Trick or Treaters...

killaroo wrote:where in America did you live Zenigame?

I didn't.

Where I used to live in England there was an RAF base located next to it. Supporting American Air Force operations and there for mainly populated and governed by americans. It was basically an American town, right down to using dollars, but in England. Kind of odd.

When you get to my age this is how you feel every day.

Octoroc wrote:

Gandalf wrote:

Octoroc wrote:In my day it wasn't "trick or treat" it was "penny for the pumpkin". The "pumpkin" was actually a hollowed out turnip or swede because you couldn't actually buy pumpkins in the shops

Christ, how old are you??!!!

How rude! Not that old. Maybe it was just because we were poor and northern, but I don't recall seeing many (if any) pumpkins in the 70s or early 80s.

It was the same for me man! I'd never seen a pumpkin when I was a kid and we used to make Jack O' lanterns out of big turnips. In Scotland it was called "Guising" instead of "Trick Or Treat" and we had to sing a pish wee song for the sweets. Something like -

"Halloween is coming!
Halloween is coming!
Ooooooooooooooooh!
Flap Flap Flap goes the big black bat.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Booo!!!"

or -

The Sky is blue
and the grass is green
please give me something for Halloween!


This was the strawberry floating 70's mind!

Carlos wrote:Just turn all the lights off and dont answer the door, then they will go away.

Halloween is a crappy americanised holiday that really shouldnt be hyped to the heights it is. Instead the governemtn should make Guy Fawkes night a bank holiday, ban halloween and then go all out in celelbrating the ONE annual event we have that other countries dont celebrate.

HUMBUG!

trelliz wrote:

Irene Demova wrote:

The Master wrote:Halloween is just an excuse for fat kids to go round people's houses begging for food.

I love Halloween when there's no parties or gooseberry fool on, I hide behind my bin and scare them all

Gets me every time