What’s up with all this “Gourmet” flavored candy corn they have lately? I was at B&N the other day getting a bottle of water and they had this small bags of like strawberry and stuff candy corn for like $8 a bag. Shit, for $8 I can get 8 pounds of regular candy corn! I love candy corn, I probably could eat like 8 lbs of it.

*grump*

/goes back to eatting veggies

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/11/2006 1:22 AM

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I got a box of “Trix or Treat” today. There’s an announcement on it that says if it screams when you open it you’re a big winner. I don’t even know what the prize is, I just wanted to have a screaming cereal box. Sadly, that was not to be.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 09/11/2006 2:27 AM

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I was just wondering, have the jack-o-lantern peeps always been the easter bunny peeps or are they taking shortcuts this year. My husband consumes enough of these confectionary confections to become the stay puft man. I was able to snag one for examination before it too was gobbled down.

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 09/11/2006 6:45 AM

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I am SO gonna watch ROcky Horror this halloween in between handing out candy…Its gonna be my first year handing out candy at my own little house. I’ve had apartments in the past, and kids dont usually come into apartment bulidings. So im gonna have the windows open…scary sounds a blastin’ and rocky horror on the tube…now for the costume…i havent thought about that yet…my puppy is gonna be a devil or a hot dog.

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 09/11/2006 7:25 AM

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Excellent! The XE Halloween Countdown has become part of my Halloween traditions.

Loveitloveitloveit!

Chestnuts roasted by Itto0gami @ 09/11/2006 8:46 AM

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Can someone explain for me exactly what Candy Corn IS? I’m from the UK, and always thought Candy Corn was just the name for sweet popcorn in the States, but from the looks of things it’s like still in kernal form and coated with sugar. Is that right? Is it toasted or something? Sounds kinda grim…

Chestnuts roasted by Ross @ 09/11/2006 9:14 AM

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It’s candy in the shape of corn only, there’s no actual corn involved. The pumpkins are better anyway. Look closely and you can see a couple in the pic. (Sweet popcorn would just be kettle or caramel corn.)
There’s more at stake than just blue ghost Hayden when it comes to the OT. Han shoots first . Actually that’s the only major issue I have off the top of my head, but there’s something to be said for the charm of the old school fx as well.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/11/2006 9:55 AM

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I also saw those “gourmet” flavored candy corn at Target. On one hand, I want to try it. On the other hand, I REALLY hate candy corn. I didn’t see any of the Halloween Jones Sodas though.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/11/2006 10:56 AM

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Yes!! Matt, you made my day. I have a severe head cold, and wanted XE to cheer me up, and it so has- the Halloween season has begun, and all is well with the world.

I am already trying to think of a really cool costume for this year. Last year I was in Korea, and they don’t ‘do’ Halloween like we do, so it kind of sucked. I want to make up for it this year.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 09/11/2006 11:07 AM

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c0rp0rate z0mb1e: Check this shiznit out–fried Peeps.

Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 09/11/2006 11:33 AM

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Greetings y’all. Loved the Funkins piece. These were a particular favorite of my mom. We had all four on the porch in ’92 for my Halloween party, and a graveyard in the flower beds, a scarecrow on the bench, the whole nine yards. I think that was the last time we went all out.

Went to the dollar store this weekend (a member of the Dollar Tree family) and was gratified to see them all Halloweened out. Picked up a couple of little things — a skeleton for the door, a big orange bowl candy corns and pumpkins and black cats dancing around the edge of it, and a cool stress ball thingy that pops out in massive pimples with nipples when you squeeze it. They had Peeps Pumpkins, but I’m not a Peeps kinda girl.

Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 09/11/2006 12:02 PM

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That Peep site is awesome. My friend just told me about Peep wars, where you put a tooth pick in a Peep like a sword an put two of them facing off in the microwave, who ever gets poked first looses.

And, can I say again that this is Funkin awesome.

But seriously folks…..

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 09/11/2006 12:38 PM

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OK…I’ll admit to two things:

1) I actually LIKE (and look forward to) CANDY CORN.

Yes, it’s hard getting past 5 pieces, but once you do, you’re tongue is rotted out from the inside, your tastebuds have given up the ghost and you’re riding a sugar high of euphoric transendence that can only be secondary to “The Rapture”.

By half a bag, I really feel like crap and my survival skills kick in, making sure I understand;
IF I EAT ONE MORE… I WILL DIE.

So, I put them away for a week or so until I have sufficiently detoxified my system and then, do it ALL OVER AGAIN!

(…and NO. Believe it or not…I am not overweight. I’m out of SHAPE, yes. But only because my job demands that I sit on my ass all day and then I have house work to do at night. So, exercise comes in the shape of chasing the damn cats around the house.)

2) I am a HALLOWEEN freak.
Always was my FAVORITE holiday.
Since I was a lad.

Yes, I love horror movies (none have ever actually scared me, sadly. I remember, as a little kid, sitting in a dark room with my sister, watching the Excorcist. I remember she was all freaked out, but wasn’t sure if she was MORE freaked out by the movie or that her little brother thought it was hilarious.
I laughed thru most of that film. The parts that didn’t bore me, at least).

And I have ALWAYS loved decorating for the trick or treaters.
And the BEST part was disguising myself as a part of the lawn display (I’d sit motionless in a chair, by the door, in a costume that hid my face, so they’d think I was a manequin or scarecrow-thing), and then when the kids (and their parents) would come up to the door, I’d MOVE!

Freaked everyone right the hell out of their underoos.

Good times.

But, now, I don’t know what’s the worst thing…

For a few years the wife and I lived in an upstairs apartment.
I decked out all the windows and the stairs that led to my door, and made phony styrofome tombstones for the small patch of grass that I could sorta call “mine”.

But that sucked.

It lost the “haunted HOUSE” feel.

“Bleh! Welcome to my Haunted 2nd Floor Apartment…
of EVIL!”

pheh!

What might suck even MORE is that NOW we HAVE a house of our own, and last year, for our first Halloween here, we set up a Metric-TON of cool, great lawn displays and pumpkin leaf bags and all sorts of goodies… for NOTHING!

As it turns out, while this area of the world (I live in a heavily wooded area in the Pocono’s of PA) is REALLY INTO decorating for holidays (On Sept 1st they all deck out for the Halloween festivities), my little community has NO trick-or-treaters!

There are KIDS, sure.
But NOT ONE person came to our house last year.

Of course, our driveway is about the length of a football field, and at night, there are NO street lights (or lights PERIOD).
So, I kinda doubt that any kid is going to come down to the dead-end that we live on (yes! we live at the last house on a DEAD-END! I ALWAYS WANTED to live at the last house on a dead-end), and then walk along this pitch-black, heavily woooded, long-ass driveway of TERROR, just for some swag.

Now, granted, I always give GREAT stuff for halloween (comic books, little halloween themed toys from dollar stores and, yes, GOOD candy), but no one came.

So, I’m going to try to deck the place out again this year.

I’ll be placing some kind of sign at the end of the driveway (since the pumpkin leaf bags didn’t do the job last year), and maybe try to get some kind of lighting for the DRIVEWAY of DOOM!

I’LL enjoy myself, sure, but it’s just NOT the same.

Oh well.
ThanX for the countdown.
At least THAT will perk me up for the HOWLadays!

~P~
P-TOR

Chestnuts roasted by P-TOR @ 09/11/2006 12:48 PM

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