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By: sooz
Date: 11/1/98 1:00:53 PM
# Replies: 21
Please list the best costumes sighted this Halloween season. Extra credit is given if you use LI.
Response #1
By: sooz
Date: 11/2/98 10:40:05 AM
I almost made 50 photocopies of Ken Starr to paste all over my person. He's the scariest thing I can think of.
Response #2
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 11/2/98 6:45:37 PM
The best costume I saw this year:
He made the suit out of leotards. It even had squishy breasts and a hunk of carpet for pubic hair. And a belly button.
Response #3
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 11/2/98 10:24:00 PM
I was Nothing.
I wore:
So, people'd say, "What're you?" "Nothing."
The best costume I saw was a friend of mine who went as an Alien victim. He had a face hugger toy (they're new) wrapped around his neck and he rigged up the new chest burster toy to actually rip out through his shirt and it had blood and stuff around it. He attached a tube to it and a liquid reservoir and so when people would bend over to look at it, he could squirt water out of the alien's mouth.
Pretty cool.
Response #4
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 11/28/98 8:42:37 AM
I was the Big Bad Wolf. Our team at work did the Three Little Pigs and won first place ($50 for a team lunch).
It was rather relaxing carring a cleaver and calling out "here piggy, piggy!"
Response #5
By: Da Sissop
Date: 11/28/98 11:48:22 AM
We were not allowed to dress up in costumes for halloween. Wanna know why? Because a couple of years ago apparently some guy came to work in women's clothes and offended somebody's sensibilities.
I am, however, dutifully doing my part to fight da power by keeping my spooky halloween skeleton decoration in use for the remainder of the holiday season (currently skeleton in pilgrim hat holding a butterball turkey... effective monday, skeleton in fake white beard and red suit).
Response #6
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 11/30/98 1:21:38 PM
you might like to know that there is a jack o lantern rotting on my front lawn. when you kick it, the face moves.
Response #7
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 12/2/98 5:18:27 AM
SOS...I missed both snerds..I'm sorry, very sorry..
We've been rebuilding a rent house (the Swat team is a little messy) and Courtney decided she wanted her gall stones for her birthday.. Please call again, now that Court has her gall stones, and we will finish the rent house this weekend...we might, just maybe get our lives back! Smoooch to you darlin!
Response #8
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/2/98 2:26:26 PM
hehe tess, i think you've missed much of the saga that is my life. read the thread called "washington dc!" and then gimme a call at 703-jelotyt.
how is courtney doing? did they take out the gall stones intact? (what do they look like?)
Response #9
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 12/3/98 5:25:41 AM
She is doing very well. Tough kid, she refused to have surgery prior to Thanksgiving holiday so she wouldn't have to miss school. Wanted to exempt those finals. She suffered with attacks for two months to achieve this goal. Good news, she was accepted at Baylor and UT. She is leaning towards Baylor since she wants premed. Now we just have to work on paying for it?!!! We didn't ask to see the gall stones, the Dr told us multiple stones.
Will you make it back through Houston before leaving for the Peace Core?
Response #10
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/3/98 9:36:12 AM
Well I just got my official invitation to Nepal--it seems I would be leaving on June 10th, and I'm sure to drop by Houston a week or so before that. OR I will be around during christmas! Are there any christmas snerds coming up?
Here's a funny story (well not so much funny as it is long): last night I woke up at two o'clock with a stuffy head and congested throat, and hives breaking out all over my neck. in my groggy state it took me a while to realize what I thought might be possible all along--I'm allergic to cats. The funny part of this story is, my roommate is too. She has to take claritin every day and an allergy shot or two each month. Her cats are super friendly and will rub against you every chance they get, meaning I have to play run away until I figure out how I can get my own stash of allergy drugs.
Response #11
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/3/98 9:41:16 AM
(oh, and my roommate is spending this week in California, meaning i'm completely stranded)
Response #12
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 12/5/98 8:40:54 AM
Nepal..having only been to Mexico, that sounds exotic. Besides mountains, tell what you know of Nepal. What 707 is your mission? Have you spoken to Zane?
Kev hates cats. He would give you interesting suggestions on how to deal with them, myself I offer Benadryl.
And I will make it a point to be available when you come back through, so please call.
Response #13
By: rorschach
Date: 12/6/98 5:08:52 PM
well, of the over the counter anti-histimines, i prefer tavist-d. (not prone to making me fall asleep in mid-sentence doncha know...) doc has me on zyrtec right now but they are so pricy that until my new insuance kicks in i can't afford em..... so I'm sneezing my head off right now.....
Response #14
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/7/98 7:54:57 AM
tess, I know very little about nepal, except that the nepalese like to eat goats and yak when they're not vegetarian, and that toilet paper is considered an oddity. the language is written in the same script as sanskrit, and i'm now in the process of learning all the squiggles, which is fun. the average life span is about 50 years, and the average income is $170/year. the economy is 90% agriculture-based. in Kathmandu, the capital, there's a street called freak street, a relic of the hippie era. hm. i guess i know quite a bit actually.
as far as my mission in peace corps goes, i'm going to be a water engineer there, giving technical advice for things like water resource development and planning, wastewater treatment and control, and the like, both in rural and urban areas. you know, helping people get clean water and sanitary conditions. which will be quite a challenge in a country without toilet paper.
thanks all for the medical advice--my medical insurance kicks in next week, so i'm thinking that i'll wait till then to get any supplies.
Tess, will you give me Zane the Hermit's #? I lost it all over again. I felt bad because without his number I couldn't invite him to that second snerd.
How's the renthouse going? will you be all free and easy by christmas?
Response #15
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 12/7/98 12:25:52 PM
Yeah, but what do you know about microtunneling?
Response #16
By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/7/98 7:28:38 PM
Or microbrewing. Teach the Nepalese to microbrew.
Response #17
By: rorschach
Date: 12/9/98 6:18:20 PM
actually not a bad idea! brewing was invented because europeans didn't have a safe water supply.... brewing killed the bugs! 7o7, it is my understanding that UNESCO has a device that is cheap and easy to assemble that consists of a black light powered by a solar panel that irradiates the water with UV and kills bugs. it was developed for use in third world countries where there was more sun than money or electricity. another idea that is a bit more permenant but would require a bit of education on the part of the operators would involve a concrete pit with a heavy concrete lid, possibly shielded in lead on the outside with a quantity of say, cobalt 60 immersed in the water... that oughtta kill anything, including any nepalese who stupidly tried to skinny dip in the cistern.......hey! population control as a side benefit! cool.....
Response #18
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 12/10/98 8:18:37 AM
in case you didn't realize, beer is made with <ahem> yeast...
Response #19
By: rorschach
Date: 12/11/98 6:40:17 PM
yes, but you boil the water first, also alcohol eventually kills both the yeast when it gets strong enough AND bacteria (which are more susceptible than yeast...)
Response #20
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 12/14/98 5:25:21 AM
Yes...I free again. House is now on the market and showing. I'll have to look up Zane's # for you. Smooch!
Response #21
By: rorschach
Date: 12/25/98 5:15:02 PM
was there some kind of lawyer involved or is this just a move to new digs?