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remote-controlled graveyard. Supposedly this site is another computer-controlled setup, but it's not responding at the moment. Still looking for a pumpkin carving pattern (the Ellen Feiss pattern is nice too)? Or perhaps you'd prefer yet another punkin-chunking machine, a new model which has several news stories about it: here and here. And if spooky stories are more your style, everything2 is running a scary story contest (see last year's for ideas).
The do this yearly a little south of where I live. If your in the Delaware valley, you have to check it out. Theres nothing like watching a pumpkin travel a mile!
/ 20 01/11/02itsahighflyingf.htmlm pionshippunkinchunkin.com/
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local
http://www.worldcha
Heaven forfend we should have a little fun...
Not everything is a conspiracy, ya know.
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Gee whiz, don't be so negative.
You don't need a day off to have a holiday. Some holidays are just for fun. Are all of the holidays in your country _serious_ holidays? Don't you just want to go out and play sometimes?
Not everyone in America celebrates halloween so extremely. It's mostly celebrated by people 35 and under (with many exceptions), and is a big holiday for many college kids, geeks, artists, and people who veer from the mainstream.
I'll give you a perspective from someone in the San Francisco, California area. Halloween is a holiday because:
- It's fun
- It's creative. I get to exercise my creative juices by decorate my house in spiderwebs, skeltons and blacklights. Next year I'm planning Robotic flying ghosts in my front yard.
- It's an excuse to dress up
- The children love it
- It's an excuse to party. Halloween is by far the biggest holiday in the San Francisco area. In the city, you'll have parties that stretch for 10 blocks, with tens-of-thousands of people dancing and having a good time.
- Day of the dead is tomorrow (Big holiday in Mexico and here in California).
Now, there are historical roots to the trick-or-treating, and the dress up, and pumpkins, and the day of the dead, but I won't go into that now. (Wait, looks like you're from the UK. You should know the roots already!)
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Oh shit! Slashdot is haunted! And it has a hook for a hand!!!
*runs screaming*
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
In the "Discomforting amount of attention paid on a teenage girl, leave her alone and start meeting some adult women already" sort of a way.