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10-31-07, 06:11 AM
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#1 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In the cold.
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|  Happy Pumpkin Day!
Happy Halloween All!!!!! Beware the spooks and other unworldly horrors 
--- (Yes, I'm aware this isn't celebrated widely. But, for those that do..)
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10-31-07, 07:04 AM
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#2 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
And a blessed Samhain to you all. <3
(Off of work! Bwahahah!)
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10-31-07, 07:47 AM
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#3 | | World Creator Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oakhurst, Ca.
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
Enjoy the day with the family!  | | | | |
10-31-07, 07:49 AM
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#4 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Harmony
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
Happy New Year to certain folks! Happy Halloween to most of the rest of you! *winks*
~row
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10-31-07, 08:23 AM
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#5 | | Lich Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Philadelphia
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
I wish I could enjoy the day with my family. I have work and school ugh.
Row, I thought it was "Happy Year's End", isn't "New Year" Tomorrow with this as the eve of it?
[/11th grade Wicca Wannabe-ness]
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10-31-07, 08:51 AM
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#6 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ft lauderdale
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but lala, we are the spooks and unworldly horrors
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10-31-07, 10:50 AM
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#7 | | Lich Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: On the moon with the rest of the space kitties
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
This used to be my favorite holiday as a kid, but then I went to college, then got a job and got older. Now that I have to cook for myself and buy candy any time I want, I can safely say that Thanksgiving tops the list. Between both my parents, they must have at least 40 cooking skill levels. I always come back home with at least 3 extra pumpkin pies and 20 lbs of turkey and sides in tupperware that last another week! Once you move out to live on your own, those Thanksgiving leftovers become more prescious than candy.
I still look forward to dusting off my television set and watching all the Halloween marathons though, I have the script to the Halloween that Almost Wasn't embroidered into my skull.
"Teeny tiny bat, teeny tiny bat, teeny tiny bat, teeny tiny bat..."
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10-31-07, 11:36 AM
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#8 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: WA
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Happy Halloween!!! | | | | |
10-31-07, 12:40 PM
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#9 | | Giant Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
Happy Halloween everyone! | | | | |
10-31-07, 09:39 PM
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#10 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Australia - Sydney
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
I know you guys in the states celebrate this day but in australia we basically ignore it.....until yesterday.
As I was driving into my driveway last night I was wondering why there were so many kids door-knocking. Then when I was half naked getting out of my work clothes a bunch of kids came to my door "Trick or treat!". I have to admit i was totally gobsmacked!
We don't really keep sweets in our house so I had nothing to give them. I was nearly going to offer them a whiskey.
Anyway I felt so bad when I had to tell them "Sorry kids, I don't have anything to give."
I said it quietly as I was embarrassed, then one of the kids in a shrill, ear-tearing bellow echoes out to his mum "Mum, he's got nothing to give!".
Man I felt bad.
Next year I'll set a reminder on the calendar to purchase sweets prior to Halloween. It seems it's becoming a little more popular over here.
Cheers,
Polak76
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10-31-07, 10:12 PM
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#11 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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Polak76, maybe that was the trick! | | | | |
10-31-07, 10:31 PM
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#12 | | Beholder Join Date: Jan 2007
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
It is kinda fun to see who shows up at the door But I'm with ya on the thanksgiving thing. My favorite too. Have a Happy One everybody
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#13 | | Beholder Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Kingsburg, CA
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
Happy Halloween to All !!!
I usually spend the evening dressed ghoulishly at my sisters place where we have it all spooked out for the little goblins coming around for treats.
We get them from miles away to come and see what has been added each year.
Its alot of fun, but its quite draining as well. Its become a family thing that I think their kids will continue on as they get older...I really think they enjoy halloween more than Christmas.
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10-31-07, 11:14 PM
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#14 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Australia - Sydney
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I usually spend the evening dressed ghoulishly at my sisters place where we have it all spooked out for the little goblins coming around for treats.
| You must be talking about lonnarin and his mates.
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11-01-07, 12:41 PM
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
Y feliz Dia de los Muertos!
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| Re: Happy Pumpkin Day!
but there is a nagging question noone has been able to answer though
halloween is celebrating the dead and spirits , you collect candy and have a party and wear a costume you dont wear any other time during the year
easter is celelbrating the spirits, you collect candy and have a party and wear a costume you dont wear any other time during the year
only diff is one is pink with a bunny in the daytime on a sunday
and the other is black and orange at night with the pumpkin at the end of the month
so why is it people get so bent out of shape when i say they are the same thing
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11-01-07, 01:48 PM
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#17 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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Well, they're both celebrating the passing on of a male deity-figure from this life to the next... Though why the Christians synched up their celebration of that event with the pagan point when that deity is about to ensure his continued existence past this life...
Well, I can see that. Jesus was coming back from the dead, albeit to heaven, so... I guess Easter fits both Samhain and Beltain, though I think it would fit Samhain and Yule (the birth of the male deity) better.
Interesting stuff.
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11-01-07, 02:29 PM
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(forgive me if this is overly serious; I think holidays and stuff are important)
Well, one derives from harvest festivals, and in Christianity from a remembrance of the dead (all hallow's eve).
The other derives from fertility/sowing seed type festivals, and in Christianity from a remembrance of resurrection and life.
So, really they are completely opposite; they are intended to reflect each other in certain ways, yes, but celebrate very different things.
The modern consumer take on the holidays really is why holidays become similar: when you cover everything with a plastic veneer it becomes difficult to tell anything apart.
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