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Well, Happy Halloween, everyone! Did anyone, besides myself, dress up for either going trick-or-treeting or handing out candy?

Me? Well, I was a lawyer handing out candy.
 
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Since I went to Van Halen last night I have no energy to go out tonight. SO im gonna sit here watch CSI and PLay armada. While blasting music Obnoxiously loud out of my bedroom window to scare the kids away.
 
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Being Australian we don't celebrate it, as it's an American custom though many try and do it here but get turned away quite often.
 
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I personally find it to be a waste of time. But my kids seem to enjoy it. My youngest that dressed as batman found another little kid that was dressed as robin. They went around the entire fall festival the church had together. It was really cute.
 
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Had kids come to the door all night :lol:, its popular over in the UK aswell majestic . Everyone gives the kids or they come home to a wrecked house ( They usually get something in the window, eggs or bricks ), even the shops do :angel:
 
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Paul said:
Everyone gives the kids or they come home to a wrecked house ( They usually get something in the window, eggs or bricks ), even the shops do :angel:
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Lucky I don't live there as I would be suing the parents for not controlling their kids (ie the damages caused).
 
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Paul said:
Had kids come to the door all night :lol:, its popular over in the UK aswell majestic . Everyone gives the kids or they come home to a wrecked house ( They usually get something in the window, eggs or bricks ), even the shops do :angel:
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yeah I always park my car in the garage on halloween, specifically for that reason. If i came out and found my car egged, people would DIE.
 
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The amount of kids that come out for halloween means they are hardly ever caught majestic :shock: . Besides it is halloween and they are in costume so its hard to know who it is

Frog how many bags did your kids manage to get ?, 2 or 3 ?
 
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I will go to a Halloween party today, and my costume will be an partially assimilated redsirt! :D
 
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CrazyFrog1903 said:
My kids dressed up. Black spiderman and batman. They were so cute.
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Lol, now this is interesting. Last night, I saw a black Spiderman, a red Spiderman, two Darth Vaders, a Clone Trooper, a giraffe, the Thing, a Mortal Kombat character, a sumo wrestler, the angel of death, a high-school graduate (the costume, not an actual graduate, lol), a werewolf, a hippy, a flower child, and the usual assortmant of fairies, princesses, fairy princesses, and so on. And those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.

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Being Australian we don't celebrate it, as it's an American custom though many try and do it here but get turned away quite often.
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Actually, for the record, its not an American holiday. "All Hallow's Eve" first started in Scotland, if memory serves.

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I will go to a Halloween party today, and my costume will be an partially assimilated redsirt! :D
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Sounds sweet, BQ.
 
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but Americans were the ones to over commercialise it, and thus turn it in to the mother of all non-holidays :lol: .

I spent the night ignoring the door and playing Rainbow Six: Vegas.

Fortunately, the chavs and such dont come down our estate much, so its mostly just the neighbours kids.

next year will feature a garden hose i think...
 
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Paul said:
The amount of kids that come out for halloween means they are hardly ever caught majestic :shock:
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If one uses their head they can. Trust me it doesn't take much to catch the culprit.

As for being originally a Scottish holiday, my point still stands about it not being celebrated in AU. It would be like other countries celebrating Australia Day or something.

The good thing was this year we had no one show up, perhaps they all forgot and finally realised it wasn't celebrated here. :lol:
 
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Use ones head when the police is busy ( Most ppl skip work for there kids on that night, law's no different :D ) and your almost certain to get away

Ill check on the origins of Halloween later on and post it here, not to sure where it came from but it wouldnt surprise me if it did come from here :eek:

Thats alot of costumes kosh !, i mainly just played the PSP and let other ppl answer the door . I generally dont get along with screamin kids :thumbsup:
 
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Paul said:
Use ones head when the police is busy ( Most ppl skip work for there kids on that night, law's no different :D ) and your almost certain to get away
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Like I said use you head and you will catch anyone trying to get your place. I honestly think the law is way to easy on minors, I think by the time they are 8-10 they know the difference between right and wrong and should be treated as an adult. But this is going off topic.

Back to Halloween.
 
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Yeah, Anyways i found the origins of halloween :) . Wiki is your friend for this stuff :D

Halloween originally came from Ireland, it was spread to Scotland and America when some moves out and has since spread out . Scotland shared many of the rituals with ireland ( Both shared the same language ect, very similar back when it was born ) . It was originally called All Saints' Day but was renamed to All Hallow Even ( Which has been shortened to Halloween ) .

Halloween - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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Paul said:
Frog how many bags did your kids manage to get ?, 2 or 3 ?
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They did not end up with alot. Alot of people did not give out candy this year. Last year they got 2 or 3 times the amount they got this year. This year it was enough to fill a good size bag.
 
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Leave it to the Irish to think up a day like that. lol You KNOW someone was drunk when they decided hey we should have an entire day to celebrate the dead. Itll give us another excuse to drink!
 
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Paul said:
Yeah, Anyways i found the origins of halloween :) . Wiki is your friend for this stuff :D

Halloween originally came from Ireland, it was spread to Scotland and America when some moves out and has since spread out . Scotland shared many of the rituals with ireland ( Both shared the same language ect, very similar back when it was born ) . It was originally called All Saints' Day but was renamed to All Hallow Even ( Which has been shortened to Halloween ) .

Halloween - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hmmm.....since I do have certain heritage in the scottish direction, it would explain why I've always like Halloween......

HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL!!!
 
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actuallly there may be an inconsitancy there...
Hallow even being far from the only explanation fo the word i have heard.

The one I was taught, and brought up with was
All hallow's eve.

Which is a derivation of the old Ghemisnacht germanic tradition, a night when the dead can make their way back to the mortal world and interact....

Or an excuse for a knees up when the harvest was well and truly done and people were looking at their animals to decide which ones weren't going to make it through the winter..
 
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