Halloween Machine! - Page 2

**RU Joe** · 10-14-2009, 02:19 AM

And now it's time for...BEETLEJUICE!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX51QPLPtGQ"]YouTube - Beetlejuice ep.1 part 1 Critter Sitters[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBVd0LYQhGg"]YouTube - Beetlejuice ep.1 part 2 Critter Sitters[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA98iw0WMtk"]YouTube - Beetlejuice ep.1 part 3 Critter Sitters[/ame]

**Dudebro** · 10-14-2009, 02:21 AM

Beetlejuice is awesome but I'm not so sure about the cartoon version.

**RU Joe** · 10-14-2009, 04:28 AM

I remember it from back in the day,
its memory just won't fade away
like 'Wilma' from Buck Rodgers
played by Erin Gray.
but I digress....

Back to the topic, has anyone besides me had the pleasure of hearing one of the really old Halloween sound effects records?
THIS is pretty close to the ones I remember:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy68qVO4lfc"]YouTube - Halloween 2007 Spooky Sounds[/ame]
I love that stuff!

**Dudebro** · 10-14-2009, 04:35 AM

Yeah I had one of those halloween sounds cassette tapes(wtf is a cassette right?).

**RU Joe** · 10-14-2009, 04:31 PM

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(wtf is a cassette right?).

A 'cassette tape' was a miniature reel -to- reel magnetic tape recording/playback system popular in the 1980's, and was what allowed for the very first Walkman, which you could think of as a user un-friendly analog i-Pod.
Got all that?
Doesn't matter anyways since it is OLD JUNK, cassettes, Walkmans, and all.
VHS videotapes sound better than those things.

So, no love for the chips, eh?
I guess I am a strange monkey since I really liked having the saltiness of the chips to offset the sweetness of the chocolates and candies when I went trick or treating.
(of course they would be inspected before eating)

Anyhow I was thinking of Halloween games, and thought this would be a good start:
Castlevania » Nintendo

**zarny** · 10-14-2009, 05:47 PM

Lol, one halloween I got soup!

**RU Joe** · 10-15-2009, 01:47 AM

Zarny, please explain this to us as this is the very first time I ever heard of such a thing, and I cannot be the only one.

**bakingumby** · 10-15-2009, 03:07 AM

yea...the soups a first for me too...I've gotten cereal before but never soup...

**OldTimer** · 10-15-2009, 08:36 AM

What about getting a toothbrush? I remember toilet papering a tree because we got no 'treat'.
Kids don't care about oral hygiene on haloween.

That soup thing is weird. One 6oz ladle of soup per kid into his candy bag?
Chips were a staple when I was a kid. Little half bags with like 15-20 chips.

I remember the horror of those orange with bats or witches candies too. We called them Crap candies. They were the only thing we didn't eat. One easter we found them again under some stairs where we hid them. They had bugs and really scared us. After years of therapy I am somewhat better now.

**asher** · 10-15-2009, 02:09 PM

I'm a big fan of chocolates,but I absoulutly (please forgive me if I spelled that wrong) LOVE those Sweedish Berris, they're so good! So, consequently, candy got my vote.
P.S. I HATE soup!(for Hallowe'en, I love it everywhere else)

**JKool** · 10-15-2009, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by zarny

Lol, one halloween I got soup!

It was Lipton powdered chicken noodle soup in a bag
Lol, Once we got a can of pop.

**RU Joe** · 10-16-2009, 01:03 AM

OldTimer:

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I remember the horror of those orange with bats or witches candies too.

Well, at least Yasly likes 'em.

Everyone:
Please donate all of your Allen 'Kisses' (that's what it says) caramels in the orange wrapper with skulls on them to Yasly.

Asher:

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I'm a big fan of chocolates,but I absoulutly (please forgive me if I spelled that wrong) LOVE those Sweedish Berris, they're so good!

Then you would so love 'Big Turk' chocolate bars which has both of those things together.

ANOTHER candy which seems not to be so popular are the 'Crunchie' chocolate bars with the weird orange/yellow centre that melts in a 'Whoppers' kind of way, yet is tough on the teeth...
~ Game time!
Black Tiger » Coin Op
Splatter House (Japan) » Coin Op
Haunted Castle (version M) » Coin Op

**JKool** · 10-16-2009, 11:25 AM

Crunchie bars taste weird but I like eating them.

What is wrong with the orange skull candies?
They're one of the reasons I get excited about halloween

**Mikman** · 10-16-2009, 11:54 AM

I like fruit-flavoured candy. I also like chocolate. I like chips but not for Halloween.

