IIRC, the time-travelling-cats (TTCs) appear black when travelling forward in time and white when travelling backwards. Sort of like black holes and white holes.

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One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009
All moderation in purple

Could you take a photo and post it here? I love when men dress in drag. I find it sexy for some reason. Don't ask me why, because I don't know.

Just in time for Halloween, NASA provides eerie sounds from Cassini-Measurements on their multimedia-page.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/

I uploaded the title page s it surly will go away in a few days.

Harald

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Thank you, kucharek. Didn't you have a birthday yesterday? See Birthday thread.

OMG, that first one I clicked on is freaking spooky, kucharek. It took a while to download on dial-up.

Uh, I forgot. Thanks for the reminder.

Harald

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"Flying in space is risky business, but just staying on this planet is risky business too." - John Young, astronaut

Okay, this one ... just screams... I thought is said momma... but then it just screamed...

boring <-- dead air

The first one was the best!

Now I know why NASA listed them in order.

Okay, remember that story I'm working on? Sorry to say that it won't be ready by Halloween; there isn't that much of it right now, and half of that is undergoing a rewrite. But here's a teaser... Just remember that the following will probably end up distributed through part of the story, instead of being lumped together. Think of it as a second narrative going on in the protagonist's head, in parallel with the primary narrative. Obviously, it's something of a waking nightmare.



Perhaps a bit overdone, but I think that the "dispersed" version should do its job nicely.

At any rate... If you've read around at all, you'll realize that this story takes place in Lovecraft's universe - an updated version thereof, anyway. You should be able to recognize the "creature" I've described; it and a couple others will get big roles in this story. Don't worry, I'm trying my best to be less farcical than Lovecraft.

(And worry not, I won't include Lovecraft's name for the thing either. Why bother, for a being that is completely beyond using arbitrary names? :P )

GJ, I've read this four times.


I like it.

Very impressive. Nicely done.

There are some pretty good stories here. Unfortunately I can't add anything to the list.

How come there's no official Halloween Song?

There is now. It's called sarongsong!

Woohoo guys it's SATURDAY!!! And I don't care what anyone says the Saturday closest to Halloween is more important than the day itself! As proven by the fact that there are pumpkins whizzing by my window because there's a group that's letting you pay a dollar to throw one from the 11th story.
Later tonight I'm off to Halloween at the Farm which is an event my school does at a Farm about twenty minutes away every year. This year I'm working as they asked my Physics and Astronomy Club if we could take out telescopes so we of course agreed... unfortunately I think it's going to be so cold that if anyone asks I'm going to have to tell them I'm an Eskimo. But it should be fun, Mars is great and there will be a lot of ppl there and I'm a sucker for that look people get when looking at something through a telescope for the first time.
After that I got invited to a Halloween party but dunno if I'll show up because we might just stay with the scopes... we'll see how cold it gets.

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[grump]

I loathe Halloween.

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What I'm going as...coughlookatmynamecoughcough

I'm debating whether to go trick - or -treating this year. I mean on one hand I'm too old on the other hand...IT'S FREE CANDY!

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here we go, the world is spinning
when it stops, it's just beginning

sun comes up, we laugh and we cry
sun goes down, and then we all die

Touched by his noodly appendage

I went to a party last night as a lumberjack. I made an axe out of a roll of brown wrapping paper, cereal boxes, and aluminum foil. I freaked out some lady on the street who thought the axe was real, and I had at least 7 other people at the part ask me if it was real.

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I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.
-Steven Wright



My Website: The Black Cat's Web Page

Ingenious...My costume basically is a white dress and black wig, since I have zer0-to-none sewing skills

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here we go, the world is spinning
when it stops, it's just beginning

sun comes up, we laugh and we cry
sun goes down, and then we all die

Touched by his noodly appendage

I think I'm going as a woo-woo. Bought aluminum foil during my weekly shopping trip yesterday to fashion into a lovely hat--though I've got a friend who keeps insisting it should be a yarmulke, so I'd (apparently) be a Jewish woo-woo.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

A Jew-woo

What's scaring me right now are these wackos who want to ban Halloween because it's satanistic or pagan or some other such nonsense. My mom was telling me that one of their local churches is having a party where the kids are supposed to dress as their favorite saint!! Ooh, what fun!! I wanna go as Saint Lucifer, my favorite fallen saint. That would really scare the bejeezus out of 'em! (Sorry couldn't resist.)

Have these people completely forgotten what it is to be a kid!?! That's what scares me.

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Krevel, this happens every year. Some people hate Halloween that they even started a folklore - well, that's what I think happened. I remember as a child that big scare with razor blades in the treats. The local hospital even allowed parents to take the candy in for an examination. No blades have been found to date, or so I hear.

Thanks.. alot



Titana..........

I got a good chuckle out of this post.........



Titana...........

Candy, hi, you are soooooo caring and look out for everyone..bless you...
the things you come up with, blows me away, thank you for being Candy.
We love you, you brighten everywhere.

Yah, Halloween Saturday is cool...we partied with fifteen kids / four adults, yesterday..4/9 yrs..they had a ball, we all did. Flynn, our baby went as an astronaut..what a scream! no, but they all were.

Oh, to be like a child again...i think i am, in a way. our four year old Flynn teaches me stuff, i've lost along the way.

here's to all the kids in the world, happiness and joy.

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clear skies

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. CARL SAGAN

Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

Well, now, to be fair, Halloween is a Pagan holiday. Granted, it's a Catholic one, too, but it started as a Celtic tradition before the Christians came to Ireland. However, Christmas started as the feast of Mithras, and the fundamentalists trying to ban Halloween don't seem too worried about that.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Thank you, mahesh. You are kind.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, everybody!

What would you consider 'too old' to be out trick-or-treating? People are coming to my door who have to be at least 17 or 18, and they're not even wearing a costume... It wouldn't annoy me so much if they at least put a costume on. And then some of them have the nerve to say "this house sucks" because I didn't give them as much candy as the 6 year old girl dressed like a princess. I can't remember how old I was when I quit going out collecting candy on Halloween, but I know It couldn't have been much older that 13 or 14, and at least I had a costume on.

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