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Old 10-12-2018, 01:40 AM
 
Location: Coastal San Diego
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We left St Louis about 15 years ago. We created RamsTailgating.com in the mid-90s. As we were leaving St Louis, we gave our 'labor of love' website to a Rams fan. He did nothing with it and now it's an LA Rams site. Boo hoo.

But that's not why I'm writing. In St Louis, on Halloween nite, most of the kids told a joke to get a treat. Do the kids still tell jokes?

I mentioned this 'kids telling jokes for a treat' process to a couple of my local San Diego friends. They never heard of it and they've lived here since the 70s.

So do St Louis kids still tell jokes to get a treat on Halloween nite? Has anyone ever seen this joke telling in any other city?
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Old 10-12-2018, 08:10 AM
 
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The only other place I've heard of with this tradition is Des Moines, which is supposedly where it started.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...ight/73865998/
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Old 10-12-2018, 08:26 AM
 
Location: STL area
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My kids always have a few jokes ready. Some people ask if they have one, some don't.
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Old 10-12-2018, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Coastal San Diego
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The only other place I've heard of with this tradition is Des Moines, which is supposedly where it started.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...ight/73865998/
I thought Frank O Pinion started the Halloween joke tradition.
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Old 10-12-2018, 02:43 PM
 
Location: 1950s-60s-70s-GONE
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LOL, as a Kid growing up and Treat-or-Treating in StL during the 1950/1960's, I'd hate when someone would interrupt my Getting Candy Mission and request a joke. Worse yet was when a group of us were invited INSIDE a home and we all had to wait for the entire group to finish before we could resume our trek. We had a planned out route to cover and so little time. lol.
Happy Halloween Season St. Louis!! (Miss ya over there.)
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Old 10-12-2018, 03:12 PM
 
Location: Illinois
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When I would trick or treat in Southwest StL County people asked for jokes. 20ish years ago
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Old 10-13-2018, 06:23 AM
 
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Yes, I've been trying to teach my boys some this year just in case! I honestly didn't know about it until a couple of years ago when I took the kids Trick or Treating for the first time. My oldest was then only 3, but a few people asked him for jokes, and all he could respond was "Trick or Treat!".

I didn't find out until after that it was a local tradition to have jokes ready.
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Old 10-26-2018, 06:21 AM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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It's a very odd tradition, that would appear to completely contradictory to the spirit of the holiday. Maybe that's the point, I don't know. I had never heard anything similar in other places I have lived across the country.
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Old 10-26-2018, 10:06 AM
 
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It's a very odd tradition, that would appear to completely contradictory to the spirit of the holiday. Maybe that's the point, I don't know. I had never heard anything similar in other places I have lived across the country.
If you read the DMR article linked above, you'll see it's supposedly an attempt to replace vandalism with harmless joke-telling, in origin.
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Old 10-26-2018, 02:44 PM
 
Location: STL area
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It's a very odd tradition, that would appear to completely contradictory to the spirit of the holiday. Maybe that's the point, I don't know. I had never heard anything similar in other places I have lived across the country.
Contradictory to what? I mean, Halloween is supposed to be scary and spooky, but it's also supposed to be fun. Jokes are fun Your "trick" is a joke.
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