HALLOWEEN GREETINGS THROUGH THE YEARS - Page 2

jerseydevil · 10-31-2004, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Insidious Rex

Yes, Ñólendil, in our standard american way we tend to coopt any traditional celebrartion and turn it into yet another excuse for conspicious consumption and a chance to get stuff. A bit sad perhaps but its still fun none the less.

The thing is though it's also about giving - not just receiving. People giving out candy, decorating their houses in extravagant ways to give people coming around a good time. I enjoyed dressing up, having the scary soundtracks playing out the windows, the cauldron with dry ice on my porch, the torches leading up to my front door and getting dressed up - all to make it more enjoyable for the kids and others who were coming around.

Same goes for Christmas also - it's also about the joy of making people happy. I don't know many people who look at it really as a "me" holiday.

The thing I hate is that christmas decorations are already in the stores. I'm tired of that. I don't want to hear about Christmas until AFTER Thanksgiving. My sister already asked me what I want for Christmas - I told her get back to me after Thanksgiving.

Hanza · 10-31-2004, 05:55 PM

i didnt do anythign special for halloween this year. last year we had a wicked party at a friendshouse. everyone madea n effort int heir costumes it was great. altho one guy decided not to make the effort and just put a sticker on him saying "god" lol. i was a rather sexy little devil lol not many ppl had seen that side of me before then. twas so funny their faces when i turned up. oh how i laughed. this year my brothers been to two partiesa nd hes worn this withces hat witha green wig it looks sooo funny. he also has a litle cape and a devil tail. we had no trick'or'treaters this year. im very dissapointed. there arent THAT many steps up to my house!!

**Nurvingiel** · 10-31-2004, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jerseydevil

The thing I hate is that christmas decorations are already in the stores. I'm tired of that. I don't want to hear about Christmas until AFTER Thanksgiving. My sister already asked me what I want for Christmas - I told her get back to me after Thanksgiving.

You're getting a lump of coal from your sister!

That is annoying about decorations. I also don't like ads for Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving or Halowe'en etc.

gollum9630 · 10-31-2004, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Well it's another reason to have a good time, what's wrong with that?

Halowe'en parties are really fun. And good haunted houses or spook yards are awesome. Have you ever been to a good one? One that scares you? Sends chills down your spine? It's really neat, and it only happens on Halowe'en!

to bad your not in Vancouver anymore Nurv, supposedly the PNE fright night haunted house is supposed to be really scary this year.

anywho, HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Finrod Felagund · 11-01-2004, 01:27 AM

I indulged the little kid in me and went trick or treating, this is the first time I've actually gone out on Halloween and done so...in my 19 years of existance.

Got a pillowcase full of candy, and I dressed up as Frank Sinatra, even got to sing at one house...so, Happy Halloween 2004!

Lief Erikson · 11-01-2004, 02:22 AM

We took no trick-or-treaters in

. We sat happy and content in our house and ate the best candy all by ourselves

.

**Nurvingiel** · 11-01-2004, 10:06 AM

Yeah, there's a really good spook yard in my home town as well. Oh well, Hallowe'en isn't celebrated here in Sweden, so I don't feel that I missed anything. Oh well, next year I'll celebrate in style. I did eat the gummy witch my mom sent me. Mmm mmm delicious!

Lalaith_Elf · 11-02-2004, 05:14 PM

We didn't do anything this year - no parties and no trick or treating.

Ah, I miss the good ol'days of terrorising my neighbours.

Though I did eat all the sweets that I had bought for our trick or treaters.

That'll teach them to try and come every day leading up until Halloween. Greedy sods.

What are kids coming to these days?

EDIT: Wrote this poem for a Halloween competition - and it won!

First time in my life that I've won something.

All Hallows Eve

Swirling mists and darkened doors,
Lights in windows not on until dawn.
Hidden away from the mysterious night,
Away from the ghosts and ghouls that take flight.
Is it all a figment of the mind?
Childhood monsters that come alive.
We carve our pumpkins and find our masks,
To have fun on this most scary night.
Is it real or is it fake?
A chorus chanting ‘trick or treat’.
Groups of children smile and plead,
Once a year on All Hallows Eve.

Telcontar_Dunedain · 11-02-2004, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

We took no trick-or-treaters in

. We sat happy and content in our house and ate the best candy all by ourselves

.

So did my family and I, even though most people were trick or treating.

**Nurvingiel** · 10-30-2005, 11:06 PM

Happy Halowe'en everyone! I see no need to let the old Halowe'en thread go to waste.

So... what's everyone doing for Halowe'en? I'm dressing up as Zorro (in fact, I'm wearing my costume right now), complete with hat, mask, cool shirt, black pants, and black boots. I have a plastic sword, but no whip. I might get one tomorrow morning.

On Halowe'en night I'm going to Trick-or-Eat, where you dress up and go house to house collecting food for the Food Bank. This way, I still get to go trick or treating even though I'm 22, and help out a good cause.

katya · 10-31-2005, 06:24 AM

I had a small Halloween party thing at English club, at which I ate some donut type things that made my stomach hurt when I went to kendo afterwards. I am also reading Dracula again. Other than that, nothing. I kind of miss Halloween, since it`s my favourite holiday. Happy Halloween everyone!!

