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TipTop's 2011 Oscars Race Social Media Award Winners Before the Envelope, Please

In the final hour before the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony begins & the Oscar nominees walk down the Red Carpet, TipTop takes a snapshot of our Oscar's awards leaderboards. We have been tracking Oscar-related tweets & extracting the sentiment around the actor & actress nominees and film & movie nominations since February 14th. To see what passions are flying around the actors, actresses & directors this year check out TipTop's Red Carpet Passion Pies slice by emotional slice. For the 2011 Academy Awards, TipTop's social media Oscar award predictions are:

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I used the Best Picture sentiment leaderboard http://ftt.nu/R09rB on TipTop for Oscar nominee tips to make my award prediction:True Grit

Best Picture Winner: The King's Speech

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I used the Best Director race leaderboard http://ftt.nu/LWmGN on TipTop for #Oscars nominee tips to make my award prediction: Tom Hooper

Directing Winner: Tom Hooper

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I used the Best Actor race chart http://ftt.nu/acItv on TipTop for Oscar nominee tips to make my award prediction: Jeff Bridges

Actor in a Leading Role Winner: Colin Firth

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I used the Best Actress tweet sentiment chart http://ftt.nu/5ac01 on TipTop 4 #Oscars nominee tips 2 make my award prediction: Nicole Kidman

Actress in a Leading Role Winner: Natalie Portman

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I used TipTop's Best Supporting Actor sentiment chart http://ftt.nu/m78RT for #Oscars nominee tips to make my award prediction: John Hawkes

Best Supporting Actor Winner: Christian Bale

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I used TipTop's Best Supporting Actress race chart http://ftt.nu/cVpsQ for #Oscars nominee tips to make my award prediction: Melissa Leo

Best Supporting Actress Winner: Melissa Leo

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I used TipTop's Best Animated Film sentiment trends chart http://ftt.nu/mWDeI for #Oscars tips to make my award prediction: The Illusionist

Best Animated Film Winner: Toy Story 3

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I used TipTop's Best Foreign Film sentiment leaderboard http://ftt.nu/yFnxP for #Oscars nominee tips to make my award prediction: Incendies

Best Foreign Film Winner: In a Better World

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I used the Best Screenplay tweet chart http://ftt.nu/P9qyd on TipTop for Oscar nominee tips to make my award prediction: The King's Speech

Best Original Screenplay Winner: The King's Speech

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I used the Best Documentary race chart http://ftt.nu/vmt3q on TipTop for Oscar nominee tips to make my award prediction: Restrepo

Best Documentary Winner: Inside Job

To capture the passion of the Red Carpet fashion TipTop is also analyzing the emotional component of Oscars-related tweets & presenting how fans in social media really feel about all these celebrities during the Academy Awards ceremony & the after-party. Make sure you take a look tomorrow at our Red Carpet Celebrity Pasion Pies to see who was hot & who was a flop. Also read TipTop's press release, "2011 Oscars Nominees & Fan Reaction to the 83rd Academy Awards Slice by Emotional Slice".

Enjoy!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Predicting 2011 Oscar Winners for the 83rd Academy Awards

Many movie fans & film critics are wondering or guessing who will win an Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony on February 27th. If you'd like to predict the winners in 2011 with the help of semantics & social media, TipTop's 83rd Academy Awards Special is the best place for you to visit. TipTop's engine is continuously extracting the sentiment expressed in thousands of your tweets each day around the Oscars as well as the films & actors that have been nominated for these awards. It's not as painful as it might sound and no one is injured except for some celebrity egos along the way. TipTop's Oscar preductions are found in our blog post, "Oscars Race Social Media Award Winners Before the Envelope, Please".

So, instead of using a crystal ball this year, we recommend you review TipTop's Academy Award Leaderboards to see who is Top trending and who is Flop trending. You can also use the daily tips and the top web sites that TipTop features in addition to sentiment trends for each of the films, movies, actors & actresses. Give us a spin and let us know your predictions by tweeting them to @twitTipTop or posting them on TipTop's facebook page.

