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Old 10-27-2011, 08:18 PM
 
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Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win").

The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops.



All Liberals see this as an opportunity to loot. It truly is capitalism at it's best. Sorry tatoo artists. Many heroine addicts support OWS.

Your kids want to act like their freaky parents. Free candy.
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Old 10-27-2011, 08:22 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win").

The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops.



All Liberals see this as an opportunity to loot. It truly is capitalism at it's best. Sorry tatoo artists. Many heroine addicts support OWS.

Your kids want to act like their freaky parents. Free candy.
Hell, I always thought those parents sent their kids out to get their meals for a week or two on that night. Around here we feed only conservative kids since I could easily count all the Dems in town on my two hands. We just share a bit with them so we don't have to embarrass the kids by asking what kind of politics their parents have.
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Old 10-27-2011, 08:39 PM
 
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I look forward to a "Merry Christmas" thread in December.

Halloween is the one remaining holiday that's any fun. The rest have become exercises in Family Conflict Management and self-imposed economic sabotage.
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Old 10-27-2011, 08:45 PM
 
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I'm confused.....What is the objective of this thread?
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