A Daria moment

It's Halloween. I'm dressed as Daria. No-one else in my group is dressed up at all.

Not only do I *look* like Daria, I *feel* like her too ;-)

you should send a picture to planet daria.. win some stuff. ~po

A wise man once said "Nothing is better than an unnecessary pair of sunglasses at night." At least, I hope to one day become a wise man.

In article , [email] (CrtoonDude) wrote:

I was going to dress as Daria, but I decided against it... and I'm happy, too,

because I got to be FEARED by those around me at school: I was the Angel of Death. Picture a totally black hood face cover (I could see out, though), black nylon wings with wire frames, a nifty reniassance lace-up shirt (black, with flowey white sleeves) and a long wispy black skirt. Oh yes, and a plastic scythe as an accessory. Among the farm girls and m&ms and babies at my school, I kind of stood out.

What about all the rest of you, anyone else got a cool costume this year?

--J.

Lee Ann Rucker wrote:

In article , Jessica Liotta wrote:

I'm wearing the Daria outfit tonight.

If I don't look like a total heifer I will distribute .GIFs when on the Daria-related IRC chats.

Take care,
--.\\<-H--

Whatever happened to those. I keep logging on when noone is there

Michelle Klein-Hass wrote in article ...

happy, too,

Angel of

though),

(black,

babies at

year?

my address...sorry about the spamblock.

In article , "Kyle" wrote:

Even though the chatrooms are open 24-7, there are some times during the week when you can count on people being in them.

Go to this URL for further information:

http://www.2cowherd.net/catseye/thecommons/irc.html

There is a link there to an online calendar of chat events.

Take care,
--.\\<-H--

Are you sure your information about the Daria chat on Talk City is correct? I just searched the entire site from front to back and found no mention of any Daria events anywhere. Am I looking in the wrong place?

In article , "G.T. Tyson IV" wrote:

http://www.2cowherd.net/catseye/thecommons/irc.html

--.\\<-H--

I'm going as a Bryan for Halloween. Cool huh?

-Bryan

Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:

HEY! You stole my costume idea! :(

Bryan Graham wrote in article ...

happy, too,

Angel of

though),

(black,

a

babies at

year?

my address...sorry about the spamblock.

Bryan Graham spake thusly:

I'd go as a koby, but there's one word in that sentence that doesn't quite fit:

"Go".

I'm actually going to sit home and feel sorry for myself.

'sfun, you guys should try it sometime.

-k

I'd like to think mine was good. I got a pair of pants, ripped them up with a kitchen knife, and covered them with dirt and mud and then, of course, blood. I did the same with an old white collared shirt. After the clothes were sufficiently hanging off me in tatters, I removed my socks and shoes. I then put on some bad-ass make up (dark circles around the eyes, thick eyebrows, hollowed-out cheekbones, and pale everywhere else). I then slicked my hair back with mud. Topped off with blood capsules, it kicked ass. Just in case you were wondring, I was a zombie.

~po

A wise man once said "Nothing is better than an unnecessary pair of sunglasses at night." At least, I hope to one day become a wise man.

I'm dressed as an alien posing as a teenage boy going TPing.

CrtoonDude wrote in article ...

year?

with a

blood.

then

eyebrows,

hair

case

sunglasses

That sorta thing is pretty popular in our school. . . . . along with princesses and fairies. . . . and drag queens. . . . .

I went as a dragon. . . . . . no, wait, those are my *normal* clothes. . . . . (I get a lot of stares in school)

-Kazul

[on Angel of Death] >

We get a lot of people in pajamas. The teachers actually are more creative than the students. I was taught by

• a mad scientist with a blood stained coat
• a Beanie Baby (Flip the Cat)
• a Mickey D's milkshake.

The most creative student costume I saw was a de-Borged Borg (IOW, normal appearence) the most elaborate: facepaint. Lots of it. Mine was just my karate gi and a red handband.

B (not your average AOheLLer) (and proud of it)

Racism is being blind and thinking you can see...

Please cc: all replies to me by email. (remove "SPAM" from the address up top) I have a lot less time to follow groups now that I'm in sch again.

Hmm, one of my teachers came as an iceberg. . . . really nice, the drawback was that in every class someone would start singing "My Heart Will Go On". . . . .

I will say that *was* a pretty interesting idea. . . . one of the boys in my school came as a girl. . . . it was *really* good. . . . his name was "Sunnyvale Velco".