Today, Jeff Bridges is Tops on the Best Actor Leaderboard but this can't be a long term trend! If you tweet, now is a great time to support your favorite movie, actor and actress with messages indicating your liking. Make sure you visit TipTop's Academy Award Leaderboards for the latest results and come back next week to see TipTop's award predictions! We were quite pleased with the accuracy of our predictions last year. Read "Watching the 2010 Academy Awards & Walking the Red Carpet Via TipTop Social Search & Sentiment" for our 82nd Academy Award prediction results.

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

Find Me a Gift, Make Me a Match, Be My TipTop Valentine

Who needs cupid for Valentine's Day when you have TipTop!  If you are already feeling smitten & know your sweetheart's twitter name, just enter it in TipTop's Valentine Gift Finder & you will get personalized gift ideas for them. If you are bit more sly, enter your own twitter ID and share your favorite gift ideas with that special someone. Of course, you can browse our Valentine 'gifts for' lists & shop for presents for your girlfriend, husband, lover or a new guy or girl in your life. 

So even if @tigerwoods isn't your lover this Valentine's Day, TipTop can help you find a special someone who is also looking for love on twitter. From the "Be My Valentine" tab on the Valentine's Day Special, enter your (or a friends:) twitter ID & see who TipTop finds as a potential match. If you don't see a potential partner, just hit 'Refresh', click to 'View' a person's profile on TipTop or 'Share' the match with a friend or family member.

So you've hooked "your friends" up with some TipTop personality matches, now its time to find someone who matches your desires & needs. Maybe one of your Valentine's date requirements is that s/he have a job. Just type in "work" and connect with those perspective matches by clicking the interaction buttons below their message.

Now that you found a date & bought a gift its time to figure out where to take your sweetheart for Valentine's Day. Check out all the Valentine weekend romantic activity ideas TipTop compiled from thousands of tweets, semantically analyzed and presented in Top 10 lists and searchable concept cloud. Click to see them all!

Top romantic destinations for Valentine's weekend in 2011 include: Vegas, Chicago, LA, Miami, NYC, Atlanta, Paris, London, Houston, and Hawaii. 

We hope TipTop has made your Valentine's Day one to remember no matter which kind of match you have made!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

 

 
 

  

Super Bowl 45 Ad-ticipation: 2011 Big Game Commercials & Brand Sentiment

 Fasten your seat belts for Super Bowl 45 football fans! "Big Game" brands are hunting you down, whether you are plastered to the TV, tweeting on the phone, faning on facebook, or gaming on the go like an angry bird. 2011 Super Bowl advertisers are dipping into the "Social Bowl" cracking the "Mobile Bowl" and "Crashing in on the Super Bowl" in every which way but loose. See how the ads fared from our post game press release "SuperBowl Ad Sentiment Sliced-n-Diced by TipTop Analytics".

Whether you plan to watch the Super Bowl Sunday or just catch the commercials after the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers mash it out, TipTop offers a great way to:

1. quickly see a summary of SB45 tweets, trends, top tips & web pages;
2. view pre & post game trends in brand sentiment for Super Bowl sponsors and their commercial ads & videos;
   
3. get in-depth coverage for popular brands, like Volkswagen or Motorola, to see long term sentiment trends and daily news summaries;
   
4. search TipTop for the best tips from social media & the web for ads like:

• Audi's "Release the Hounds" & "Green Police"

• Best Buy's Justin Bieber & Ozzy Osborne ad
• BMW's "ActiveE" & "BMW Mini"

