Halloween...National Holiday?

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hipmamajen

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DiO'Bolic said:
I think we should take a vote on that. And we should use US voting standards prior to August 18, 1920. :)
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Hey, I know what that date is! This is my very favorite Schoolhouse Rock, bar none. The Super Suffragette has been my heroine since I was a kid in the 70s.


Audra Hilton said:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: thinking of the costumes this year.. I foresee a lot of Caitlyn Jenners!!!!
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I bet you're right!

GNTLGNT said:
...a National Holiday???....whew-wee!!!....what a sh*tstorm that would cause!!...hee, hee, hee.....I enjoy the more macabre aspects of the season, it appeals to the Bad Goofy or Dark Giant in me...don't really have a yen to pound on doors and demand candy, and the police have asked me to stop doing it year round for cookies dammit!...I get a chuckle watching the itty-bitty ones begging for sweets, but the douchewad teens that are WAY to old to be doing it, and ramming over the little ones-get my size 14 square in their ass and my best Gran Torino Clint impersonation....
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I'm okay with teenagers as long as they're behaving themselves. I figure, what would I rather have them out doing on Halloween? Yikes! No thank you, they can come to my door for candy all they want. :)

Debbie913 said:
I used to love Halloween, but somewhere along the way I lost all of my Halloween spirit. When my kids were little, we went all out for them. Now I don't even buy candy for the neighborhood kids. I like scary movies! Any time of year is good for watching scary movies. :)
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I love how a lot of stations play a scary movie every night in October. I used to try to plan around all their schedules, now my DVR just gets jammed up and stays that way all winter as I watch them at my leisure.
 
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I LOVE Halloween! Fall is my favorite season, and October my favorite month. We go crazy decorating inside, make some sort of craft every year (my favorite is the serial killer garland :D), and have a big crapfood fest (second only to our NYE big crapfood fest). National holiday... eh. We have a lot of those already. I'm so excited for fall already!
 
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Halloween gets robbed by not being officially recognized. It's the second largest revenue generator of all holidays (behind Christmas).

My parents own a campground membership at a pretty nice resort and every year, they have a Halloween event. Five hundred campsites, each site passing out candy in a safe, security patrolled park, and since you don't have to walk as far, you make out a lot better than you would in town.

My favorite part is the site decorating contest. We took 3rd in 2010 and 2012, and won first in 2013.

So yes, Halloween is a big deal for us. I'm already in advanced planning stages for this year's decorating, and can't wait until Fall. October in Michigan is simply beautiful.
 
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I guess I still like Hallowe'en because it was always the "fun" holiday for me, both as a child and an adult (well . . . as much of an adult as I ever became, anyway). It didn't come with the pressure of Thanksgiving or Christmas and school was out on Independence Day anyway, which was too loud by half in any case. So I loved Hallowe'en because it didn't have any connotation at all (as we had no "religion" in our family).

We would trek literal miles trick-or-treating as kids, and at our house it was always a test of creativity to find a costume. My brothers and I would, often as not, end up as our version of "hoboes" or girls, and my father's idea of a pretty good joke -- if he was in his cups, but not too far -- would be to catch me as we were leaving and say, "Didn't you wear that to school yesterday, Puck?"

It's just me now, but I still carve a jack-o-lantern every year and keep a little candy around in case trick-or-treating in the actual neighborhood ever comes back. I guess I can understand why parents no longer let their children wander the earth unsupervised 'til all hours of the night the way mine (and perhaps yours) did, but still . . .

Just more of the world moving on, the way it does.

(insert heavy sigh here)
 
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GNTLGNT said:
...a National Holiday???....whew-wee!!!....what a sh*tstorm that would cause!!...hee, hee, hee.....I enjoy the more macabre aspects of the season, it appeals to the Bad Goofy or Dark Giant in me...don't really have a yen to pound on doors and demand candy, and the police have asked me to stop doing it year round for cookies dammit!...I get a chuckle watching the itty-bitty ones begging for sweets, but the douchewad teens that are WAY to old to be doing it, and ramming over the little ones-get my size 14 square in their ass and my best Gran Torino Clint impersonation....
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Candy?........I've always asked for money if the neighbors don't recognize me......
 
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Leif, is that image the Hallmark item of which you spoke? If so, that is great. Does it fold up? What is its official name?

Hipmamajen, what is part of your Halloweentown? Do you have those Spooky Town items? I have a few of them. I completely agree with starting in August, too bad about the rules. And my condolences on your loss.

In complete seriousness, Halloween should be a national holiday. If it falls on the weekend, no need to get a Friday or a Monday off in compensation, but if it is on a weekday, then those who usually get holidays off, like students, should.

What I like to do sometimes is to try to write a quick little tale on Halloween, or around Halloween, if I can. Last year I wrote a five-page short script. Seems to be fun. And speaking of that kind of thing, let me say I look forward to the Halloween tale from this forum, and I just have to say it again: it's really too bad King's next story collection is coming out after Halloween. It's like when the Simpsons Halloween special plays after the holiday (thankfully that hasn't been the case the last few years).
 
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We Brits don't really do much, though you get some trick or treaters and some people throw Halloween parties.

I am not a Halloween fan - I got dumped by my first head over heels GF on Halloween.

Every year I make a large wicker effigy of her and burn it during a four hour ritual.

That last bit is not true, but the getting dumped bit is. I mean, it has only been like 16 years.
 
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Maskins said:
We Brits don't really do much, though you get some trick or treaters and some people throw Halloween parties.

I am not a Halloween fan - I got dumped by my first head over heels GF on Halloween.

Every year I make a large wicker effigy of her and burn it during a four hour ritual.

That last bit is not true, but the getting dumped bit is. I mean, it has only been like 16 years.
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Awww, that sucks, I'm sorry...
 
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