-Kazul

Our school actually has a dress as the opposite sex day once a year. It's really funny.

-Bryan

SDROTH wrote:

Bryan Graham wrote:

Well, I'm a girl, and I dress pretty much like a guy most days. I guess I'd look more feminine if I wasn't so damn skinny, but, you know, either you're fat or you look like a bloke. There is nobody on earth born with the figure that women are supposed to have. Except Caroline Seekings. The bitch.

"endless, nameless" spake thusly:

Uh... yeah. I know how you feel. (?!) ...What's a bloke?

...and this French foreign exchange student in my Chem class whom everybody stalks but never has the balls to actually talk to her.

My school has a crossdressing day too, but it's more of a thing with the guys, because it's not that noticeable on the girls.

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Peter Destructo wrote:

A guy. I think it's just the British that say that, but I reserve the right to use my regional dialect!

"endless, nameless" spake thusly: |A guy. I think it's just the British that say that, but I reserve |the right to use my regional dialect!

Down wit' da whaat subAARban GETT'h!

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"Peter Destructo!" wrote:

Huh?!?

Just out of curiosity, what schools do you people go to? I haven't dressed up for school on Halloween since 2nd grade, and I feel left out. :(

Bishop187 wrote in article ...

creative than

karate

I actually go to an all girls catholic high school (with a semi-integrated guys school next door). I'd say about 35% of the people at my school dressed up, give or take a few. I don't think I ever haven't dressed up for halloween my whole life. Its not right to not celebrate one of my favorite holidays of the year to the fullest extent possible. :-)

--J.

Kyle wrote:

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guys

That sounds a lot like my high school(an all boys catholic school which was on the same plot of land as an all girls catholic school). We really never dressed up for Halloween(the girls did) but we did have a crazy hat contest every year. One teacher always won with a hat with a 'dead' cat(It was really stuffed, but he had this weird story about his pet dead cat that he kept in his freezer).

Bishop187 wrote:

We aren't allowed to wear costumes at school. In the UK most, if not all, schools have a uniform. We have non-uniform days sometimes, but we already had one last month. I don't know why they're called non-uniform days because for some strange reason, everyone comes in wearing exactly the same as everyone else - except me of course; last time I got called a goth by several different people, which was strange because I wasn't looking my most gothic, just more so than everyone else, I guess.

Same as my school, but we only have one once a year, just before Christmas. I wear my goth clothes, but would you believe that nobody at my school knows about goth culture? To quote somebody else from this NG, "I'm surrounded by lemmings!"

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"It [happiness] is only momentary, unless you live your life in a protected bubble, oblivious to pain, disgust, disillusionment, restlessness, loss." - Siouxsie Sioux

Shadoc64 wrote:

wo things.

First, "Lemmings! I'm surrounded by lemmings!" has become my second official motto (next to "Share and Enjoy"). Thanks to whoever first mentioned the quote in here. :-)

Second, quotes from an actual article in my school newspaper about Marilyn Manson:

"You may have seen a gothic person, downtown, at the mall, or on TV." "Everyone has a strong opinion about Marilyn Manson, whether its support, indifference, or hatred." After reading the second one, I went around school for awhile shaking my fist shouting, "I am STRONGLY apathetic towards this issue!"

--J.

You can thank my good friend Arwen for that. . . . she's not really all that sarcastic, but that's one of her little gems. . . . I think she turned it into a song. . . .

-Kazul

It's "Lemmings! I'm *SURROUNDED* by *lemmings!!!"

I love lemming jokes, the other really funny one is "I don't care if I *am* a lemming, I'm not going, you hear me?!?!???"

-Kazul the nitpicking and lemming loving dragon

SDROTH wrote:

I remember being, like, 7 or 8, and everyone was playing that computer game, Lemmings. You know, they had green hair, dressed in blue, and they went "YIPEEE!!"

And they exploded. I remember that.

-Kazul

On 3 Nov 1998 22:01:15 GMT, [email] (SDROTH) wrote:

That was one of the first games I played on a PC. My favorite thing to do was to set up blockers at the begining of the level under the trap door and wait for all the rest to fall. Once all the lemmings were trapped between the blockers I would hit the mushroom cloud button. I would have to start the game over but i loved the little sound effects and animations the went off when they blew up. 3-2-1 ohh nooo pop pop pop pop pop pop pop. it may seem cruel to blow up those cute little lemmings, just pretend they're people you dont like, pop pop pop.

