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Item 71: Ghost Stories

Entered by albaugh on Tue Oct 7 21:42:23 2003:

Use this item to relate any "ghost stories", "spooky tales", or anything of
ilk, in honor of the approaching Halloween.
30 responses total.
#1 of 30 by albaugh on Tue Oct 7 21:45:33 2003:

I am making available a somewhat silly "ghosts" presentation that came my way.
The primary form I'm making available is a PDF file, which somewhat diminishes
the "slickness" of the original PowerPoint slide show, but the point gets
across:

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/ghosts.pdf

Those of you who want to see the original, who have PowerPoint available, you
can extract the pps file from this zip file:

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/ghosts.zip

#2 of 30 by michaela on Wed Oct 8 01:23:58 2003:

*runs off to download the PowerPoint file*

#3 of 30 by michaela on Wed Oct 8 01:27:56 2003:

That was cool. :)

#4 of 30 by jaklumen on Wed Oct 8 02:19:00 2003:

That was cool.

#5 of 30 by gelinas on Wed Oct 8 03:56:47 2003:

Yeah, it was.

#6 of 30 by tsty on Thu Oct 9 07:43:57 2003:

interesting pdf ... now quite ready to believe, yet.

#7 of 30 by polygon on Fri Oct 10 18:21:03 2003:

When I registered the name "Political Graveyard", someone in mailing list
land assumed I was a Halloween-products retailer.  And so for a while, I
was on the mailing list for a free Halloween trade journal.

One of the things I remember from that magazine was all the crowing they
did about Halloween improving its ranking.  Apparently there is a ranking
of holidays according to how much money is spent observing them.  Of
course Christmas is first.  I think Halloween had just risen from fourth
to third, or something like that.

#8 of 30 by jaklumen on Fri Oct 10 22:29:42 2003:

I wonder what occupied 2nd and 3rd, then.

#9 of 30 by aruba on Sat Oct 11 01:46:26 2003:

Yeah, I thought Halloween was second behind Christmas.

#10 of 30 by slynne on Sat Oct 11 04:00:59 2003:

I almost would figure that Valentines Day might be second.

#11 of 30 by tsty on Sat Oct 11 04:38:59 2003:

<at least sweetest day ...>

#12 of 30 by cmcgee on Sat Oct 11 12:17:07 2003:

I'm willing to bet Easter is way up there 'cause of all the new clothes people
buy.  And maybe Valentines.

How many people ignore Sweetest Day?  I'm don't think I'm ever going to
celebrate that.  Nor Secretaries day which has now morphed into Admin
Assistanct day or some such.

#13 of 30 by scott on Sat Oct 11 14:00:39 2003:

Halloween vs. Valentines Day, probably Halloween wins up front from all the
home decorating and kid's parties.  Then you get into less obvious spending,
like kid's dentist bills vs. obsetrician bills in November...

#14 of 30 by slynne on Sat Oct 11 14:35:51 2003:

Heh. See I was thinking that Valentine's Day might win because while 
people go out and buy decorations and some candy for Halloween, folks 
buy more expensive things at Valentine's like diamonds and stuff.

#15 of 30 by asddsa on Sat Oct 11 17:59:35 2003:

That's the trippiest pdf I've seen in a while.

#16 of 30 by gull on Mon Oct 13 01:32:48 2003:

I was just trying to figure out what the difference between Valentine's 
Day and Sweetest Day is.

#17 of 30 by other on Mon Oct 13 01:51:32 2003:

One is for making money, and the other is for making money.

#18 of 30 by michaela on Mon Oct 13 03:12:21 2003:

Yeah... one is just newer. :-P

#19 of 30 by albaugh on Fri Oct 24 01:01:31 2003:

In honor of the ever more approaching Halloween, I am making available
something else you can download, something my sister let me know about, 
four years ago.  It calls itself a "Shockwave movie", but I consider it
an "amusement".  If you are interested, download the 2.5M zip file;
it contains a small html file, which expects its accompanying ".dcr" file
to be in the same directory.  You need a graphical web browser; I know it
runs OK in IE 5.5, but I don't have Netscape at home to know about it.
Who knows, it might even work fine on a Mac.  :-)  Lastly, you really need
a sound system to make the whole experience worthwhile.

What is this?  It's a mostly static image of a haunted house sitting in a
spooky yard eerily lit by a full moon at night.  The amusement is to click
on various objects in the image, and watch and listen to what happens in
response.  Here is a small .gif rendention of the image:

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/hhouse.gif

This is not a virus!  But I can't prove it to you, and I guess you shouldn't
trust me, so feel free to run it by your virus scanner.  (I don't know what
it would think about a .dcr file...)  Feel free to give feedback; but if you
have problems with it, I really can't help you.

So, here at last:

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/hhouse.zip

Happy Halloween!  :-)

#20 of 30 by asddsa on Fri Oct 24 01:19:08 2003:

You're nuts, man.

#21 of 30 by albaugh on Fri Oct 24 01:25:02 2003:

And now my last Halloween season download offering:  A VGA quality "DOS" game
circa 1992 called "Catacomb Abyss".  You start out above ground in a cemetary,
go looking for the keys that will unlock the doors to descend to lower levels,
and along the way encounter various spooks and monsters to evade or thwart.

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/catacomb.zip

#22 of 30 by asddsa on Sat Oct 25 05:23:43 2003:

Do you have the source?

#23 of 30 by albaugh on Mon Oct 27 18:21:33 2003:

If you mean to either the Shockwave amusement or the DOS game, the answer is
"no".  Contact the originators if truly interested.

#24 of 30 by albaugh on Mon Oct 27 18:21:40 2003:

http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2003/10/26/

#25 of 30 by albaugh on Mon Oct 27 18:38:44 2003:

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/forbetter/archive/forbetter-20031026.html

#26 of 30 by gull on Mon Oct 27 21:07:48 2003:

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2003/10/27/tomo/index.html

#27 of 30 by asddsa on Thu Oct 30 06:08:57 2003:

re 23 yeah I meant the DOS game but it's not really important.

#28 of 30 by albaugh on Thu Oct 30 18:01:46 2003:

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/roseisrose/archive/roseisrose-20031030.ht
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#29 of 30 by albaugh on Mon Nov 3 18:19:14 2003:

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

The download items I mentioned in previous responses will soon be unavailable.

#30 of 30 by albaugh on Thu Nov 6 21:01:28 2003:

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