Halloween is the Best-Damn Holiday EVER!!!

[The Man]

It just kicks so much ass, way better than any other holiday! Too bad most other countries don't celebrate it, they're missing out.

We don't care.

Just set a burning bag of dog crap on the steps of their embassy and ring the bell, or TP their country with stealth UAVs. That’ll get them interested.


ETA:

Of course should you be caught or killed the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

 

[noblecaboose]

I don't get it.

You were born, sadly, in a country that doesn't celebrate it, in a hemisphere where it doesn't make any sense.

I miss Halloweeen.
Living in Australia means I get great public health care, a wonderful husband and as much 'roo meat as I can eat, but I have had to give up Halloween, the best holiday ever.

The thing that makes Halloween work is that it marks the time of year when the days start to get dramatically shorter.
Night comes early, shadows get longer in the afternoons as All Hallows Eve approaches. The shadows creep in and it seems you get home just in time to avoid getting caught by the dark. You light Jack o' lanterns to drive away these shadows and the neighborhood embraces the spirit by decorating their leaf strewn yards with scarecrows, skeletons, black cats and phony spiderwebs. You dress up in scary or clever or (as you get closer to adulthood) sexy costumes, revealing your "true self" or who you wish you could be. Children go from door to door harassing their neighbors for sweets. Every year you hope you don't run out of candy before the trick or treaters go to bed, lest your house be pelted with eggs or festooned with cascading rolls of toilet paper. The sweets are autumn themed treats like candy corn and miniature pumpkins, or else miniature packs of lollies or chocolates with special themed wrappers. Kids remember the houses with "good" candy and go home to sort out their loot while telling ghost stories, sipping hot apple cider or cocoa to warm their cold faces.
I love Halloween.

In Australia, October 31 is in the Spring, when the days are getting longer. There's no point in trick or treating when it doesn't get dark until after 7 and when the weather is starting to warm up rather than cool down. Sure, you can dress up, throw up a few plastic pumpkins in a half-hearted attempt to re-create a Northern Hemisphere tradition, but it doesn't make it Halloween.
This year, I'll be too busy giving birth to care. But if I do have my baby before Halloween, my mother is bringing a little pumpkin costume for the little bundle to wear for the occasion. I'll be sure to post a picture.

 

[Audible Click]

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!

Dexter Kozen

 

[shadron]

Personally, I'd use Midnight Syndicate for my horror mood music.

I've got Born of the Night on the computer here as I type.

Just got home from managing an outdoor (well, inside of 8 semitrailers) haunted house out in the country here in Colorado. Temperature was 60 degrees here today, but by the time we quit at 10:00 it was about 34 (that's 22 degrees to about 1 degree C for the rest of you non-heathens). I manage it while two of my kids act in it and another collects the admissions. I'll be out there every night through Halloween - y'all come on out and enjoy it.

Arthwollipot - for you:

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

Actually, I've completely forgotten the holiday and am already thinking Christmas. That's my favourite holiday... Or else commercialization has finally brainwashed me into thinking of it two holidays too early.

 

[Arus808]

Actually, I've completely forgotten the holiday and am already thinking Christmas. That's my favourite holiday... Or else commercialization has finally brainwashed me into thinking of it two holidays too early.

what do you mean two holidays early? I see xmas decorations up in July these days. Now its happening before Labor Day.

 

[arthwollipot]

What don't you get? This holiday has everything, candy and fun costumes for kids, wholesome family activities like carving pumpkins, unwholesome activities like drunken debauchery for adults, even staying in and doing nothing for the sourpuss crowd. (You just make sure that any outside lights are off and nobody bothers you.) It also has no current connection to religion (except the fairly recent, "This is the devil's day!" garbage.)

This:

We don't care.

Although I have to admit, Noblecaboose is going close to convincing me...

 

[Policenaut]

It is a great day to terrorize children. What could be better? Also haunted house/freak shows start popping up around now.

 

[bob_cadaver]

I love Halloween; I still remember the elementary school costume parties we had when I was a kid and how everyone got to wear their costume, bob for apples and make BooooOOOOoooOOOOOO!!!! scary decorations. Where I'm from, people also would make their own candy for trick or treaters (small island, Maine coast), like awesome fudge, homemade popcorn balls, rice crispy bars....stuff kids live for.
This year I'll be out with the kids and SO, hopefully dressed as sasquatch.

 

[uruk]

Halloween is the most awesome holiday of the year. It is one of the very few holidays that does not have a smarmy, feel good, religious message to it.

In my day the only message that was associated with Halloween was that you were going to be let down by having an absolute belief or faith in a ficticious, semi-religeous/Santa Claus, type character. Otherwise known as "It the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown."