[email] (Happydude) spake thusly: |That was one of the first games I played on a PC. My favorite thing |to do was to set up blockers at the begining of the level under the |trap door and wait for all the rest to fall. Once all the lemmings |were trapped between the blockers I would hit the mushroom cloud |button. I would have to start the game over but i loved the little |sound effects and animations the went off when they blew up. 3-2-1 ohh |nooo pop pop pop pop pop pop pop. it may seem cruel to blow up those |cute little lemmings, just pretend they're people you dont like, pop |pop pop.

So... I'm *not* the only one.

The sound of 20 lemmings saying "oh no" at the same time... priceless.

-koby c. who owns 3D Lemmings... great game

Happydude wrote:

They sort of jumped in the air, too. I always thought that was cool, they looked like fireworks or something. Yeah, I remember, we got this bootlegged copy 'cos my mother had it on her computer at work and she copied it. We only had half the levels, which was slightly irritating.

Is there anybody who didn't push the "nuke" button just to watch the pretty fireworks?

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Shadoc64 wrote:

No. Everyone did that!

That was a kick-ass game. At least I thought so at about that age. Hehehe. Cool.

Dagny

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Still is a kick ass game!!!

Eccles9697 wrote:

endless, nameless wrote:

Of course, according to zoologists, the whole "lemmings committing mass-suicide" thing is a myth. Speaking of which, have you ever heard the story behind the Disney nature film "White Wilderness"? ;-{)>

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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In article , [email] (Progbear) wrote:

No...what about it?

In article , "Lee Ann Rucker" wrote:

Is that the one where they faked the scene of lemmings running over a cliff?

Invid fan wrote:

Yeah, that's the one...

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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Progbear wrote:

Someone explain this, it sounds interesting....

endless, nameless wrote:

From William Poundstone's "Bigger Secrets":

     "According to Vallee, the lemming footage was filmed in Alberta--a
landlocked province--and not on location in the lemmings' natural habitat.
Lemmings do not congregate in that area, so the Disney people bought lemmings
from Inuit children in Manitoba.
     "Once they got the lemmings to Alberta, they placed them on a giant
turntable piled with snow. Carefully edited footage of the rodents' travails on
the spinning turntable became the film's migration segment. Then, Vallee
claims, they recaptured the lemmings and took them to a cliff over a river.
When the well-adjusted lemmings wouldn't jump, the Disney people gave Nature a
hand."

Anyone know if this "lemming snuff-film", as Poundstone calls it, is available on video? ;-{)>

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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Progbear wrote:

LOL!! That's horrible! I bet those environmentalist types loved that one.

You're going to pay to watch lemmings die? Yup? Just lend me the tape when you're done with it.

You know, research has shown that serial killers often 'practice' their technique on animals. I guess this sort of thing's disturbingly close to that.

Shadoc64 wrote:

Well, would you believe it, some of my friends accuse me of being a hippy! I show up somewhere in grungey ripped jeans, and they go, oh, peace man. That's what they think hippies wear! On this occasion, I was wearing black nail varnish, black eye shadow, and this black top with a sort-of lacey bit on it. To them, that was gothic. Everyone made comments about either a) Marylin Manson, b) witchcraft, black magic, etc, or c) all of the above. One budding environmentalist made comments for some time after about how I should ride my broomstick to school; they give out much less carbon monoxide than cars do.

In article , "endless, nameless" wrote:

When I was in high school I was a rabid anarcho-capitalist. This, of course, caused me to be described as a communist by many of my fellow students ... presumably on the grounds that I criticised the government. I even got told to "go back to Russia"!

Once in London I got called a "fucking hippy", which was really funny to me, wearing my dockers, button-down shirt, and carrying my briefcase ...

Mikel Midnight wrote:

I am considered a little strange for my more-than-slightly anarchic views. But the thing is, I'm Greek, and the Greeks are all like that. In fact, they are so much so that they will often not participate in organised revolutions, rebellions, etc, because they won't listen to whoever is leading the rebellion. Just another one of my boring little stories there.

Hehehe. Maybe in most areas you could get that, but, having said that, Camden Market is the one place on this planet I can go to and feel out of place for being too normal!

