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Post  crankbndr Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:09 am

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Post  larrys4227 Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:46 am

Against my better judgment, i am going to a CL contest .....

Hoping to make it back home in time to go trick or treating with my 2 year old grandson
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Post  Admin Wed Oct 28, 2015 12:44 pm

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Probably just going to hand out candy and listen to "Nights With Alice Cooper" on 92.5 KQRS

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Post  modelbuilder49 Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:16 pm

I'm with Larry4227 .... but I'm gonn'a scare da' be' jeebers outt'a  Affraid or WOW!   bunch of really great competitors and folk with my amazing skill and "flying prowess" at a contest!!

 lol! lol!

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Post  modelbuilder49 Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:23 pm

crankbndr wrote:This is me

I'll be right over .... Honey!!  Clapping
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Post  NEW222 Wed Oct 28, 2015 7:08 pm

crankbndr wrote:This is me

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Darn, too bad you're so far away, I could use one... Very Happy
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Post  cox24711 Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:18 pm

over here in Aus halloween is not a biggie and my mum still does not let me go out she does not like it at all Tired w/ Coffee Read Neutral so I not allowed when my friends that are in high school ask me the know the answer no Neutral at least I could stay hame and fiddle and tinker with my planes
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Post  TDbandit Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:30 pm

Halloween is not a big thing in my area, most of us just turn the lights out and then watch TV. I myself will more than likely be working on my planes. and getting my shop ready for winter. (Bandit)
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Post  Mark Boesen Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:14 pm

Admin wrote:Pennywise Thumbs Up

Probably just going to hand out candy and listen to "Nights With Alice Cooper" on 92.5 KQRS

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i used to listen to this, then the radio station changed format...and i found Pandora

we'll have grand kids over for a lap around neighborhood, big disc golf tourney Sunday, last one of the year, 36 holes, i'm gonna be sore monday.
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Post  balogh Thu Oct 29, 2015 12:52 am

Drive over to Holland visiting my daughter in Groningen (1350 km from Budapest). I could have taken a plane but fall is beautiful in Europe this time so I decided to drive and enjoy the landscape.
Not too much tradition of Halloween around here.
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Post  Oldenginerod Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:42 am

Don't want to offend anyone, but I just don't get it at all. I know it's supposed to be fun and all, but celebrating all things evil & nasty? I've never understood it and I understand even less why so many out here in Oz are starting to do halloween stuff.

Have fun, but I'll be locking the gate & staying in. Life is scary enough already.
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Post  Kim Thu Oct 29, 2015 5:50 am

Guess it's like other things that may have a morbid base/history (like several nursery rhymes and fairy
tales and such), but have morphed into more benign excuses to have dress up and have parties.

I'm not much into it, but HAVE been invited to my shooting bud's farm for a 'Halloween Gun Day', followed by a big bonfire once it gets dark.  Just a chance to blow things up and let out a few Redneck whoops before that's finally outlawed too.  We haven't had one in a while, and the hardware's getting dusty, so it's time let it make some noise.

Not planning on putting on a costume, though I DO have a white styrofoam T-Rex skull out in the shop somewhere I may have to don as headgear.  

Photos to be posted in the neglected 'Redneck Zone' if I survive!

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Post  pkrankow Thu Oct 29, 2015 7:40 am

I have already been to 3 Halloween events with the kids. We have so much candy my teeth hurt looking at it. I am nearly Halloween'd out.

I might be playing a plumber and replacing a faucet in my old house Neutral

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Post  VUgearhead Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:07 am

I'll be sitting at the end of my driveway, handing out candy and drinking some good beer.

Think Homer Simpson or Al Bundy. BUUUUURRRRRP!!!!

Scary enuff for me.
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Post  Mark Boesen Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:02 am

It's just good old American capitalism at its finest! Look at what we did to Christmas, the Santa we know today was a Pepsi commercial. There's big money to be made selling Halloween stuff.
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Post  KariFS Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:43 am

I was going to say that, except the Santa is from a Coke commercial Smile

Originally drawn by a Finn, by the way.

But yes, Halloween used to be a harvest celebration. The bonfires and scary masks were supposed to scare away evil spirits and ghosts. Sacrificing food was to keep the gods happy and to persuade them to protect people during the dark wintertime. At some time poor people used to beg for food, in return for the food they would pray for the dead ancestors of those who gave food.

