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juliaoceania -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/29/2006 9:15:41 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Chaingang I like pumpkin pie. That's all I can contribute. How does it work getting the pumpkin pies into your knapsack when you trick-or-treat? What neighborhoods do you hit too?

juliaoceania -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/29/2006 9:20:07 PM)
quote: Uhmmm...ladies....Once upon a time yours truly owned an import company that among other things imported a small amount of foodstuffs, and also contracted to have food (mostly essential oils and candy) tested by American labs to allow its import under the FDA regulations. And....in the course of this...I learned that except for food dyes used the pumpkins and the candy corn are made of identical...I repeat Identical ... ingredients. They are both molded corn syrup products. Any taste difference, spiritual level and other distinctions are the product of external forces. Pumpkins have more mass than a candy corn... therefore I am right..there is more gunk in a pumpkin than in a candy corn... Im not making that up! Weigh them and see! quote: You just want an excuse to say "Yes Master" in public over and over and over and over GRIN And WE want pictures!!!! But of course!

Zensee -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/29/2006 9:21:50 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Chaingang I like pumpkin pie. That's all I can contribute. Pumpkin Pie rated #1 with guys as a sexually arousing smell. http://www.scienceofsmell.com/scienceofsmell/index.cfm?action=completedsexual Believe it or Not! Increase in Penile Blood Flow Produced by Top 10 Odors in 31 Male Volunteers Odor or odor combination Lavender and pumpkin pie 40% Doughnut & black licorice 31.5% Pumpkin pie & doughnut 20% Orange 19.5% Lavender & doughnut 18% Black licorice and cola 13% Black licorice 13% Doughnut & cola 12.5% Lily of the valley 11% Buttered popcorn 9% 0 0

DomKen -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/29/2006 9:26:25 PM)
Let us not forget a major non candy reason to love Halloween. It is the one day of the year when we can be ourselves in public and hardly an eyebrow is raised. Sure we still need to be in costume but that just makes it more fun. Lion tamer with a whip and a very tame lioness or the aforementioned Major Nelson and Jeanie or the saucy french maid or the very naughty vampiress etc. I rarely go to fetish balls on Halloween instead I revel in being for at least one night a year openly who I am in front of coworkers, vanilla friends and neighbors etc. Now I just need a date and an idea for costumes.

Marc2b -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/29/2006 9:32:37 PM)
"Any holiday that encourages people to go out and meet their neighbors is a good holiday." I can't remember who first said that (so all due credit to whoever credit is due to) but I am in total agreement. Candy corn sucks! Give me anything with peanut butter in it! When I was a kid, one of our neighbors, who was a retired teacher, did not give out candy. She gave out pencils instead. Naturally, we wanted to skip her house but our mother made us go anyway. Anyone else have this problem when trick-or-treating? Also, after trick-or-treating, my father would take some of our candy in order to pay the candy tax that the government demanded. It wasn't until I was about fourteen and took my nieces trick-or-treating and asked "where do I put the government's candy" that I learned I had been scamed by the old man. I figure, with interest, he owes me about five bags worth of candy but he has yet to pay me back.[:D] Edited for spelling mistakes

Lordandmaster -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/29/2006 9:34:38 PM)
Fucking the bitches while they bob for apples. I don't think they do that in the U.K. quote: ORIGINAL: missturbation After reading the thread in general about halloween i just have to ask what is the big deal about halloween? I live in the U.K and we just don't really make much of it - what is it that you Americans go so nuts about?

marieToo -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/29/2006 9:39:40 PM)
lmfaoooooooooooooo quote: ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster Fucking the bitches while they bob for apples. I don't think they do that in the U.K. quote: ORIGINAL: missturbation After reading the thread in general about halloween i just have to ask what is the big deal about halloween? I live in the U.K and we just don't really make much of it - what is it that you Americans go so nuts about?

CuriouslyKat -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/29/2006 9:46:21 PM)
quote: When I was a kid, one of our neighbors, who was a retired teacher, did not give out candy. She gave out pencils instead. Naturally, we wanted to skip her house but our mother made us go anyway. Anyone else have this problem when trick-or-treating? I used to get Bible tracts, those nasty peanut candies in the black or orange wrappers, and coins. I steal my kids candy.....it's for their own good they don't need all those sweets. Yes, it is good to be an adult...[;)] Kat

NorthernGent -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 2:38:38 AM)
Not sure if this is a peculiarly British point of view but I never understood halloween. To each their own but dressing up as a witch, singing songs about witches and carrying a turnip around just didn't do it for me when I was growing up. To be fair though, looking back, it was always pissing it down on halloween nights when I was a kid so the whole affair was made even less appealing. As far as I can see, today's kids have dropped the pretence - they don't bother getting dressed up anymore and just knock on doors asking for money. No trick or treat just plain old "give 's some money or I'll smash your windows".