• Bridgestone's "Reply All" & "Carma"
• Bud Light's "Here We Go"
• Budweiser "to-be-continued" "Giddy Up"    
• CareerBuilder's "Chimps" or "Parking Lot"
• Cars.com's "Go First" &"The Reviews Are In"
• Chevrolet's "Bumblebee"
• Coca-Cola's "Border Crossing"
• Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl"
• E-trade baby @etradebaby
• GoDaddy's "Contract", "Dot Co" & "GoDaddy girls"
• HomeAway's "Ministry of Detourism"
• Hyundai Elantra's "Hypnotized", "Childhood", "Sheep", "Deprogramming" & "Anachronistic City"
• Kia's "One Epic Ride"
• Mars Snickers "Logging"
• Pepsi's "Elevator Girl" "First Date" "Love Hurts" "Torpedo Cooler" "Zero Calories?"
• Volkswagen's "The Force" & "Black Beetle"
• Paramount's "Captain America: The First Avenger", "Rango", "Super 8", "Thor" &"Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon."
• Salesforce's "Baby Peas"

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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Wondering what to do on New Years Eve? Use tips from TipTop to ring in the New Year

Whether you plan to celebrate the end of 2010 in style or do the 2011 Happy New Year table dance, TipTop offers up top tips, people & perspectives from social media to help transport you wherever you may want to go, no matter where you are on New Year's Eve.

• New York has the ball dropping in Times Square.
• Paris has fireworks on the Champs Élysée.
• London's festivities include Big Ben's chimes & a splash in the fountains.
• Tokyo hosts throbbing J-rock superclubs. 
• Sydney has its Harbor Bridge fireworks extravaganza.
• Sao Paulo's Reveillon parties mark the beginning of the summer season.

Find out how people are feeling as they ring in the new year, what new years resolutions they are making, & what's going on in cities across America New Years Eve 2010.

In San Francisco for example, I found out that on New Year’s Day the city of San Francisco is going to reward you with a ticket-free day of parking.

To find out the New Year's sentiment, conversation buzz or the best New Years Eve tips for your neck-of-the-woods, enter your NYE topic of interest on TipTop and "Pick Location" or click "Add City" to get the current tips.



Have a Happy New Year & a Tip Top 2011!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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Need last-minute holiday gift ideas? TipTop personalizes the ideas, so you can buy the perfect present!

If you or your friends are like me and my friends, we are all rushing around trying to buy last minute presents for those tricky family members or picky friends. Luckily for me this year, TipTop's 2010 Holiday & Gift Guide makes finding the perfect presents and sharing unique gift ideas easy at http://ftt.nu/gifts. TipTop figures out enough of my friends' tastes from their tweets to recommend cool gifts personalized to their interests! Try it with your friends' Twitter IDs -- or if they don't tweet a lot (or at all) -- with a celebrity's or someone else's ID who you think is similar to them.  For example, TipTop recommends the items below for @AshleyTisdale:

If I don't like what ideas are displayed I can click "Refresh" to see more gift items in blue as well. Sharing the Gift Guide lists & ideas with my twitter followers with a single click is easy. For our non-social media savvy friends and relatives you still click the "Share" button to send email with the present ideas for dads, moms, grandparents, coworkers, kids, geeks, foodies, etc. TipTop has picked up and classified the gift lists by listening to what everyone is saying this holiday season about what they are going to buy and what they are dying to receive.

 To learn more, check out our previous blog post "Find Presents for Anyone on Your Gift List With TipTop's 2010 Holiday Gift Guide." From the guide, you can shop for products and buy gifts as well on TipTop Shopping. If you are looking for a gift for me here are some ideas:)

We hope you have a tip top holiday season & happy new year!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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Find Presents for Anyone on Your Gift List With TipTop's 2010 Holiday Gift Guide

Need tips for what presents to buy for whom? Holiday meal ideas? Travel tips? TipTop's 2010 Holiday & Gift Guide features thousands of gifts ideas, like presents for Mom, Dad or a gift for the boyfriend. Whether you have been naughty or nice this year, TipTop has analyzed thousands of conversations from social media like Twitter, to help make this social & shopping season as much or as little fuss per your liking. In the TipTop spirit, let other's ideas & opinions help guide your decisions as you discover what people are buying, for kids, giving to grandparents, and surprising their significant other with in 2010. 
 

