Halloween bullshit

[Buzzrock 15135]

Dunno if it’s the same everywhere but Halloween decor seemed to come out extra early around us this year. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 22268]

I saw my first Christmas decorations this week.  Fuck that shit

[Underdog 29132]

The only good thing about decorations coming out early is it also means holiday Reese's pumpkins, trees are out. 

[thunderlounge 8394]

[Laxtonto 13037]

 

[SHOOTER12 8886]

On 9/24/2024 at 6:26 PM, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I saw my first Christmas decorations this week.  Fuck that shit

Lowes here started putting out Christmas stuff a week ago.

[Longboard Horn 41350]

[MissingInAction 25546]

I give Luna a pile of pig intestines on the patio with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre score playing through the window.

One night only though.

[Celery Man 21089]

Need ideas for across the street from this

I’m thinking pitched battle

[thunderlounge 8394]

 

[Longboard Horn 41350]

[Laxtonto 13037]

[mdleast 8518]

[NWBuck 8626]

If only we had a Surly story about a Halloween lights tour as well... 

This would be worth getting our roll on:

 

[thunderlounge 8394]

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

We went to the Night of 1,000 Jack-o'-Lanterns at the Chicago Botanic Garden on Friday night. Some really spectacular artistry on display. They had a bunch of different categories - movies, music, cartoons, sports, deep sea creatures, obituaries (people who died since last Halloween), etc., etc. 

But man, some of them smelled absolutely terrible.

 

Edited October 27 by Prepuce of Doom

[closetohumping 17803]

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

In years past, I did my best to post update progress report photos from the Copse of Putrefication around the first of the month, but as my last updates indicated, all but one from last year (Milk Dud) went to shit, though Lemonhead left enough to make a little diorama or tableau setting. 

We also had an incident with one of the landscapers - I did my best to communicate "leave this shit alone" which apparently came across as "please make sure to remove all this shit" but I managed to salvage Milk Dud and the remnants of Lemonhead. I suspect that perhaps the landscratchers might have absconded with one, or maybe a varmint or just decay caught up with us - who knows. 

A few pictures from March and April that I never got around to posting:

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

Here's what we ended up with for this year's inductees into the pantheon. 

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

Here's this year's pledge class in their various stages of progression. 

Bought this one because of the funny little prolapsed anus. 

It appears to be the same species as Lemonhead from last year, so in an effort to discourage varmint consumption, I've made X-shaped eyes and a sort of slit-style mouth. The mouth is just a bunch of vertical-ish lines of holes, all of which I connected with a serrated blade. 

I fear that this one won't really come into its own until well after Halloween, but we'll see. 

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

No idea whether this thing will endure the elements indefinitely or if it will decay into nothing, but I figured it was worth investigating. 

The exterior has the texture of soft peanut shells. I suspect it probably cures some diseases while likely causing others. 

It fits neatly into the carcass of Lemonhead. 

This guy is a bright yellow, so Doomlet suggested that I try to make a smiley face. I used the same new "connect the dots" technique with it's mouth (eyes are still drilled and hammered according to tradition). 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

The final displays. 

 

The OG is still the spookiest. 

Edited October 27 by Prepuce of Doom

[Longboard Horn 41350]

[MissingInAction 25546]

My favorite thread for Halloween.

Your home appears to be the portal to a dimension of evil and suffering of countless souls.

[Longboard Horn 41350]

[nnm 37885]

Nm. @Longboard Horn beat me to it

 

Edited October 30 by nnm

[Al Czervik 1261]

Still love this sign from years ago. You can feel the rage in the Vieja that put it up. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

It hasn't even been four days. The weird thing with the "peanut shells" is doing fine, and so is the big reddish one, but the smiley face and the conventional pumpkin are getting torn up by varmints, and mold is also setting in for the conventional pumpkin (its lid has also fallen in on itself...). 

 

[Shoxthemonkey 1992]

2 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

It hasn't even been four days. The weird thing with the "peanut shells" is doing fine, and so is the big reddish one, but the smiley face and the conventional pumpkin are getting torn up by varmints, and mold is also setting in for the conventional pumpkin (its lid has also fallen in on itself...). 

 

They just don't make pumpkins like they used to.

[High Plains Drifter 11185]

On 10/29/2024 at 8:52 AM, Longboard Horn said:

 

8 hours ago, Al Czervik said:

Still love this sign from years ago. You can feel the rage in the Vieja that put it up. 

 

These bitches need to get their asses tricked. 

 

 

[ButtFumble 5263]

2 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

 

These bitches need to get their asses tricked. 

 

 

yea their lawns are getting trenched

[Longboard Horn 41350]

[nnm 37885]

In the lobby of my brother’s office building in SLC …

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

Baby Dutch Yellow potatoes are proving to be every bit as popular as Ring Pops and Albanese gummi bears. 

 

[Litig8r 418]

Iykyk  

[SurlyGator 959]

IDK

[tfoolry 8349]

Carrie

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

4 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Baby Dutch Yellow potatoes are proving to be every bit as popular as Ring Pops and Albanese gummi bears. 

 

I purposely put only one potato into the treat bowl at a time, and told everyone who remarked that there was only one potato allowed per group. 

Eight kids ultimately chose the potato, and there were two fights over the potato. One little girl told me that she would be back later, but she never returned. She'll probably throw a rock through my window later tonight instead. 

Edited November 1 by Prepuce of Doom

[Laxtonto 13037]

[MissingInAction 25546]

1 hour ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

I purposely put only one potato into the treat bowl at a time, and told everyone who remarked that there was only one potato allowed per group. 

Eight kids ultimately chose the potato, and there were two fights over the potato. One little girl told me that she would be back later, but she never returned. She'll probably throw a rock through my window later tonight instead. 

This guy does Halloween right.

[Hairy Biped 596]

[WhatTheBuck 28926]

On 10/4/2024 at 5:13 PM, Celery Man said:

Need ideas for across the street from this

A house I pass on my morning walk:

[Longboard Horn 41350]

These kids win Halloween 

 

[Scheiss Meister 8465]

4 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

These kids win Halloween 

 

If their mom dressed as Aunt Esther and their dad dressed as Grady, that whole family wins.

[Longboard Horn 41350]

[Laxtonto 13037]

 

[closetohumping 17803]

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

Out of town for work right now, but got some distressing news about the Leathery Peanut Shell. 

The others are allegedly safe and secure. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

It's Moving Day, when the husks go back into garage storage and the new crop moves from the front of the house to the Putrefication Copse in the back yard. 

But first, a few pictures of the new guys in the days following Halloween - the two colorful ones are getting destroyed by squirrels and perhaps other varmints. I threw down a little Victor-brand sachet of stinky minty shit the other day to discourage varmintry, and the little assholes ripped into that too. 

And the one that leaked scum all over the porch is just shrinking down into nothingness. 

Here's the bottom of Leathery Peanut Shell, and the teeming mass of life from underneath. 

I'm not entirely certain which picture is which. 

 

Edited November 17 by Prepuce of Doom
Something is fucked with the picture uploads and I'm tired of fucking with it - you get what you get here...

[Prepuce of Doom 21285]

So just to double down on the voodoo shit, I kept one potato from the Halloween bag (it's already started to sprout!) and the little Post It note that I used to tally Potato Popularity, and I figured those things should be inserted inside one of the Demon Gourds for the winter. 

It's gross as hell in there already. Weird tiny bugs came flying out when I picked it up. 

Edited November 17 by Prepuce of Doom