PLEASE !! -- NO MORE PC HALLOWEENS

[BNWriter]

I didn't know there was a P and C in Halloween. These folks are sick of it, too:

http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-32/1160808268324800.xml&coll=6

Your thoughts...?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I think I would cross the street if Momma Honeyager was walking my way.
This sounds like crazy Christians, no?
PC is in the eye of the Jeebus, I guess.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

Hoogerland? Honeyager? Forget worrying about Halloween, somebody buy this town new last names!

Other than that, fnord. One of the cities in our coverage area just put out a press release declaring the celebration of Halloween on Oct. 31.

 

[heyabbott]

I'd send my kid to school in a Redskins uniform. or is the school going to adopt the Miles Brandt NCAA Nazi approach?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

If there are no more PC Hallowe'ens, does that mean we'll only be able to use Macintosh computers on Hallowe'en?

 

[terrier]

If I had a daughter, I'd be sending her to the school party as a Wiccan. 'Nuff said.

 

[slappy4428]

Didn't have to open the link. Saw Grand Rapids and thought those wonderful PC dutch reformed in West Michigan...

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Yeah, were my eyes deceiving me or was that a GR story with nobody in it named Vander Anything?
Upset of the decade, right there.

 

[BYH]

Hey be careful this year!!! The terrorists who were supposed to be on the additional 9/11 flights have bought up all the candy at Costco and are going to poison America's children on Halloween!!!!! [/my fool mother-in-law]

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Not true, BYH.

They've put out a special line of Hallowe'en masks that will cause the heads of their wearers to dissolve when a special commercial is broadcast on TV Oct. 31.

 

[slappy4428]

People in West Michigan wonder why there's no love from the rest of the state? Goofy **** like this

 

[OnTheRiver]

WHY IS THE THREAD TITLE SHOUTING AT ME ?!?!?!?

 

[Bubbler]

I DON'T KNOW!

 

[Chi City 81]

LOUD NOISES!

 

[Claws for Concern]

IT'S HALLOWEEN

 

[Batman]

Not true, BYH.

They've put out a special line of Hallowe'en masks that will cause the heads of their wearers to dissolve when a special commercial is broadcast on TV Oct. 31.

15 days till Halloween, Halloween, Halloween...15 days till Halloween, Sil-ver Sham-rock.
I think my parents letme watch way too many horror movies as a kid.

As for the topic, it makes me glad I grew up in the 80s. We were the last generation that was able to trick-or-treat without an armed escort. Back then, there were one or two families in the neighborhood who didn't do Halloween. One was a Jehovah's Witness family that left for the night and blacked out the entire house. You couldn't even tell it was there. The other was the nutty Christian lady who'd either lecture those demon-worshiping 10-year-olds about the "evils" of Halloween or just fuss at you for knocking on her door because the porch light sorta looked like it was on.
We called those two families freaks.
Now they're loud freaks who for some reason people are afraid to call loud freaks. This is a holiday for kids, let them enjoy it. I guarantee that no trick-or-treaters even think about the origins of the holiday, nor do they care. All they want is a freaking Kit Kat, no pennies in their pillowcase and none of those god-awful Mary Janes or mysterious black and orange gobs of caramel or whatever the hell they are.
This gets me worked up.

 

[slappy4428]

WHY IS THE THREAD TITLE SHOUTING AT ME ?!?!?!?

IT"S TRYING TO SCARE YOU! IT"S HALLOWEEN!

 

[dixiehack]

IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN!

 

[Double J]

Who cares if all the candy is sold out? As long as my kids can buy toilet paper, eggs and bars of soap, our family is all set for the big nights.

Speaking of which, how prevalent is Devil's Night in your part of the world? It seems to be on a bit of a decline around here in recent years.

 

[Crimson Tide]

Bit of a decline? In my neck of the woods, hardly anything is celebrated. The most Halloween action is at the novelty gift shop/Hot Topic in the mall. At Christmas, you'd hardly know it. I was the only one on the block to put up lights. But, of course, if you're in the 'burbs like me, they're mostly run by "homeowners associations" that don't allow too much holiday decoration for fear of it being gaudy. The only reason I know it's after August is that all the Christmas decorations are out before Halloween, but nobody's buying them.

It's all a crock.