It’s cold and rainy in Chicago today, predicted to have the worst Halloween weather anywhere in the U.S. Thank goodness I neither have children nor am a child, facing making the rounds in the cold rain to procure a few (ugh!) Mary Janes or, worse, candy corn. But here are three items to celebrate the pagan holiday.
First, Google has special animated Halloween Doodles today, and there are at least six versions. If you click on the screenshot below, you’ll go to one, but if you refresh the page you’ll see the others:
Second, reader Taskin sent a link to a video showing a squirrel carving a pumpkin! Now how they did this I don’t know (I have some ideas), so please put your theories below:
Finally, from businesscommunity.com, of all places, we get Halloween costumes for cats. There are 28 of them at the link, but I’ll show just a few.
Aviator cat:
Superman Cat:
Via: Sad and Useless
Little Red Riding Cat
Via: Buzzfeed
The Cat in the Hat:
Via Etsy, where you can buy these chapeaus.
Yoda Cat:
Batman Cat:
Finally, Sushi Cat:
h/t: Grania
A hot 21c predicted in London today!
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Here in the north it’s in the high teens. I don’t like this unseasonably warm weather!
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Yoda cat is clearly thinking; “for this, die you will”
I was just re-plastering the wall behind my head from where the daggers hit.
Yeah, he is trying to kill the humans with his mind.
Yep. Lucas, Henson, and friends worked tirelessly to make Yoda a dignified, serene character.
All that, undone in one photo.
Wait … they hand out joints to children on the streets!?
This time next year, O’Hare (?, other airports are available) is going to be creaking under the strain of people arriving.
Does Unicode have anything (in-)appropriate up it’s standardised sleeve?
🚬 & # 128684 ; U+1F6AC 🚬 SMOKING SYMBOL
🚭 & # 128685 ; U+1F6AD 🚭 NO SMOKING SYMBOL
But I’m not finding anything with more than a passing resemblance to a spliff, or a bong. On the other hand, I recall that the 5th spliff of the day often ended up looking like this : 🝏 & # 128847 ; U+1F74F 🝏 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SCEPTER OF JOVE (damn ; no glyph on this machine. You’ll need to look at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ and find the chart for “Alchemical symbols”.
With imagination, 🍠 is a really big joint.
With a lot of imagination. It looks like … some sort of nut? What does Unicode call it?
Batman cat is still more convincing than Batfleck
WHAT ABOUT THE SQUIRREL!? HOW DID THEY DO THAT????
Strategically applied peanut oil?
With perhaps something bitter or very spicy applied to the other areas?
I would suspect strategically injected peanut oil or other very attractive liquid food stuff. Remember they chew all the way thru, so it’s a very well prepped pumpkin.
My guess is something tasty painted on the gourd. Just salt water would do the trick.
there are a few cuts in the video so someone with a paint brush kept hiding the squirrel.
I also like how s/he got territorial with the noms.
I swear I typed ‘helping the squirrel.
Yeah or put something tasty and sticky like peanut butter so the squirrels would have to gnaw at it.
I kinda wondered if they embedded seeds or something tasty in the flesh, because how did they get the squirrel to go all the way through?
Cute though, I like the high speed chase
Maybe they painted those areas with some kind of nut extract?
They sent the little guy to a pumpkin-carving class?
Squirrel Girl.
Dangit. Corrected link: Squirrel Girl.
What?? Never mind. I give up. Apologies.
Happy Halloween!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl
Thanks for helping out. I kept trying to learn about Squirrel Girl but was thwarted because of HTML.
The only thing I can think of is to paint the bits you wish to remain uneaten with “Mavala STOP”, which is the world’s best nail-biting deterrent, according to the webs years ago when I bought it. This assumes squirrels like pumpkin and don’t like bitter things. I’m an not very familiar with squirrel preferences.
Terrible weather, too, in the thumb of Michigan, with snow possible. Ugh, had my share of bad halloween weather when my kids were young. Now feeling sorry for my daughter.
My cat’s black. He’s always dressed for Halloween.
My cat is white, he is also good to go!
If you used a syringe to inject something the squirrels find alluring, you could saturate the pumpkin through the depth of the shell at the points you want.
clicking over to see the rest of cat costumes is definitely a good use of your time.
Lobster Cat is thinking, Wait, this joke has gone far enough!
But I think Scuba Cat is my favorite.
One day One day, the cats will have their revenge!
Sushi cat, but no cats in taco costume? “Taco cat” is a palindrome of “taco cat.”
There’s a cat in a taco costume at the linked site.
Ah. Should have clicked through.
Click through and scroll down to #12.
And it would be very odd if “taco cat” were a palindrome of something other than “taco cat”.
Fugu cat will have his revenge!
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