Here are some ways get the most out of the TipTop's 2010 Holiday & Gift Guide: 

1. Surprise Me! Keep clicking Pick Another Gift till you see a present that you are interested in, then Search and delight in the results!

2.Gift Lists: click the down triangle to expand the lists, click terms to see TipTop Shopping product ratings & reviews. Make the best choices for your loved ones & your wallet! 

3.Share the gifts lists you like with Twitter followers or Search TipTop for social shopping Tips!

4. Browse the Gift Cloud for thousands of gift ideas. Click the items to see what people are talking about.

5. See real-time tips via TipTop's search widget. You can even customize the query and embed one on your web site or blog!

6. Click "What's cooking?" to get holiday meal recipes, popular dishes & decoration tips for 2010. Check out "Places to go!" to see where folks are traveling & what they are doing once they get there.

Tip: try "Pick Location" to get local with TipTop search results!

How are the Top Holiday Gift, Meal and Travel Activity Lists & Concept Clouds generated?

TipTop looks at conversations found in social media, in this case in the form of tweets. TipTop's advanced semantic engine understands the written word just like a person would. As a result, it can discover from within the tweets exactly what gifts people want or are planning to buy this holiday season. TipTop's semantic  search algorithm also analyzes the sentiment around each of these wish list gifts to extract the positive and negative things people are saying about them. Once collected, analyzed, updated periodically and aggregated across individual tweets, this knowledge is presented in several different ways in TipTop's 2010 Holiday & Gift Guide as illustrated above.

Make sure you come back next week to see some of the insights we have gleaned from all the holiday shoppers and happy tipsters out there.

Have a tip top Holiday Season & New Year!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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Thanksgiving Planning: TipTop Now Give Thanks Later

 

This Thanksgiving, reduce the hubbub around meal planning, recipe selection, travel decisions, activity ideas and Black Friday shopping -- visit TipTop's 2010 Thanksgiving Guide, your one-stop destination for any tip you need for any aspect of your Thanksgiving weekend. TipTop gives you all the tips you need in one place so you can spend less time deciding how to celebrate, and more time enjoying the celebration!

For my family, this year's Thanksgiving is all about keeping it real easy, saving time & money. Below are some useful tips I gleaned from TipTop's 2010 Thanksgiving Guide.

Thanksgiving Meal Planning:

Did you know that despite all the pundits' health warnings, Fried Turkey is one of the top ten dishes people are cooking for Thanksgiving dinner? I don't get it, all that gobbly grease, special pots & mess to clean up.

To keep it easy, I'm going with the Spatchcocked Turkey, from a Denver Post tip found by clicking Turkey in the "Food & Recipes" section of the Guide. TipTop shows other simple dishes that people are planning to prepare this year, like sweet potato, yams, mashed potatoes & green been salad.

 Thanksgiving Travel Tips:

Although more people are flying this year, TipTop's sentiment analysis shows that people don't seem to be looking forward to air travel this Thanksgiving weekend. Travelers are talking about flight delays, last minute air fares, and the impending "TCS Opt Out Day" airport security pat-down.

Whether you are going to one of the top US or International destinations found in TipTop's 2010 Thanksgiving Guide Travel section or another location you can quickly see the buzz around town, changing all the time, to get the best tips for whatever interests you. Today, the conversation buzz in these cities is:

• NYC: dinner, family, party, pack, new york city, home

• Atlanta: thanksgiving day, dish, party, home, turkey

• Houston: dallas, event, family, home, thanksgiving day, for thanksgiving

 

My family is staying local, and riding with a little one, so I was excited to find "Thanksgiving: Tips for Traveling with Baby" tip http://ftt.nu/xJpzZ from TipTop "Thanksgiving traveling" results.

Thanksgiving Activity & Shopping Tips:

Get tons of activity ideas & shopping tips, that TipTop has extracted from tweets, by clicking 'Surprise Me' under the Search box. Click 'Pick Another Activity' until you see something of interest. You then get the best tips for decorating centerpieces, for example.

