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Cast your vote for Miss Congeniality in the Straight Dope Great Pumpkin Contest!
Check out this year's costumes. (From Boo! our Halloween forum)
I swear! Every word is true! (NSFW) submitted by Ellen Cherry, who also wrote the tag, thanks! (NOTE: Strong language, may NSFW)
We're lost and amazed.
Dust in the ... wind?
Is it something that goes bump in the night? submitted by Ellen Cherry
This is all just nuts.
Sure as shooting, it's a joke — but you tell the rest of the story.
It's the Great Pumpkin Carving Contest — for glory and prizes! submitted by Jack O'Lantern
Oh, inconstant moon! What would you do on this full moon night?
To infinity and beyond! For real?
A-hunting we will go. submitted by Jaguars!
Check out Boo!, our forum for all things Halloween.
4 rent, room with a vu. (NSFW) submitted by Musicat, who also wrote the tag, thanks! (Nudity/mature situations.)
Aquaman, meet Water Boy, our new aural superhero.
I right the songs. submitted by Oakminster, who also wrote the tag, thanks!
The food chain is a little buggy. submitted by Ellen Cherry
A conversation with ebb and Flo. submitted by Annie-Xmas, who also helped with the tag, thanks!
The Teeming Millions sink their teeth into vampire lore. submitted by Ellen Cherry, who also wrote the tag, thanks!
Down for the count.
Life imitates art far less than life imitates mass media.
I've been everywhere, man, I've been to Greenville.
A little bird told me.
Casting call! submitted by Chicken of Bristol
You bet your life.
It's the tail of the lobster ... no, it's the claw.
Does whatever a spider can. Yikes! submitted by Lancia
One day in Chicago submitted by DesertDog, who also helped with the tag, thanks!
The science fiction crystal ball is a tad fuzzy.
Don't lie down or the dog will pee on you.
Go fish!
I'll remember you. submitted by Jaguars!
It's awe good. submitted by Ellen Cherry, who also wrote the tag, thanks!
Look at some flowers and tell us what you see.
I've been everywhere, man ... and it sucked! submitted by Ellen Cherry, who also wrote the tag, thanks!
There's a lot of give and take going on here. (NSFW) submitted by Ellen Cherry, who helped with the tag, thanks! (NOTE: Adult subject matter.)
Sing on, whoever you are, agent of change. submitted by SCSimmons
Correct it is, but odd it sounds. (Where to go, Yoda will tell.) submitted by Marley23
Dopers hold polarizing views on wine tasting. submitted by Tastes of Chocolate
Seen "Gone With the Wind?" It's about urban renewal in Atlanta.
Don't let them get your goat. submitted by Mahaloth
If we were eating watermelon it would be Threadspitting. submitted by Ellen Cherry
Dopers, what's for dinner?
Altered States. submitted by Heart of Dorkness , who also wrote the tag, thanks!
Taste the rainbow. (NSFW) submitted by Ellen Cherry, thanks to Malleus, Incus, Stapes! for the tag! (NOTE: Bad taste.)
The system's kinda buggy. submitted by Annie-Xmas
Let's play Cowboys and Lesbians. (Also known as Girls On Girls On Film. (NSFW) submitted by Heart of Dorkness , who also helped with the tag, thanks! (Possibly NSFW)
It's the tale of the rat. submitted by Marley23
Like great works, just a bit less. submitted by Taomist
There is no frigate like a squid. submitted by Freudian Slit
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