"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Watch out, folks. This is the spookiest house on the block. :rolleyes:

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Nice Shawn! Do you get a lot of trick or treaters?

In my previous neighborhood there were almost as many Halloween decorations as there were Christmas decorations. We had tons of kids at our door every year. We had just one kid last year. :(
 
We usually go all out with smoke machines, strobe lights, spooky music, and a blowup haunted house. This year, the snow came early and it just doesn't feel like Halloween. We put out some pumpkins an a spooky tree, but that's it. We will still give out full size chocolate bars, though.
 
Greg, this is actually our first Halloween in this neighborhood! We're very excited to see what kind of turnout we have because there are a bunch of kids in our little corner of town. Wife may have gotten a little rambunctious with the candy purchase, but that may have been by her design. ;) That stinks about the drop off in trick or treating visitors. Is it an instance of the neighborhood kids getting older and not enough new residents with younger kids? That happened in my mom's neighborhood.

I've been so busy with work that I didn't get a chance to do any proper decoration shopping. Hopefully, I'll be able to make up for it at Christmas.

Netguy, I love when people go all out like you describe. My wife and I love driving around looking for the best decorated house in town. We can't wait for our girl to be dazzled by the lights!
 
Shawn,

Hope your girl has a great time! We usually have quite a lot of kids trick-or-treating as we're in a relatively new neighborhood. We had 60 last year.

John
 
Shawn, I'm not completely sure why our new neighborhood has fewer trick or treaters than our previous one. None of my immediate neighbors have youngsters, but I see plenty around as I walk my dog through the neighborhood. We've had a few younger families move to my street over the past year, so maybe we will see an uptick.
 
I got a note in the letterbox with a cutout paper pumpkin attached.I am to place the cut out on the letterbox if I want the little rascals to trickertreat my house.
Many Aussies particularly old crotchety ones despise Halloween as the Yanks takin over our culture.
Mind you they are just as likely to eat at McDonnos and drive a Ford. So I say b@%%@€£$ to them.I'll carve up a real pumpkin and stick it the front. When the weasels come round they'll get choccy eyeballs. There will also be a python experience (that sounds terrible its actually a real python). Should be fun.
 
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This is the extent of my Halloween preparations.
Not a lot of kids last year, maybe in part because two local churches do their own centralized festivities.

Here's the knife. I used just the main blade.
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meako said:
~snip~ So I say b@%%@€£$ to them.I'll carve up a real pumpkin and stick it the front. When the weasels come round they'll get choccy eyeballs. ~snip~
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We do chocolate eyeballs too, a load of marshmallow centred chocolate balls with some chocolate brussel sprouts camouflaged in identical fashion :)

Mwa hahaha!
 
Abandon hope all ye who enter the grounds of Grim Meako Mansion!
I get the eyeballs from Aldi.
My 15 year old had a black morph suit a couple of years ago-frightened the crap out out of some toddlers who came dressed as fairies-they ran off crying.
Thats what halloween is all about.
I'm not sure that local churches should be participating in it -unless of course they are pagans then its the more the merrier.
I went to get a pumpkin from woolies- they had grammas which are normally used as stock feed for some preposterous" only available at halloween" ripoff price .
Watermelons are better -cheaper and easy to carve and the flesh makes great "zombie meat" .
Lets have a carve up -

might do a couple of Lewis eyeballs too.:D
 
Halloween used to be a bigger shindig around my area when I was a kid. Door to door trick or treating was still a thing. Some houses used to put a full case of soda with a note that said take one, or one of those big variety packs of 36 bags of potato chips/what nots. Now the houses are dark on halloween, no bells ringing. A lot of the families have moved out.
 
It has finally gone. Poor old thing. Totally dead. My little car is skadooshed. So on Monday I'll make the 14 hour round trip to the mainland to buy a new one. We still have the family 4x4 which is my wife's but I need a commuter vehicle. I am going to buy what could charitably be called a handbag with wheels. Sigh. Needs must :(
 
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I hope skadooshed doesn't mean a crash and injuries, Paul!!??!!:eek:
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Lol no, just a long, slow decline in form followed by a series of minor but expensive operations before the final decision to permanently retire her.
 
pmew said:
It has finally gone. Poor old thing. Totally dead. My little car is skadooshed. So on Monday I'll make the 14 hour round trip to the mainland to buy a new one. We still have the family 4x4 which is my wife's but I need a commuter vehicle. I am going to buy what could charitably be called a handbag with wheels. Sigh. Needs must :(
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You're buying a Smart Car???:eek:

What is gas per gallon there?
 
Not been posting much this last week because I haven't replaced my laptop yet and this Kindle is great for reading but posting not so much. Anyway I thought I would take in the last half hour of the new MacGyver and it was pretty good but not as much as the original until the last few minutes of the show when MacGyver whipped out a Swiss Champ to save the day. No modern folder with a Kryptonite impregnated super plus steel blade but a plain old everyday SAK. Guess someone in Hollywood has got a clue after all.
 
pmew said:
It has finally gone. Poor old thing. Totally dead. My little car is skadooshed. So on Monday I'll make the 14 hour round trip to the mainland to buy a new one. We still have the family 4x4 which is my wife's but I need a commuter vehicle. I am going to buy what could charitably be called a handbag with wheels. Sigh. Needs must :(
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Alas, poor car, may flights of angels sing unto thy rest...
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Meanwhile my now trusty Isuzu Trooper beast has been resurrected with a transmission rebuild, and new timing belt, hydraulic tensioner, water pump, radiator, plus new miscellaneous hoses. Ready for another 17 years of service...fingers crossed.

And I? I am sitting here at the best of all possible times, Friday night. A refreshing ale at my side, a largish knife in my pocket, and listening to Maddy Prior and the lads of Steeleye Span. That gal was gifted with a tremendous voice.
 
Yesterday morning I rescued a female beagle from being hit by cars twice in front of where I work. I got her into the shop and kept an eye on her throughout the day. She had no collar and was quite timid. At lunch I posted signs in the area and at the local stores in hopes of reuniting her with her owner.

Late in the day one of my customers called and said he was missing a female beagle. I was really thinking this would be her owner. When he showed up he said it wasn't his dog but he knew who she belonged to. He told me she had been at his house for three days and he finally got the owner over to get his dog. When the guy got there he took the collar off, kicked the poor beast and scared her away. He said I won't have a dog that won't bark while running a rabbit.

My customer was mad and proceeded to punch the guy in his face a couple times and told him he better never come back.

So now I have a sweet little beagle that thinks I am her human. I didn't need another dog. I have three and the vet bills and food is already expensive. I am looking for her a family but doubt my wife and kids could bear to give her up now.

We took her to the vet and got her all checked out and current on vaccines. She is in my lap even now.

Just don't know how anyone can mistreat a dog? I have no respect for folks that abuse animals! OK, rant over now

Chris
 
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