today?

How are you-all?

Getting by. I've got some good leads for phone sales, so it looks like I'll be ending my month on a good note.

142 austin_blue  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:45:46pm

re: #139 PT Barnum

I knew a Jewish Norwegian who liked Lutegifeltefisk...

Actually lutefisk isn't bad if it's prepared right. Nordic soul food

Although it pales next to lefse

Lime preserved dried fish?

143 sagehen  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:46:02pm

re: #110 Mich-again

For a while when our kids were little we had a elderly lady YEC baby sitter. She told the kids that Jesus birthday was actually in the Spring, not in the winter. Oh that and the fact that the globe in the toy room was a lie because the Bible said there were four corners of the Earth, so that meant the Earth was actually flat, not a sphere. I wish I had that conversation on video, my 6 year old son arguing with the baby sitter about that.

If clues about the actual date are in the Bible, I would bet she knew which passage to find it.


It's the bit about lambs in the fields. There aren't any lambs in December.

144 ryannon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:46:37pm

re: #113 Cato the Elder

In this world? Thanatos, by a long chalk.

Ever that editor's eagle eye.

And to think I once proof-read a new edition of The Fountainhead for Bobbs-Merrill. I got so engrossed in reading it that I missed dozens of typos. Ayn Rand was so enraged that she complained in person to the editor-in-chief. And that was my brush with greatness.

145 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:46:55pm

re: #142 austin_blue

ya gotta soak it and then rinse it a few hundred times...then serve it up with mashed potatoes and melted butter...of course anything is good with melted butter...

146 reine.de.tout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:47:13pm

re: #145 PT Barnum

ya gotta soak it and then rinse it a few hundred times...then serve it up with mashed potatoes and melted butter...of course anything is good with melted butter...

Even grits.

147 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:47:45pm

re: #146 reine.de.tout

My personal favorite is crab or lobster.

148 Four More Tears  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:48:18pm

A beautiful sunset over the Hudson today:

Pictures of Tonight's Very Autumn Sunset

149 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:48:41pm

I clicked on the Samsung link. I am going to buy my first HDTV this Christmas. I was almost set on which one I wanted until the LED TVs came out. Should I wait till those come down in price?

150 bosforus  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:48:50pm

I was whistling Christmas music at work today and someone called me out on it. I told them I'm pushing my personal limit as to how early I can start celebrating.

151 Fenway_Nation  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:49:47pm

re: #149 NJDhockeyfan

What are the Devils going to look like post Marty Brodeur?

152 Nervous Norvous  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:49:52pm

okay..time to go to bed...have to get up early to go to work, since I have to be on site instead of working from home...joy...

take care all...

153 austin_blue  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:50:26pm

re: #145 PT Barnum

ya gotta soak it and then rinse it a few hundred times...then serve it up with mashed potatoes and melted butter...of course anything is good with melted butter...

Oofah! That's a lotta work, eh? I do the same with bacalao, air/salt dried cod from Spain, but it tastes a lot better at the end.

Just saying.

154 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:51:49pm

re: #139 PT Barnum

I knew a Jewish Norwegian who liked Lutegifeltefisk...

Actually lutefisk isn't bad if it's prepared right. Nordic soul food

Although it pales next to lefse

I'll take your word for it. I've heard enough about it here in the last few days to dread ever seeing it up close.

155 pdc_lgf  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:52:01pm

re: #137 austin_blue

Palin has a 40% approval rating. Whatever that means. That's a lot of unwashed people.

It seems to me that she is being propped up by various Rather Impressive People (like at NRO) who pretend to take her seriously.

That's what she has going for her. Pretenses. Nothing else. I don't say that to insult her or demean her. She is a relatively uninteresting person.

My expectaton is that within four months after her book goes paperback, she will be an absolutely uninteresting person.

156 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:53:10pm

re: #155 pdc_lgf

Palin has a 40% approval rating. Whatever that means. That's a lot of unwashed people.

