Dave wrote:

> But I don't like chocolate bars. I only like the really dark, bitter
> chocolate, and I have a square or two every few days. Kids don't like the
> kind I like.

I gave out the really dark, bitter chocolate last year. I believe that dark
chocolate is higher in theobromine (the stimulant part of chocolate) than
lighter chocolates. So the kids who got that chocolate were probably up
running around all night.

Hey, they're not MY kids!

Bob

kimberly wrote:

> Me, I'll stick with the candy and a good scare. Our house was in the paper
> a few years in a row for being the scariest in our area. Now, though,
> there's alot more college kids on our street, so I'm considering not
> decorating. It's been bad enough having them leave beer bottles in the
> yard every weekend. Seems like putting several thousand dollars worth of
> props out is just asking for trouble. :-(

My house was also voted scariest in the neighborhood, but the decorating was
quite minimal, and NONE of it was outside: I had fairly-dim red light bulbs
put in all the lights which were on, and I had a cacophany of stereos: One
of them (my "high-end" stereo) had a sound-effect CD in which the sound of
an earthquake was running full-time. One boom box had a mix of animal
sounds and Tibetan monk chanting. The other boom box had a CD by a group
called "Darkness Enshroud," playing eerie "black ambient" music, which
contains among other things the sounds of creaking doors, distorted voices
droning unintelligible chants, and various and sundry electronic effects.
It was a kind of gateway-to-hell look and feel.

My attic vent is right over my front porch. I'm considering putting a fog
machine in the attic this year to pour fog down on the kids.

Bob

> wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:39:25 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
> >
> wrote:
>
>>I'm tired of giving out candy, and nobody wants apples because they all
>>have
>>razor blades or cyanide in them. Anyone have any interesting alternatives?
>>I
>>was thinking condoms, but I suspect that could meet with resistance from
>
> Act II was making single serving WRAPPED popcorn balls and in Halloween
> wrapping
> check your local mega part or Oriental Trading Online if no local sources.
> I
> would suggest you make your own, but I am sure the child safety gestapo
> would
> probably go ballistic.
>
> Oriental trading probably has some thing to fit your need if not the
> above.

Wow - now there's a web site designed for geniuses. "$5.95 per dozen. 12
items per dozen". This, as opposed to the 9 items per dozen you sometimes
find in commerce.

ROFL!

"Doug Kanter" > wrote

> Wow - now there's a web site designed for geniuses. "$5.95 per dozen. 12
> items per dozen". This, as opposed to the 9 items per dozen you sometimes
> find in commerce.

Well, sometimes there are 13 per dozen.

nancy

"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Doug Kanter" > wrote
>
>> Wow - now there's a web site designed for geniuses. "$5.95 per dozen.
>> 12 items per dozen". This, as opposed to the 9 items per dozen you
>> sometimes find in commerce.

LOL

>
> Well, sometimes there are 13 per dozen.

but that is a baker's dozen)

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 08:03:53 GMT, Ophelia wrote:

>
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "Doug Kanter" > wrote
> >
> >> Wow - now there's a web site designed for geniuses. "$5.95 per dozen.
> >> 12 items per dozen". This, as opposed to the 9 items per dozen you
> >> sometimes find in commerce.
>
> LOL
>
> >
> > Well, sometimes there are 13 per dozen.
>
> but that is a baker's dozen)
>
which is going the way of the Dodo Bird

notbob wrote:
> On 2005-10-07, -L. > wrote:
>
> > We are known for our pumpkins, anyway. Here are a couple of pics:
>
> Great jack-o-lanterns, great pics. I saved the dark background one
> for a Halloween desktop. =D
>
> nb

Glad you liked them I always thought the photos would make great
Halloween cards.

We will have to get our pumpkins late this year. We are travelling and
won't be home in time to get the cream of the crop. Hopefully they
won't all be rotten by the time we get back
-L.
(posting from gmail)

On 10 Oct 2005 03:06:15 -0700, -L. wrote:

> Hopefully they
> won't all be rotten by the time we get back

They shouldn't rot... unless they are carved.

In article >,
~patches~ > wrote:

> Not really sex education is a good thing.

You think handing out a condom is sex education?

Regards,
Ranee

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In article >,
Margaret Suran > wrote:

> At what age did you discover dark chocolate? What is the chocolate
> you prefer, American or made somewhere else and what is the make?

I did not like dark chocolate as a young child. I think I started
really liking it after a trip to Switzerland when I was 13. I came back
and looked for it more here.

My favorite chocolate is Belgian, then good American, not the candy
bar stuff, then Swiss,.

Regards,
Ranee

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"Margaret Suran" > wrote in message
...
> At what age did you discover dark chocolate? What is the chocolate you
> prefer, American or made somewhere else and what is the make?

Fairly young, I used to eat semi-sweet cooking chocolate behind my aunt's
back (although sometimes she'd have the unsweetened in the cupboard which
would be nasty surprise.

I always preferred Hershey's dark chocolate with toasted almonds to any milk
chocolate bar. Today I can easily get my hands on Ritter Sport Dark
Chocolate bars so I pick up a few each time I go grocery shopping. I limit
myself to 2 or 3 squares a day so a bar lasts me 5 or 6 days.

Gabby

sf wrote:
> On 10 Oct 2005 03:06:15 -0700, -L. wrote:
>
> > Hopefully they
> > won't all be rotten by the time we get back
>
> They shouldn't rot... unless they are carved.

Haven't bought many pumpkins on the mass-market lately, have you? They
rot in the field, even.

-L.

On 10 Oct 2005 03:06:15 -0700, "-L." > wrote:

>
>notbob wrote:
>> On 2005-10-07, -L. > wrote:
>>
>> > We are known for our pumpkins, anyway. Here are a couple of pics:
>>
>> Great jack-o-lanterns, great pics. I saved the dark background one
>> for a Halloween desktop. =D
>>
>> nb
>
>Glad you liked them I always thought the photos would make great
>Halloween cards.
>
>We will have to get our pumpkins late this year. We are travelling and
>won't be home in time to get the cream of the crop. Hopefully they
>won't all be rotten by the time we get back
>-L.
>(posting from gmail)
I liked the photos of the critters..Looks like you have a well rounded
bunch.