I seem to recall a study indicating more people are afraid of clowns than anything else. Similarly the whole public speaking apprehension. Thus, I figure you could dress up as a clown to greet people at the door, have a couple podiums (podia?) in the living room, and hand out a schedule where everyone was speaking about some mundane topic after dinner or snacks.
Or, did you mean to frighten children? Friend of mine proposed the following to his wife but got shot down: halloween night, dress as a redneck (we're in NC so it would work) and have a long round mailing tube in his lap shotgun-style. Have a bottle of Jack Daniels and a lighter. When non-known kids come around, shoot fire from mouth while screaming nonsense... Statically, one neighbor fills their yard with cotton webby stuff. It's not the web that's creepy, it's that it is surprisingly effective at blocking flash light until you are right on top of something. Good in combination with a winding path and interesting yard decor. You in particular could say "you've been served" to every trick-or-treater. Or get someone to dress like a cop and threaten to issue citations for extortion to kids. That's more scare for the parents, of course, but who said we can't have fun? -Tim -----Original Message----- From: Donald Snook <dsn...@mtsqh.com> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:56 AM To: Mercedes@okiebenz.com <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Monkey-Masked Speeding Driver in Phoenix Rich wrote: "When I was in college I was on my way to a Halloween party wearing my full Nixon outfit, rubber mask, Salvie Army old blue suit, white shirt, tie, flag pin, the whole deal. Stopped at a traffic light by campus next to a coupla cops in their car, who looked over, I gave them the 2-finger V with both hands." That's a hilarious story! My wife went to a charity (fundraiser) Halloween party three years ago at a huge community party. A few blocks away as we were going home, I looked up ahead and there were cops everywhere. It was a DUI checkpoint. We were dressed as Smurfs - totally covered in blue paint with the white pants and Smurf hats. The cop looked at me when I got to the Checkpoint and said, "Hey Papa Smurf! Are you okay to get Smurfette home tonight?" I said, "I have not been smurfing, so I should be okay!" He waved us on through. By the way, my wife and I are hosting a Halloween party this year at our house. We expect about 50-75 people. We really want to decorate the house and make it scary. I know this bunch is full of some very creative thinkers, so if you have some creative, scary, and cheap ideas to decorate the house let me hear them! Donald H. Snook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090910/f354a9f8/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
