10-30-2006, 05:57 AM
Cutting into the back of a pumpkin is also particularly effective if you have a fog machine and you want your pumpkin to spit fog.
Last year Mr. Gris went a bit crazy and came up with "Dante's Disco Inferno" as the theme of the house- one pumpkin spitting for as described above (the machine itself was hidden by a chair, a blanket, and some other pumpkins, and the plug went in through the mail slot). Then, upstairs we hooked up his intelligent lighting system to shine out onto the street (yay glowing fog) and put on some bad disco. Then we added the sign "abandon all hope ye who enter here", and we were good to go.
The fog covered the whole block. It was great. But, we weren't even going to try to top that this year. This year we just have a few things out. Maybe we'll do a bigger one in a year or two.
Last year Mr. Gris went a bit crazy and came up with "Dante's Disco Inferno" as the theme of the house- one pumpkin spitting for as described above (the machine itself was hidden by a chair, a blanket, and some other pumpkins, and the plug went in through the mail slot). Then, upstairs we hooked up his intelligent lighting system to shine out onto the street (yay glowing fog) and put on some bad disco. Then we added the sign "abandon all hope ye who enter here", and we were good to go.
The fog covered the whole block. It was great. But, we weren't even going to try to top that this year. This year we just have a few things out. Maybe we'll do a bigger one in a year or two.
Why can't we all just get along
--Pete
--Pete