Dirt belongs on the floor... dirt is good for children. My first wife's family did the no-shoes-inside thing... if you insist on doing this, make slippers available, also have chairs or stools for removing shoes available. Wipe your feet at the door... if there's mud, then of course you don't track it into the house.
Easy jack-o-lantern... Home Depot bucket, sharpie, create! Invert over lantern... bucket is still useful all year long. I'm going to top mine with a big bracket fungus out of my oak tree... brains!
If you want biscuits and gravy ask for scones and cream sauce (you'll get a funny look!). A grilled cheese sandwich is a cheese toastie. If they offer bangers and mash don't accept! Refuse the blood pudding also. Botty is your bum, or bottom. Boot/bonnet = trunk/hood.
1.) 29-21 = 8
2.) 21-13 = 8
3.) an hourglass can be inverted before its time is up, in order to double the time it just recorded.
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