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[gfrancie]

[Poll #198921]


Speaking of Halloween costumes and such. I like to read a daily comic called Frazz. Every year a character called Caulfield comes up with these brilliant literary costumes (I have done a few myself, but his are genius)
Check this weeks string of strips out.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Comments

[cogshiftingman.livejournal.com]

::sob:: missed out on Halloween as a child. Guy Fawkes Night was my bag.

[mrod.livejournal.com]

Well, until about 10 years ago, halloween wasn't really a big thing in Britain. Well, you had Blue Peter making pumpkin faces etc. but that was about it.

Then those pesky 'merkins foisted their commercial, sticky sweet ideas on us and corrupted our youth.. Now you just have marauding teenagers who don't bother to dress up demanding confectionary with manaces. Somehow, it seems that it's not fully been translated over here. :-)

I bet soon we'll be having Thanksgiving given to us, where we thank the Lord for allowing us to move some of our population over "The Pond." (Just kidding! ;-))

Seriously, though. It has got to the point over here where Police forces, sorry, services, are asking that people don't go trick or treating as they're having problems with vandalism and general hooliganism disguised as trick or treating. In Somerset they even had a group of officers going around with cleaning matterials so as to wash off any thrown eggs before they hardened and caused perminent damage. And, as I meantioned above, it's generally not little kids who are having a fun time dressing up, going out with their parents and being cute, it's more groups of late teenagers who haven't made any effort at all demanding gifts with the real threat of damage.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

You can never talk smack about thanksgiving.
It is actually a pretty hip holiday as they go, because it isn't religious, but speaks of goodwill in terms of getting together with people you like (hopefully ones family) and eating and just being together for the hell of it.
heheh.
But it would be hilarious if that holiday was somehow transplanted there.

As for halloween...tsk, it is a bit of a crazy day. It isn't truly a bad thing except when people get too into it and become bastards.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

That sounds pretty kick-ass too.

[(Anonymous)]

hey gen I know the most pathetic thing I got for halloween was a plain #2 pencil not a cool fun sparkly pencil, no a plain pencil now that was pathetic the most coolest costume I have run across was a mother and kid the kid was dressed up as malfoy and he was the most adorable malfoy because he was probaly only six and his mother went as madam Hooch and they looked so cool together well thats it from me Happy Halloween dear sister

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

a plain no. 2 pencil is probably the saddest thing I have ever heard of.
You win the prize.

Did you have a nice halloween?