[Galemp]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Just get loads of little kids swanning about the streets asking strangers for sweets.  Which, given recent events, is a bit dodgy.

Remember Eishtmo's "So there I was...?" The Halloween episode?

[Megadude]

Yeah!!I broke the five way tie:D

[demon442]

Originally posted by Thunder
Without wanting to turn this to religious debate (heh, good luck)... why would an occult date in a calendar shock? Christmas is in the calendar and that's just another religious date... to suggest Haloween is any different is an exercise in prejudice against other peoples beliefs... by rights every religious festival should be in a calendar - but they aren't. Ho hum...

You're just dieing to close this thread, arent you?

[Carl]

going trick or treating isn't dangerous if the child is occompanied by an adult and only goes to houses owned by people the parent can trust. that's what i did when i was little.

[Borealis]

[color=sky blue]Halloween's precursor is the Celtic harvest festival of Samhain traditionally celebrated with feasts and primitive sorts of pyrotechnics.  One of the secrets to St. Patrick's success in getting so many pagan Celts to convert to Christianity was his ability to intertwine existing holiday traditions with Roman Catholic ones.  Hence he created All Hallow's Eve to sanctify the pagan festival instead of insisting they abolish it.  Smart guy.[/color]

[Knight Templar]

wow, and the celtics take all once again

[Kellan]

I could use this thread to illustrate how mass-comnsumer capitalism has co-opted any and all major festivals that they could make novelty hats/sweets/syringes for.

I think I'll give it a rest, though.

[Top Gun]

Hmm, it's probably not the worst one, Here when kids get to be about 12, Halloween becomes an excuse for them to trash the neighbourhood. The police are usually so busy dealing with complaints for simmilar incidents that the chances of them being caught are usually about one percent of what they are any other time.

[Star Dragon]

Never play hide and seek in a Cemetary if you are wearing polished chainmail.... Moonlight gives you away every $#* time.

[Kellan]

Originally posted by Top Gun
Hmm, it's probably not the worst one, Here when kids get to be about 12, Halloween becomes an excuse for them to trash the neighbourhood. The police are usually so busy dealing with complaints for simmilar incidents that the chances of them being caught are usually about one percent of what they are any other time.

It's that bad where you live? That's odd. (For reference, I live a few miles down the road from Top Gun).

It's always very quiet down here, although my streets only has little kiddies. Hell, it's hardly Luton.

[aldo_14]

Bah...we only have 4 kids in our 'area'.  which does, admittedly, make Halloween relatively pleasant.... I still remember stoating about in my Teenage Mutant whatever-the-hell turtles costume with a shell made out of the kitchen floors linoleum

[Knight Templar]

Dude!!! I had a Leornardo Outfit with a Shell made of styrofoam and a rubber mask!

Hard to breathe in but was the coolest thing!

[Kellan]

Ah, we are all children of our times... :wink:

Sadly though, I could never quite get together a Transformers outfit.