If you want to take advantage of all the Black Friday or Cyber Monday ads from Wal-mart, Target & Best Buy before you make holiday gift purchasing decisions, compare products on TipTop Shopping first. For example, I created an HDTV product comparison guide to easily sort by product attributes & quickly read the best product reviews below:

TipTop's 2010 Thanksgiving Guide Top 10 lists will be updated over the next week to capture the ongoing Thanksgiving buzz, and TipTop's search results are always exposing new tips so come back often to let TipTop help you quickly discover the best tips, get varied perspectives, and ultimately help you make better decisions.

Have a delicious Thanksgiving celebration!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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November 2010 Election Countdown: Daily Trends, Candidate Tips & the Straw Poll

TipTop's 2010 Midterm Election Special gives voters a quick interactive snapshot of daily election topics and allows folks to delve into the campaign issues & policy debates going on in social media that are important to them. For fun, voters can also take a straw poll to see which political parties & candidates they swing towards for this November's Gubernatorial, Senate & House elections.  

Democratic & Republican, Tea Party & Independent voters' top issues this election vary and how these differences will play out on Tuesday, November 2 will most likely depend on the weather. But seriously, peoples' opinions about the direction of the US economy, healthcare,
government spending, immigration, or energy & the environmnent will all influence voter enthusiasm for the 2010 elections. The only place you can really see what is going inside voters' heads (and your own:) is through TipTop's 2010 Midterm Election Special. TipTop extracts the top campaign issues, about what people are really talking about, which will allow you to hear over the noisy extremists, call out the political centrists, and listen too the sideliners.

Once you are finished perusing the pundits & sharing your opinions on TipTop, don't forget to go to the "Vote Prediction" page to see how you swing & get the latest overall results for TipTop's Midterm Election Straw Poll. Below are some of key races for this years elections with today's snapshot of TipTop sentiment scores & social media buzz topics. Click a candidate's names to go to TipTop results page.

Canditates   jerry brown	Positive Sentiment   23%	Negative Sentiment   13%	Social Media Trending Topics   california, ca, poll, campaign, box, women, office
meg whitman	30%	12%	california, republican, porto, campaign, housekeeper, glendale, ebay
Rodney Glassman	27%	2%	senate arizona campaign video mccain candidate
John McCain	16%	22%	barack obama arizona  nevada senator campaign
Terry Goddard	15%	7%	terror, arizona, home, democrat, office, endorsement, investment fraud indictment
Jan Brewer	20%	22%	arizona, phoenix, obama, prison, law, man, story
Barbara Boxer	16%	16%	box, poll, california, democrat, senate, sacramento, republican
Carly Fiorina	21%	9%	california, box, senate, campaign, news, candidate, hospital
Harry Reid	16%	20%	senate, nevada, leader, election, poll, party, democrat
Sharron Angle	25%	29%	nevada, ad, party, tea, senator, senate, candidate
Kendrick Meek	18%	18%	senate, florida, democrat, candidate, demo, rep, bill clinton
Marco Rubio	23%	15%	rubio, florida, senate, party, tea, candidate, republican
Charlie Crist	16%	20%	senate, florida, clinton, politics, demo, bill clinton, rubio
Democrat	35%	29%	candidate senate party tea republican bill clinton
Tea Party	25%	23%	candidate video halloween party senate republican
Andrew Cuomo	28%	9%	new york city, new york, car, democrat, candidate, campaign, muscle
Carl Paladino	18%	15%	candidate, campaign, new york city, republican, home, girl, new york

Remember Midterm Election trending topics update daily so please return to TipTop's 2010 Election Special for a daily update until November 2nd. Don't forget to find your polling place and vote.