***Jonathan*** · 10-31-2005, 08:47 AM

Happy Halloween all you Americans, Canadians and people who celebrate it! Though Halloween is becoming more and more popular on this side of the Atlantic as well

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 10-31-2005, 10:14 AM

Boo!!!

sun-star · 10-31-2005, 10:20 AM

What am I doing for Halloween? Going to a vigil mass for the feast of All Hallows

Insidious Rex · 10-31-2005, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Sister Golden Hair

Boo!!!

AAAH!!!!

Falagar · 10-31-2005, 03:13 PM

Once again celebrating my birthday. Not much trick-or-treat this year, though.

I hate this day.

Spock · 10-31-2005, 03:27 PM

The title of this thread is Happy Halloween 2004.

Will all members please enter their time machine and post accordingly.

***Jonathan*** · 10-31-2005, 03:32 PM

Spock, you're a mod - just change the title of the thread

Spock · 10-31-2005, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonathan

Spock, you're a mod - just change the title of the thread

DUH?

I just lack good old Swedish Common Sense.

Thanks Jonathan

Acalewia · 10-31-2005, 04:02 PM

My best friend and I are going to pick up a cake for her Mom's b-day, then we're either going to Hereafter House (Local church trying to win souls while scaring the **** out of you) or trick-or-treating. We might end up doing the latter. This, Christmas, and V-day are the only times I pig out on Candy.

Happy Halloween, Mooters!

10-31-2004, 05:55 PM	#22
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	i didnt do anythign special for halloween this year. last year we had a wicked party at a friendshouse. everyone madea n effort int heir costumes it was great. altho one guy decided not to make the effort and just put a sticker on him saying "god" lol. i was a rather sexy little devil lol not many ppl had seen that side of me before then. twas so funny their faces when i turned up. oh how i laughed. this year my brothers been to two partiesa nd hes worn this withces hat witha green wig it looks sooo funny. he also has a litle cape and a devil tail. we had no trick'or'treaters this year. im very dissapointed. there arent THAT many steps up to my house!! __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

11-01-2004, 01:27 AM	#25
Finrod Felagund King of Nargothrond Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada! eh? Posts: 2,002	I indulged the little kid in me and went trick or treating, this is the first time I've actually gone out on Halloween and done so...in my 19 years of existance. Got a pillowcase full of candy, and I dressed up as Frank Sinatra, even got to sing at one house...so, Happy Halloween 2004! __________________ "THE EAGLES ARE COMING, THE EAGLES ARE COMING......AND A MOTH!!!!!"

11-01-2004, 02:22 AM	#26
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	We took no trick-or-treaters in . We sat happy and content in our house and ate the best candy all by ourselves . __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

11-02-2004, 05:14 PM	#28
Lalaith_Elf Her Infernal Majesty Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,188	We didn't do anything this year - no parties and no trick or treating. Ah, I miss the good ol'days of terrorising my neighbours. Though I did eat all the sweets that I had bought for our trick or treaters. That'll teach them to try and come every day leading up until Halloween. Greedy sods. What are kids coming to these days? EDIT: Wrote this poem for a Halloween competition - and it won! First time in my life that I've won something. All Hallows Eve Swirling mists and darkened doors, Lights in windows not on until dawn. Hidden away from the mysterious night, Away from the ghosts and ghouls that take flight. Is it all a figment of the mind? Childhood monsters that come alive. We carve our pumpkins and find our masks, To have fun on this most scary night. Is it real or is it fake? A chorus chanting ‘trick or treat’. Groups of children smile and plead, Once a year on All Hallows Eve. __________________ "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo Last edited by Lalaith_Elf : 11-02-2004 at 05:46 PM.

10-31-2005, 08:47 AM	#32
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Happy Halloween all you Americans, Canadians and people who celebrate it! Though Halloween is becoming more and more popular on this side of the Atlantic as well __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

10-31-2005, 06:24 AM	#31
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	I had a small Halloween party thing at English club, at which I ate some donut type things that made my stomach hurt when I went to kendo afterwards. I am also reading Dracula again. Other than that, nothing. I kind of miss Halloween, since it`s my favourite holiday. Happy Halloween everyone!!

10-31-2005, 10:14 AM	#33
*Sister Golden Hair* Queen of Nargothrond Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Akron, Ohio - USA Posts: 7,121	Boo!!! __________________ "Whither go you?" she said. "North away." he said: "to the swords, and the siege, and the walls of defence - that yet for a while in Beleriand rivers may run clean, leaves spring, and birds build their nests, ere Night comes." AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

10-31-2005, 10:20 AM	#34
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	What am I doing for Halloween? Going to a vigil mass for the feast of All Hallows

10-31-2005, 03:13 PM	#36
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Once again celebrating my birthday. Not much trick-or-treat this year, though. I hate this day. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

10-31-2005, 03:27 PM	#37
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Boy I'm Asleep Half The Time And Not Awake The Rest Of The Time The title of this thread is Happy Halloween 2004. Will all members please enter their time machine and post accordingly. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

10-31-2005, 03:32 PM	#38
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Spock, you're a mod - just change the title of the thread __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

10-31-2005, 04:02 PM	#40
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	My best friend and I are going to pick up a cake for her Mom's b-day, then we're either going to Hereafter House (Local church trying to win souls while scaring the **** out of you) or trick-or-treating. We might end up doing the latter. This, Christmas, and V-day are the only times I pig out on Candy. Happy Halloween, Mooters! __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

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