It seems to me that she is being propped up by various Rather Impressive People (like at NRO) who pretend to take her seriously.

That's what she has going for her. Pretenses. Nothing else. I don't say that to insult her or demean her. She is a relatively uninteresting person.

My expectaton is that within four months after her book goes paperback, she will be an absolutely uninteresting person.

from your lips to God's ears.

157 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:53:14pm

re: #149 NJDhockeyfan

I clicked on the Samsung link. I am going to buy my first HDTV this Christmas. I was almost set on which one I wanted until the LED TVs came out. Should I wait till those come down in price?

Try this:

Tell yourself you are too good to watch teevee on a regular old set anymore.

Turn off the old teevee and never look at it again. Better, take it to the dump.

Wait three weeks and see if you miss it.

If not, figure out the maximum you would have spent on a new teevee and send me 10% for saving you all that money.

158 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:54:01pm

re: #138 freetoken

It's CRUNCH TIME! IF you're working retail.
Did I mention that I don't miss it a BIT???

There was a version of "Frosty the Snowman" that was so annoying, I heard it EVERY freakin time it played!
It was fun, while the gig lasted.
I'm glad it's over now.

159 austin_blue  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:54:06pm

And goodnight Lizards. Sweet dreams. Kind thoughts. Evolution and climate change will still be a fact tomorrow.

Haha! This Modern World. Crazy, ain't it?

160 Killgore Trout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:54:13pm

re: #148 JasonA

A beautiful sunset over the Hudson today:

Pictures of Tonight's Very Autumn Sunset

My favorite time of year,

161 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:54:22pm

re: #155 pdc_lgf

My expectaton is that within four months after her book goes paperback, she will be an absolutely uninteresting person.

That's assuming enough people buy it for a paperback edition to even come out. I wouldn't bet on it.

162 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:54:35pm

re: #151 Fenway_Nation

What are the Devils going to look like post Marty Brodeur?

Probably average unless they get a really good goalie. I have faith in the ownership though. They seem to do what it takes to get the team great players.

163 Racer X  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:54:52pm

This Cat Betrayed His Girlfriend

Youtube Video
164 Killgore Trout  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:55:51pm

re: #160 Killgore Trout

Also see: New Mexico Autumn - A Photo Diary

165 Fenway_Nation  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:56:23pm

re: #162 NJDhockeyfan

You're probably looking forward to that as much as I am a post-Varitek Red Sox (i.e. not at all).

166 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:56:36pm

re: #144 ryannon

Ever that editor's eagle eye.

And to think I once proof-read a new edition of The Fountainhead for Bobbs-Merrill. I got so engrossed in reading it that I missed dozens of typos. Ayn Rand was so enraged that she complained in person to the editor-in-chief. And that was my brush with greatness.

According to Wiki, Ayn Rand excommunicated William F. Buckley, Jr., for printing an article unmasking her fake philosophy.

'Buckley said that Rand never forgave him for publishing the review and that "for the rest of her life, she would walk theatrically out of any room I entered!"'

What an egomaniac that woman was.

167 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:56:54pm

re: #157 Cato the Elder

Try this:

Tell yourself you are too good to watch teevee on a regular old set anymore.

Turn off the old teevee and never look at it again. Better, take it to the dump.

Wait three weeks and see if you miss it.

If not, figure out the maximum you would have spent on a new teevee and send me 10% for saving you all that money.

I can live without TV. My wife could not. I have a 35" TV right now but I know football, hockey, and baseball will look so much better on a HDTV.

168 ryannon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:57:58pm

re: #137 austin_blue

And it it's affective until she opens her cake hole. It's pushed toward the folks who are all perception and no substance. If your polity is the great unwashed, you are representing only the great unwashed. You are going to to get your ass kicked in the general.

That's the point: it is affective. Plays off deep emotions - even in people who are all perception and no substance. And not all of those emotions are reprehensible.