NorthernGent -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 2:43:00 AM)
Fucking the bitches while they bob for apples. I don't think they do that in the U.K. This is one quote where we really do need a supporting link.

ScooterTrash -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 4:57:10 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: NorthernGent As far as I can see, today's kids have dropped the pretence - they don't bother getting dressed up anymore and just knock on doors asking for money. No trick or treat just plain old "give 's some money or I'll smash your windows". Your missing the fun part NG...if they show up for candy and they aren't dressed up...then you have all the right in the world to scare the crap out of them and you don't get in trouble (weg). Not that I would humor myself with scaring children, or adults for that matter on Halloween...muhahaha. This year we are considering using our violet wand in a Frankenstein scene on the front porch. Think about it, what other holiday can you get out your kinky toys and have the vanilla's stare in wonder and say..."wow...how did they do that"?

twicehappy -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 5:10:28 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash This year we are considering using our violet wand in a Frankenstein scene on the front porch. Ummmmmmm.......Mistoferin.......you are coming for Halloween right? I think the Bride of Frankenstein costume would be a good fit for you........bzzzz.......zzzzzaaappppp.......

twicehappy -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 5:16:48 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash This year we are considering using our violet wand in a Frankenstein scene on the front porch. Ummmmmmm.......Mistoferin.......you are coming for Halloween right? I think the Bride of Frankenstein costume would be a good fit for you........bzzzz.......zzzzzaaappppp.......

NorthernGent -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 5:26:38 AM)
Scooter, aaahh, I get it now, method in the madness. I like the creative use of the violent wand! Candy?! In Britain, they come for money. Pure, hard cash! As much as they can get in both hands and under their witches hats - anything less is seen as a waste of time. Anyway, we don't like fun over here, we're miserable and we actively seek out disappointment.

ScooterTrash -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 5:33:53 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: NorthernGent Scooter, aaahh, I get it now, method in the madness. I like the creative use of the violent wand! Candy?! In Britain, they come for money. Pure, hard cash! As much as they can get in both hands and under their witches hats - anything less is seen as a waste of time. Anyway, we don't like fun over here, we're miserable and we actively seek out disappointment. Uh huh...OK, shhhh. I won't tell anyone, but I have had some over the pond visitors and, er, uh...well yes, I am sure their laughing was just a coverup...ha ha.

NorthernGent -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 5:47:20 AM)
Exception to the rule, Scooter. Anyway, I may move to the US to take part in these festivities - I'm hoping L&M can point me in the directions of the apple bobbing stall.

mistoferin -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 5:52:03 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: twicehappy quote: ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash This year we are considering using our violet wand in a Frankenstein scene on the front porch. Ummmmmmm.......Mistoferin.......you are coming for Halloween right? I think the Bride of Frankenstein costume would be a good fit for you........bzzzz.......zzzzzaaappppp....... Only if Scooter promises to say "Arrrrrrrrr" alot! <weg>

ScooterTrash -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 5:53:13 AM)
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...roflmao

RubberWitch -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 11:32:35 AM)
Dear Missturbation, yup, all the way back to the original post excepting the jangled mishmash of samhain, all hallows eve, and every other theological interest in Hallow'een. It's a night for misrule and turnabout. for children to be the scary creatures, for sweets to be the coin of the land. Late nights, indulgencies, etc. In other words, it's a bloody good time We're going to see halloween get bigger here because... 1. American Media have enough halloween specials in store to flood every UK channel for the month leading up to the night. culturally, we're being buldozed towards it. 2. Halloween has never been that big here in the past, because of commercial reasons. Shops have made more selling fireworks than sweets, so Guy Fawkes night gets pimped. In a time of terrorist fears, children with their faces blown off by bad rockets, and all those other things us lefties are supposed to give as anti firework responses, shops are begining to focus on the candy and costume market. 3. Guy Fawkes night is on the whole a protestant holiday, and as we slowly become a multicultural (read bland "scared to mention what we believe" police state"), a nice non religios base holiday like halloween seems more acceptible...oh, hang on a minute... Candy, popcorn, bad movies. YAY Oh, but to redress the argument, Americans here? In the UK, the majority of trick or treaters we get are spotty 15- 17 year olds in 25p masks, and their parka jackets zipped up over their heads, expecting money, not sweets. This, I hate.

popeye1250 -> RE: whats the big deal? (9/30/2006 1:43:59 PM)
In Ireland where Samhain origionated they have a lot of bonfires on Halloween night I hear. They tell me that three or more cars bunched together and doused with "petrol" make a nice bonfire.

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