Death Match: The Halloween Edition

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Which should be wiped off the face of the earth and our memories?

Candy Corn
3
27%
Ladies Halloween Sweaters
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73%
 
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Death Match: The Halloween Edition

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1. Candy Corn
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2. Ladies Halloween Sweaters
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Totally ladies' Halloween sweaters. Candy corn at least has some worth.
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So easy. And while you're at it, could you please eliminate Christmas sweaters also?
Kitchen aprons in these categories will remain permissible provided I like the kind of cookies you're making.
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Holiday sweaters and sweat shirts are half on my mother's wardrobe. The shelving in her closet collapses at least once a year from the strain. The candy corn she hoards in her dresser turns into a liguid mass of goo after a year or two. Neither things are worth it in my estimation.
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Whistlin' Will wrote:Totally ladies' Halloween sweaters. Candy corn at least has some worth.
What is the worth of candy corn? Does it keep candy corn makers in business? Does it give a potential design idea for Halloween sweaters? Does it give small children an opportunity for junior orthodontia by replacing missing baby teeth with candy corn? The only worth that I could ever figure out is a warning that just because something advertises itself as candy, doesn't mean it taste good.
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mutepointe wrote:
What is the worth of candy corn?
Let's not forget the costumes...or the corny jokes.
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ah, why?
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Wow! I couldn't understand that costume. But then I've never seen candy corn before. I haven't even seen a picture of it before.
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hah!


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Thank you Denny. Yes, I've seen them now. My life is complete.
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benhall.1 wrote:But then I've never seen candy corn before. I haven't even seen a picture of it before.
As you may surmise, they are almost pure sugar and dye held together with the deconstructed wonders of food engineering, and they are evil. They are a very traditional staple of Merkin seasonal cuisine and, being evil, perfect for Halloween. You can use them for "teeth" (you have the options of pointy or shovelly, depending on which end's down. Or up. You understand.), which will also come in handy when your own fall out from them.

The cloned sweater lady at top has the asymmetric squint of a concertina player - that's strike one, and huge. Of course it could be seen as a wink, which is just as unnerving. But I still think she plays concertina: the squinty eye is a bit open. Then there are the sweaters. Tie it all together with the provocative grandmothers-gone-bad brazen she-wolf posture, and it's, "Hey, cowboy. Trick or treat?" Apparently it's three-fer-ones tonight at the casino. Brr.
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benhall.1 wrote:Thank you Denny. Yes, I've seen them now. My life is complete.
No, you must taste them to see how perfectly good sugar/corn syrup can be ruined. Then your life will be complete.
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mutepointe wrote:
benhall.1 wrote:Thank you Denny. Yes, I've seen them now. My life is complete.
No, you must taste them to see how perfectly good sugar/corn syrup can be ruined. Then your life will be complete.
Exactly. :twisted:
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Nanohedron wrote:
mutepointe wrote:
benhall.1 wrote:Thank you Denny. Yes, I've seen them now. My life is complete.
No, you must taste them to see how perfectly good sugar/corn syrup can be ruined. Then your life will be complete.
Exactly. :twisted:
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waffler...
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down.
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