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Best Halloween Costume Ideas: Be a Celebrity | Gather

Best Halloween Costume Ideas: Be a Celebrity | Gather

Awesome! Top 5 Creepiest Halloween Candy

I found this fabulous little article on the Houston Food Blog! It was originally written by J.C. Reid in Top Five, and rewritten by Darkerstarz!

Spooky Nerds


We begin with Spooky Nerds candy, because most of the gross-out candy you find around Halloween harks back to those memorable years in the junior high school cafeteria when the nerdy, weird kid would eat disgusting things and freak everybody out. We all pegged those kids as losers, but you have to think that one of them grew up and started a candy company that makes gummy boogers and sold out to Mars for millions of dollars. So let's all raise a gummy booger to the revenge of the spooky nerds.

Body Parts

Candy body parts are an indispensable addition to the repertoire of the aspiring cannibal. It is somewhat disappointing that the selection seems to be limited to appendages rather than internal organs. Perhaps a Hannibal Lecter limited edition is in order. It would include gummy livers, mini-bottles of sugar Chianti and fava jelly beans.

Zit Poppers


Zits are one of the most memorable experiences for junior high school nerds, and Zit Poppers candy is the natural result of that teenage indignity. With a nod toward Bluto in Animal House, these liquid-filled gummies offer ripe and juicy opportunities for Halloween mischief.

Box of Boogers

Box of boogers gets high marks for authenticity if not taste (flavor or otherwise). The marketing department and packaging consultants at Flix Candy did not hold back with catchy slogans like "Ssssnot your regular gummy!" Somewhere in an emergency room on Halloween, a doctor is going to be fishing one of these little gems out of a kid's nostril.

Scab-a-Roni

Somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of our minds is the memory of that kid -- that one kid -- in junior high school who would quite un-self-consciously pick at the scab on his elbow and then pop it into his mouth. Surely one of the many indignities of suffering through junior high. The riff on Rice-a-Roni is a nice touch, as is the flesh-colored background.

World's Largest Pumpkin!

How many pies could you make with this pumpkin? Christy Harp, of Jackson Township, Ohio, took home first place in the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers' annual weigh-off with this 1,725-pound entry. She won $2,500 and could capture the world title. Contest organizers say the entry topped the 1,689-pound record holder grown in 2007 by Joe Jutras of North Scituate, R.I.
(Scott Heckel/The Canton Repository/AP Photo

Haunt World Magazine gives us it's frightful best list.

Are tasteless costumes hateful, or all in good fun?

In October of 2006, when liberal extremist Bill Maher wore a Steve Irwin costume, complete with a bloody stingray barb protruding out of the chest, just weeks after Irwin had been tragically killed by a stingray...I was shocked. I found no humor in that costume, just purely bad taste.

On Monday October 27, Chad Michael Morisette, displayed a life-size mannequin hung from the eaves of his West Hollywood home by a hangman's noose, dressed and accessorized to resemble Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, as a political statement.

On the roof directly above the Palin scene, another mannequin, portraying presidential candidate John McCain, sticking half way out of the chimney and surrounded in fake flames as though he is being consumed by the fire. Although some people would see this as hateful (even tried to get it taken down calling it a hate crime) I saw the humor in it.

Comparing the two was easy. Steve Irwin is DEAD, and at the time his family was still mourning his death. Rubbing the means by which he passed in their faces is just cruel. The political statement made on someone's roof-top did not involve either living or dead participants. It was, what I would call ART, even if it made a strong anti-conservative statement.

What are your thoughts on this?

OLD BUT INTERESTING NEWS-Prince Charles "direct descendant of Dracula"

Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:05:17 PDT

LONDON, Oct 9 (AFP) - Britain's Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth II are direct descendants of Count Dracula, it was reported Friday.

The Sun tabloid newspaper said the British royal family can be directly traced to the 15th century Romanian ruler Vlad Dracul, known as The Impaler because of his favourite method of dealing with his enemies.

Although not proved to have been a vampire, the bloodthirsty Vlad was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula." Quoting from a new book, "Roots of the Rich and Famous" by Robert Davenport, The Sun said that Vlad's bloodline entered the British royal family through Queen Mary, who died in 1953 and was consort of George V.

Her Austrian ancestors were descended from the Hungarian Teck family, which in turn can be traced to Vlad's Romanian bloodline, according to the book.

Welcome to all things Halloween!

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