[gorefreak]

Originally posted by The STE
She was probably a fat woman with fat children or no children with no will power who didn't want to put the blame where it belongs for her fatness. It's HALLOWEEN's fault she can't put down the Sixlets. Want more butter on your ham? It's Halloween's fault.

That's the American way in this new day and age. People in general seem to damn insecure to accept the fact it could be their fault they or their children are (fill in the blank) so they'll look to place the blame somewhere else, and lol@some of the crap excuses they come up with.

Originally posted by Tara
When I was a kid, my family did a little special something for the trick or treating festivities that went on in our neighborhood. I remember the first year they did it, because even though I knew all about it, it scared the hell out of me, and added to the mix of my love of horror...and of Halloween. My Uncle is an artist, and he made this beautiful, incredibly horrifying devil's head mask out of papermache. It was about two feet in height, and wide enough so that when worn, it sat on the shoulders of a grown man. He had wired it with red light, with a cord that ran down to the hand with a switch at the end, so that the wearer could secretly operate the lights. My uncle, my dad, and a couple of other men from our neighborhood would take turns wearing the head, being "The Devil".
When trick or treaters rang our bell, they would be escorted into our house, with records (I'm dating myself: it was the 70's!) in the background playing monstrous music of chains dragging, screams, growls, etc, all the way downstairs to our darkened basement - to meet The Devil! You'd get down there, and it would be pitch black, and you were told to just wait, silently. All you could hear was the music, and then suddenly, slowly out of the blackness, The Devil would appear. I don't know how they did it but they amplified the voice, and the devil would talk to you and come toward you. We'd all stand there until we could take no more, and just run, screaming with terror up the stairs. That first year, I was so hysterical that, running up my own basement stairs (I mean I'm the kid who's house this is happening in, and I'm frantic!), I fell, and slipped through the stairs, cutting myself and once again back in the Devil's lair. My mother ran to help me up, and I was just scrambling, not caring about the cuts or the blood,o r anything else other than getting the hell out of that basement!! It is such a cool memory -But really, when you think of it, inviting children into the house to meet the Prince of Darkness?? Wonder how that would go over today.... those 70's were pretty innocent..!

I love Halloween. I actually live in a town where they love Halloween so much that the mainstreet is shut down for a big bash that people come from all over the world to attend. I will stop by of course, but have other plans as well. One thing I will be doing is going to a friend's house, where every year they add to, and set up their yard like a graveyard for trick and treats. They even have a real coffin, with someone dressed like a corpse laying in it.

Yep, but those days have unfortuneately been replaced with "The Politically Correct"/sue happy society. I hate political correctness. Even if you try to please everyone, someone will eventually find something to bitch and whine about. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Terrin_the_Vamp
Candy is the dumbest reason I have heard so far. What about all of the other candy holidays? Easter, Christmas, and Valentine's Day. You know I read that every year over 2 billion candy canes are sold in America. So forget Halloween it needs to be death to Christmas and Candy Canes.

lol@that. Since when do people who feel the need to talk a load of crap about something, do they actually need a valid reason? :D

Originally posted by Doc Faustus
Candy doesn't make kids obese, depression makes kids obese, parental neglect makes kids obese and the fact that fast food is much cheaper than real food makes kids obese. And if Christians want to stop celebrating pagan festivals, they might want to start at Christmas where they arbitrarily traded a Winter Solstice festival for a day that wasn't actually the birth of Christ, or not have named the celebration of the resurrection after a pagan dawn goddess. And besides, pagans invented society and when watching vintage monster movies and eating tiny milky ways is a crime, then criminals will watch vintage monster movies and eat tiny milky ways because tiny milky ways trick us into believing we're eating less chocolate, so therefore we can retain our self esteem as we basically ingest the calorie content of a sack of big macs.

lol@Halloween makes kids fat. It's advertising and the general notion that we need to consume more food than we really require. And besides, also lol@fat people bitiching about "McDonald's made me fat" when people order the "super size" and gourge themselves on fried food and they wonder why they're getting fat. It's just too easy today to simply pass the buck and blame someone else for their problems.