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Published: November 8th 2007
The Boon'o'Lantern
The first Jack'o'lantern ever modeled on David Boon. We called him the Boon'o'Lantern. He did have a bit of a touch of Big Merv as well.....One of the unique experiences we have had over here is the celebration of Halloween, and I have to say we are really missing out back home - particularly the blokes. As a kid halloween is all about trick or treating, getting heaps of 'Candy' and gorging yourself senseless. But for the young adults, Halloween is an excuse for the lovely young ladies to dress up like tramps without being called horrible names......so in a way it is just Candy for adults; eye candy. Anyway the single blokes would love this holiday and it would pay to come and visit during this time of the year!!
Well our first experience of Halloween began in DC where Jen taught us Aussies how to carve a Jack'o'Lantern. It was a bit of a group effort, but hat's off to Jacko who did all the carving of the Pumpkin. The rest of us were excellent back seat drivers though - we told him exactly what he was doing wrong the whole way through.....Our design was quite unique for Amercia, the first Boon'o'Lantern modeled off none other than David Boon, although I think Big Merv would also be proud. He is probably getting some
Carving a Jackolantern
Here's Fi helping carve the Jackolatern.... very confused looks from Amercian's as I type this.....Big thanks to Jen for the lessons - it was great fun.
The next stage in our Halloween education was a party and our new friends' place. We recently met Andy and Leanne who live only a couple of blocks from our place making it an easy if not wobbling and swerving ride home after a few drinks. We were lucky enough to receive an invite to their place for our first Halloween Party. Now in Australia a Halloween Party would just be an excuse to have a BBQ and get pissed. Well, little known to us people go to some trouble to dress up here - they still get pissed, but man do they dress up. Fi and I were really really lame as we hadn't gotten organised enough....Fiona went as an AFL player (Essendon of course) just wearing some of my old gear, including ADFA Rams socks! I had no idea what to go as so I just took the easy option and went as 'An Australian who didn't have enough time to get ready for Halloween'. The costume consisted of wife beater blue singlet, hat, stubby shorts, thongs,
The crappiest Job
Somehow I ended up with the worst job of scraping all the crap out of the guts of the pumpkin. Damn I was good at it though.... didge, boomerang and authentic Daly Waters Pub Stubby holder. Very effective. In fact some of the guys we met that night didn't realise I was actually Australian - they thought I was just putting on a crappy accent, and it was obviously a shit attempt at the accent because I didn't sound like Steve Irwin or the bloke from the 'Outback Steakhouse' add. After saying 'Crikey', 'Throw another shrimp on the Barbie', and 'That's not a knife, this is a knife' for the hundredth time they finally believed me! Well our very generous hosts had two kegs for the party, so needless to say it was a lot of fun!
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liehrry
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Nice lantern steel guys. Say g'day to pooku Tone for me. Speaking of Mo's, are you participating in the extravaganza known as Mo'vember? Obviously I am in. Heading to the second day of the first test today. Boony army shirt and terry towelling hat, fully equipped with facial handlebars.