The sad thing is that in our local public schools halloween imagery is not allowed. No ghosts, witches, vampires, lycanthropes or Frankenstien monsters allowed. Just pumpkins and scarecrowes.

Heaven forbid that our children should be corrupted into witchcraft by a child's holiday.

Anyhooz, This halloween I wil be ZOMBIE ELVIS!!!!!... Hey, I'm dead, Thank you very much.
Elvis has left the crypt folkes!!!


anyone else getting dolled up for halloween?

 

[Megalodon]

Carnaval, hands down...

 

[arthwollipot]

Of course, it doesn't help that Halloween isn't even a holiday in this country.

 

[Whiplash]

Halloween is my second favorite.

Wintersday will always come first in my book.

 

[maddog]

Well, it's not a "holiday" (meaning: a paid day off work); more of a "festival" (regular day, but one that has all sorts of feasts / parties / traditions / etc.)

But it's still kind of awesome. Noblecaboose nailed it, totally.

And darn right! kids keep track of which houses have the "good candy"!!! I always knew that I would have one of those houses!!! For a few years at each of two previous homes, I went out of my way to not only have the good candy, but to give multiple candy to kids with good costumes, and to tell them to remember to come back every year.

Now, I live a bit more rural, with a LONG UPHILL driveway. Not even one trick-or-treater in six years so far.

 

[Achán hiNidráne]

and Im no dude ^_^ .

I assure you, I was using "dude" in the gender-neutral meaning of the word that I just made up.

 

[Jorghnassen]

You know what is sad: places like France actually have a day off for All Saints Day (November 1st) but don't celebrate Halloween. It would have been so awesome to always have a day off after trick or treating.

 

[Achán hiNidráne]

I miss Halloweeen.
Living in Australia means I get great public health care, a wonderful husband and as much 'roo meat as I can eat, but I have had to give up Halloween, the best holiday ever.

That surprises me. Since Halloween got it start with the Celts, and Australia is a member of the Commonwealth, I figured that would have been brought over when the Britons/Irish/Scots colonized the continent.

 

[NoZed Avenger]

That surprises me. Since Halloween got it start with the Celts, and Australia is a member of the Commonwealth, I figured that would have been brought over when the Britons/Irish/Scots colonized the continent.

Criminals weren't allowed candy.

 

[Achán hiNidráne]

Criminals weren't allowed candy.

Fair enought, I suppose the original convict/colonists of Terra Australis had more important things to worry about--namely, staying alive--than what costume they were going to wear for trick-or-treating.

However, I was thinking of the later geneation of colonists who went voluntarily rather than because a magistrate sent them their for poaching the queen's rabbits or being a pick-pocket.

 

[fuelair]

You were born, sadly, in a country that doesn't celebrate it, in a hemisphere where it doesn't make any sense.

I miss Halloweeen.
Living in Australia means I get great public health care, a wonderful husband and as much 'roo meat as I can eat, but I have had to give up Halloween, the best holiday ever.

The thing that makes Halloween work is that it marks the time of year when the days start to get dramatically shorter.
Night comes early, shadows get longer in the afternoons as All Hallows Eve approaches. The shadows creep in and it seems you get home just in time to avoid getting caught by the dark. You light Jack o' lanterns to drive away these shadows and the neighborhood embraces the spirit by decorating their leaf strewn yards with scarecrows, skeletons, black cats and phony spiderwebs. You dress up in scary or clever or (as you get closer to adulthood) sexy costumes, revealing your "true self" or who you wish you could be. Children go from door to door harassing their neighbors for sweets. Every year you hope you don't run out of candy before the trick or treaters go to bed, lest your house be pelted with eggs or festooned with cascading rolls of toilet paper. The sweets are autumn themed treats like candy corn and miniature pumpkins, or else miniature packs of lollies or chocolates with special themed wrappers. Kids remember the houses with "good" candy and go home to sort out their loot while telling ghost stories, sipping hot apple cider or cocoa to warm their cold faces.
I love Halloween.

In Australia, October 31 is in the Spring, when the days are getting longer. There's no point in trick or treating when it doesn't get dark until after 7 and when the weather is starting to warm up rather than cool down. Sure, you can dress up, throw up a few plastic pumpkins in a half-hearted attempt to re-create a Northern Hemisphere tradition, but it doesn't make it Halloween.
This year, I'll be too busy giving birth to care. But if I do have my baby before Halloween, my mother is bringing a little pumpkin costume for the little bundle to wear for the occasion. I'll be sure to post a picture.

Cool! Happy Halloween and "TRICK OR TREAT!!!!!!!!!".