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Thursday Hunks. . .


28 Oct

Tags: Family, horror
Posted in memes | 3 Comments »

Oh wait… that’s THUNKS.

Okay, so you won’t feel cheated, here’s a hunk and he’s NOT Robert Pattinson!

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Now, for the Thursday Thunks Hallow-meme

1. So Halloween is this weekend, if you haven’t heard. Are you gonna open your doors up or not? Not.

2. You better open ‘em cuz I’m coming… what are you putting in my treat bag? Nothing, but if you show up, I will be calling the police.

3. Since October is the bestest month for television (well for cable & dish subscribers it is) and there is a horror movie on at any given time of the day – are you sick of them yet? I have a remote control. That means I can change the channel to watch something worthwhile.

addams_family4. Which one of those movies can you watch over & over again? I can watch Addams Family over and over again. Same with Young Frankenstein.

5. Tell us about a Halloween scare you’ve had…. From the Sunday Stealing: Halloween Meme:

How about the Halloween when I helped dad out with a favor for a friend of his who was a funeral director? We drove in a green hearse to St. Louis, MO to pick up the body of a woman that had been run over by a steamroller. She was under a sheet, so I tried to forget about her. I was doing fine until dad turned on this late night radio station that was presenting stories about The Shadow. Good story, and I was quickly enthralled. HOWEVER…. right at the point where the narrator does this spooky, mad laugh, my dad had to hit the brakes because some idiot swerved in front of us. Dead lady’s gurney wasn’t attached properly and it sailed forward, knocking her skull into mine. I dove into the well under the glove compartment. Dad was laughing. I didn’t move from my spot until we got back home.

6. Did you watch the old Casper cartoons when you were a youngin? Well, back then they weren’t old I suppose, but I’m sure you still understand my question. Never watched the cartoons, but I did read the comics.

7. Have you ever found a four-leaf clover? I did. I was seven.

8. Haunted Houses… you know, the kinds you pay to get in and they chase you with chainsaws and severed heads…. do you like ‘em? I hate them. I don’t like the darkness or things jumping out at me, or even grabbing me. It makes me feel as though I’m blind and out of control.

9. Do you use cute cartoon type wrapping paper for Christmas presents or the not cutesy paper? Or are you one of those gift card and/or gift bag people? Nope.

10. How long do boiled eggs need to stay in the boiling water before they become hard boiled eggs? Beats me.

11. Jason is coming in through your front door… Freddy is coming through your back door… zombies are at every window of the house and Norman Bates is calling to invite you to dinner… what do you do? Tell Norman I’m coming to dinner, leave before Jason or Freddy or the zombies (which are slow, sluggish things) can get me and then move to a new neighborhood.

12. Did you know that the scariest part of Halloween is giving all of your Reeses Peanut Butter Cups away? Nobody gets my Reeses Peanut Butter Cups!

13a. If you were to play a part of a haunted house (not the ghosts in the attic kind), what would you want to be? Something scary, of course.

13b. Have you ever played a part in a haunted house? Yes. I was a swamp witch torturing a revenuer who trespassed on my land. I was the first thing the kids saw. If they were little, I didn’t scare them. If they were big, they got the whole screaming match. I couldn’t speak for three days since I trashed my voice.

shining_twins_114. If Thursday Thunks had a Halloween party, what do you think Kimber & Berleen would come dressed as? How about those spooky sisters from The Shining?

15. Do you cook a turkey for Thanksgiving? I don’t cook.

16. Have you ever read a book that scared the pants off of you? I wear dresses, not pants, so that never happened.

17. Whats the predicted high temperature for today? 39F. Are you running out of questions to ask?

18. Have you ever howled at the moon? Nope. I’m not a werewolf.

19.You are in an alley and a werewolf and a vampire are coming at you – one of them has to win. Which one do you want to bite you?

This guy!

This guy!

What the Hell Wednesday: A Touch of Halloween


27 Oct

Tags: Family, horror, meme
Posted in Humor, memes | 3 Comments »

I should be shot for indulging myself in these memes, but I do *gasp* enjoy doing them. So, for today I found What the Hell Wednesday.

1. What is the scariest person you have seen in Wal-Mart? My main exposure to Wal-Mart was in Redding, CA. It was a rather nice place with several nice clerks that greeted you and even talked to you if you were a regular. Before that I went to a large mall in other places I lived. Now, there’s a K-Mart here, in the worst part of Spokane, and pretty much everybody that shops there is on the scary side. We go, maybe, once a year.

2. Are you superstitious? Name something that you believe or that you can’t believe others believe. I always pray, asking that my husband reaches work safely, and then gets home safely. He works at night, so that, and a cell phone, ease my mind.

candy-buttons_small3. What is your favorite old timey candy? I love these chalky, colored dots on paper. You peel them off and probably ingest half the paper. Sometimes, in a small town called Arrow Rock, MO you could find not just dots, but paper strips that had ducks, bats, ghosts, peace signs, etc. on them. You ate less paper with those.

lurch-sized4. What was one of the homemade costumes you have worn. All costumes I wore were homemade. The two most memorable was the Merlin costume (my last ever) that I wore at 17, and then a flannel clown costume when I was four. I remember the clown one because my mother drew me and the haunted look that remained on my face after we went to a house where Ted Cassidy had been hired to answer the door. Can you imagine what it would have done to a four year old to see Lurch in full color. I do recall, though, that as soon as he saw how scared I looked that he knelt down and smiled. Much less scary.