I suppose all this (plus the commercialism) has mish-mashed into kids being driven around the neighborhood by their parents, wearing scary masks (or fairy costumes), begging for candy in return of not misbehaving... And everyone decorating their homes with artificial skulls and spider webs and such.

All good fun I guess but not much to do with the original celebrations. In Finland, until the recent years it was called All Saints Day, tradition was to go to the cemetery in the evening and light candles on the graves of dead relatives, then go home and eat some roast beef or something. Maybe talk about old times and people who are not with us anymore. But nowadays the American style Halloween has become more popular.

Traditions evolve I suppose... I've heard that once upon a  Christmas time there was a live size Santa on display in a Japanese department store. Crucified Shocked
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Post  rsv1cox Thu Oct 29, 2015 12:12 pm

I always thought Halloween originated in America, come to find out it started in the "Celtic speaking countries" that surround England.  As a kid I saw it as an opportunity to soap peoples windows, wax if you really didn't like them and beg candy.  

Today, it's just a pain.  Childish "horror" movies on TV and rows of plastic pumpkins and zombies for sale in the stores.  But the kids love it, and good for them.  In Florida everybody observed it, went broke buying candy.  Around here, nothing!  Haven't had a kid knock on my door for treats since we moved in.  Maybe I'm the scary one.  Smile

Ya, stay away from the old guy in the house on the hill, scary sounds come from there, high pitched and varying, sounds like vampires in a rage sometimes. Babe Bee .049
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Post  Mark Boesen Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:17 pm

[quote="KariFS"]I was going to say that, except the Santa is from a Coke commercial Smile

Originally drawn by a Finn, by the way.




opps! yep, your right... http://www.coca-colacompany.com/holidays/the-true-history-of-the-modern-day-santa-claus/

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Post  balogh Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:40 pm

KariFS wrote:......... In Finland, until the recent years it was called All Saints Day, tradition was to go to the cemetery in the evening and light candles on the graves of dead relatives, then go home and eat some roast beef or something. Maybe talk about old times and people who are not with us anymore. But nowadays the American style Halloween has become more popular.

Traditions evolve I suppose... :

Kari,

we have had the same All Saints Day in Hungary (another point of relation between Finland and Hungary) and still have, coinciding with Halloween...not to offend anyone, because I appreciate the historical origin, relevance and background of Halloween as you described, this is mainly the ultra-snob people in my country, (and probably in all non Anglo-saxon countries in Europe) who, not even being aware of the origin of Halloween, started to chisel and carve pumpkins, because this is what they have learnt from the internet without frontiers is done in the US and other, Halloween- traditioned relevant countries...

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Post  VUgearhead Thu Oct 29, 2015 2:22 pm

Well, if you really want to delve into the historical context of Halloween.......

I recall in my not-so-comprehensive christian education, that All Saints Day or All Hallows Eve, was either contrived by, or moved it's day of abservance, to the fall harvest in order to ease the assimilation of the celtic/pagan populations in the British Isles. You know, round about the time of St. Patrick.

Now, I wonder about that holiday......... Huh...
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Post  Kim Thu Oct 29, 2015 3:57 pm

rsv1cox wrote: Ya, stay away from the old guy in the house on the hill, scary sounds come from there, high pitched and varying, sounds like vampires in a rage sometimes.  Babe Bee .049

You Ain't Alone with THAT TAG Dude !!!!

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Post  fredvon4 Fri Oct 30, 2015 8:06 am

Kid in a large family here, and I grew up loving Halloween until I (the oldest) got to be a teenager; instead of out causing grief with my friends, I had to schlep around my siblings....grrrr

Later as a young man with children, and a wife from a similar large family, we continued to have fun with the holiday and our brood of children until they out grew it.

21 years ago we bought this rural property. There are young children in the neighbor hood but we never get any. Out here most properties are 2.5 or larger acres with front gates 200'~500' away from the main house....I assume most of the young families schlep their kids into town 8 miles away for the community trick or treat events

I have a attic full of decorations unused for the last 20 years....Wife and I loved decorating when we lived in city neighborhoods
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