The option "goodie bags" seems vague to me.

**RU Joe** · 10-16-2009, 01:06 PM

Yasly:

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Crunchie bars taste weird but I like eating them.

This is why I was careful not to put my foot in my mouth so fast like I did with the Allen Kisses.

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What is wrong with the orange skull candies?
They're one of the reasons I get excited about halloween

For most people, it seems, these particular candies (which are a Canadian exclusive?) apparently lack appeal.
Of course there is nothing wrong with them, but perhaps they take a special kind of person to be able to appreciate their finer qualities.

For instance, not everyone can appreciate burnt toast with peanut butter, or black licorice, or Fresca pop, or hot peppers - (hey - anyone tried the hot pepper chocolates? (Lindt?)

But Jack Spratt could eat no fat
his wife could eat no lean
and twixt the two of them,
you see,
they licked the platter clean!
(or in this case they cleaned out the candy bowl!)

Mikman:

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The option "goodie bags" seems vague to me.

It took several weeks of research and planning to decide what options should be included in the final draft of the Halloween candy poll.
Finally my staff (7 mice) and I came to the decision of 4 general categories since to try to describe every possible item which may be collected during a typical Halloween outing would be a massive undertaking.

Therefore, the category 'Goodie bags' is intended to encompass not only actual Goodie bags, but also such unusual items as rocks, soup, shrunken heads, miniature black holes, platypus eggs, and other such things.
Also, we thought it looked a lot better than 'Other'.

**jim5cents** · 10-16-2009, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by joeg

Everyone knows Canadian chips are the best.

unless canadian chips are slang for cape cod potato chips, then you are dead wrong.

the strangest things that i got for halloween include a beer coaster, nba trading cards, and some lady wanting the kids to sign a card for soliders in saudi (desert shield/storm). the last one wasn't a bad thing, just a little unorthodox.

**RU Joe** · 10-16-2009, 01:54 PM

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cape cod potato chips

Ok now you have to give us a brand name or something because I'm curious...
Also please forgive my ignorance but is Cape Cod not in the US?

**JKool** · 10-16-2009, 02:12 PM

JG: do you like crunchie bars?

**RU Joe** · 10-16-2009, 02:18 PM

No, I can't stand them, but as a kid I remember how we would save them for the one person who did like them.
We would all be like
'Eeeewwwwww!!'
as we watched him eat the awful (to us) Crunchies.

**JKool** · 10-16-2009, 02:28 PM

Lol, that's me with candy corn.
I would put a picture of cand corn in this post but then I would start to puke.

**zarny** · 10-16-2009, 03:08 PM

Candy corn is sooooo gross! You better get a bag Yasly.

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**jim5cents** · 10-16-2009, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by joeg

Ok now you have to give us a brand name or something because I'm curious...
Also please forgive my ignorance but is Cape Cod not in the US?

cape cod potato chips is the brand name.

Cape Cod Potato Chips

and yes, cape cod is in massachusetts.

**RU Joe** · 10-16-2009, 07:16 PM

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yes, cape cod is in massachusetts.

They do look like good chips!
Ok so are they made with Prince Edward Island potatoes?
(It's Bud the Spud! from the bright red mud...)

I don't get it how they are Canadian chips, and even more, uh, oh.... - Forget it.
I'm sure they are good chips even if they are from Australia, Russia, wherever - ia.
But not from Luxembourg.
Their chips are awful.

Yasly and Zarny,
I think DB was right when he said:

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They didn't have snickers in the 1800s. I bet they had candy corn though.

I will bet that even Cape Cod potato chips would taste bad if they were sitting around since the 1800's too!
Candy corn make good crafting materials for Kindergarten kids to make little Halloween pictures with.
But hey,
even worse than candy corn are some of the 'ethnic' candies I have tried.
'Haw Flakes' (slices of Haw) are ok once in a while but there are others (Chinese) that I swear are SO BAD they may even give the Allen Kisses some competition.
We used to have a contest to see who could leave one on their tongue the longest without having to spit it out.

Ok, so who (besides me) knows any good Halloween games?
Give us a link and I will try them!

**zarny** · 10-16-2009, 08:04 PM

Do you still go Trick-or-Treating, JG?

**RU Joe** · 10-16-2009, 08:07 PM

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Do you still go Trick-or-Treating, JG?

I will answer if you give us a link to a Halloween game....