As for Palin herself, I saw a similar rejection of Segolene Royal, the Socialist candidate against Sarkozy in the last French elections. Supremely intelligent and politically experienced, the diametrical opposite of Palin, she ended up being lynched for many of the same reasons. Which leads me to wonder how much of the animosity is related to both of them simply being women...

169 Silvergirl  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:58:10pm

re: #36 Walter L. Newton

My grandmother back in Brooklyn use to hand make my bother and mine costumes every year. They were always of popular characters that you couldn't get off the rack, and they were extremely elaborate. I suspect that it would cost you 4-5 hundred dollar each now a days if you had a costume made with the same quality and handiwork as she did.

My brothers were bothers also.

170 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:58:31pm

re: #165 Fenway_Nation

You're probably looking forward to that as much as I am a post-Varitek Red Sox (i.e. not at all).

It will be like the time Roger Staubach retired. I was one heartbroken kid.

171 freetoken  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:58:54pm

re: #158 Floral Giraffe

There was a version of "Frosty the Snowman" that was so annoying, I heard it EVERY freakin time it played.

MP3 Audio


☃

172 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:59:25pm

They redid iTunes and now I can't figue-out how to sync my iPod the way I want it.

*&^%$!

173 Cato the Elder  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 9:59:51pm

re: #143 sagehen

It's the bit about lambs in the fields. There aren't any lambs in December.

Actually there aren't any lambs in the Biblical account. Shepherds tending their flocks. They do that all year long.

174 wee fury  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:01:09pm

re: #172 ggt

They redid iTunes and now I can't figue-out how to sync my iPod the way I want it.

*&^%$!

Did you download iTunes 9?

175 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:03:23pm

re: #171 freetoken

I will NOT listen to that.
Thanks for the thought, I think...

176 pdc_lgf  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:03:38pm

re: #156 Dark_Falcon

She's a fad. It's a variant of Rep. Bachmann's "blood oath" nonsense. Or joining an organization called Oath Keepers - to take an oath, forswearing something you wouldn't do anyway. "I solemnly swear I won't stick a knitting needle in my ear, and push hard."

The idea seems to be, that by collectively pretending that the woman is something she is manifestly not, a form of bonding occurs. The Perpetually Aggrieved Right will fasten upon her, until the next opportunity for obligatory suspension of disbelief comes along.

Portions of the so-called Left perform the same ritual with certain figures, such as Noam Chomsky. Let's all pretend that the U.S. does whatever it does - it's all bad, you know - for filthy lucre. This extends, insofar as I can tell, to pretending to believe in academic circles that his hypothetical, non-falsifiable, ever-expanding General Theory of Language with Explains Nothing is just ... so ... incredibly ... deep. Three days after he's dead, people will be falling all over themselves to disavow it. Like what happened with B. F. Skinner.

177 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:04:39pm

re: #167 NJDhockeyfan

I can live without TV. My wife could not. I have a 35" TV right now but I know football, hockey, and baseball will look so much better on a HDTV.

I use the TV very seldom. I watch C-SPAN and whatever the rest of the family is watching when I walk in and sit down. We do use it for movie rentals tho.

178 Bagua  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:04:59pm

re: #155 pdc_lgf

Replied to your post downstairs. Cheers.

179 Barrett Brown  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:05:33pm

re: #62 Charles

Hearts of Iron 3 looks pretty good.


[Video]

Dude, I bought it a couple of weeks back and ran it on my fairly high-end desktop - the game takes like five minutes to load up even though it's essentially a map/board game, and the reason for this is that it's, like, so incredibly in-depth and whatnot that I don't even know how to finish this sentence.

180 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:06:51pm

re: #174 wee fury

Did you download iTunes 9?

I don't know. I do whatever they tell me.

I just want my audiobooks!

*&^%

It tells me I don't have enough room, when I KNOW I do. Last time, I restored it to factory settings and viola! there was enough room. Now, I'm half-way thru a book and I'm afraid that If I restore it again, it will lose my book-mark. I don't know what to do. I also want some podcasts--there should be PLENTY of room. . . .


