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Halloween is the only day in the year when it’s alright to dress up as Dracula and knock on stranger’s doors asking them for sweets; the only day when all over the world people delight in the strange and the scary, to the profit of Hallmark; and it’s certainly the only day when we carve up giant vegetables for decoration. We all love acting like little kids and dressing up, but costumes like witches, ghosts and vampires are getting old… It gets increasingly difficult to think of an original get-up as every year the coolest ideas are used up.
 
Looking for inspiration?
 
 We asked the most imaginative people we know to tell us who they’re going to be this year, and here are the results…

The Answering Machine- “We will be going as The Beatles!”

 The Wombats – “A giant pumpkin”
 

Wild Palms- “We’ll collectively be going as the remaining members of The Jackson 5.”

Anna, My Tiger My Timing- “I’ll be going as a skeleton, I think Jamie will be a ghost pirate and someone in the band  has to be a pumpkin. It’s a band tradition, but it makes it hard to play live.”

Fab, The Kabeedies- “This year we’re toning down and going for X-Men- I’m Storm.”

Jess, Curly Hair- “For Halloween we’re having a Home Alone party. I will be dressing up as an electrocuted villain with sticky-up hair and maybe some burn marks. Ben will be dressing as the red-haired mum and Mike will be Macaulay Culkin- Excellent.” 

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart- “I want to go as Gary Glitter! Pretty scary, right?”

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Televised Crimewave- “Me and Tom are dressing as zombie Moz and Marr.”

 
We’re not sure who thought up trick or treating, but we reckon whoever came up with the idea of children coming knocking at your door asking for sweets was maybe just some perv who was agoraphobic and who couldn’t believe their luck when it caught on. Be careful out there!
Maybe instead of going out into the big bad world you should just stay in and have your own Halloween party. But what’s a party without punch?..
 
SPOOKY PUNCH
This recipe is designed to look like you have a severed hand in your punch. Spooky. Serve it to your grandma and see what happens. It’s made all the creepier by the fact that some prison officers got in trouble suggesting it’d be a great thing for some prisoners to do at Halloween to pass the time. Mass murderers making pretend severed hands and looking back nostagically on their crimes does make it seem kind of weird….

1. First, put some water in a jug or something. Add some food colouring (we’ve used blue, but whatever floats your boat) until its the shade you want your hand to be.
2. Pour it (carefully) into a clean rubber glove until it goes just past the wrist bit. Don’t dye your clothes. Or the floor.
3. Seal the top of said glove with an elastic band or bobble so that the water stays in the glove. This is important.
4. Prop it up in the freezer inside a plastic bag, artfully arranging the fingers.
5. Leave it for a few hours, until it freezes solid (some patience is required here).
6. Meanwhile, make some punch. 
7. Peel the frozen hand carefully from the glove. Use scissors if it’s easier. You will lose some fingers, but don’t worry too much.
8. Put the hand in the punch. It’ll float to the top and look spooky. Decorate your punch bowl in any way you see fit.
    (N.B.- Snapple makes good blood. Just saying). Now you’re ready to terrify your friends with your scary scary punch!

 
 Nancy Rose
 

posted by Same Teens on October 30th, 2009

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