5. Did you ever play tricks on anyone during Halloween? Nope.

6. If the world was to end like in some horror movies how would it end? Zombies? Crazy virus? I like apocalyptic endings. Apparently, I’m going to enjoy the new end of days movie, 2012.

7. What was your/or someone else’s worst thrown together costume? I can’t say. I’ve been sworn to secrecy.

8. Did you go to a lot of houses to get candy or just get enough candy and go home. My parents would take us to a neighborhood they trusted, or where they knew people, and once we were finished with those houses, we went home. Don’t forget, when I went trick-or-treating, we didn’t get started until after darkness fell. These days, kids start about 4pm and finish right when dusk arrives. Churches hold parties for their parishioners and some neighborhoods sponsor get-togethers for their neighborhood kids.

9. What do you hate most about Halloween? Teenagers who are really too old for the holiday, thinking that it’s funny to randomly hit houses, or steal from little kids, or cause vandalism.

10. What do you miss today that you had in the past Halloweens? There was a kind of innocence that doesn’t seem to be there these days. The city sends our memos as do the schools, to warn kids about safe trick-or-treating. Hospitals x-ray candy for things like needles and razor blades. Three times in the last three years kids have suffered from candy that had been laced with Ex-Lax. I worry that someday I’ll read in the news that some kid has been poisoned.

11. Do you think kids costumes are better now or then? I still think the homemade costumes are best.

12. What would you do if you woke up and you were the only person left…everyone else was gone (like in the twilight zone episode)? Make sure that my glasses weren’t broken, and enjoy the silence.

13. What is your favorite Halloween creep? Dracula, of course!

Sunday Stealing: Halloween Meme


25 Oct

Tags: dad, Family, hellboy, horror, imagination, meme, Richard
Posted in memes | 6 Comments »

It’s Sunday Stealing time and this time it’s a prelude to Halloween. So, if you want a break between punkin chunkin, then join me and do this meme.

1. What is your favorite written work of horror fiction?

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

2. What is your favorite work of science fiction/fantasy?

The Dune series by Frank Herbert. I even like the continuation of the series written by Frank’s son, Brian. I didn’t care much for the mini-series since it just lacked that grandiose, old world atmosphere that was in the books and in the first movie, Dune, by David Lynch.

3. Who is your favorite monster?

Hellboy, if you’re talking demon type monster. Then there is Dracula, a real vampire who doesn’t sparkle and isn’t a vegetarian. You know Dracula would have the Twilight vamps for lunch.

4. What is your favorite Horror movie?

Dracula – the original with Bela Lugosi, then the version with Frank Langella, and then the one with Gary Oldman. I also heart any horror movie with Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, or Christopher Lee.

5. What horror movie gives you the most chills?

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (because he was pretty mean to poor Max, his dog)
The Silence of the Lambs (Fava beans, anyone?)
Hellboy (Ivan, the talking, dead Russian was pretty creepy)

Hardly any of the movies give me chills because they don’t get my imagination involved. They gross me out.

6. What character from any horror film would you most like to play?

Morticia Addams

7. Freddy or Jason?

Freddy – he’s got more personality than Jason does.

8. What is your favorite Halloween treat?

Candy Corn. It makes me sick, though, it’s so sweet.

9. Ghosts or goblins?

Goblins. Mainly the guys from the Harry Potter movies. Somehow it’s appropriate that they’re the bankers, financial analysts, accountants, etc. in the wizarding world.

10. Friendly-faced jack-o’-lantern or scary one?

Scary. I especially like crappily carved ones that were obviously done by kids.

11. What is your scariest encounter with the paranormal?

How about this one, Unfinished Basements?

12. Do you believe in ghosts? Why or why not?

Yes. Why? Read: Cigarette Smoke.

13. Would you rather be a zombie, alien, or psycho?

None of the above.

14. Favorite Halloween costume?

There’s hundreds of really well-made costumes out there. I’m going with one I made back when I was 17. I had a long, blue satin nightgown that I paired up with a tall, conical hat with stars on it. Yeah, I was Merlin. No beard, though.

15. Best thing about Halloween?

That same year I was Merlin, the best thing was painting the faces of neighborhood kids and taking them round to various houses. That was the last time I ever did that.

16. Person in your family who most likes Halloween (not counting yourself)?

Between Richard and I? No one. I haven’t celebrated Halloween since we were married because Richard works night shift, and the kids tend to show up when he’s sleeping before going off to work.

17. Are you superstitious?

Only if it’s convenient.

The Shadow & The Walking Corpse

The Shadow & The Walking Corpse

18. Share an unusual Halloween story.

How about the Halloween when I helped dad out with a favor for a friend of his who was a funeral director? We drove in a green hearse to St. Louis, MO to pick up the body of a woman that had been run over by a steamroller. She was under a sheet, so I tried to forget about her. I was doing fine until dad turned on this late night radio station that was presenting stories about The Shadow. Good story, and I was quickly enthralled. HOWEVER…. right at the point where the narrator does this spooky, mad laugh, my dad had to hit the brakes because some idiot swerved in front of us. Dead lady’s gurney wasn’t attached properly and it sailed forward, knocking her skull into mine. I dove into the well under the glove compartment. Dad was laughing. I didn’t move from my spot until we got back home.

19. What did you do for Halloween as a kid?

Dressed up, went out (at night!), tricked people out of their candy, and then went home where we ate it until we were sick.

20. What’s the best Halloween party that you’ve attended?

I have never gone to a Halloween party.

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