Have a Happy Halloween & embrace the voting booth!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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TipTop Costume Ideas For Halloween Parties & Trick Or Treat: Make, Share & Shop

People are getting excited for Halloween this year, sharing costume ideas and trick or treat tips across the Web. Like last year's 2009 Halloween Costume Special, TipTop's semantic search engine has captured thousands of Halloween costume ideas being shared on social networks for 2010. People have been texting opinions, sharing ideas & making decisions about all things related to dressing up, celebrating Hallows' Eve and trick or treating this Fall. In 2009, TipTop analysis showed that costumes like Balloon Boy, Shanaynay & Max were all the rage. For 2010, Pirate, Zombie & Lady Gaga all return to the Top costume lists along with some new & some predictable Halloween outfits. There are still many yet to be decided Girl or Man get-ups.

Below are some of the Top costumes for this week featured on TipTop's 2010 Halloween Costume Special. Use sentiment scores (mouse over the pie charts) to see what people like or dislike about a particular costume, see related costume buzz to get specific related concepts, and take advantage of the online shopping search to get that perfect party outfit. Below is a taste of the kinds of results you will get through using TipTop.

Top Costume Ideas	Positive Sentement	Negative Sentiment	Social Media Buzz
Pauly D	25%	5%	shore, jersey, hair, costume
Lady Gaga	15%	7%	youtube, guy, video, alien, makeup
Zombie	33%	4%	tattoo, event, fear, haunt,friends, adult
Ghost	26%	13%	candy, stories, earring, tours, party
Pirate	32%	3%	princess, girl, child, adult, boy, toddler
Alice in Wonderland	35%	17%	queen, girl, heart, party, guy, rabbit
Girl	33%	13%	baby girl, princess, adult, guy, costumes, daughter, boyfriend
Man	32%	11%	house, party, iron, girl, colonial,  avatar
Orange	35%	15%	black, pumpkin, earring, glass, jello,  house, lights, hat, shirt
Snooki	32%	7%	shore, jersey, girl, hair, star,costumes, clothing, makeup
Belle	26%	13%	princess, beauty, kid, party, disney, book, hall, daughter, park, baby
Facebook	37%	5%	party, event, fan, skin, pumpkin, hat, image, friends, sleepy hollow

This week some Halloween costumes buzzing around social media that might be of interest for you to make, suggest to a friend, or buy online include:

• Top 5 celebrity costumes people are playing with: Pauly D, Lady Gaga, Snooki, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry ... see more on TipTop's Halloween Special

• Top 7 creature or scary costume ideas: Zombie, Ghost, Witch, Monster, Spider, Kitty Cat, Devil ... see more on TipTop's Halloween Special
• Top 7 children's costumes in the works include: Pirate, Alice in Wonderland, Batman, Zombies, Monkey, Lion, Belle ... see more on TipTop's Halloween Special

 

• Top people costumes being mulled around include: Girl, Man, Slut, Princess, Rapper, Pirate, Couple, Guy, Myself ...see more on TipTop's Halloween Special
• Top thingamajig costume ideas getting worked out: Pumpkin, Orange, Facebook, Book, Haunted house, Cupcake ... see more on TipTop's Halloween Special

Make sure you visit TipTop's 2010 Halloween Costume Special frequently to see what new costume ideas are buzzing around the social stratosphere & how people feel about them (see the sentiment pie charts). This will also help you to make fun costume suggestions to your friends & family. You can also search for what people are planning to wear at a location near you by selecting "Pick Location" option from when searching. For example, see the costume-related "Viewpoints from Philadelphia" below.

How are the Top 10 Costume Lists and Costume Clouds generated?

TipTop’s advanced semantic engine understands each and every tweet just like a human being would. As a result, it can discover from within the tweets exactly who is planning to wear what costume this Halloween. Once collected and aggregated across individual tweets, this knowledge is presented organized in several different ways in TipTop's 2010 Halloween Costume Special page. We classify the costumes into a number of natural categories and show the top costumes within each category based on their overall popularity. The sentiment attached to each costume is computed by estimating the sentiment expressed in each of the corresponding Halloween costume snippets.

Have a Happy Halloween!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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