*&^^%

181 pdc_lgf  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:08:28pm

re: #178 Bagua

Got it. Thanks for replying. Good luck with the risk stuff.

182 ryannon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:09:29pm

re: #166 Cato the Elder

According to Wiki, Ayn Rand excommunicated William F. Buckley, Jr., for printing an article unmasking her fake philosophy.

'Buckley said that Rand never forgave him for publishing the review and that "for the rest of her life, she would walk theatrically out of any room I entered!"'

What an egomaniac that woman was.

Hell hath no fury...

183 Silvergirl  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:10:47pm

re: #86 NJDhockeyfan

A buddy of mine told me about a friend of his. They were going bar hopping and realized some of the bars had costume contests. His friend found a pile of leaves and stuffed his sweater with them. He entered the costume contests as a bag of leaves. He won three times. Cost of costume...$0.00.

Youtube Video
184 pdc_lgf  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:11:22pm

re: #182 ryannon

To be fair, I think Mr. Buckley made mincemeat of her first. But in a gentlemanly way. Whittaker Chambers nailed her for having anti-values.

185 Pepper Fox  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:14:25pm

Army surplus is the way to go for me! Practical stuff and makes good costumes!

186 ryannon  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:15:22pm

re: #184 pdc_lgf

To be fair, I think Mr. Buckley made mincemeat of her first. But in a gentlemanly way. Whittaker Chambers nailed her for having anti-values.

Imagine the flounces...

187 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:15:39pm

weet dreams all!

188 pdc_lgf  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:21:54pm

re: #186 ryannon

Where I went to college, there was an Objectivist crowd, with a newspaper. Weird stuff. Then I tried to read some of Rand's nonsense. Truly dismal. There's a saying about Objectivism: it's the tribute stupidity pays to reason.

Anyhow, I kinda forgot all about her - which didn't suck. Now she's doing the posthumous comeback tour. So a lot of horribly amusing, and amusingly horrible facts - or purported facts - about her have been making the rounds lately.

Judging from her writing, and other utterances, and the testimony of former members of her cult - she was one hideous piece of work.

189 sagehen  Wed, Oct 21, 2009 10:25:53pm

re: #173 Cato the Elder

Actually there aren't any lambs in the Biblical account. Shepherds tending their flocks. They do that all year long.

I stand corrected.

190 SixDegrees  Thu, Oct 22, 2009 12:07:39am

re: #15 NJDhockeyfan

I heard the too. It's supposed to be too scary for some kids.

Everything's too scary for some kids.

Other reviewers have said their kids were supremely bored by it. After all, it's a book that's, what - sixteen sentences long? Dragged out into a 90 minute experience without the addition of any content.

191 SixDegrees  Thu, Oct 22, 2009 12:13:11am

re: #83 austin_blue

Yeah, the early Christians were pretty smart in moving Christ's birth (around September/October, the end of the growing season, Biblically), and moving it to the winter solstice.

Well, just after the solstice, an intentional position. The symbolism is rock solid.

192 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Oct 22, 2009 12:47:34am

re: #143 sagehen

It's the bit about lambs in the fields. There aren't any lambs in December.

Not so much the shepherds, but the whole bit about the census and the Emperor having everybody travel back to their home towns. He would not have ordered his people to set off and travel in the dead of winter, but rather in the fall after the crops were in.

I see that Amazon is not offering the "Illegal Alien" costume, which is a shame.

Hallowe'en was never a tradition in Germany, although a similar tradition still carried on in some isolated villages, including our own, here on the Rhine.

But it has been re-introduced throught the US/British influence on the culture, and many people, especially religious leaders, also rail against it as being "Un-German" and "Satanic".

Great thing is that November 1st is a holiday here in the Rhineland, so kiddies can go off and party 'til they're purple...

193 [deleted]  Thu, Oct 22, 2009 6:43:06am

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