Jessica Liotta wrote:

I don't do costumes. (Please. Don't you think I'm a lttle mature for that?) This friend of mine did have a party, (didn't invite me, though <sulk>) and he was telling me about it. Apparently, it involved wearing costumes, vandalising other people's property, getting quite drunk, and setting off fireworks in other people's front gardens. Having done all this, my friend's MOTHER showed up and a stupid remark led the woman to believe that several guests at this party were storing illegal substances in her son's bedroom. I have yet to find out just how long he's grounded for. As for my Halloween, I spent the evening looking for a suitable sharp object to slit my wrists with.

come now, alli, one is never to mature to dress up on halloween. Besides, i wouldn't call you mature when your friends still vandalize, get drunk, and set off fireworks. And don't slit your wrists, we'd miss ya.

~po

A wise man once said "Nothing is better than an unnecessary pair of sunglasses at night." At least, I hope to one day become a wise man.

CrtoonDude wrote:

Aww. Anyway, I wasn't at the party. I wasn't invited. <sulks> Maybe they thought I was too mature to be any fun. Maybe they thought I was just too boring. <sulks more> Nobody EVER invites me to parties. <right, where did I leave that razorblade?>

"endless, nameless" spake thusly: |Aww. Anyway, I wasn't at the party. I wasn't |invited. <sulks> Maybe they thought I was too |mature to be any fun. Maybe they thought I was |just too boring. <sulks more> Nobody EVER |invites me to parties. <right, where did I leave |that razorblade?>

Oh, you want it? <digging through bathroom cabinet...>

"Peter Destructo!" wrote:

Yes please. Anyway, not only was I not invited, Scott (the guy who had the party) spent an entire hour on monday telling me what a great party it was. I haven't yet figured out whether he does things like that because he knows I've got a crush on him, or because he's a dumb shit (or both).

Hey, that makes two of us. Actually, I stayed at home and watched "The Craft". Quiet Halloween, I didn't get any trick-or-treaters. I heard one knock at the door, but I pretended I wasn't home.

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Nice. A lot like mine except I watched Titanic for the first time. Mildly impressed.

Shadoc64 wrote in article ...

Craft".

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In article ,

Pretty much my story, too. Halloween has gotten so commercialized, anyway. All you see in the stores is "Buy candy!" and "Buy costumes!" but when was the last time you heard someone discussing warding off the evil spirits?

Shadoc64 wrote:

My younger brother insisted on giving MY chocolate to trick-or-treaters. That wasn't why I wanted to slit my wrists, although it would have been had he told me! I didn't find anything suitable for actual suicide, unfortunately, but I found some scizzors which would at least make superficial cuts, which was fine until I got blood on the new bathroom carpet.

i think it's pretty funny that you show no concern for your own life but rather for your bathroom carpet. Just shows how materialistic some people can get.

not that im IMPLYING anything.... <g>

~po

A wise man once said "Nothing is better than an unnecessary pair of sunglasses at night." At least, I hope to one day become a wise man.

CrtoonDude wrote:

Oh, I wasn't bothered about the carpet, just about my mother finding out I'd spilt something on it! I probably wouldn't really kill myself, I think suicide's a little selfish, really, especially that much blood would totally RUIN the carpet. :)

"endless, nameless" spake thusly:

:D Wow! Me too!

[email] (Peter Destructo) spake thusly:

Oh, I forgot to mention, I also watched the Pete and Pete and Beavis and Butthead Halloween specials.

--koby chodosh "I am Cornholio!!"

Hmm, I spent it eating all of the Haloween candy. . . . I love it when my parents leave me in charge of it. . . . .

-Kazul

Uh-oh, someone put you in a position of authority! The day has suddenly turned sinister...

SDROTH wrote in article ...

Sadly, I got busted. . . . . my parents came home early. . . .

-Kazul

SDROTH wrote:

You gotta watch that. Go to someone else's house to eat the candy next time!

SDROTH wrote:

Well, I would have been much happier had my candy not been given away to trick-or-treaters!

In article , "Lee Ann Rucker" wrote:

I was in WalMart recently and found a green jacket that looked JUST LIKE DARIA's. I was considering wearing it with a yellow t-shirt and black shorts as sort of male counterpart to Daria, but the jacket was $20, which was more than I was willing to shell out for what may have been a one-time occasion. (Sure, I might have continued wearing the jacket, but I didn't want to pay $20 for it when I already have a jacket of my own.)