yes..halloween is FUNNY!

[thetonewrecker]

http://www.capnwacky.com/halloween/images/hallocard15.jpg

Victorious in his quest to be the Official Vegetable of Halloween, the pumpkin drives his fallen rivals to the giant salad bar of rejected vegge freaks.
With a kitty.

[thetonewrecker]

http://www.capnwacky.com/halloween/images/hallocard23.jpg

OK, so people in costumes are dressing in additional costumes over their regular costumes for Halloween. Notice that they're all dressed in opposites. Hamburgler, a known criminal, is dressed as a lawman. Ronald, ostensibly a friendly character meant to draw you in to eat, is dressed as a scarecrow, meant to scare birds away from eating. Grimace, known for his work with the Red Cross getting people to donate blood, is dressed as a vampire.
So what does this tell us about Birdy, dressed here as a life-saving nurse? Clearly she's secretly a serial killer.
I don't know what the deal is with the chicken McNuggets in costumes, that's just freaky.

[wheezer]

I really liked the finnish interpretation of halloween this year, probably the coolest thing was that they had proper sized & carved pumpkins, except that they were a really unhealthy pale shade, sorta like an albino pumpkin, if that is possible.

my friend commented that it was prolly due to the lack of light lol

[Sheridan]

am I the only one here who thinks that halloween is just another stupid holiday. which has become just a glutonous self serving holiday??
I think it is incredibly stupid..

[FregLes]

...but it is better than carneval!!! Greetz from the tomb!

[7875]

anyone remember that metal group Halloween? or was it Helloween?
wonder what their doing tonight?

[Sheridan]

it was helloween. and they are probably working the counter at a 24 hour mcdonalds.

[wheezer]

I dunno 'bout halloween having become "gluttunous/self-serving" - it's really what you make of it, like most holidays, right?

[deccard]

pahr tey :!

[Lady E]

tonewrecker that is just hilarious. thank you!
ronald mcdonald is absolutely terrifying. im glad they've axed him. there was a recent serious of ads aimed at children with ron in that were so sinister. one was about being careful in the home and had poison bottles and matches singing. it freaked me out.

i love halloween except for having to hide from marauding gangs of teenagers...as with all festivals the inversion of normal codes can be potentially dangerous and scary...the carnivalesque is a space of playfulness and perversion.

i also love november 5th, that's a proper Uk festival. we have the biggest celebration of that about 20 mins from Brighton in Lewes which is where Thomas Paine wrote the Rights of Man and then went and stirred up trouble in France and the US. they have always been an anti-catholic stronghold (historically), and republican types, and they dress up as french revolutionaries, have a procession through the town and then burn an effigy of the pope instead of guy fawkes (who was catholic too, i believe?). these days they do modern figures too, so i expect to see bush and saddam this year. of course it was bin laden last year.

im sure you are all fascinated

[7875]

im just incredibly lost.

[Atarythm]

am I the only one here who thinks that halloween is just another stupid holiday. which has become just a glutonous self serving holiday??

No , Sheridan, you're not the only one... I think the same.... It just came back in Europa because the europeans saw that they could make big money with this shit... :(

[jukka]

if i remember right this year was the first year they celebrated halloween here (GER) that much.

or am i wrong ?

[deccard]

i think the german marketing bozos started using it the last years more and more. this year i saw the first time some kiddies running around and playing trip or weed or something like that.

[jukka]

Originally posted by deccard
this year i saw the first time some kiddies running around and playing trip or weed or something like that.
trip or weed..........lol lol :D lol lol

[Loz]

I hate all holidays. Hallowe'en is really just an American carnival that has taken over here. I didn't do any trick or treating when I was a kid. But now you get 16 year olds doing it, which frankly I can see as quite threatening. A lot of 16 year olds are taller and stronger than I am.

As for November 5th, look at France's fireworks day. Bastille Day. Celebrating the French people's overthrowing of the tired and obsolete monarchy. Or America's, Independance Day. Celebrating the overthrowing of the British Colonial Rule.

And then we have Guy Fawkes night. In which we mug Englishpeople celebrate a failed attempt to bring new order to our country. I don't understand it, personally. The best chance at a true revolution our country has ever had, and we celebrate the fact that it failed. Quite tragic, really. Especially as we'll never have a revolution anymore, we're all too sensible, instead just moan about how crap our government is and how we all think the monarchy is useless and should be got rid of.

And I hate Christmas too. Bah, humbug.

[pille'ocheoni]

this year i saw no kids dressing up at all,all they had for costumes were their cell phones,except these kids that came up with no costumes,but one kid had his arm tucked in one sleeve and i said "so what are you guys" he said"im one arm boy,and this is mute boy"i laughed and said take what you want.

[Sheridan]

fuck that! I would have made them give me candy for a lack of imagination and for wasting my time.

[deccard]

ah come on sheridan. they are kids. don´t be such a crumpy old man. :)

[praecox]

Originaly Halloween is the celebration of the death of Halewijn. Halewijn was a midieval raper who abducted virgins, raped them and then cut of theirs heads (maby the other way round, wich is kinda scarier). So one night he steals this nice looking gal and he tried to get down on her but instead she cuts of his head (the date was 31 of october) and since then every years we celebrate the death of Halewijn.

Similarly Santa Claus is actualy St Claes. He was a monk. One night a bad man cut up several small children for their meat, nice and smooth. He put them in a barrel with salted water (the pieces). So one night Claes (not yet a saint) was hiking through the woods when he sees this house and he wants shelter for the night. He goes up to the house and enters, just when the BadMan puts the pieces of meat in the jar ... Claes kills the man (depends on the version of the story) and puzzles the pieces back in a whole so the children live again ...
The actual person whom we are celebrating is in fact a christianisation of the nordic god Odin, who has a stick, some horses, a long beard, a helper with tanned colored skin, etc ... and most of all who gives presents to small kids ...

[aleks]

the only good thing about holidays like christmas etc. is that you don´t have to work...

[Daddys Girl]

I tend to get awfully wrapped up in Christmas (excuse the pun), but I'll be honest and say that the whole religious element of it passes me by... (if my family in Jamaica were to see that, they wouldn't be pleased at all...)

With me, it's all about my family getting together (usually after the day, when most of my mother's family appear...), that silly childish excitement about the presents, the ridiculous amonts of food, and just vegging out infront of the (quite dire) tv in a warm house with (now) tasteful decorations.
The only part that gets my xmas goat is not recieving a prezzy from my still-non-exisitant boyfriend....

On the Hallo'ween front - I never got into all of that - I honestly never went trick-or-treating, and never wanted to. I did go to a hallo'ween party once when I was about 9 (oddly enough, it was held in a church hall, and I went as Morticia Adams...)

5th November? - I just watch the fireworks from my bedroom window. The little bastards who live in my area are dangerous with those things, so it's safer to do what our cat does - stay indoors and keep from getting burned.

D_G ;o)