I'm from Singapore so I don't know much about Halloween or how you folks in the States celebrate it. Care to share what you know about Halloween (its origins, significance etc), how you celebrated it before and how you intend to this year, etc? [img]smile.gif[/img]

THANK YOU OH SO much for reminding me... bloody children comin around begging for money/sweets etc. bah! an annoyence. lol. I'd completly put that outa my mind... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Oh, you mean they celebrate it in England, too?

To my enternal disgust, yes. its annoying. and pethetic... and I wish these children would do something else. bah! Basically, these children "dress" up in "scary" costumes, and go around begging for money/sweets. they say "trick or treat" and if you DONT give them anything, they play a "trick" on you. of course, some of them take it to extremes, believing the meaning to be "egg" you, you're house, you're car, and generally be abusive. or similar

[ 10-01-2002, 10:18 AM: Message edited by: Calaethis Dragonsbane ]

Come on, Calaethis, don't be so stingy, you can surely give the 'annoying brats' a couple little things, can't you? ;) Say a few lollies...

Right... I require my sword and bow outa BG.. (ME stingy? I'm an addolescent male of 17... what do you expect?! besides, I am "distainful" of all of the "kids" around my area. [img]tongue.gif[/img] they're annoying. [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) lol, heh, its funny, whenever I go out to pizza hut with my friends I'M always the one (and my mate) that have the curtosy to leave a tip [img]tongue.gif[/img] lol. ;) erm, but thats besides the point... to be honest, I dont like being threatened. And some "kids" find it funny to use it as an excuse to egg ya house. grrrr. vandalism. lol.

Hm, I was rather under the impression that England did NOT celebrate All Hallows Eve, but waited until November 5th for Guy Fawkes day. Apparently the trend has changed.

Oh, and Calaethis, being a "17 y.o. adolescent male" is a recoverable condition. Trust me on this. ;)

-Sazerac

[ 10-01-2002, 10:45 AM: Message edited by: Sazerac ]

lol, we celebrate "bonfire Night" as well, that IS the 5th of nov. Hellowene is on the 31st of oct? :| lol.

Recoverble contintion?! NO! Tell me it ISNT so! : O lol [img]tongue.gif[/img] ;)

<font color = lightgreen>As I tell <font color = white>TJ</font>, Halloween has no meaning anymore, which is why we don't bother with it. If his school has some sort of festival we'll let him go, otherwhise we won't do anything special. Too many years of increasingly wild behavior and nut-cases doing twisted things have spoiled what used to be an enjoyable holiday. *sigh* Oh, well. There are plenty of other holidays to celebrate. </font>

<font color="#ff3399">LOL I was about to lament the lameness of todays All Hallows Eve celebrations. When I was a kid [img]smile.gif[/img] hehehe sounds like it was sooooo long ago ;) Anyway..When I was a kid, we did all kinds of stupid but fun at the time things. Of course while you were young you collected treats, and if you were older (10 or so) You would sneak out and steal corn from a local farmers field and you would corn cars and houses...(ie shuck the corn and throw handfulls of kernels) at them or you could egg them, or TP their lawn or soap their windows...ahhh good times :D Of course we only did this to creepy houses and mean old people. There was the very real danger of catching a load of rocksalt from a shotgun though...And one old coot tossed lit firecrackers at us [img]smile.gif[/img] That was acutally fun. </font>